The noodle

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Movie
Original title The noodle / spaghetti
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1977
length 3 minutes
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Director Loriot
script Loriot
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The noodle (also published as spaghetti ) is one of Loriot's most famous skits . It first aired on May 16, 1977 in the third episode of the television series Loriot .

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Hildegard and her vain admirer, proud future head of a purchasing department, are sitting in an Italian restaurant . Both eat a pasta dish. After dinner he wipes his mouth with his napkin, a thin, elongated noodle that was on the napkin sticking to his lower lip. He begins to confess his love to Hildegard. Hildegard, who is less captivated by the words of her counterpart than by the sight of the pasta in his mouth, manages to convince him despite his torrent of speech (“No, don't say anything yet! There are moments in life when language fails, when a glance means more than many words. ") to draw attention to the leftover food. Without looking, he wipes the noodle away with the napkin. But when he had a drink and then used the napkin again, the noodle stuck to his mouth again, this time to the upper lip in an upward curve towards his nose. The waiter takes another order, but is distracted when his gaze falls on the noodle, so that the admirer repeats the order irritably. He then continues with his confession of love, with the noodle hanging on the bridge of the nose, then on the finger and finally on the tip of the nose. The loved one cannot take her eyes off the noodle and only occasionally reacts absently to the address. As dessert, the waiter serves the admirer an espresso with lipstick on the rim of the cup, whereupon he complains (“You can offer that to your guests in Naples !”) And the waiter brings him a fresh cup. While drinking, without the admirer noticing, the noodle falls from his nose into the espresso, where he discovers it and indignantly shows it to Hildegard. She just looks at him speechlessly while he calls the waiter excitedly to complain again.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ In Loriot's dramatic works and The Breakfast Egg , the text appeared under the title Spaghetti . In Gesammelte Prosa and the DVD Complete Edition, the sketch is called Die Nudel .

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