What movie or TV show: "I'll have a very dry banana daiquiri."

August 24, 2023 10:16 AM

I swear this line appears in something I've seen in the last couple years, but I cannot find it via google etc. Does this ring a bell for anyone? It's possible that it's "a very dry" other fruity drink.
posted by lenore to Media & Arts (12 answers total)

MASH? It sounds like a Hawkeye line.
posted by zamboni at 11:16 AM on August 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

It looks like banana daiquiris only show up in Officers Only and Mail Call Three, with no suggestion of dryness.
posted by zamboni at 11:21 AM on August 24, 2023

There are a couple mentions of banana daquiri in Doctor Who as well...
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 11:30 AM on August 24, 2023

I also thought of M*A*S*H. This is what the internets offered up. "I’d like a dry martini, Mr. Quoc. A very dry martini. A very dry, arid, barren, desiccated, veritable dustbowl of a martini. I want a martini that could be declared a disaster area. Mix me just such a martini."
posted by Iris Gambol at 11:35 AM on August 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

There is a scene in "Supernatural" where one of the main leads orders a banana daiquiri at a bar, but it's not "very dry" -- in fact, the dryness is not specified.
posted by virve at 1:12 PM on August 24, 2023

In case you're not sure, I don't think a dry daiquiri is even possible. So I'd focus on comedies.
posted by hypnogogue at 1:15 PM on August 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

Best answer: http://boomerangkoozbane.blogspot.com/2012/02/bob-ray-like-banana-daiquiri-served.html?
posted by adekllny at 1:34 PM on August 24, 2023 [3 favorites]

There are dry daiquri recipes, but they seem to be a new invention. I assume this line was played for a joke, since you tagged this as comedy, right? It sounds to me something like Alan (Zach Galafinakis' character) in the Hangover movies would say. I checked the IMDB quote pages and did not find it there.
posted by soelo at 2:34 PM on August 24, 2023

This is a long shot, but any chance it's JD in Scrubs ordering "an appletini, easy on the tini"?
posted by terretu at 2:53 PM on August 24, 2023 [2 favorites]

This is familiar and also sounds very much like a Gaiman or Pratchett (who loved banana daiquiris) kind of line.

Could it have been something Jessica Day ordered in New Girl? It's on brand for that character.

You might have some luck investigating drink based TV tropes .
posted by Saucy Possum at 2:54 PM on August 24, 2023

Timeless episode 13 leans hard on a banana daquiri as a plot point, but I don't think it has the "dry" (I really thought it did but googled the script and it's not in there).
posted by snaw at 3:16 PM on August 24, 2023

Probably wrong ballpark but my first thought was Arrested Development because of the banana stand.
posted by Glinn at 4:57 PM on August 24, 2023 [1 favorite]