Billy Ray Valentine

That's what came up.

Billy Ray Valentine.

Yeah.

That is such a freaking great movie.

The orange price is in Florida.

I got just enough time, 15 minutes left, trading places, I'm all in.

Billy Ray Valentine getting picked up, all in.

In the house for the first time,

And then, actually, I'll tell you who does exactly the same thing.

Billy Ray Valentine, Eddie Murphy in Trading Places.

Trading Places, yeah.

He goes, yeah, I'm going to do.

Which is where trading places comes in.

Because Lewis Winthorpe's briefing to Billy Ray Valentine on the floor of the commodities exchange remains the finest available description of the corporate culture we're discussing today.

Quote, think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness, always go for the throat.

Fear? That's the other guy's problem.

Mama's calling.

Are you done? Okay, Billy Ray Valentine.

Bye.

Bye.

Then the two old men who own the firm bet each other about whether any of it was really his, and by the end of the day, it wasn't.

Arrested, thrown out, locked out, accounts frozen, and the other half of that bet is Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler begging outside the Duke's club that morning, who by nightfall has Louis' house, Louis' job and Louis' butler.

Two men swapped to settle an argument, and it was a bet over one dollar, as I'm sure you recall.

So he's at a pawn shop counter, and he takes off his watch, and he explains at some length that this is a Rochefoucauld, the thinnest water-resistant watch in the world.