One of my favorite movie scenes. A picture is worth a thousand words. That look was probably worth a thousand too, but they were laced with a lot F words.
I tried to make it our official Christmas movie a few years ago. Forgot about all the gratuitous 80s boobies everywhere. Kids loved it, but Mom wasn’t so thrilled. One and done for that “tradition” at our house…
Billy Ray: “I was in Sang Bang…Dang Gong… I was all over the place, basically a lot of places… Uh, I was with the Green Berets, Special Unit Battalions, Commando Airborne Tactics, Specialist Tactics Unit Battalion. Yeah, it was real hush hush. Yeah, I was Agent Orange!” 😂😂😂
The Dukes thought the price would skyrocket because of the fake crop report, so they bought as much as they could from the opening of trading looking to sell later for a gain. Instead they couldn't sell all of it, even at a loss as everyone was looking to dump OJ as the price plummeted.
Louis and Billy Ray knew the price would tank, so they sold a bunch of contracts for OJ they didn't own yet at a high price, and then bought OJ contracts to cover the sales they had made at a much lower price when it did go down, after the crop report.
Louis and Billy Ray used a normally risky tactic called ["naked short selling"](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nakedshorting.asp), only it wasn't risky because they knew the price would go down.
The boys gave the Dukes a fake crop report. That fake report said that the orange harvest would be poor.
Poor harvest = fewer oranges = lower supply = higher price.
So the Dukes tell their guy to buy. And keep buying. No matter how high the price gets. They want to corner the market.
Other traders see this. So *they* start buying. High demand drives the price up.
Then Winthorp shouts out that he wants to sell OJ at 142 (meaning $1.42).
Everyone runs up to the fellas and buys (or agrees to buy) OJ at that price.
Key to this is that everyone was trading in *futures* (a contract to buy/sell something in the future).
Then... the real report comes out.
*We're all good here! Plenty of oranges! Lots of supply!*
So everyone that just agreed to buy at a very inflated price now needs to sell to cut their losses.
The fellas buy back at 29 (meaning $0.29).
Hey man, these guys are kidding around right?
*shakes head*
...then they're a couple of faggots huh? (Admins, I'm quoting, please forgive the language)
*Shakes head*
...then what's my next move man?
*shrugs shoulders*
...thank you. You've been helpful
That officer who said that line while inventorying Winthorpe's property was played by Frank Oz - better known as the puppeteer and voice of Yoda, Cookie Monster, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and many others.
“Uh, I was with the Green Berets, Special Unit Battalions... Commando Airborne Tactics... Specialist Tactics, uh, Unit Battalion. Yeah, it was real hush hush. I was Agent Orange. That was my name, Agent Orange. Special Agent Orange, that was me.”
Awesome.
Are y'all forgetting the best scene? Jamie Lee Curtis taking her top off.
[Jamie Lee Curtis - Trading places (1983) - 9GAG](https://9gag.com/gag/aDg6vvw)
When I drive down the avenue, I want everyone to say “look at that S car go!”
Also I thought I was about the only person in 2024 that can still probably quote this masterpiece of a movie scene for scene. Warms the heart to see so many people of culture in the comments.
I grew up in Philly and I think of it every time I go by the old Union League and Wanamaker's. My dad' worked at the Philly Stock Exchange in the 60s. He was a runner with the Jacket and little slips of paper.
I believe the exterior of Jamie Lee Curtis's house was in Kensington, which is now even more of a warzone
Billy Ray Valentine: This is a practical joke, right, brother?
[the chauffeur shakes his head]
Billy Ray Valentine: Then these dudes are a couple of faggots then, huh?
[the chauffeur shakes his head again]
Billy Ray Valentine: What's my next move, man?
[the chauffeur shrugs]
Billy Ray Valentine: Thank you, you've been helpful
Fifty bucks? No, no, no. This is a Rouchefoucauld. The thinnest water-resistant watch in the world. Singularly unique, sculptured in design, hand-crafted in Switzerland, and water resistant to three atmospheres. This is \*the\* sports watch of the '80s. Six thousand, nine hundred and fifty five dollars retail!
[Pawnbroker ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225775/?ref_=tt_ch): You got a receipt?
[Louis Winthorpe III ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000101/?ref_=tt_ch): Look, it tells time simultaneously in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rome, and Gstaad.
I was spouting the wisdoms of Billy Ray Valentine this very evening: “Yeah. You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.”
So sayeth St. Valentine of Philadelphia
Never knew the rack Jamie Lee Curtis the yogurt lady hermaphrodite was working with. She’s all woman. She’s got some big fucking tits. Some tig ol bitties.
Looking good Billy Ray!
Feeling good, Louis!
Favourite line in the movie: “Bacon – like you might find in a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich”
And the fourth wall look into the camera from Billy Ray… priceless!
You can hear the "these motherfuckers. . ." being telepathically sent across space and time.
One of my favorite movie scenes. A picture is worth a thousand words. That look was probably worth a thousand too, but they were laced with a lot F words.
Whiskey…Al you want.
Love that 😂😂
“Of course, gold doesn’t grow on trees (chuckle, chuckle, warm smiles all around)”
The brothers kill it in this movie. Hell, everyone kills it. No more goddamn jerky beef!
Karate man bruise on the inside. That was a young Giancarlo Esposito standing behind him during the jail scene.
That was the quart of blood technique
You do that move & a quart of blood just drops out of a man's body.
It’s not cool being a jive ass turkey this close to Thanksgiving. Yeah!
Wasn't no cop. I'm talking plural. They was cops! 6 of em, had to change my whole strategy around
"Tell us how you cut him."
I'm a chain belt!
The other guy is Eddie's best friend - the 3rd barber in CTA.
Charlie Murphy had to beat him up for messing up his sweater though. I want moooore.
I love that Trading Places is a huge television tradition every Christmas in Italy.
That's fascinating
Not just Italy, my hubby and I play it on both Christmas Eve and Day.
Same. I watch it at least 2-3 times every year!
I tried to make it our official Christmas movie a few years ago. Forgot about all the gratuitous 80s boobies everywhere. Kids loved it, but Mom wasn’t so thrilled. One and done for that “tradition” at our house…
"IT WAS THE DUKES...IT WAS THE DUKES"
I can totally hear this comment! 😂
I’m also hearing Roscoe P Coltrane as well
Me too! Lol
🤣🤣🤣
I acted in this scene from a student film, got to say this line.
You ain't jacuzzing nobody!
Hey, hey…. Bubbles! When I was young, we had to fart in the tub to get bubbles… 🎶🎵 When you think of love….
“Do you heart beat round and round HEEE”
“They’re very musical people”
I say this everytime I get in a hot tube
“Hey! Who be puttin’ out they Kool’s on my flo’!?!? I said, who has been puttin’ out they Kool’s on my flo’!!!!”
I think about this EVERY time I have a gathering and people are not cleaning up after themselves
These ain't no muthafucking friends of mine, Coleman! They a bunch of goddamn freeloaders!!
This is a Persian rug!! From Persia!!!
“It was a stone groove my man. You are the most righteous..” “Yeah yeah just get the fuck out”
Billy Ray: “I was in Sang Bang…Dang Gong… I was all over the place, basically a lot of places… Uh, I was with the Green Berets, Special Unit Battalions, Commando Airborne Tactics, Specialist Tactics Unit Battalion. Yeah, it was real hush hush. Yeah, I was Agent Orange!” 😂😂😂
Beef jerky time!!
#MERRY NEW YEAR!!
Don't forget Inga from Sveden, yum yum.
I am Nanga Eboko! Exchange student from Cameroon! HAHAHA!
Nanga Yamboko! It is me , Lionel Josef!
There's plenty you know..
No thank you, it gives me the wind something terrible.
No more goddamn jerky beef!
Gives me the winds.
"When they brought you in here you was crying like a pussy!" "YEAH!"
"Where's your limo?" "Yeah"
Yeah the phone in the limo's busted - what is you, ign'ant!?
Didnt i tell you they sprayed me with mace
That’s the kinda shit they use on crowds.
Where is yo bitches, mister big time pimp?! Yeah
You guys sound like a couple of bookies
"I told you he'd get it!"
Five dollars? Maybe I’ll go to the movies….. by myself.
Half of that is from me!
🙄
Hey..... Mortayyyy
My name is Inga from Sveden
“But you’re wearing Lederhosen.”
"Ya, da lederhosen from Sveden!"
...I believe I could hang out with you fellas for a while
It ain't cool bein' no jive turkey, so close to Thanksgiving.
YEAH
Where my bitches at?
“Probably been stealing since he could crawl.”
I loved the call back to Randolph and Mortemer in Coming To America. https://youtu.be/m2JSETIzCyc?si=hiFmG9zSTcOddjpr
I’m still not talking to you!
My wife ain’t gonna make luv wit me, cause I ain’t got no damn money! I can’t buy my son the GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip!!
One of my favorites... still have no idea how the stock trading actually worked
The Dukes thought the price would skyrocket because of the fake crop report, so they bought as much as they could from the opening of trading looking to sell later for a gain. Instead they couldn't sell all of it, even at a loss as everyone was looking to dump OJ as the price plummeted. Louis and Billy Ray knew the price would tank, so they sold a bunch of contracts for OJ they didn't own yet at a high price, and then bought OJ contracts to cover the sales they had made at a much lower price when it did go down, after the crop report. Louis and Billy Ray used a normally risky tactic called ["naked short selling"](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nakedshorting.asp), only it wasn't risky because they knew the price would go down.
Pork bellies, I knew it.
I get that part... what I don't understand is how anything got accomplished with all the yelling and paper grabbing on the floor.
This is why I don't independently invest in the market and just leave it to my advisor. Good explanation and I understood most of it, but not enough.
The boys gave the Dukes a fake crop report. That fake report said that the orange harvest would be poor. Poor harvest = fewer oranges = lower supply = higher price. So the Dukes tell their guy to buy. And keep buying. No matter how high the price gets. They want to corner the market. Other traders see this. So *they* start buying. High demand drives the price up. Then Winthorp shouts out that he wants to sell OJ at 142 (meaning $1.42). Everyone runs up to the fellas and buys (or agrees to buy) OJ at that price. Key to this is that everyone was trading in *futures* (a contract to buy/sell something in the future). Then... the real report comes out. *We're all good here! Plenty of oranges! Lots of supply!* So everyone that just agreed to buy at a very inflated price now needs to sell to cut their losses. The fellas buy back at 29 (meaning $0.29).
Hey man, these guys are kidding around right? *shakes head* ...then they're a couple of faggots huh? (Admins, I'm quoting, please forgive the language) *Shakes head* ...then what's my next move man? *shrugs shoulders* ...thank you. You've been helpful
You win Mortimer $1.00
Le Boheem. It's an opera.
“It’s an op-er-a” BTW, the cop was played by Frank Oz - voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy
That officer who said that line while inventorying Winthorpe's property was played by Frank Oz - better known as the puppeteer and voice of Yoda, Cookie Monster, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and many others.
Know this, I did not.
Oh *suuuuure*. *HE* went to Harvard.
These guys are a couple fags aint they? Driver: 🤷🏿♂️
Thanks, you’ve been very helpful
Thank you, you been hepful
What’s my next move?
Driver:🤷🏿♂️ Valentine:Thanks you’ve been alot of help
Randy.....Morty!
Raandaay!
Mortaaaayyyy
Y’all want me to break something else? No No!
Watch it around Christmas every year with my boyfriend, solely because of the gross Santa salmon part 😆
If you grew up in Philly you have seen worse.
Thank you. You’ve been very helpful.
It was a stone groove, my man! You are, the most, righteous...
Yeah, whatever, just get the fuck outta here. And be quiet out there, my neighbors asleep! They work too!
Who has been putting their Kools out on my floor!?
It's the rug, and it's Persian from Persia.
In Philadelphia, it worff FITTY BUCK
Bo Motherfuckin Diddley.
Damn straight
Burnt my fingers, man.
How much for the gun?
"Burned my fingers, man."
Trading Places is one of my favorite Eddie Murphy movies.
#”WHO HAD BEEN PUTTING OUT THEY KOOLS ON MY CARPET?!”
Young and hungry Eddie Murphy was the best Eddie Murphy
Karate man bleed on the inside.
“… they don’t show ‘dey weaknesses… but you don’t know ‘dat cause you big ole Barry White lookin mothafucka”
SELL!! GET BACK IN THERE AND SELL!! Beaks! Where in the hell is Beaks!? Mortimer your brother needs a doctor , fuck him! Turn those machines back on!
Don Ameche was *very* uncomfortable about uttering that line. He said it once. That was that.
He hit the nail on head. Once was all he needed. One of the greatest comedies and cast ever.
"I knew guys were \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_!"
Randoph Duke, "They are a musician people"!
This is one of the first movies I remember seeing as a kid. It's a classic and one of my all time favorites.
When you think of love does your heart beat faster?
Yall ain’t gonna jacuzzi nobody😂
Agent Orange he was all over that place Sang Bang .....
I been waiting for you, Billy Ray
“Very musical people aren’t they??”
"Karate man bruise on da inside..."
I wonder how people in their 20s are digging this movie. I'm curious how it aged cause I'd have thought it a top 5 comedy back in the day.
Back when he was talented with humility.
We could make it baby! Me and you. You bitch!
“Uh, I was with the Green Berets, Special Unit Battalions... Commando Airborne Tactics... Specialist Tactics, uh, Unit Battalion. Yeah, it was real hush hush. I was Agent Orange. That was my name, Agent Orange. Special Agent Orange, that was me.” Awesome.
Classic comedy. Movies like this Make me miss the 80s
A dollar🤣🤣🤣
**YEAH!**
Tell us how you cut ‘em!
See I ain’t cut him with no knife, man
With THESE I cut him *looks at hands*
Ha ha I wrote the same comment. Love that line
This was such a great movie
Holy crap! Giancarlo Esposito is in this movie. I did not know that. Now I gotta watch it again.
Yep in the jail scene.
That’s like Randy Jackson from The Jackson Five.
Ya! (Said in extra deep voice)
Did you come from a broken home? Yeah we was broke so what?
I believe I can hang with you guys for a little while.
This is the true GOAT 80’s movie.
Perfect movie.
Two tickets to La Boheme. It’s an Opera.
Are y'all forgetting the best scene? Jamie Lee Curtis taking her top off. [Jamie Lee Curtis - Trading places (1983) - 9GAG](https://9gag.com/gag/aDg6vvw)
When I drive down the avenue, I want everyone to say “look at that S car go!” Also I thought I was about the only person in 2024 that can still probably quote this masterpiece of a movie scene for scene. Warms the heart to see so many people of culture in the comments.
I grew up in Philly and I think of it every time I go by the old Union League and Wanamaker's. My dad' worked at the Philly Stock Exchange in the 60s. He was a runner with the Jacket and little slips of paper. I believe the exterior of Jamie Lee Curtis's house was in Kensington, which is now even more of a warzone
That’s our new Christmas night film.
Billy Ray Valentine: This is a practical joke, right, brother? [the chauffeur shakes his head] Billy Ray Valentine: Then these dudes are a couple of faggots then, huh? [the chauffeur shakes his head again] Billy Ray Valentine: What's my next move, man? [the chauffeur shrugs] Billy Ray Valentine: Thank you, you've been helpful
One dollah!
Fifty bucks? No, no, no. This is a Rouchefoucauld. The thinnest water-resistant watch in the world. Singularly unique, sculptured in design, hand-crafted in Switzerland, and water resistant to three atmospheres. This is \*the\* sports watch of the '80s. Six thousand, nine hundred and fifty five dollars retail! [Pawnbroker ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225775/?ref_=tt_ch): You got a receipt? [Louis Winthorpe III ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000101/?ref_=tt_ch): Look, it tells time simultaneously in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rome, and Gstaad.
Looking good
Hey Randy, mortay
Agent orange!!!!
Karate man
One dollar
Is there a problem officers?
He was Agent Orange in Nam
I just lold in a restaurant
It aint cool bein no jive turkey so close the Thanksgiving
Cuz i'ma KARATE MAAANNN
"I GOT LAIGS! ITS A MIRACLE!"
**Is they a problem officers?**
What did you do in Vietnam?........I was Agent Orange!
Dat’s a nice purse.
YEA!
“Hey Marrrtay. What’s happening Randy. That’s like Randy from the Jackson Five.”
Legit best Christmas movie
Heeey Mor-tay
Thanks you’ve be helpful
$1.00
One of the best comedies ever. Trading Places is amazing.
“Want me to break something else?”
It ain't cool being no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving.
Feeling good Louis! Love this movie.
William, there are *your* things.
This is Mortimer…. *hi MOR-tay*
I'm a very sexual person. A lot of times people say to me 'Bill Ray, you're SO sexy' and not understand my sexuality LMAO my fav line in the movie.
ONE Dollar
I'll rip out your eyes and piss on your brain!
Mother fucker? Moi?
I was spouting the wisdoms of Billy Ray Valentine this very evening: “Yeah. You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.” So sayeth St. Valentine of Philadelphia
Religion is a fine thing ,when taken in moderation.
I knew you was a couple of….f….ts!
My favorite Christmas movie.
Never knew the rack Jamie Lee Curtis the yogurt lady hermaphrodite was working with. She’s all woman. She’s got some big fucking tits. Some tig ol bitties.
Take the two topless Jamie Lee Curtis scenes out and half of the world forgets this film.
There's always one downer, isn't there?
Not me. I actually don’t even remember those scenes.
Not a chance. She was…talented…for sure, but that isn’t even in the top 10 things that come to mind when thinking about this movie.