The first ever feature film produced by MTV Networks.
Lily Dougherty:
The lot is completely planted, the, the community is behind it and the flowers just starting to bloom and now all I have to do is show it to my father and show him something good can still come outta the neighborhood and it's worth saving...
Joe:
Do-you-wanna-come-over-to-my-place?
[a coach races by, splashing them with mud]
Joe:
I've... got a towel you could use.
[Joe finds a man lying in a pool of blood]
Joe:
Oh, my god! Mister, are you alright?
Walter Shit:
Two days, seven hours, twenty-three minutes and four seconds. That's how long I've been lying here.
Joe:
Are you O.K.?
Walter Shit:
'Course not! I'm an artist!
[Walter Shit, performance artist, has been lying in a pool of blood]
Walter Shit:
I wanted to express how cold, how pitiless this city really is.
Joe:
Nobody touched you for two days?
Walter Shit:
Spitting doesn't count.
Ralph Roach:
We know where you live. We LIVE where you live!
Rodney Roach:
Well, you know, we've gotta get Lily back, too.
Ralph Roach:
Forget that. I'm a cockroach, not Santy Claus.
Walter Shit:
Congratulate me! This is my first work to use paint! I call it instant minority. I did the whole block!
Joe:
But people are black or white, not purple.
Walter Shit:
Periwinkle. It's periwinkle!
Walter Shit:
Oh my God! Joe, It's your mother... and she's dead!
Roaches:
Welcome to Joe's apartment, it's our apartment too/We've been around for a hundred billion years and we'll be here long after you!/(ba ba ba ba ba)/Let's go to our place it's a great big space it's where I wanna be/Where friends all meet and life is sweet cuz everything's for free/It's the joint, it's a gas/It's a big fat boot in the ass (kick your ass)/Let's toast raise your glass here's to Joe! A man with class!/(burp) Sooooo... hello from Joe's apartment you're gonna love the view/It's the nest that beats the rest/We're so glad that you're our guest/Come on in we're all undressed! (whistle) Joe's apartment we welcome you!
Roaches:
So long from Joe's apartment, we're sad to see you go/Thanks for coming it's been swell/Check back into our motel/Hope you didn't mind the smell!/Joe's apartment our home sweet home!
Ralph Roach:
Talk? We can sing!
Roaches:
Garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage! / The garbage in the moonlight gives off a lovely smell - lovely smell / Sipping sewage with my baby in our little roach motel - please don't tell / zum zum zuma zum zum zum / doot de doot doot doot de doo doot de doot doot doot de doo doot de doot doot doot de doo doot de doot doot doodly doo / Take an ocean trip on our garbage ship with the cockroach I adore / We'll take a taste of the medical waste that washes up on shore / Oh sweetheart say you love me and crawl underneath my rug / You're one in a thousand billion baby - oh won't you be / My Bug! - won't you be my bug? / Please be my bug.
Roaches:
Funky Towel, towel's got the funk/Funky towel, towel's got the funk!
Roaches:
[singing] Welcome to Joey's toilet!
Blank:
[shouting in slow motion] COFFEE BREAK!
Continuity: When Joe and Lily are sitting on his couch after their first date, the color of the wine changes from pink when the roaches move the glass towards Lily to dark red when she is holding it.
Continuity: When Joe and Lily are sitting on his couch after their first date, the position of his arm changes from lowered to around her shoulder between shots.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the Bianco boys break into the apartment and approach Joe, one is talking, but no words are heard.
Remake of
Joe's Apt. (1992) (TV)
References
Gulliver's Travels (1996) (TV)
Referenced in
One Step Beyond: The Making of 'Alien: Resurrection' (2003) (V)
Spoofs
First Blood (1982)
- When Joe goes mad and tries to kill all the roaches, he is dressed like Rambo and is an obvious Rambo parody.