"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"—"The Graduate" (1967)
The line is one of the most famous from "The Graduate," Mike Nichols's celebrated 1967 film starring Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman. The film poster is iconic, showing a staged still photo of the hotel room scene with Mrs. Robinson donning her stockings after she has seduced Benjamin. This is not actually the scene with the famous above quotation, but it's an image everyone remembers, and Mrs. Robinson's stockinged leg stands out in both scenes.
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Joe Dator gives us his take on the famous scene in a 2014 New Yorker cartoon with a contemporary twist:
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| Joe Dator The New Yorker, May 26, 2014, p. 68 |
In February of this year, Harry Bliss co-opted that same scene himself in his syndicated panel cartoon Bliss. He too moves the famous seduction line into the hotel room scene, but his speaker is a dog.
The line in question is spoken by Benjamin after Mrs. Robinson invites him into her home and offers him a drink:
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| Harry Bliss Bliss, February 17, 2023 |
The line in question is spoken by Benjamin after Mrs. Robinson invites him into her home and offers him a drink:
It occurs here just after 3:40.
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| A cartoon by Joe Dator |
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
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