One of the film's more delightful meta jokes is the repeated sentiment that Bill, a great writer, is just terrible at endings. In Chapter Two, it's Bev who says it to Richie when they return to the Niebolt house. In IT, it's Pennywise who says when Richie is trapped in the clown room at Niebolt. During the book and the original mini-series "Beep Beep Richie" is said all the time by the Losers Club, who use it as a friendly phrase to tell the Trashmouth it's time to shut up. Seeing Eddie's terror, Beverly gives him her fire poker telling him it kills monsters, "if you believe it does."Ī famed line from King's book, Beep Beep Richie doesn't get a lot of play in either of the IT films, but Muschietti made sure to drop it in once during each movie. In the same spot where he had his traumatic childhood encounter, Eddie freezes, leaving Richie and Bill to fight off the stan-spider, until Ben stabs it through the head - a lot. In Chapter Two, it's not Pennywise, but Stan's head that tumbles out of the decrepit fridge, sprouting legs and razor-sharp teeth and charging on Richie. In IT, Eddie falls into the kitchen and breaks his arm, where he has his first truly terrifying encounter with It, who crawls out of the fridge and almost eats Eddie before Beverly runs in and stabs Pennywise through the head with a fire poker. First, the Losers are separated, before reuniting in the kitchen for a shared showdown. The entire sequence at the Niebolt house in Chapter Two is designed to mirror the first trip to Niebolt in IT. When Richie is once again confronted with the doors, this time with Eddie, he chooses "Very Scary," remembering the first time was a trick, but when he opens the door, they see Betty Ripsom's severed legs skipping towards them. "Where the fuck were her legs?" Richie screams. They immediately run to "Not Scary at All" but when they open the door they hear a whisper that says "Where's my shoe?" until the light comes on and they see Bett Ripsom's severed torso screaming at them. When the Losers' headed to the house on 29 Niebolt Street for their first confrontation with It, Bill and Richie were confronted with the "Scary, Very Scary, and Not Scary at All" doors. But that wasn't the last they saw of her. Her disappearance was the talk of the town when the Losers first ventured into the sewers, where they found a shoe inscribed with her name. Poor young Betty Ripsom disappeared a few months after Georgie during the terrifying summer of 1989. When Ben returns to Derry High School, he remembers a forgotten encounter with It, when It took Beverly's form and taunted him for his weight, chasing him down the hall with Bev's hair on fire (a rather literal reference to the poem he wrote her.) When Ben hides in his locker, there's a New Kids poster behind him, which turns into Pennywise when the camera cuts back. It was the source of a few good jokes in the first film, not to mention Beverly's nickname for him, and the NKOTB fandom gets another callout in Chapter Two during Ben's flashback scene. In IT, Ben Hanscom, the new kid, just loved New Kids on the Block. The scene is a nod to Eddie's minor freakout when they first traipse towards the sewers and discover Betty Ripsom's shoe. "Have you ever heard of a staph infection?" Another fan-favorite Eddie moment gets a callback when the adult Losers head down into the sewers and Eddie shudders over "greywater". When It escapes from the ritual's grasp, It taunts to Losers, telling them the Ritual is nothing but a "gazebo". But what only Mike knows is that the ritual doesn't work, it's only a means to unify the power of belief. When the Losers Club units in Pennywise's lair beneath the sewers, they enact the Ritual of Chüd in an attempt to defeat It. Such a good moment of improv that the line came back in the second film. They're bullshit!" It's easily one of the biggest laughs in the film, and it was a moment of improv from Jack Dylan Grazer. But when he finally confronts his mother, Eddie screams "You know what these are? They're gazebos. Eddie's hyper-fastidious obsession with health and germs paid off in one of the film's best punchlines in IT, when the young hypochondriac realized the medications his mother kept him on his whole life were nothing but placebos. It's a nice nod to his character's continued impact, even after his death.Īh, Gazebos. Naturally, we see some of the figures that tormented the Losers he's fighting, but we also see Judith - the woman from the painting that attacked Stan in the first film - despite the fact that Stan isn't there. During the Losers' final confrontation with It, the creature mimics the end of the first film, rapidly jumping through his glamours in an attempt to frighten them off.
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