She's not suspicious of Jerry the second visit because of his response, she is suspicious because her meeting with Mike Yangita made her realize that she wasn't being skeptical enough during the first visit.

Have spent my entire life in California, but my paternal grandparents (born in the 1920s) were from Brainerd. I grew up hearing them say darn tootin and you betcha, and telling us about Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. When I first saw the movie, it was a fun trip hearing the characters speak like my grandparents.

I worked for a car dealer. Cars were counted every AM before opening by an attendant.

Great movie. William H. Macy nailed that part of a nervous weasel. Nobody could've played it better.

It's sooo awful that she gets killed anyway it just goes to show how fast a shady thing can just go horribly wrong and become way way worse ..

25 years later, people are still analyzing this wonderful film. Well done, though.

This movie was a masterpiece. Superb writing and casting. Anything with Steve Buscemi in it is worth watching IMO.

I thought the single most telling moment occurred when he threw the scraper to the ground and then had to pick it up, He can only be actively aggressive towards inanimate objects, but even they defeat him.

It'd be quite a coincidence if they weren't ya know...connected 😃

I never realized that the reason Wade doesn't let Jerry deliver the money is because of the idiocy surrounding the "deal" Jerry had brought to him earlier. Not that it would've mattered though, as Jerry was already tied to the hot car and Gaear had already killed Jean.

"Oh, for Pete's sake. He's fleeing the inner-view. HE'S FLEEING THE INNER-VIEW!" 😆

Fargo really is a damn near perfect movie- and Jerry is one of the most compelling villains of all time. Precisely because it is revealed so early on that he is in over his head. You almost- ALMOST feel sorry for him. Even Marge is fooled initially, only because she is so persistent does she crack the case.

“He’s fleeing the interview!!”

There are a lot of words and terms that can be used to describe Jerry. Stupid. Greedy. Selfish. Terrible businessman. Bad planner. But there's one that really sticks out to me:

Instead of kidnapping the wife, Jerry should have had them kill Wade. His millions would then have gone to Jerry's wife, and they live like royalty forever after.

I think if we were able to ask Jerry, he'd say the reason he behaved the way he did is because Wade never had any faith in him. If Wade had just backed him in some of his schemes, Jerry would have been a huge success and he'd have never been pushed to try to con his father-in-law into ransoming his wife. Of course, Jerry would have been wrong. The reason Wade didn't have faith in Jerry is because he was an untrustworthy screw-up. But, Jerry had deluded himself into believing everything wrong in his life was someone else's fault.

“Ma’am, I answered your question!”

The two encounters between Margie and her old high school friend---one on the phone, one in person at a Radisson's---are significant because after she realizes that he has BULLSH*TTED her about his "wife", she has a bag of junk food, thinks about it, then goes back to confront a similar bullsh*t artist---Jerry Lundegaard.

The world needs a prequel to see why Jerry needs the money in the first place.

In the Jerry/Marge scene, it's the Minnesota Nice factor at play. Marge has come back because by now she knows Jerry lied to her. She still wears her MN Nice but, she puts the pressure on him and Jerry crumbles under it and can barely handle being confronted, aka MN Nice doesn't equip you for that. Then he breaks and storms out, then "he's fleeing the interview, he's fleeing the interview!"