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Few movies are as intensely quotable as The Princess Bride. Nearly every scene has a wonderful gem of a line that becomes endlessly repeatable. “As you wish.” “Have fun storming the castle.” “Anybody want a peanut?” But Chris Sarandon, who played the villainous Prince Humperdinck in the 1987 classic, has one line that remains his favorite for how simple yet effective it is.

At an appearance at Awesome Con 2019, Sarandon and Cary Elwes were asked their favorite lines from the film. Elwes chose Andre the Giant’s delivery of “Anybody want a peanut?” but Sarandon instead chose one of his own lines to talk about. “My favorite scene? It would have to be something I was in, of course,” he joked. After thinking for a moment, he said, “I’m swamped.”

His reasoning wasn’t just his delivery. “First of all, when you think about it, that’s such a brilliant line that leads up to it. And the tag is just perfect.”

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The full line, of course, has Prince Humperdinck complaining to Count Rugen that he has too much on to enjoy watching Rugen torture Westley. “I’ve got my country’s 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I’m swamped.”

It is a wonderful example of the serious tone that everyone delivered their lines with in The Princess Bride, with Humperdinck casually explaining that he has too many war crimes on his plate. He’s got to maintain his work-life balance, after all. But there is also an underrated pun in there about how they have just come from the Fire Swamp a few scenes earlier that shouldn’t be overlooked.

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