Future DD suggestions. 1. Fatherly advice. 2. Motherly advice. Or merge them into one.

The Mouse That Roared (1959), screenplay by Roger MacDougall and Stanley Mann, based on a novel by Leonard Wibberley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTmdDpUEMc DUCHESS: Gentlemen! Gentlemen! (Asks Buckley to intercede.) BUCKLEY: Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Please, silence! DUCHESS: Gentlemen, you made me drop a stitch. BENTER: Your pardon, Your Grace. Has the Prime Minister never thought of sending a protest to the United States about this California fellow and his imitation wine? RUPERT: My dear chap, I have sent not one protest, but three. Mind you, the situation is complicated by the fact that we have never officially recognized the United States, so we've had to send all our protests through Monte Carlo. The sad truth is that each of these protests have been ignored, until today when I received this. DUCHESS: What is it, Bobo? RUPERT: A pamphlet from their Department of Agriculture on how to grow grapes for wine. BENTER: But if that goes on we'll be bankrupt! RUPERT: My friend, we are bankrupt. As of today we are living on petty cash. DUCHESS: Good heavens. If only poor Leopold were alive today. RUPERT: Your Grace. Gentlemen. Our situation is, indeed, desperate. We stand poised on the brink of disaster. There is only one way out: war. We must declare war on the United States. BENTER: But we can never win such a war! RUPERT: Of course not, but we could win the peace. I've given this a lot of thought, gentlemen, and I'm perfectly positive I am right. You must remember, the Americans are a very strange people. Whereas other countries rarely forgive anything, the Americans forgive everything. There isn't a more profitable undertaking for any country than to declare war on the United States and to be defeated. DUCHESS: True. True. RUPERT: No sooner is the aggressor defeated than the Americans pour in food, machinery, clothing, technical aid and lots and lots of money for the relief of its former enemies. In other words, gentlemen, in effect, we declare war on Monday, we are defeated on Tuesday, and by Friday we will be rehabilitated beyond our wildest dreams. DUCHESS: Yes, but is that honest, Bobo? RUPERT: No, not really, but it's terribly practical. And infallible, too. I give you my word, Your Grace, it will solve all our problems. BENTER: But we have no army. RUPERT: Oh, pish-posh. Who needs an army? Twenty men or so would be quite sufficient. BENTER: Oh, and who's going to lead 'em? RUPERT: Tully Bascombe, of course. He's our hereditary Field Marshall and Grand Constable. DUCHESS: Tully? No, not Tully. He's...well, he's a very nice boy, but he's never been any good at games. BENTER: Exactly. You can't send Tully on a mission like this. He's got fallen arches, flat feet, sinus, migraine, claustrophobia, and high blood pressure. Apart from being near-sighted and getting dizzy in high places. Heh heh. RUPERT: We are not asking him to climb the Alps, you know. All Tully has to do is to get the men over there. Once they try to land in New York without visas they will be arrested. And, uh, that's all there is to it, really. DUCHESS: I don't want anyone hurt. RUPERT: Of course not, Your Grace. I'll tell Tully to be very careful. Besides, we can send Will Buckley with him. Buckley was a sergeant in the British army in the other war. He can act as interpreter. Well, gentlemen, there's only one way. We have but one choice. Bankruptcy or prosperity. Which will it be? I move we declare war on the United States of America. BENTER: As leader of the Party of the Common Man I say that war is reprehensible, barbaric, unforgivable and unthinkable. And I second the motion. TRIVIA: This scene features three actors before they became world famous for other roles. Peter Sellers: here performing multiple roles, would, in four years, create his most memorable role as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther. William Hartnell, here as Will Buckley, would, also four years later, create the role of Doctor Who and begin the longest-running science fiction franchise in the world. Leo McKern, here as Benter, would in eight years be the only actor to play the role of Number Two twice in the cult classic TV series The Prisoner, and then in 1978 play the title role of John Mortimer's beloved barrister Horace Rumpole in the BBC TV series Rumpole of the Bailey. DIALOGUE ON DIALOGUE: Formulating a plan in satire. A small European country is about to go bankrupt. How can they escape their fate? Why, go to war against the United States and suffer the resulting (positive) economic consequences. Rupert presents his proposal and the Duchess and Benter are the counterpoint characters to knock away a few questions the audience might raise to such a ridiculous premise, thus clearing away some roadblocks to disbelief suspension.

Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), screenplay by Maya Forbes, Wallace Wolodarsky, Rob Letterman, Jonathan Aibel, and Glenn Berger; story by Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vCaMmP1fP8 ADVISOR #1: Sir, it's at dire times like this when I stop and ask myself: "What would Oprah do?" PRESIDENT: Hang it all! What's the point? It's a disaster. President readies to push a giant red button but the advisors around the conference table panic and try to stop him. ADVISOR #2: That button launches all our nuclear missiles! PRESIDENT: Well, then which button gets me a latte? ADVISOR #3: Uh, that would be the other one, Sir. President pushes the other giant red button. PRESIDENT: What idiot designed this thing? ADVISOR: (O.C.) You did, sir. PRESIDENT: Fair enough. Wilson, fire somebody. WILSON: (O.C.) Yes, sir, Mister President. PRESIDENT: Listen up. I'm not going to go down in history as the president who was in office when the world came to an end so somebody think of something, and think of it fast. (Sips coffee). That is a good cuppa joe. MONGER: (Appears at upper-level railing) Mister President, not only do I have an idea, but I have a plan. Yoohaw! (He parachutes to the main floor.) Now, conventional weapons have no effect on this thing, and we all know nukes ain't an option. PRESIDENT: Sure they are, I just, uh--- Advisors panic again. MONGER: I'm not going to kid you, Mister President, these are dark times. The odds are against us. We need a hail Mary pass. We need raw power. We need---monsters. PRESIDENT: Monsters! Of course! It's so simple. I...I'm not following you. MONGER: Over the last fifty years I have captured monsters on the rampage and locked them up in a secret prison facility---so secret that the mere mention of its name is a federal offense. MILITARY ADVISOR: Is he referring to Area Fifty---(gets struck by a dart). MONGER: Mister President, say hello to Insectosaurus. RONSON: (Screams) MONGER: Miss Ronson, please. Nuculer radiation turned him from a small grub into a three hundred fifty foot-tall monster that attacked Tokyo. Here we have the Missing Link. RONSON: (Screams) MONGER: A twenty thousand year-old frozen fish man who was thawed out by scientists. He escaped and went on a rampage at his old watering hole. This handsome fellow is Doctor Cockroach, Ph.D., the most brilliant man in the world. He invented a scientific machine that would give humans the cockroach's ability to survive. Unfortunately, there was a side effect. RONSON: (Screams) MONGER: (Sighs) Now, we call this thing BOB. RONSON: (Screams) MONGER: Would someone get her outta here? (There is a scuffle) Thank you. A genetically-altered tomato was combined with a chemically-altered ranch-flavored dessert topping at a snack food plant. The resulting goop gained consciousness and became an indestructible gelatinous mass. And our latest addition: Ginormica. (A scream off camera) PRESIDENT: Ahem, General, continue. MONGER: Her entire body radiates with pure energy, giving her enormous strength and size. Sir, these monsters are our best and only chance to defeat that robot. NERD: Don't we already have an alien problem, General? I don't think we need a monster problem, too. MONGER: You got a better idea, nerd? (Gives him a super wedgie) PRESIDENT: (Panicking) Okay, stay where you are. General, I propose we go forward with your monsters versus aliens idea...thingie. DIALOGUE ON DIALOGUE: A giant alien robot invades San Francisco in a search for the power contained within Ginormica, who was an ordinary human until she was struck by a meteorite carrying an alien mineral. The President and his advisors search for some way to defeat it, until General Warren Monger arrives to reveal that he has been collecting monsters that could be used against the invader. Though we've met all the monsters previously, this scene gives us a little bit more backstory on each as well as Monger's relationship to them, and sets up the goal of the next stage of the story (the conflict with the robot). And, a few chances to play some comedy off several sci-fi and nerd tropes. Each of the monsters here is reminiscent of an old sci-fi or horror film: Ginormica -- The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) Insectosarus -- Mothra (1961) Dr. Cockroach -- The Fly (1958) The Missing Link -- The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Good one, Michael. I'll add to the list: Parental Advice.