Court Transcript

THE COURT:  What do you mean when you say your client said it in "the Chili's way"?

MR. STONE:  He wasn't saying it in a threatening or menacing -- he sang it, Your Honor. Like the Chili's jingle.

THE COURT:  The Chili's jingle?

MR. STONE:  Yes Your Honor. It was a sort of joking --

THE COURT:  I have no idea what you're talking about.

MR. STONE:  Well the ads are from a long time ago. I think it's just one of those catchy things --

MR. KOUVACS:  Your Honor if I may. [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back.

THE COURT:  Oh right yeah! [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back. I want my baby back baby back baby back. I didn't know that was Chili's.

MR. STONE:  It's an advertisement for baby-back ribs, Your Honor.

MR. KOUVACS:  [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back.

THE COURT:  I thought it was from that movie.

MR. KOUVACS:  [singing] Chili's baby-back ribs!  No, Your Honor, at least originally it was an ad campaign for Chili's.

MR. STONE:  It was in a movie, Your Honor.

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MR. STONE:  Austin Powers.

THE COURT:  It was a sort of obese Scottish character.

MR. KOUVACS:  He's right, Your Honor, but I actually think it was in the second one.

THE COURT:  The second movie?

MR. KOUVACS:  Yeah. The Spy Who Shagged Me.

THE COURT:  [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back.

MR. KOUVACS:  The joke was that he was going to eat Mini-Me.

THE COURT:  Excuse me?

MR. KOUVACS:  The obese character was going to eat a baby, and so the jingle was sort of dark comedy. Not entirely un-menacing, Your Honor. I would argue --

THE COURT:  [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back.

MR. STONE:  It wasn't a baby --

THE COURT:  [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back.

MR. KOUVACS:  Well, wasn't Mini-Me a baby?

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THE COURT:  Mini-Me is a clone. He's small, but not a baby.

MR. KOUVACS:  Get in my belly!

MR. STONE:  [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back. Anyway Your Honor --

THE COURT:  We can move on. It's just so catchy. [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back.

MR. KOUVACS:  [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back.

MR. STONE:  [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back.

THE COURT:  [singing] Chili's baby-back ribs!

MR. KOUVACS:  You do know the jingle, Your Honor!

THE COURT:  It's so --

MR. STONE:  [singing] I want my baby back baby back baby back.

THE COURT:  -- good.

MR. STONE:  Is anyone else hungry? Because I think we were going to recess at noon, and I know it's a little early --

MR. KOUVACS:  [singing] Chili's baby-back ribs!

THE COURT:  Let's recess until --

MR. STONE:  I can look it up on my Blackberry.

THE COURT:  -- 2:30.  Good, I'll -- good.