Patrick Bateman Business Cards

212 555 6142 PIERCE & PIERCE Patrick Bateman Vice President 212 555 6312 PIERCE & PIERCE Mergers and Acquisitions DAVID VAN PATTEN Vice President RAINBOWS ARE...? LOVE IS LOVE PIERCE & PIERCE Mergers and Acquisitions TIMOTHY BRYCE Vice President WHITE PEOPLE SHUT UP 212 555 6342 PIERCE & PIERCE Mergers and Acquisitions VIOLENCE IS SILENCE SILENCE IS VIOLENCE ALAN VICE PRESIDENT SIEH HIRK

Patrick Bateman and his colleagues compare increasingly flamboyant business cards in a scene from American Psycho. The joke comes from treating minor design differences and rainbow-themed cards as a devastating status competition, while Bateman’s increasingly disturbed reaction makes the exchange absurd. It is used as a reaction to envy, one-upmanship, or discovering that someone else has a much more impressive version of something. EN: Patrick Bateman and his colleagues compare increasingly flamboyant business cards in a scene from American Psycho. The joke comes from treating minor design differences and rainbow-themed cards as a devastating status competition, while Bateman’s increasingly disturbed reaction makes the exchange absurd. It is used as a reaction to envy, one-upmanship, or discovering that someone else has a much more impressive version of something.

• @eternalclassic / 15467 2022-06-26