When Art Imitates Life, and It Falls Flat

[Fishface]

In one scene of the movie AMERICAN PSYCHO, the title character, Patrick Bateman, is sitting at the club with a bunch of his fellow Wall Street yuppies talking about who's dating whom, and quotes serial killer Ed Gein. He tells them Gein once said, "When I see a pretty girl, part of me wants to take her out and treat her right; the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick." He laughs uproariously, and all the other guys at the table exchange uneasy glances. Why are they so thrown by what Bateman tells them?

A) They usually just talk about things like dinner reservations and where they buy their suits, and this is pretty heavy
B) Bateman doesn't realize that he's the only one who thinks the Gein quote is funny
C) They're embarrassed that Bateman mis-attributed the quote to the wrong serial killer
D) The other corporation vice-presidents at the table think of pretty girls as life partners at best, status symbols at worst; they are not head-on-a-stick guys
E) All of the above

NOTE: If you answer C or E, you MUST complete your answer by saying who the correct serial killer ought to be.

[Jay]

I will go with A. The reason is because
C; They arent into serial killers and wouldnt know he misquoted.
D and B; They are far too vacuous.

I will answer C.
The reason why he "quoted" Ed Gein is the same reason why in the TV show The dead zone they had a school shooting episode and one of the kids who the school thought was a likely suspect was a kid who owned a copy of The A-Z encyclopedia of serial killers. They actually show the real book on the show. They ask him about his opinion and instead of mentioning Idk...some obscure case [Richard Cottingham, Richard Chase, Dean Corll.] the kid mentions Ed Gein. It's because Ed Gein is well known. Everyone knows about Ed Gein.

The quote is from my favorite serial killer case. Edmund Kemper who said it during an interview with a crime reporter. He freaked her out more when he pretended to be a dead body. Explaining that he snapped Sally's neck when he strangled her and then he proceeded to dangle his neck as though it was broken. Imitating her body.

[Fishface]

DING DING DING! As usual, I'm not sure what your exact answer is meant to be, Jay, but C is one of the correct ones. Bateman did attribute an Ed Kemper quote to Ed Gein.

E, "all of the above," is equally correct.