- The sight of Virgil playing
cello in a marching band.
- The documentary-style interviews with his parents
(wearing Groucho Marx eyeglass-nose-mustache disguises to hide
their embarrassment) and other figures in his life who had nothing
good to say about him.
- The failed heist in a pet store where he was chased
by a gorilla.
- Virgil's volunteering for an
experimental vaccination and, for several hours, was turned into
a rabbi.
- His tip for a maitre d' with
coins he had just stolen from a gumball machine.
- His discovery of a bra in the prison laundry.
- Another failed heist attempt in the
most-often quoted scene, when during a bank robbery, he handed
over his scrawled note to tellers, but mis-spelled his holdup note:
"Please put $50,000 into this bag and abt natural, because I
am pointing a gub at you."
- His hiring of a film director named Fritz (Marcel
Hillaire) to shoot a film in a bank about a heist - to provide
a cover for the actual robbery. Unfortunately, another gang tried
to rob the bank at the same time.
- His prison punishment when he was locked up with
an insurance salesman.
- Virgil's earlier failed escape attempt, when his
self-made soap gun melted in a sudden rainstorm. In the final line
of the film, an interviewer asks Virgil if he had any hobbies (he
was making another soap-gun), and he responded: "Do you know
if it's raining out?"
Take
the Money and Run (1969) is noted as Woody Allen's directoral
debut.