Peter Stormare played Gaear Grimsrud in the Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo (1996). Here he comments on his second line in the film, “Where’s Pancakes House?”:
I said, “It’s gotta be Pancake House.” And then when we were doing the scene, I was saying "Where’s the Pancake House?" And Ethan: “Peter?” “Yeah?” “What were you saying there?” "Where’s the Pancake House?" “No, it says Pancakes House.” “Oh, I thought it was a typo.” “No, no, there’s no typos in our scripts.”
From Minnesota Nice (dir. Jeffrey Schwarz, 2003), a short documentary on the making of Fargo
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I think the "pancake" vs "pancakes" was put in because English wouldn't have been Gaear's first language.
Yes. I suspect that one or another Coen must have noticed one day that we say “House of Pancakes,” but “Pancake House.”
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