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What Is a Yoot?

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Andrew Smith
Dec 06, 2023
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My favorite scene in My Cousin Vinny involves a play on words.

Joe Pesci, a criminal defense lawyer with an infamously New Jersey accent, grills a witness on the stand, finally reaching the conclusion—that perhaps the witness was, in fact, mistaken. He asks whether it’s possible that the two yoots the witness saw weren’t the clients in question. Here’s the scene:

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