What does Pennywise say to Georgie

Pennywise : Hi Georgie!

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[pause] 

Pennywise : What a nice boat. Do you want it back?

Georgie : Um... Yes, please.

Pennywise : You look like a nice boy, I bet you have a lot of friends.

Georgie : Three... but my brother is my best's best.

Pennywise : Where is he?

Georgie : In bed. Sick.

Pennywise : I bet I can cheer him up! I'll give him a balloon. Do you want a balloon too, Georgie?

Georgie : I'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers.

Pennywise : Oh! Well, I'm Pennywise, the dancing clown. "Pennywise?". "Yes?", "Meet Georgie". "Georgie, meet Pennywise".

[Georgie laughs] 

Pennywise : Now we aren't strangers. Are we?

Georgie : What are you doing in the sewer?

Pennywise : A storm blew me away. Blew the whole circus away.

[laughs] 

Pennywise : Can you smell the circus, Georgie? There's peanuts... cotton candy... hot dogs... and...

Georgie : Popcorn?

Pennywise : POPCORN! Is that your favorite?

Georgie : Uh-huh.

Pennywise : Mine too!

[laughs] 

Pennywise : Because they pop! Pop, pop! Pop, pop! Pop, pop, pop!

[both laugh] 

Pennywise : [pause] 

Georgie : Um... I should get going, now.

Pennywise : Oh! Without your boat? You don't wanna lose it Georgie. Bill's gonna kill you! Here. Take it.

[pause] 

Pennywise : Take it, Georgie.

Pennywise : Hi Georgie!

[pause] 

Pennywise : What a nice boat. Do you want it back?

Georgie : Um... Yes, please.

Pennywise : You look like a nice boy, I bet you have a lot of friends.

Georgie : Three... but my brother is my best's best.

Pennywise : Where is he?

Georgie : In bed. Sick.

Pennywise : I bet I can cheer him up! I'll give him a balloon. Do you want a balloon too, Georgie?

Georgie : I'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers.

Pennywise : Oh! Well, I'm Pennywise, the dancing clown. "Pennywise?". "Yes?", "Meet Georgie". "Georgie, meet Pennywise".

[Georgie laughs] 

Pennywise : Now we aren't strangers. Are we?

Georgie : What are you doing in the sewer?

Pennywise : A storm blew me away. Blew the whole circus away.

[laughs] 

Pennywise : Can you smell the circus, Georgie? There's peanuts... cotton candy... hot dogs... and...

Georgie : Popcorn?

Pennywise : POPCORN! Is that your favorite?

Georgie : Uh-huh.

Pennywise : Mine too!

[laughs] 

Pennywise : Because they pop! Pop, pop! Pop, pop! Pop, pop, pop!

[both laugh] 

Pennywise : [pause] 

Georgie : Um... I should get going, now.

Pennywise : Oh! Without your boat? You don't wanna lose it Georgie. Bill's gonna kill you! Here. Take it.

[pause] 

Pennywise : Take it, Georgie.

What does Pennywise say to Georgie

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What does Pennywise say to Georgie

“Want your boat, Georgie?' Pennywise asked. 'I only repeat myself because you really do not seem that eager.' He held it up, smiling. He was wearing a baggy silk suit with great big orange buttons. A bright tie, electric-blue, flopped down his front, and on his hands were big white gloves, like the kind Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck always wore.Yes, sure,' George said, looking into the stormdrain.And a balloon? I’ve got red and green and yellow and blue...'Do they float?'Float?' The clown’s grin widened. 'Oh yes, indeed they do. They float! And there’s cotton candy...'George reached.The clown seized his arm.And George saw the clown’s face change.What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams; what he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke.They float,' the thing in the drain crooned in a clotted, chuckling voice. It held George’s arm in its thick and wormy grip, it pulled George toward that terrible darkness where the water rushed and roared and bellowed as it bore its cargo of storm debris toward the sea. George craned his neck away from that final blackness and began to scream into the rain, to scream mindlessly into the white autumn sky which curved above Derry on that day in the fall of 1957. His screams were shrill and piercing, and all up and down Witcham Street people came to their windows or bolted out onto their porches.They float,' it growled, 'they float, Georgie, and when you’re down here with me, you’ll float, too–'George's shoulder socked against the cement of the curb and Dave Gardener, who had stayed home from his job at The Shoeboat that day because of the flood, saw only a small boy in a yellow rain-slicker, a small boy who was screaming and writhing in the gutter with muddy water surfing over his face and making his screams sound bubbly.Everything down here floats,' that chuckling, rotten voice whispered, and suddenly there was a ripping noise and a flaring sheet of agony, and George Denbrough knew no more.Dave Gardener was the first to get there, and although he arrived only forty-five seconds after the first scream, George Denbrough was already dead. Gardener grabbed him by the back of the slicker, pulled him into the street...and began to scream himself as George's body turned over in his hands. The left side of George’s slicker was now bright red. Blood flowed into the stormdrain from the tattered hole where his left arm had been. A knob of bone, horribly bright, peeked through the torn cloth.The boy’s eyes stared up into the white sky, and as Dave staggered away toward the others already running pell-mell down the street, they began to fill with rain.”


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What does Pennywise say to Georgie

What did Pennywise tell Georgie?

Pennywise beckoned Georgie to take his boat, with promises of cotton candy, rides, and balloons of all colors. When Georgie asked if they float, Pennywise responded to the affirmative. However, when Georgie reached down to take his boat, Pennywise told him that when he was in the sewers with him, he would float, too.

What is Pennywise's catchphrase?

Pennywise : BEEP BEEP Richie! They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too!

Why does Pennywise say we all float down here?

The simplest and most obvious interpretation is that all the talk of floating is a reference to the fact that Pennywise (aka the titular "It") murders his victims and drags them down to the town's sewer system where he dwells, which is full of water. And what do dead bodies do in water? That's right — they float.

What is Pennywise's true name?

In the novel, It claims that its true name is Robert "Bob" Gray, but decided to be named “It”. Throughout the book, It is generally referred to as male due to usually appearing as Pennywise.