Ronnie: [after an unsuccessful test of the telepods] We've gotta do this, Seth. Talk to the tape. Get in the habbit. The world will want to know what you're thinking.
Seth Brundle: "Fuck!" is what I'm thinking.
Ronnie: Good... The world will want to know that... What else? Why didn't it work?
Seth Brundle: [Disappointed] I think it turned the baboon inside-out.
Ronnie: Why?
Seth Brundle: [sigh] It can't cope with the flesh. It only seems to work on inanimate objects; nothing that's living.
Ronnie: Why?
Seth Brundle: Computers are dumb. They only know what you tell them... I must not know enough about the flesh myself. I'm gonna have to learn.
[Long pause]
Seth Brundle: I don't wanna talk now.
[Ronnie turns off the camera and watches Seth sympathetically as he walks away with his head held low in disappointment]