Freshly dumped and emotionally devastated, Ron Burgundy makes a desperate, mascara-streaked call from a phone booth—possibly the most dramatic use of a payphone in cinematic history. The pastel turtleneck, the midday breakdown, the bellowing into the abyss… it’s heartbreak, but make it Anchorman. This piece captures the exact moment he howls “I’m in a glass case of emotion!”—a line that has become both meme and mood.
Did You Know?
Will Ferrell improvised that entire phone booth scene. The line was never in the script and ended up becoming one of the most quoted from the film.