As they reach Nastenka's door, the main character asks if he will ever see her again.
Not all of them appear, which causes one character to ask: "You mean somebody could be missing who wasn't here in the first place?"
Where will you find a play in which a character asks: "What's it like to be dead?"
In the film, the character asked his wife and brother to kill him.
My character is asking big, serious questions with a lot of integrity.'
When another character asks why that was done, the answer is, "Just in case."
Life goes on; characters ask themselves questions but do not stay for an answer.
This is common in children's theatre where, for example, a character might ask the children for help.
A running joke throughout the series is that characters must ask a question multiple times before receiving an answer.
"You know the last scene in 'Chicago,' when my character asks for his exit music and it doesn't come?"