In The Truman Show, what farewell does Truman Burbank use before leaving his artificial world?
Answer
In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!
In The Truman Show, Truman Burbank says, “In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!”
Truman has used the greeting throughout his life without knowing that he is the star of a globally broadcast television program. At the end of the film, he repeats it to the audience before walking through an exit door in the giant studio that has contained his manufactured town.
Jim Carrey plays Truman, while Ed Harris plays Christof, the show’s creator and director. Peter Weir directed the 1998 film from a screenplay by Andrew Niccol. Its premise examines surveillance, media control, privacy, and the difference between a comfortable illusion and an uncertain reality.
The line’s wording is sometimes shortened to “Good afternoon, good evening, and good night,” but the full farewell begins with “In case I don't see ya.” That opening gives the sentence its emotional force because Truman is saying goodbye to an entire artificial world.