Crossing the entertainmental divide...
 

What lines from movies or tv shows do you use in every day speak?

I use "wish granted" from the movie Ice Age, where Manny foots Sid up the arse and grants his wish to jump like Diego the sabertooth tiger.

When someone asks how to spell something, the reply is usually...."T...H....phlegm....". Taken from Achmed the Dead Terrorist.

Most of mine come from TV comedy I have on dvd, as I don't often rewatch films. I have a very small film collection!

It's often intonation rather than a quotable line, so mostly they are for my own benefit. In fact sometimes I mutter them under my breath and snicker to myself.

Examples:
I'm getting a little tired of this (Ghostbusters)
Because... we're not at home to Mr Cock Up (Blackadder II)
And the front door is open... again! (Shaun of the Dead)
No! (the specific way Martin Freeman says it at the beginning of Hot Fuzz)

I think the oddest film one I use is an action rather than a line. If I'm ever drinking a shot, or even something else I finish off in one swallow I have to bang the glass on the table twice a la From Dusk til Dawn.

Relating every conversation to something based on an unnatural knowledge of Simpsons, Family Guy, Mr. Show, The Onion... or (and this isn't entertainment except to me) "I read an article about this in Scientific American..."

Far too many. And cellar phrases too. Some of them I haven't even seen the movies, I just acquired them from beest. Some I used for years before even knew they were movie quotes.

I say "I say we nuke the site form orbit, it's the only way to be sure" way too often for common decency. (yeah, I know it's missing a bit) I narrowly avoided telling my kids to hurry up because I had to pee like a racist the other day....

Arg. Just remembered all the Cellar phrases and internet memes.
And no-one I know uses the internet the same way I do, sp I end up just sharing them with Diz.

He's pretty much au fait with LOLcat speak now.

Sometimes I say 'excellent' like Mr Burns. Everyone around here says 'Doh' like Homer. Actually, my youngest son does the excellent thing and puts his fingertips together while he's at it. It makes me laugh.

Another one is 'go ahead, make my day' if one of my family (usually the kids) are about to do something that'll really piss me off. I don't think they get it, but Dazza does and he usually laughs.

I think there's probably heaps more, but I can't think of them right now.

"Who's Queen!"
"I have a cunning plan"

I also say "D'oh" a la Homer Simpson. (EDIT: Ha, Ha I wrote that before reading Ali's reply)

plus many many more

I add (iconic phrasing that means nothing to most people), "He's only got one arm!"
Mr Cockup phrase later in the same scene of course.

The episode/ series was replete with lines.

Oh yeah, Who's Queen ....alll the time. Goes down so well over here, too.... :lol:

Oh dear, I really do have a beard thing ....I was just starting to think how sexy Rowan Atkinson was in that clip.... I need a lie down.....

Oh babba I fancied the leather pants off him at the time!
Then again I was 14 ;)

I have to include The League of Gentlemen. Of course. Please watch it if you have a chance.
Eskewd beef, hav anybody got any bokkle oran doove means a lot to people like me.

yebbut, he's Mr. Bean

but but but..... I loves me a man in black with a black hair and a neat beard....

Oh now you got me started, but most of the ones we regularly use are from Brit TV comedies.

Smoke me a kipper....
Woof!.....
Those are not small cows, they're just far away....

re: Black Adder, I sometimes say "You bastard!" that certain way...

Youtube it for us....

please? :)

lol I loved Rowan in his black leathers and beard. That penultimate scene in series 2 "Life without you is like a blunt pencil....pointless" brilliant.
Some that tend to crop up in my circle are "What is the matter with you Darling?" and "There's nothing cushy about the Women's Royal Auxillary Balloon Corps"....

Oh and my cousins and I sometimes call each other "Noble Cuz"


oh yeah and "hey nonny nonny, my lord!"


Smeghead is one that crops up....usually that ends up as "Smeee..eeeg H.eeee...eead"

oh I have one "Did you spit in this?" -- Chet (Bill Paxton) in Weird Science

The sort of thing one dredges up from neo-Latin sites from Roman recreationists: "FABRICATE DIEM, PVNC!"

With all due respect, sir, you're beginning to bore the hell out of me. - "Heartbreak Ridge"

I use "Pineapple, goatcheese pizza!?!?" (Bruce Williis in Hudson Hawk) in response to a lot of things, not necessarily having to do with food.

"Oh, it gets better!" (Rip Torn as Zed in Men in Black) is my response in place of a "wait, there's more."

"But I was going to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters." (whined by Luke in Star Wars) is my response to things I'd rather not do.

"We're in a tight spot!"
O Brother Where Art Thou

"A little too much fucking perspective, if you ask me."
This Is Spinal Tap

"She's like a cockroach what turned into a butterfly!" ("what" is not a typo.)
Junior in Pocketful of Miracles.

I used to use this one, but no one else got it and I got over explaining it.

Spinal Tap: forgot about that, there must be a million in there. ie whenever anybody describes something as "black" it must be "none more black". Dealing with amps, "This one goes to eleven". Etc.

Actually the best are when a line appears totally unexpectedly. A friend and I were building an Ikea shelf when I dropped one of the pegs that holds a shelf up. It rolled down to my friend, who handed it back to me and said "Steely Dan". I said "What?" He said, and 20 years later it is still just as memorable,

"Peg, it will come back to you."

Indiana Jones and the Penultimate Crusade:

"He chose poorly."

Ghost Busters

"Tell him about the twinkie."
"Okay, so, she's a dog."
"Yes. It's true. This man has no dick."
"Dogs and cats, living together."

My Cousin Vinny

"Identical" (Has to be said properly)
"Does that thing come turbo-charged?"
"Are you sure about that five minutes?"

The Princess Bride

"I don't think this word means what he thinks it means." (Also has to be said properly)

Princess Bride has a million of 'em.
"As you wiiissshhh..."
"Anybody want a peanut?"
"You kill my father, prepare to die."
etc.

So does Joe vs the Volcano.

Have fun storming the castle.

We use a couple from South Park:

"Oh, rainbows..."
"It's my ______, I'll do what I want!"

Planet...tarium

Doesn't come up much in conversation, but we both say it

Oh it does come up at school. I use it all the time. the kids don't get it, though. :(

Screw you guys, I'm going home. Screw you - home.

And from Anchorman:
I don't care.... I'll eat the shit. I'll eat the entire hunk of... [whine/cry]
Loud noises!!

Oh yeah, another South Park one:

"Oh honey, those are two completely different numbers!"

I will say NI! again to you if you do not appease me!

The more I think about this, the more obscure ones I come up with that only I find funny. I need to find some poor unsuspecting man to watch my video collection.

There was a Saturday morning programme called SM:TV Live. It spawned Cat Deeley (with you currently) and national treasures Ant & Dec. Many adults watched it, and certainly half the team I worked with in London. My SA colleague bought me a video of the Best Bits - bless him, he never watched it and couldn't get why I loved it.

In the years since, I watched it as a comfort - it's been off air for years now. So of course some of the phrases are embedded in my mind. Some were only mentioned once in the ephermeral world of live tv, some were running gags. I doubt any would be remembered now without the aid of a video.

So - having given it the longest introduction ever, I'll amaze you with mundane phrases that make me laugh:
- Birmingham!
- Dizzy water, dizzy water, dizzy water
- Thanks, I've just had a poo
- Stupid farmer!

For the Brits - HM described someone as "laughing like Stuart Hall" the other night at work. He had to explain the reference. Poor chap, it was a good analogy from the way he described it (someone walked into something and HM's colleague was doubled up). But then he works with 20 year olds & foreigners.

Ah, found this. Without context I doubt it will be funny. For me (and other Brits I hope) it brings tears to my eyes.


An explanation for furriners. If you've made it this far I salute you.

Sundae, that show is like a British version of MXC. I laughed.

It's based on a much older show. Can't recall what that was, in the 70's. Sundae any ideas?

Another Southpark one:

"You will respect my authoriteh!"

It ran from 1966.
It wasn't quite as mad as Takeshi's Castle, but I have no doubt they got the idea from Jeux Sans Frontieres (the Europe-wide version of It's A Knockout that our teams were aiming to compete in). The translation is Games Without Frontiers btw. Yes, like the Peter Gabriel song. Listen to it again knowing this.

Apparently the American version was Almost Anything Goes. Thanks Wiki.

We had something silmilar to MXC, although it was still given it's original name. Ours was voiced by Red Dwarf's Craig Charles. Most people I know found it annoying thanks to the commentary, the action replays, the sound effects, the obvious cuts meaning you didn't know who won and would rather have watched the original with a real translation. Ah, island nations - inscrutable :)

"Wrong lever!! Why do we even *have* that lever?" -- Yzma, Emperor's New Groove

"What kind of milk you 'drayngkin'?"

"Two Armadillos?" (Brits)

oh and just used

"I'll have a P, please, Bob." (Brits too, sorry)

Poor kids have no idea why we say for that when they ask for peas.

I'll have an E please Bob!

"You can dooi it"...whatshisdick from Adam Sandler movies.

"Waaaait, dude....what?" ...from LOLcats really.

Rob Schneider.

I use the LOLcats one all the time.

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

"I'd buy *that* for a dollar!"

Oh, i use that one Big!

The other one that gets used a lot is "yes" drawn out in a Jeremy Paxman style (this one is for brits only)

yes, yes.. do you remember the film?

Too right. Robocop. That scene with the cop shot to pieces and the game show playing in the background was a shiver down the spine job.

Such a shame they retrospectively fucked it up by producing appalling sequels :P

Oh Jeez, don't we all?

...no?

Airplane is a big source for me.

It's amazing how often people hand you the straight line you need.

"Yes, I am serious, but stop calling me Shirley."

When I hand over the HIPPA notice to more with-it clients, they get told they can make a hat, a brooch, or a pterodactyl out of it.

I am a big fan of Star Trek (TOS), so "Logic is a little bird, tweeting in a meadow" gets heard in the office fairly often.

South Park is good ... Shennanigans, I'm not fat, I'm festively plump, respect my author-i-tay, Drugs are Bad mmmkay.

Remember, there is no shortage of meathooks on which to hang the bodies of our enemies. - Paraphrased from "Conspiracy"

Just found this one on youtube.

I had it on (audio) tape. Listened to it until the tape warped.
Ones I still use occasionally:
"The electric telephone"
"What-so-ev-er" in that accent
"Stiff as a board and bright green" - you'd be surprised how often that comes up!
".. and beginning to sme-ell"
"Or at least it would be, if it were true" although I admit I've paraphrased it over the years, not having access to the source. I tend to say... "well... if it was true!"

As usual for me, it's all about intonation and accent. Some of them I'd forgotten where they came from.

What I would really love to do is quote a monologue/ duologue on here and have it read on youtube by person/ people who have never heard it before. Not to make fun of them, and specifically not to recreate the original. Just to get another take on something I am really familiar with.

Pro - we all have cherished comedy that people in other countries haven't seen
Con - the majority of Dwellars are notoriously shy