Quotables
Posted: July 8th, 2009 | Filed under: Pop Culture | 275 Comments »
The main point of this blog post is not to talk about “unearned runs” or anything, but I do have to get this off my chest: First inning tonight, Zack Greinke (who has not looked sharp at all lately — you wonder if this team is getting to him) led off with by walking Curtis Granderson. Then, on a hit-and-run, Placido Polando chopped a ball just over the head of third baseman Mark Teahen. Granderson, running, breezed into third base.
And then left fielder David DeJesus did one of those dumb things you can never quite believe big league players do … he looked toward third, looked toward second and then threw a pop-up throw to, well, to nobody in particular. Polanco, being a generally alert player, saw the pop-up throw and he stole second base while the ball was in the air — stole it in every sense of the word.
Now, iIn case you are wondering, that does NOT count as an error because … well, it just doesn’t. True, it was, literally, an error — an error in judgment, an error in execution, an error in every way. But stupid apparently does not equal an error.
Two batters later, Marcus Thames hit what might have been an inning ending double play … if Polanco was still at first. But he was not. Three batters later, with two outs, Clete Thomas singled to score Polanco from second.
Now, if we’re going to seriously talk about unearned runs … well, that seems to me just about as unearned as they get. DeJesus loses his mind, allows a guy to go to second, and then that guy scores from second on a single after a potential double play grounder does not get a double play. There was no reason for Polanco to be on second base. Greinke’s ERA is still the best in the American League even after Wednesday’s loss, but I can think of at least three runs off him this year that should have been unearned … at least by my liberal definition of the word.
But again, that’s not what this post is about.
This post is a lead-up to another bigger post. And it poses this question: What are the five most quotable movies of all time? You will see the poll on the right … I’m starting with 22 off the top of my head. We can adjust if some other obvious titles come up. The point is entirely about being quotable … and not just one quote either. The movie has to have several quotables … one often used quote (like in Taxi Driver or Dirty Harry) isn’t enough.
It has to be a movie you OFTEN quote from.
– Airplane
– Animal House
– Annie Hall
– The Blues Brothers
– Blazing Saddles
– Caddyshack
– Casablanca
– Citizen Kane
– Diner
– Ferris Buelller’s Day Off
– Godfather I
– Godfather II
– It’s A Wonderful Life
– Monty Python and the Holy Grail
– Napoleon Dynamite
– Network
– The Princess Bride
– This is Spinal Tap
– Swingers
– Raising Arizona
– Goodfellas
– When Harry Met Sally
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I voted for Caddyshack. But the real answer for my family is Big Lebowski.
Circle me, bert, if still relevant ….
For me This Is Spinal Tap, but how could Anchorman not be on the list?
Rarely does a day go by that I don’t quote Ghostbusters.
I second Big Lebowski…”this aggression will not stand”
Tommy Boy and Billy Madison are often quoted in my life these days as well.
The Big Lebowski should be on here! But Goodfellas, Caddyshack, Swingers, Animal House and of course the Godfather get my vote.
I second the Ghostbusters mention.
It has to be Slap shot.
Top Gun
This is a great idea but, seriously, I don’t understand how The Big Lebowski is not one of the options. There were several semesters in college during which I doubt I said anything that was NOT a Big Lebowski quote.
I mean, look at this goldmine: http://tinyurl.com/cvwkc
Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax…
I tried to pick 5 but it wouldn’t let me… so Lebowski gets the nod. The Dude abides.
Won’t let me pick 5…
Has to be Napoleon Dynamite for me
I second every movie every commenter has mentioned. However, I need to say “Napoleon Dynamite, seriously?” I guess if everytime someone says “Gosh!” it counts as a quote from that movie, but have people really been quoting that movie habitually for the last 3-4 years?
Whoops, forgot about Adam apparently.
I would vote for Christmas Vacation. I find myself quoting that movie year round, everyday.
There is only one choice. Caddyshack.
Airplane.
Surely you aren’t serious!
I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley.
No Bull Durham?
For those of us of a certain age, it has to be “A Clockwork Orange,” with its ‘Nadsat’ language and resulting phraseologies: “a little of the old in-out in-out,” etc. etc. Or, heck, another Kubrick classic, “2001″: “Open pod bay doors please, Hal.” / “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” But of the list as it stands, “This is Spinal Tap” = numero uno.
What about “Fletch”?
Where all the white women at?
Easy choice, as difficult as the Gabby Johnson scene is to quote.
Joe, where is Forrest Gump?
Major League needs to be on the that list.
I voted for Caddyshack, Blues Brothers, Ferris Bueller, Princess Diaries and Animal House…though it was really hard to leave Airplane and Holy Grail off, and I’m still not sure I made the right decision.
I quote Major League like a fiend during baseball season (“It’s too high!” “Forget about the curveball kid, give ‘em the heater”). Anchorman, Pulp Fiction, The Jerk and Reservoir Dogs should be up there as well.
But I gotta go with Big Lebowski, Blues Brothers, Pulp Fiction, Major League and This is Spinal Tap.
Surely, it has to be “Airplane”.
Wait for it…
Gotta go with Pulp Fiction and/or Reservoir Dogs in addition to some of the others mentioned. Need to get some Tarantino dialogue somewhere on that list…Pulp Fiction is the better movie, Reservoir Dogs is more quotable though.
No kidding, where are Anchorman and Ghostbusters on that list.
no star wars or empire?
no jaws?
“i am your father”
“we’re gonna need a bigger boat”
Fletch
In the Braves-Cubs game today, Fukudome whiffed on a routine single — just missed it, let it go under his glove — and it was ruled a two-base error; two runs scored because of it. Thing is, I have seen many games where the official scorers have not called that sort of thing an error, where apparently to commit an error you actually have to have deflected the ball. In other words, a bad play is an error, but a really bad play is apparently the pitcher’s own fault.
Tarantino is better quoted for long, drawn out stories.
Star Wars, Jaws, etc., are all movies with just a few memorable quotes.
If you ask me any general question, or are having any conversation, a quote from The Big Lebowski can be worked in. Don’t believe me? Let’s try!
Jerry Maguire –
You complete me.
Who’s coming with me?
SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Help me, help you.
Must not be a lot of cube rats posting here, because Office Space is depressingly quotable as a description of my life.
A Few Good Men
Office Space must be on this list.
Billy Madison and Forrest Gump definitely should be added.
Slap Shot’s missing from the most quotable movies. Don’t you remember? When you had the amnesia, you gave me power of attorney.
So add Slap Shot to the list and then I’ll give you a night on the town. We could go to the Aces.
Totally agree on Big Lebowski too. I work, “…if you’re not into the whole brevity thing” into at least one conversation a day.
Raising Arizona.
Her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.
Nobody sleeps naked in this house!
The Holy Grail tops my list and most of my other choices were apparently common. I did vote for Harry/Sally. In my defense it’s because I drop the “high maintenance” line on my wife with stunning regularity.
@Eddie (#21) “White Women” is not the proper nomenclature. Caucasian-Americans, please.
Another vote for Top Gun. Just a walk in the park, Kaczanski.
That’s right, Ice Man. I am dangerous. (Use that one in a business meeting; it never fails.)
A Few Good Men gets a vote from me as well.
Joe -
“What in God’s holy name are you blathering about?”
You thought we wouldn’t mind that you forgot to list Lebowski and had to add an asterisk?
“I do mind. The Dude minds. This will not stand, you know, this aggression will not stand, man.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes
Yup. Has to be Lebowski.
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just like, your opinion, man
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Tommy Boy
Ghostbusters
39 comments, and no Casablanca? I am shocked — shocked…
…and feeling kinda old.
You ever hear of the Seattle Seven?
Maude — Mmm hmm
Well, that was me… and six other guys.
The first movie I thought of was Breakfast Club:
Sweets, you couldn’t ignore me if you tried.
Impossible sir; it’s in Johnson’s underwear.
Neomaxizoomdweebie.
Do I stutter?
Can I eat? –I don’t know. You can try.
Don’t mess with the bull. You’ll get the horns.
I’ll ask again in this thread — how do I add an avatar? Thanks in advance.
I second Christmas Vacation.
“You serious, Clark?”
” Is this the airport, Clark? Is Rusty still in the Navy?”
“Hallelujah! Holy s**t! Where’s the Tylenol?”
“Worse? How could things get any worse? Take a look around here, Ellen. We’re at the threshold of hell! ”
I also second Star Wars (but will spare you the quotes).
Damon (50) – go to Wordpress.com and create an account for yourself. You don’t need to actually create a blog. Add an avatar to your wordpress acct. Then, as long as you’re logged into wordpress, your avatar should show when you comment.
I’d definitely have to say Caddyshack. Big Lebowski also got a vote from me, and I think Stripes should be added to the list. But maybe that’s just my family…
“We’re not parking it, we’re abandoning it.”
“Stay away from the schnitzel, I hear they’re using schnauser.”
“Driving to Czechoslovakia? That’s like going to Wisconsin!”
“Lighten up, Francis.”
the fact that THE BIG LEBOUSKI is not on here is a travisty
Tommy boy, Bull Durham, Fletch and Johnny Dangerously need to be added.
It’s possible most of the quotes have ceased to be used for the most part – but I think you have to include Wayne’s World movie. It is a definite no doubt first ballot quotable movie HOF.
After reading through the comments I’ll throw my hat in for Tommy Boy as well.
Holy Grail, who hasn’t said the following in a business meeting in the last month: “Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who.”
or, “Every time I try to talk to someone it’s sorry this and forgive me that and I’m not worthy”… or dropped the “It’s just a flesh wound. ” after a fall by one of your kids??
Not to mention “I fart in your general direction”, “Run Away!”, and “now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.”
C’mon, this was the quote movie of my generation (or at least the nerds I hung out with). Maybe I am just old…..
By the way, TPJ is still getting at bats in major league games. That has to be the all time funniest sports quote ever.
Sorry Joe, but the entire exercise is disqualified by not having The Big Lebowski on the list. Don’t even think I can properly vote until you put it in there.
I echo the Lebowski sentiment.
Oh, that and High Fidelity. Those would be one and two.
Friday and Half Baked
This topic needs a 64-movie tournament; I bet somewhere out there on them internets this has already been conducted.
But do people ever argue about most quotable TV shows?
Aliens.
“We’re all gonna die, man!”
“They mostly come out at night. Mostly.”
“Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
How about “Glengarry Glen Ross”? I can think of at least three different quotes.
Major League. Don’t know what Network is, and plan to go the rest of my life not having seen the Princess Bride
Tommy Boy and Lebowski, of course. I think I quote more movies not on that list…
I think “A Few Good Men” has to be on that list.
“You’re a lousy softball player Jack!”
I totally agree with you on the unearned run and the error for stupidity.
When Aaron Heilman threw that 1 hitter for the Mets the only hit IIRC was due to the sheer idiocy of Doug Mientkiewicz not covering first base.
I can’t emphasize how awful it was of a mistake, but no error.
And no no-hitter.
Tommy Boy has to be added.
“Next thing ya know, there’s change missing from your dresser and your daughter’s knocked up. I’ve seen it a hundred times…”
“Housekeeping”, “Weight Room”, and “Fat Man/Little Coat”…etc.
“You’re a lousy softball player Jack!”
I’m fairly certain you omitted an important word in this quote.
Where’s Christmas Vacation?
“Burn some dust here, eat my rubber.”
“It’s a bit nipply out.”
“Merry Christmas, s**tter was full.”
“I dunno bout the cat, but I sure am enjoyin it.”
“Save the neck for me Clark.”
“That’s an RV.”
Vacation, Tommy Boy, Old School, Star Wars, Top Gun
Pulp Fiction. Lebowski. Blazing Saddles. Ghostbusters. The South Park movie. And you’ve be amazed how much mileage “Hey! It’s Enrico Palazzo” from The Naked Gun can get…
In order:
Pulp Fiction
Anchorman
Superbad
Office Space
I’m sure it’s an age thing (I’m 25) but there are about two dozen things in Superbad that my friends and I bring out pretty frequently. I’d say I use the sarcastic “that’s the most amazing story I’ve ever heard in my life, can you tell it again? Do you have the time?” at least once a day.
The Naked Gun movies are classic. Hadn’t thought of those. Still, Lebowski wins for me for most quotable. I’m going to have to bust out the VHS and watch my favorite Police Squad gang tonight though!
Do you see what happens? Do you see what happens, Larry?
suprisingly “i ate a big red candle” was smoothly worked into tonight’s dinner conversation. god wanted my anchorman vote
Office Space
I’m not sure how this hasn’t been mentioned yet, but no Thank You For Smoking? Fantastically quotable.
Better Off Dead…
“gee, I’m really sorry your mom blew up Ricky.”
I want my two dollars
Why dontcha go and get your shine box
Fletch. Every single line of dialogue in that movie is quotable. Every. Single. One.
If you watch “Casablanca,” you come to realize that every other line is a classic that gets quoted regularly.
1) “Here’s looking at you, kid.”
2) “Play it, Sam.”
3) “I’m SHOCKED to find there is gambling going on here.”
4) “Round up the usual suspects.”
5) “Louis, this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
One other movie that comes close isn’t on the list. It’s an obvious one, too:
1) “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”
2) “I’ll think about that tomorrow.”
3) “I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ babies!”
4) “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
Another vote for Office Space
In my family, it has to be Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This may be a bit of a stretch, because ANY Monty Python quote, including their series, is fodder for quotation.
I’d expect a lot of people to be quoting Bruno this Friday (just like Borat).
Holy Grail, but if this had been high school, it would have been Heathers.
The Big Lebowski really touched a nerve. A real quotefest. But, since you like sports analogies, how many guys stole home (or shoplifted the pootie) on “You complete me” over the last decade? Or, how many times did the phrase “Show me the money” echo down the corridors of success? That’s two big time quotes for Jerry Maguire. You know, it’s one thing to quote, it’s something else again to score. Lets add Jerry Maguire.
Major League, no question.
“That’s a hell of an idea… Tim!”
“I forgot about Dorn because he’s only high-priced.”
“Your wife’s a helluva dancer, you must be very proud.”
“Ball eight.”
And of course, “Juuuuust a bit outside.”
You need to add Vacation, Fletch, and Office Space.
Also, I think you’re confusing movies you like to watch over and over again (I like the same movies) with movies that are quotable. Dirty Harry is probably the most quoted movie of all time.
Can I just pick Mel Brookes?
In college, we used to quote from “Top Gun” all the time. We often quoted from it incorrectly, but we quoted from it nonetheless. A lot.
“Talk to me Goose”
“I’ll hit the brakes, he’ll fly right by.”
“I feel the need for speed.”
“Woo hoo! Jester’s dead!”
Dumb & Dumber
Probably just a generational thing, it came out when I was 13 years old, but I still think it is the funniest movie of all time.
Also, because it came out about the same time, and because I loved dinosaurs, I find myself quoting Jurassic Park all the time. I’ve see both movies dozens of times.
American Psycho: “i have to return some videotapes” “you’re just not terribly important to me” “do you like huey lewis and the news?” “i can feel my mask of sanity about to slip”
Tombstone: “this just isn’t your game. i know, let’s have a spelling contest” “i have two guns, one for each of you”
Tommy Boy: “not so much here or here, but right here” “what’d you do?!?!”
Airheads: “i ain’t fartin’ on no snare drum” “what is that, some sort of cracker slang?”
Boondock Saints: “kind of makes me feel like river dancing” “cuddle? what a f*g” “i can’t buy a pack of smokes without running into 9 guys you f****d!”
Major League: “i feel like a banker in this” “then cross him off the list”
The Big Lebowski: “yeah, well, that’s just, like your opinion, man” “you’re out of your element donnie”
American Movie: “It’s alright, it’s okay, there’s something to live for… Jesus told me so!” and one of my favorite quotes of all time…
“I was called to the bathroom at the cemetery to take care of something. I walked in the bathroom, and in the middle toilet right there… somebody didn’t s**t in the toilet, somebody s**t on the toilet. They s**t on the wall, they s**t on the floor. I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for about 10 to 15 seconds man, I just stared at somebody’s s**t, man. To be totally honest with you, man, it was a really, really profound moment. Cuz I was thinkin’, “I’m 30 years old, and in about 10 seconds I gotta start cleaning up somebody’s s**t, man.”
You definitely need to put Major League up there.
“JUUUUUUST a bit outside!”
“Heywood leads the league in all offensive categories, including nose hair. When that guy sneezes, he looks like a party favor.”
I could keep going, really.
With this being a baseball blog, you have to have both Bull Durham and Major League in there.
“Get a hit, Crash.”
“Shut up.”
Fletch is ultimately quotable. As a matter of fact, just paid for the kid’s drum lessons tonight with cash, using the line “I saw my pimp today.” Plus, bonus, “Hey, is that Tommy Lasorda?”
Airplane. “And don’t call me Shirley.”
Blazing Saddles. “What in the wide, wide world of sports is-a going on here?”
Where is Full Metal Jacket?
While I totally agree with the others who have called for the inclusion of The Big Lebowski, I also think that Young Frankenstein is easily as quotable as and a much better movie than Blazing Saddles.
The mental errors, like DeJesus made are rampant with this team. And they range through every facet of the game. And they seem to happen multiple times EVERY GAME.
I’ve become almost numb to them.
So now what’s eating at me — even more than the “errors” you’ve mentioned, are the blatant errors — as commonly defined — that the Royals’ official scorer refuses to categorize properly. I don’t know if he (they?) think they’re being kind to the inept Royals fielders, but for god’s sake think of the pitchers sometimes!
You’re not supposed to call something an error if a little leaguer should have made the play — you’re supposed to call it an error if a major leaguer should have made the play.
If Frank White would have played with this kind of Official Scoring, he probably would errorless for his career in Royals Stadium.
Oh, and … Big Lebowski.
“I’ve got a beverage here, man.”
I didn’t read through all 93 comments but my vote is for The Big Lebowski, Holy Grail, Dumb and Dumber, Wayne’s World, and Tommy Boy.
The last three are definitely a result of being a child of the late 80s.
Great additions, all. I have friend who always quotes Casablanca (my fault, because I made him watch it) and his two favorites are;
“Well you’re not subtle, but you are effective” and
“You want my advice? Go back to Bulgaria.”
How is Animal House in 8th place right now!? “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son!”
Best. Line. Ever.
The Detroit Tigers and The Knights who say “Fu Te Ni”
Oh, Wayne’s World, please. Game on!
Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, Anchorman are notable omissions.
I refuse to vote. I’ve heard more people in the inner city quote SCARFACE than any other movie.
Also, Napoleon Dynamite? You are in danger of slipping, my esteemed JoPo. Watch yourself.
how is Tombstone not on this list? These are white males who consume alcohol, right? You’re a daisy if ya’ do. I’m yer huckleberry. You gonna do anything or jus stand there and bleed? Skin that smokewagon and see what happens. Hurts, don’t it? Same place we met ours. You know…Frederick F-ing Chopin. Johnny Tyler…madcap! Where you goin with that shotgun? Need I say more?
Anchorman, without question.
Tombstone, also without question.
Die Hard.
Caddyshack/Princess Bride/Airplane – all good choices.
Office Space
Forrest Gump
Office Space
Dumb & Dumber
Princess Bride
Clerks
Mallrats
Major League
Fight Club
Glad to see that Anchorman and The Big Lebowski got added (you were definitely skewing older there, Joe) but I think Office Space is a major contender is well. Great question!
Road House
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
I feel sorry for those of you who believe Christmas Vacation is more quotable then the original Vacation. Major League, Tommy Boy, and Office Space definitely need to be on the list. Half Baked, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and American Beauty are also worthy of consideration.
Office Space is missing. And I know it doesn’t have mass appeal, but My Blue Heaven (with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis) is easily in my top 5. “The shoes are tragic!” “Arugala, it’s a veg-a-ta-ble” ” You know it’s dangerous for you to be here in the frozen food section… because you could melt all this stuff”
I think Dumb and Dumber has to be the most quotable movie of all time.
I have to say that the original Star Wars needs to be on the list. So many great quotes that can be used “Use the Force”, “May the Force be with you”, and, a personal favorite to use for any institution you hate, “A more retched hive of scum and villainy you will never find.”
I have to say that I find myself quoting Fight Club quite a bit.
In order:
This is Spinal Tap — “this one goes to 11 … fine line between stupid and clever … how much blacker can it be? … f**k the napkin … the stonehenge monument was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf … making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea … you can’t dust for vomit … hello cleveland! … don’t even look at it … bizarre gardening accident … currently residing in the where are they now file … it’s not a big college town … mime is money … it’s not your job to be as confused as Nigel … s**t sandwich …”
Holy Grail — “I’m not dead yet … this is supposed to be a happy occasion … let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who … now we see the violence inherent in the system … I’m being repressed … blessed are the cheesemakers … it’s only a flesh wound … come back here or I’ll bite your knees off … we are no longer the knights who say ni … I bet you’re gay … am not … she turned me into a newt … I got better … your mother was a hampster and your father smelled of elderberries … we’ve already got one; it’s very nice … the African swallow’s non-migratory … it’s just a harmless little bunny … there’s some lovely filth down here … you’ve got two empty cocnut shells and you’re banging them together … Mercia’s a temperate zone and coconuts are tropical … are you suggesting that coconuts migrate … it’s a question of weight ratios … strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government … let’s not go to Camelot; it is a silly place … you make me sad … run away! … she’s got huge tracts of land … five is right out … I’m French, why do you think I have this outrageous accent … dirty English k-nig-its … I call your daughter up and request a silly thing … very small rocks … ”
Raising Arizona — “we released ourselves on our own recognizance … recidivism; repeat offender; not a pretty word, is it Hi … it had yodas and s**t all over them … they got more than they can handle … her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase … that’s why they call it a way-homer … mind you don’t cut yourself Mordecai … that Buford’s a sly one; he already knows his ABCs … well then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear … lone biker of the apocalypse … it’s a hard world for the little things … son, you’ve got a panty on yer head … you wantin’ us to freeze or you wantin’ us to get down … table and no chairs you got d**k … when there was no crawdad we ate sand … who wears the pants around here … got you on an awful short leash … would you shop at a store named Unpainted Huffines … you’re partial to convenience stores … I found myself driving past convenience stores that weren’t on the way home … why ain’t you breast-feeding? You appear to be capable … you got to get your dip-tet … government do take a bite … turn to the right … not that mother-scratcher … those were the salad days … you want to find a Dunkin’ Donuts, call a cop … maybe it was Utah … ”
Caddyshack — “I don’t think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for awhile … cinderella story … it’s in the hole! … so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice … gee I bet you were something before electricity … you’re a tremendous slouch … be the ball … right into the lumber yards … we can do that; we don’t even need a reason … it looks good on you though … the varmint cong … that’s all she wrote … the great thing about this stuff is you can play 18 holes on it, take it home and get stoned to the bejesus on it … big hitter the lama … how ’bout a Fresca! … night putting, with the 15-year-old daugther of the dean … a flute with no holes is not a flute and a donut with no hole is a danish … rat-farts! … while we’re young … gambling is illegal at Bushwood … oo-oo my arm; it’s broken … did someone step on a duck … thank you very little … well tanks for nuttin … can you loofah my stretch marks … the world needs ditch diggers, too … pick up that blood … you’ll get nothing and like it! … pool and a pond; pond would be good for you … that’s a peach Gladys … you scratched my anchor … golf courses and graveyards are the biggest wastes of prime real estate … doodie! …”
The last pick is a toss-up between Animal House, Bull Durham or Fletch.
Where’s the money, Lebowski? This is our most modest recepticle. Child molester, Dude, child molester. He’s a good man, and thorough. New information has come to light, man. Are you f—ing this up, Dude? Nobody f—- with the Jesus. I have just one question: did ya have to use so many swear words? THIS is what happens WHEN YOU F— A STRANGER UP THE —! You’re out of your element, Donnie. You want a pinkie? I’ll get you a pinkie? F— it, Dude, let’s go bowling.
Thank you, Laurie (52)
Okay, “Scotty” –
You win.
But I’m shocked SHOCKED no one has mentioned:
“What we have here is… failure to communicate.”
I may not say it out loud, but I think it just about every meeting I go to.
My inner Bogart goes “I was misinformed.” about 20 times a week.
Maybe my tastes are eclectic but my single most favorite movie line is from Fellini’s “Amarcord.”
“Some days he’s normal. Other days he’s like the rest of us.”
I’m good with the five movies I picked, but had Office Space or Army of Darkness been on the list either one would have been my #5. “This…is my BOOMSTICK!”
The Jerk hands down.
Pay to the order of “Iron Balls McKenzie.” ONE DOLLAR AND NINE CENTS!
Joe, I feel very strongly about this; Anchorman MUST be on this list.
Star Wars, Ocean’s Eleven.
The new phonebook’s here! The new phonebook’s here!
… and remember how much I wanted an all red billiard room with a giant stuffed camel …
Piling on at this point, but I second the following (In order of importance to me):
Office Space (I quote this movie literally every day)
Anchorman
Tommy Boy
Billy Madison
Dumb and Dumber
I don’t see Super Troopers mentioned, so I’ll champion it. That’ll happen.
Uhmm… yeah… I’m just going to have to ask you to go ahead and add “Office Space” to the list, okay? Great…
I fifth the absence of Ghostbusters. As in (from IMDB):
Dr. Peter Venkman: Oh, my *God*. Look at all the junk food!
Gozer: [after Ray orders her to re-locate] Are you a God? [Ray looks at Peter, who nods]
Dr Ray Stantz: No.
Gozer: Then… DIE! [Lightning flies from her fingers, driving the Ghostbusters to the edge of the roof and almost off; people below scream]
Winston Zeddemore: Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say “YES”!
Dr. Peter Venkman: All right! This chick is TOAST!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Nimble little minx, in’t she?
Winston Zeddemore: Hey, wait a minute. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Hold it! Now, are we actually gonna go before a federal judge, and tell him that some moldy Babylonian god is going to drop in on Central Park West, and start tearing up the city?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Sumerian, not Babylonian.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah. Big difference.
Winston Zeddemore: No offense, guys, but I’ve gotta get my own lawyer.
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.
Dana Barrett: You know, you don’t act like a scientist…. You’re more like a game show host.
Dana Barrett: Are you the Keymaster?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes. Actually I’m a friend of his, he asked me to meet him here.
Dr Ray Stantz: I think we’d better split up.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Good idea.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah… we can do more damage that way.
Dr. Peter Venkman: We’ve been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay Puft’s okay! He’s a sailor, he’s in New York; we get this guy laid, we won’t have any trouble!
Dr. Egon Spengler: There’s something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don’t cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Listen… do you smell something?
Dr. Peter Venkman: I don’t have to take this abuse from you, I’ve got hundreds of people dying to abuse me.
Dr. Peter Venkman: He slimed me.
Dana Barrett: [reading from the printout] “Zuul was the minion of Gozer.” What’s Gozer?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Gozer was very big in Sumeria.
Dana Barrett: Well, what’s he doing in my ice box?
Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m working on that.
[Dana has described seeing a terror dog in her refrigerator]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Generally you don’t see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.
Dr. Peter Venkman: If I’m wrong, nothing happens! We go to jail – peacefully, quietly. We’ll enjoy it! But if I’m *right*, and we *can* stop this thing… Lenny, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.
Louis: Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
Dr. Peter Venkman: NOBODY steps on a church in my town.
[a giant marshmallow man crashes through the streets of New York]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, there’s something you don’t see every day.
Louis: Who are you guys?
Dr Ray Stantz: We’re the Ghostbusters.
Louis: Who does your taxes?
I’m roughly halfway down the page on IMDB’s quotations. I could go on. “We’d like a sample of your brain tissue.”"Okay”. And “I’ve seen s&!t that will turn your skin white”. And “It’s true; this man has no d!*k.” But there’s little point in continuing if you are unconvinced.
I also deplore the absence of “Gone With The Wind” and even more so, “The Wizard of Oz”. And “A Night at the Opera” deserves a nod. So does “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. But to return to “Ghostbusters”. “Take me now, subcreature.” “Egon, your mucus.” “She’s not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she’s a client and because she sleeps above her covers… *four feet* above her covers. She barks, she drools, she claws!” “I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people.” “He’s an ugly little spud, isn’t he? ” “Lenny, officially the church won’t take any position with the religious implications of these phenomenons. Personally Lenny, I think it’s a sign from God, but don’t quote me on that.” And that’s leaving off the couple of quotes that are too lewd for a family blog even with use of punctuation marks.
In fact, I regret voting (Casablanca got my first vote) without waiting for Ghostbusters to add to my list.
Maybe not a classic, but Uncle Buck gets a good workout in this house . . .
“Unbreakable.”
“I’m a kid – it’s my job.”
“I’m not doing it to impress you.”
“People go because of the beautiful horses and colorful jockeys.”
and my personal favourite –
“This is how I make my living. My whole year was based on tonight.”
We need The Jerk on this list. “I was born a poor black child.”
I say that every single day!
/white guy from NYC
Missed these two from my earlier Uncle Buck list . . .
“If I could think of an excuse that you would buy, I’d use it.”
“I’m an American. I have rights.”
I would vote for “Good Morning Vietnam” over “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” personally, but the other options worked out just fine for me.
I would nominate “Dirty Dancing” and “My Favorite Year”.
Movie I don’t get: The Big Lebowski.
Movie I don’t get why people like or think is funny: Napoleon Dynamite.
Moive I don’t get why it is not on this poll: Star Wars.
Ni Ni Ni.
I would alos suggest adding Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; Dumb and Dumber; The Cable Guy.
The Cable Guy: one of the most under rated comedies of this or any other generation.
Trading Places is a good one that hasn’t been mentioned, although I’m not sure it could crack my top 5.
ANCHORMAN
1. Green Mile
2. Sling Blade
3. Happy Gilmore
4. Field of Dreams
5. Christmas Vacation
Major League. No question about it.
Billy Madison is HIGHLY quotable.
Major League is also a great one.
Tommy Boy, Happy Gilmore, and Orange County would also get votes from me.
Anchorman wins this battle for me, hands down.
Tombstone.
Tommyboy or Major League. The quotes that Bob Eucker (sp?) throws out are classic.
I love Casablanca, but it is fairly hard to work “of all the gin joints in all the cities in the world, why did she have to walk into mine?” or “the Germans wore grey, you wore blue” into a normal conversation. Plus, most of us realize we are just not cool enough to pull off Humphery Bogart.
The movie I probably quote most often is “A League of Their Own”. Every time one of my children starts crying, I can’t help but say” Are you crying? There’s no crying in baseball”. Cracks me up every time. My kids, not so much.
Rocky IV:
“He is cut, the Russian is cut!”
“If I can change and you can change, everybody can change”
I vote for the Big Lebowski. I would have voted for it 5 times if that were possible. All others are competing for second place and the gap is substantial.
How can you leave off Major League?
Juuusst a bit outside. Tried the corner and missed.
I only got one thing to say to you: Strike this motherf****r out.
Don’t give me this “ole” bullshit!
This guy is dead.
Then cross him off the list.
We don’t know where Hayes played last year, but I’m sure he did a helluva job.
Vaughn, a juvenile delinquent in the off-season…..
Well, you may run like Mays, but you hit like shit.
How’s your wife and my kids?
I agree with Julian, though Office Space is used often within my circle of friends.
got to add dumb & dumber to the list
Two things I don’t get:
The Big Lebowski (maybe I wasn’t in the right mood the only time I saw it; I’ll give it another try).
And why isn’t Raising Arizona getting more love. It’s paraphrased right there in the subtitle for this very blog site (… or my name isn’t Nathan Arizona)
“Office Space” and “Tommy Boy” HAVE to be on the list. “Dumb & Dumber” as well. The list you have is a purely generational things. Nobody under the age of 35 would ever quote Animal House, for example, regardless of how classic it was originally.
What About Bob?
“Jump higher…”
“Baby Stepping onto the bus…”
How is Fast Times not on here?
I hate to come across as a snide jerk (okay, I actually LOVE doing that usually, but not here, where the level of discussion is generally very high) but I loathe – LOATHE – when people quote movies for the sake of quoting movies.
I try to avoid doing so as a matter of principle, because it’s often the equivalent of someone saying “I remember this line that’s funny. Aren’t I hilarious for doing so?”
As a kid, I thought Monty Python and the Holy Grail was insanely funny, but it’s been ruined for me over the years by the hordes of insufferable nerds who feel the need to quote it at every turn. I say this as a total nerd myself; I loved Python, was a Star Ward devotee, remain an unrepentant follower of baseball stats and fantasy baseball, hell, I even played Dungeons and Dragons for a spell. Despite all that, I can say without reservation that the people I knew who always quoted Holy Grail were NERDS. The movie was a favourite of mine as a teen, but I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it for about 15 years. The desire to ever see it again has been completely snuffed out.
In recent years, people have taken more to quoting Borat and about half the movies Mike Myers has done (So I Married an Axe Murderer, Wayne’s World, the Austin Powers movies – as a general rule, the lifespan for Mike Myers movie quote is one day. After that, it’s been done to death.)
So yeah, rant over. No offense intended to anyone here, but quoting movies as a means of eliciting laughs has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time.
Ghostbusters
Fletch
Three Amigos
This is Spinal Tap
The Princess Bride
“Dave’s a killer!”
“Dave’s a mess.”
It seems to me that there are two ways for a movie to be quotable. You have the straight reference, a purely comic evocation of something that was really funny (or dramatic, or cool, or whatever) the first time one heard it, and grows steadily less funny (or cool or dramatic or whatever) every successive time. Case in point- “NI!”
But then there are the quotes that don’t disrupt normal conversation, they actually augment it. They provide a shorthand into an emotional situation familiar from a work of drama- it’s the modern equivalent in some ways of quoting the bible. When you want to undercut the overconfident and pompous, “You keep using that word…I don’t think it means what you think it means” is actually helpful in getting a point across.
Anyways, the point is that the most quotable movie of all time is Casablanca. More or less straight reference opportunities galore (all the gin joints, and Sam playing it again, and the beginnings of beautiful friendships and always having Paris…), but also the most USEFUL quote ever.
“I’m shocked SHOCKED to find that gambling is going on here”- alternately truncated to “I’m shocked SHOCKED.”
“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”, packs a great punch, but brutal exit lines aren’t the time for movie quotes. But expressing fake incredulity? The perfect emotional context for quoting a movie! It even makes sense without the reference.
Given my personal obsession with Claude Rains, I’d mention Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as another very quotable movie. “You think I’m licked? Well I’m not licked!” “I don’t deserve to be a senator! I don’t deserve to live!”….and the absolute patriotic absurdity of “The capital dome!” Useful stuff.
Also Star Wars is being cheated.
I’ll echo Johnny Dangerously and Better Off Dead. I quote from those two frequently.
And maybe it’s just a demonstration of what’s wrong with my gene pool, but my brother and I both regularly quote Mel Brooks’ “History of the World, Part 1.”
My 5 (and this is clearly a generational thing; I mean — Adam Sandler movies? Really?)
Casablanca (far and away #1)
Pulp Fiction
Airplane
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Annie Hall
The Godfather has lots of great, memorable lines that don’t seem to come up much in normal conversation.
You have got to add National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation to this list.
“Why is the carpet all wet, TODD?”
“I don’t KNOW, Margot.”
Where are you going to put a tree that big, Griswold?
Bend over and I’ll show ya…
You’ve got a lot of nerve talking to me like that!
I wasn’t talking to you.
Little full, lot a sap. Looks great!
Kathryn and I wanna get you somethin’, real nice.
Can I get you anything? Take ya out to the middle of nowhere, leave you for dead.
Nah, Clark, I’m just fine.
No Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
Del: You play with your balls a lot.
Neal: I do NOT play with my balls.
Del: Larry Bird doesn’t do as much ball-handling in one night as you do in an hour!
Neal: Are you trying to start a fight?
Del: No. I’m simply stating a fact. That’s all. You fidget with your nuts a lot.
Neal: You know what’d make me happy?
Del: Another couple of balls, and an extra set of fingers?
and the best:
Neal: He says we’re going the wrong way…
Del: Oh, he’s drunk. How would he know where we’re going?
And I can keep going forever with the Christmas Vacation quotes.
Of the one’s listed, Big Lebowski, Blazing Saddles, The Godfather, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail are right up there…
Caddyshack is #2? Sorry, folks, that movie has _not_ aged well.
Caddyshack is not funny. There. I’ve said it.
how can you not include dumb and dumber…
Fletch please.
Because piling on is absolutely necessary in this instance:
1) The Big Lebowski
2) The Big Lebowski
3) The Big Lebowski
4) The Big Lebowski
5) Dumb and Dumber
Major League
Big Lebowski
Billy Madison
(BttF) Back to the Future
Seinfeld (I don’t care if it’s not a movie. I’ve heard it quoted 100 times more than any movie or TV show)
Green Card
Manos: The Hands of Yucca Flats
Double Indemnity
The Birth of a Nation (Original)
Life is Beautiful
Office Space needs to be on here. What is the threshhold on comments needed before it gets on the board?
I also support Old School, but I am a 31 year old male which may skew the demographics.
I am also currently using “Not at the table, Carlos” frequently following my viewing of The Hangover last evening.
Major League and Back to the Future, definitely… “Strike this MFer out!”
Tombstone (Scott got most, but forgot “You tell ‘em I’m comin’, and Hell’s comin’ with me” – “Why Johnny Ringo, you look as if you’ve seen a ghost.” – “It’s true, you are a good woman. But then again you may be the antichrist.”)
Lebowksi (“It’s been a long night man, and I hate the effing Eagles.” – “We’ve frantically been trying to reach you dude.” – “F it? Yes, that’s your answer for everything.” – “The bums lost.” – “Those are good burgers, dude.” – “It really tied the room together.” – “He has problems man… You mean, other than pacifism?”)
Anchorman (“The slow deep burn.” – “It’s the pleats.” – “Don’t act like you’re not impressed.” – “60% of the time it works every time.” – “That escalated quickly.” – “I’m Ron Burgundy??” – “And you won’t be invited.” – “Milk was bad choice.” – “I immediately regret this decision.” – “Today we spell redemption …”)
Caddyshack (adding to what’s already been posted …. “Nananananana…” – “Ahoy hoy, hoi paloi.” – “Wang, this place is restricted, so don’t tell ‘em you’re jewish.” – “So what? So let’s dance!” – “Look’s good on you though.”)
Holy Grail (“Let’s not go to Camelot after all. ‘Tis a silly place.” – “Who are you, how are so wise in the ways of science?” – “It’s like those miserable psalms, they’re so depressing.” – “1, 2, 5 … uh, 3 sir … right, 3.” – “And the number of the counting shall be three.” – “What, behind the rabbit?” – “Let me go back and face the peril… No, it’s too perilous.”- “I got better.” – “Must be a king. ‘Asn’t got stuff all over him.” – “Strange women lyin’ in ponds is no basis for a system of government.” – “One day lad, this’ll all be yours.” – “And then after the spanking…” – “Wouldn’t get very far in life not saying ‘is’.” – “I said it again.”)
Seriosusly, Rad has to be on there. Well, amybe is doesn’t have to be on there, but I’m putting it on there.
- “And Hollywood Mike Miranda makes his second dramatic exit of the day.”
- “Holy cow, a back flip! Hulk Hogan eat your heart out.”
- “You remind me of something I stepped in and I don’t like the smell of it.”
- “God, what I wouldn’t give to go ass-sliding with you right now.”
- “Cru, remember the lumber yard…go balls out.”
- “Now that we’re official, you think we have room for one more on the Rad team?”
Any scat porn film
An underrated choice I haven’t seen mentioned: A Fish Called Wanda.
Almost every line that Kevin Kline utters is a classic.
“Don’t call me stupid!”
“Disappointed!”
“You’re the vulgarian, you f***”
Plus a slew of other great lines.
“The central message of Buddhism is not every man for himself”
And the perfect apology:
I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.
Blazing Saddles and Pulp Fiction are my #1 and #2 (not necessarily in that order).
It was… soap poisoning.
Oh fudge.
Honors and benefits already at the age of nine!
You used up all the glue on purpose.
Fra-gee-lay
I triple dog dare you.
It’s a Major Award.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
It could be a bowling alley.
It’s a clinker.
Sons of b*tches! Bumpuses!
He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny.
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
Don’t anybody move.
A can of Simonize.
Naddafinga!
But moments before zero hour, it did not pay to take chances.
I left Flick to certain annihilation.
Flick? Flick who?
C+! C+! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
This isn’t one of those trees where all the needles falls off, is it?
Those icicles have been known to kill people.
how do the little piggies go?
No turkey! No turkey sandwiches! No turkey salad! No turkey gravy! Turkey Hash! Turkey a la King! Or gallons of turkey soup! Gone, ALL GONE!
The greatest Christmas gift I had ever received, or would ever receive.
I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle!
You’ll shoot your eye out.
Christmas Story
Ross W. makes an important distinction that I should have made in my rant. A well-placed and appropriate quote dropped seamlessly into conversation is all fine and good. It can even elicit a tip of the cap if employed skillfully enough.
Poorly-placed quotes, which are wedged and forced into conversation are all too common, and they can even indicate (rightly or wrongly) a lack on understanding of the quote’s original context or of the concept of context in general.
Just throwing out a quote for the sake of throwing out a quote is what I was really railing against. You’re not one of the knights who say “ni,” you never will be, and every time you say you are, you reinforce the fact that you and I can, will and should never, ever consider ourselves friends.
I agree with Justin (181) regarding how one should value a movie’s quotability (is that a new word? I’m not sure).
The ability to quote a movie during a conversation or in response to a comment or question, gained the highest marks for me while determining how to cast my vote.
I love Caddyshack, Monty Python, Star Wars, etc. But how often can I talk about being a pro jock for the Dalai Lama? Or discuss interstellar rebellion? Or find friends struggling with a quest for the Holy Grail (literal, not figurative)? Not often.
The Big Lebowski, on the other hand, with its (relatively) realistic scenes with typical, average people living typical, average lives, creates many more quotable quotes.
The Big Lebowski won my vote. The Dude abides.
Dumb and Dumber
Office Space
Anchorman
Napoleon Dynamite
In that order.
I feel like Shawshank should be in the discussion.
Where’s Office Space?
Never was a Big Lebowski fan.
But Major League and Christmas Story have to be on the list. In addition to… Vegas Vacation!
Clark “Eddie, has anyone ever told you you’re bad luck?”
Eddie “Those were my mother’s dying words. But I guess if your body’s covered in third degree burns, and your foot’s caught in a bear trap, you tend to start talkin’ crazy. ”
Eddie “Come on, Clark, the night is young… they’re giving away free hot sandwiches at the blood bank. ”
Blackjack dealer “Here’s an idea: Why don’t you give me half the money your were gonna to bet, then we’ll go out back, I’ll kick you in the nuts, and we’ll call it a day! ”
Clark “I need to go somewhere a man can think.”
Eddie “I wouldn’t do that here Clark, the stalls are awefully dirty and they’re backed up all the time.”
Rusty “I put a dollar in, I got a car. I put a dollar in, I got a car. I put a dollar in, I got a car. I put a dollar in, I got a car. ”
A must see prior to any trip to Las Vegas.
I absolutely would have voted for Office Space, but I’m probably biased because I work in a cube farm where that move could have been set. Instead I gave the nod to The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, The Blues Brothers, Anchorman, and Raising Arizona. With few exceptions (like The Godfather), quotes from comedies just work better in real life.
Major League. I think I quote it every single day.
My top 2 of all time:
APOCALYPSE NOW: How can you not include a movie that starts with, “Saigon. S#it. I’m still only in Saigon.” It only gets better from there.
UNFORGIVEN: Go back and watch it…the entire movie. Although, the last 30 min is obviously classic. “Who here is the owner of this s#ithole? You, fat man….speak up.”
I think “quotable” depends entirely on your age. For me (age 27), my most quotable movies are Zoolander, Old School, Swingers, Anchorman, and all the Adam Sandler movies, though Bull Durham, Caddyshack and Major League are excellent sports-related choices.
I know you don’t appreciate the acting talent of one Mr. Tom Cruise, but doesn’t Top Gun have to be on that list?
“I feel the need, the need…for speed!”
Also, I have found that Tombstone, maybe solely because of Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday, is one of the most quotable movies as well.
Fletch!
How could you forget ‘A Few Good Men’ (“You want the truth! You can’t handle the truth!, Am I clear? Crystal, You want me out on that wall! You are f****** with the wrong Marine!”) or Dazed and Confused (“Watch the leather, man!, The thing about high school girls is I keep getting older, but they stay the same!, Got any weed?.. I’d be alot cooler if you did!) ???
Dumb and Dumber
Question: Should we give credit to a movie for a quote when it wasn’t the original movie the quote was in?
An example: Blazing Saddles’ “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges” is directly lifted from a Bogie film (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre). So, does Blazing Saddles get credit for that quote, since most who use it now are doing so because of Mel Brooks, not John Huston.
I can’t believe Blazing Saddles isn’t getting more respect.
“Yeah, like ‘baby fish mouth’ is sweeping the nation.”
I wish I could remember where I read this, but some book many years ago described a character “whose idea of wit was quoting lines from movies.”
Don’t get me wrong. I quote from movies every bit as much as the next guy. I’d probably do it more if only my memory were better. But that was a nice cut and I’ve never thought since that repeating a good quote was witty.
Rarely does a day go by where I don’t quote “The Big Lebowski”
“I’m gonna go find a cash machine…”
I think for me Dumb and Dumber is such an easily quotable movie that does not get enough respect.
I’ve gone plaid not seeing Spaceballs on this list yet.
Justin (#158), I just have to point out you said you played “Dungeons and Dragons for a spell”. Hahaha.
Roger (#66): you don’t want to see The Princess Bride? I don’t think that movie means what you think it means.
I see that some else referred to “The Princess Diaries”; I’m pretty sure that’s the movie to avoid.
I voted for Blazing saddles, but Spaceballs is easily my most quoted movie.
How can you beat:
“I’m 1/2 man, 1/2 dog. I’m my own best friend.”
In addition to Fletch (which I pimped earlier), I’m sitting here watching the 12:05 TB-TOR game and I realized that there probably isn’t a single baseball game that goes by in which I don’t quote both Major League and Bull Durham:
“Too high!” “Too high? Too hard.” “Who gives a shit, it’s gone.”
“And besides, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls, it’s more democratic.”
I voted, but would like to see Grosse Pointe Blank (“you look good! Tony Robbins good!” “A psychopath kills for no reason…I kill for ‘money’, it’s a ‘job’…no wait, that didn’t come out right”
or: Glengarry Glen Ross:
(“Coffee is for closers, only” “1st place is a Cadillac, 2nd place? 2nd place is a set of steak knives. 3rd place is you’re fired” “Who am I? F$%# you! That’s who I am!”
No Tombstone? Wyatt, I ain’t got the words.
Lots of great quotes and great suggestions. I’d have to go with:
1. Christmas Vacation
2. Anchorman
3. Ghostbusters
4. Office Space
5. Fletch
Others receiving consideration were Spies Like Us, Airplane, Caddyshack, Saving Silverman, Austin Powers, Wayne’s World, Wall Street and Clue.
Fascinating debate, and one where your age will most likely dictate your choices. I’m guessing there aren’t many people under, say, 34 that are quoting Annie Hall, or probably not too many over 45 that throw Step Brothers quotes around.
And I’ll second the notion of The Hangover – my personal favorite is:
“We stole it from some dumba$$ cops.”
“NICE! Hive five there. That’s nice.”
I’d go with Office Space as #1, with Holy Grail a close second.
But one of my most oft-quoted movies is still… well, I hate to admit it, but, Joe vs. The Volcano.
“I’m not arguing that with you!”
“I know he can get the job, can he DO the job?”
“I have no response to that.”
“Brain cloud.”
“I knew. I mean, I didn’t KNOW, but, I KNEW.”
The two hidden gems that I always find myself falling back on are Wierd Science (“I won’t stand for this…baloney”) and The Ref (“you know what I’m going to get you next year? A big wooden cross, so anytime you feel unappreciated you can climb up and nail yourself to it!”)
You can spend hours with your dysfunctional friends doing nothing but quoting The Ref…
My most quoted movie is, by far, The Big Lebowski. Pulp Fiction and It’s a Wonderful Life are tied for second, though the latter largely just ’cause I’ve seen it half a million times.
I don’t think my opinions on this matter carry much weight, as, with the notable exception of “Seinfeld” episodes, I am generally not one of those people who go around quoting things very often. Unless it is a reference to Seinfeld or one of those three movies (or maybe South Park or King of the Hill, I usually get those), I probably won’t get it. Yes, I am one of those people who, when you quote a movie or TV show, furrows his brow and says “what’s that, again?” Though a lot of the time I just guess that it’s a Simpsons reference, because life is full of Simpsons references that I don’t pick up on.
Anchorman, 40-y/o Virgin
Casablanca is the most quoted movie ever as Astorian pointed out yesterday. It is not number one on this vote because too many voters have either not seen it or have not seen it for too long a time.
But a favorite of mine that I quote from often is not on the list – The Wizard of Oz.
I voted for four movies that I quote often. The fifth was not on the list. Casablanca was one of the four.
Caddyshack (quoted by every golfer 20 times per round), Goodfellas, Godfather, Fargo, Pulp Fiction (check out the big brain on BRAD), Lebowski, Office Space, Holy Grail
Here are my top 5 quotable movies that are not yet on the list:
Ghostbusters
Fletch
Office Space
A Christmas Story
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
No mention of Rain Man?
“K-Mart sucks”
“I’m an excellent driver”
“Three minutes to Wapner”
What about Dr. Strangelove?
Breakfast Club is the one for me. But it has to be the edited version for TV.
Pressure? You don’t think I know about pressure? Well, flip you! Flip you!
I hate to say it, but this team needs to stop pussyfooting around and sign a big time bat.
There’s no way around it, they have a good, could be great pitching staff, but they can’t hit to save their life.
I’m thinking they need to go after either Branyan or Delgado and sign a real center fielder. Maybe give Andruw Jones a shot and sign someone like Baldelli to spell him a day or two a week. Or really pony up and go after Holliday.
Your thoughts on “unearned runs” by the Royals just seem to illustrate a mental laziness by this team. Not unlike the catcher running off the field after just two outs for the second time this year a few games ago. Hopefully both catchers have gotten this out of their system since they both are guilty of it.
I second the High Fidelity nomination above.
My list:
Anchorman
Anchorman
Anchorman
Anchorman
Schinder’s – just kidding, Anchorman
The Right Stuff:
Chuck Yeager: I’m a fearless man, but I’m scared to death of you.
Glennis Yeager: Oh no you’re not. But you oughta be.
Gordon Cooper: Who’s the best pilot you ever saw? You’re lookin’ at ‘im!
Alan Shepard: Sounds dangerous
Recruiter: It is! Extremely dangerous!
Alan Shepard: Count me in!
Gus Grissom: [listening to the NASA recruiter] Say, Hot Dog; what the hell does “astronaut” mean, anyway?
Gordon Cooper: [thinks for a moment] “Star Voyager”
Gus Grissom: “Star Voyager” Gus Grissom. I kinda like the sound of that.
Pancho Barnes: See, some peckerwood’s gotta get the thing up. And some peckerwood’s gotta land the son of a bitch. And that “peckerwood” is called a “pilot”.
Wow, you people have terrible taste in movies.
Josh: I have been thinking the same thing….all damn day. Talk about feeling OLD. Wow, it’s sort of like trying to tell someone that, “Yes, Willie Mays was a bit better centerfielder than Grady Sizemore.”
I have several ideas for how to fix this poll. First, if you’re under 30 or mentioned Tommy Boy (I’m guessing this is redundant), we won’t count your vote.
Second, we can group categories of movies. And anyone who votes for Major League instead of Bull Durham in the sports category can be deported to Sierra Leone. Also, if you admit you haven’t heard of any of the movies on Joe’s original list (specifically, the guy who mentioned Network): get out. (No vote required there.) It’s for the best.
More rules to come, but my head hurts from pounding it on my keyboard.
Yo, Josh….
Brothers don’t shake hands… Brothers gotta hug!!!
Dumb and dumber, and Billy Madison
Justin……. be angrier
Caddyshack is soooo overrated.
Spinal Tap deserves to be higher.
I’M Gonna Get You Sucka
Pulp Fiction. Who hasn’t had a Royal with Cheese?
Bull Durham.
JoePo,
¡Three Amigos! has to be on this list.
From the definition of “plethora” to “Are Gringos falling from the sky?” to Lucky’s speech about everyone’s personal El Guapo, this movie is a non-stop quote fest.
“Son of a motherless goat”… “You killed the invisible swordsman!”… “Raped the horses / rode off on the women”… even the My Little Buttercup number.
We could do this all day!
I think the undeniable champion in the “Most Quotable in Actual Conversation/Box Office Dollar” statistic has to be Swimming With Sharks. Pretty much half of Spacey’s dialogue is lines you may well have occasion to utter yourself, and in context no less.
Of course, they’re mostly lines you can only utter in context if you’re trying to humiliate someone, but let’s not split hairs.
Caddyshack (to give one I haven’t seen yet): “The world needs ditch diggers, too!”
Scarface: “Say hello to my little friend!!!”
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: “Man, that light was red!” “It was yellow a minute ago”
Slapshot: “Get me a grape and an orange, and none of that stinkin’ root beer!”
“What are you guys doing?” “Putting on the foil.” “Yeah, every game.” “Want some?”
“Dave’s a killer!” “Yeah, Dave’s a killer” “Dave’s a mess.”
Fletch, anyone?
“Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo.”
“It’s all ball bearings these days.”
“And he draws the foul.”
“I love your legs, Larry.”
Don’t forget Bull Durham. “Hit the Bull”; “Anything that travels that far ought to have a damn stewardess on it!”; “Rose goes in the front, big guy”…
and many more!
So now that Tony Pena the pitcher is in the same division as Tony Pena the “hitter,” we might have a eagerly anticipated Tony Pena v. Tony Pena head-to-head matchup. What happens when a movable force meets a resistible object?
Too bad they’re in the AL, because if they were in the NL, we might’ve seen Tony Pena the pitcher hitting against Tony Pena the shortstop-turned-mopup-pitcher.
If that had happened, we might finally have found out if Tony Pena the pitcher is better at hitting than Tony Pena the “hitter” is at pitching.
Any of the early films by Albert Brooks, especially Modern Romance.
“Dumb and Dumber” has to be up there.
Joe, is this quotable in 2009 or just in general. A movie’s not really quotable if nobody gets the reference. But, definitely need Office Space, Half Baked and Tommy Boy. Those are definite contenders, I use “its got to be your bull” at least twice a day, one of the most underrated useful quotes.
The ‘unearned’ runs and all of the mental mistakes/lack of fundamentals the Royals display drive me crazy. How a pitcher can hold up over the course of a whole season enduring this stuff is beyond me. At some point, you have to fire the manager – right? Can’t run the bases, can’t figure out which base to throw to, can’t count how many outs there are in the inning…what exactly is Hillman accomplishing with this team?
Scarface – every rapper in the world seemingly quotes from this movie. Not just a generational thing, but obviously a cultural thing as well.
And I’d echo the votes for Swingers – that one is a generational thing.
I second the opinion that movie quotes should count extra if they can be used in context. There’s a major difference between just saying a line to get laughs and slipping it into a conversation almost organically.
Watching Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang causes me to have the following exchange at least once a week.
Friend: “… but I probably could have handled it differently. I dunno, I feel badly about the whole thing.”
Me: “Bad. You feel bad. To say you feel badly implies that the mechanism which allows you to feel is broken.”
Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa (all as one film)
Too many to list, but here’s a few…
“Yo Adrian, I did it”
“Yo”
“Bust You Up”
Rocky:”I see three of them”
Duke: “Hit the one in the middle”
“Eye of the Tiger”
Announcer: “What’s your prediction for the fight?”
Clubber Lang: “Pain.”
“Women weaken legs! ”
Adrian: Why do you wanna fight?
Rocky: Because I can’t sing or dance.
“You don’t think I hear things? ”
And the two best quotes:
Mickey (from Rocky II): “So I say for God’s sake. Why don’t you stand up and fight this guy HARD? Like you done before that was beautiful! But don’t lay down like this! Like uh I don’t know like some kind of mongrel or something. Cause he’s gonna kick your face in pieces! That’s right! This guy doesn’t just wanna win you know, he wants to bury ya, he wants to humiliate ya, he wants to prove to the whole world that you was nothin but some kind of freak the first time out. He said you were a one time lucky bum! Well now I don’t wanna get mad in a biblical place like this. But I think you’re a hell of a lot more than that kid! A hell of a lot!”
and Mickey (from Rocky V):
“If you ever get hurt and you feel that you’re goin’ down this little angel is gonna whisper in your ear. It’s gonna say, ‘Get up you son of a bitch ’cause Mickey loves you’. “
How is Top Gun not on the ballot ?
Hey, Joe, what’s with this mustache that KC’s manager has these days? Looks RIDICULOUS.
–Sitting in Boston,
Phil
#1: Super Troopers
Bellwether is an idiot. By the way, don’t know if anyone mentioned Scarface.
Leaving the Big Lebowski out is like leaving Albert Puljols out of a conversation of the best 15 current baseball players ….
For me its definitely The Big Lebowski, followed by
Wayne’s World
Animal House
White Men Can’t Jump
Anchorman
Ghostbusters should really be on there.
Sorry for the double post, hit submit too soon.
Out of that list it’s so The Princess Bride.
And incidently I hate when people brag about having not seen a movie. Unless it’s a movie universally viewed as bad, why is that something to brag about? Ignorance? The Princess Bride is a fantastic movie…if you don’t want to see it, don’t, but I fail to see how not seeing a great movie is something to brag about.
Where is Idiocracy.
“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”
“You are an unfit mother.”
I figured comedies would dominate, since they’re supposed to have funny dialogue. Was surprised at the lack of war movies though- bad ass lines are almost as memorable as funny ones. Here’s some Apocalypse Now (Full Metal Jacket should probably get consideration too)
“Terminate…. with extreme prejudice.”
“When I say it’s safe to surf this beach, it’s safe to surf this beach! … I love the smell of napalm in the morning” (or, pretty much all of Duvall’s dialogue)
“You can’t get to the moon with FRACTIONS” (ditto Hopper)
“F%#$ing tiger!!!”
“ON the boat.”
“Do you know who’s in command here, soldier?”
“The horror”
Lebowski, and it’s not even close. Every other line of dialog in that movie is quotable.
“Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.”
“I’m just helping her conceive, man!”
“My dirty undies dude. The whites.”
“This is our concern, Dude.”
“I got a rash, man.”
“The toilet seat’s up, man!”
“Who’s got your undies Walter?”
“Carpet pissers did not do this.”
“Did you ever hear of “The Seattle Seven”? That was me… and six other guys.”
“Fortunately, I’m adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug, uh, regimen to keep my mind, you know, uh, limber.”
“Johnson?”
“this could be a-a-a-a lot more, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, I mean, it’s not just, it might not be just such a simple… uh, you know?”
“Smokey, this is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”
“Donny, shut the f- when do we play?”
“Also, let’s not forget – let’s *not* forget, Dude – that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city – that ain’t legal either.”
“So racially, he’s pretty cool?”
“Just because we’re bereaved, that doesn’t make us saps!”
“And, I would like my undies back.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. This movie is simply an unstoppable juggernaut of quotability.
The first Vacation, the one where they go to Wally World is my write in choice. . . . .”We like to send out a mailer!”
Ghostbusters, please.
- You’re not really a scientist; you’re more of a game show host.
- I make it a rule never to sleep with possessed people…well, it’s more of a guideline.
- You don’t usually see that sort of behavior from a major appliance.
- Ray, when someone asks “are you a god”, you say YES!
- Who does your taxes?
There is one and only one. The original Bedazzled, Peter Cook/Dudley Moore. Funniest and smartest movie ever, with so many great lines that no one could remember them all. I defy anyone here to watch it and tell me Animal House or When Harry met Sally (are you kidding?) top it.
#1 You fill me with inertia.
#2 It’s the standard contract. Gives you seven wishes in accordance with the mystic rules of life. Seven Days of the Week, Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Seas, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers…
#3 I’ll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I’ll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I’ll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you’ll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder you’ve so few friends; you’re unbelievable!
#4 In the words of Marcel Proust – and this applies to any woman in the world – if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is that they’re coming out with, till ten minutes past four in the morning… you’re in.
I echo LEBOWSKI and ANCHORMAN.
My friends and I often start Facebook threads where we quote a post and all add quotes from the same movie to the thread.
By that criteria, RAISING ARIZONA and PREDATOR are ridiculously prolific. And JAWS and BULL DURHAM don’t do too badly either.
Also — though I can’t tell if this is a function of Chevy Chase (although the co-writer of BLAZING SADDLES also was the screenwriter) – but FLETCH is textbook, Quotable 101 in my humble opinion.
This list is barely worth recognizing because it doesn’t contain ‘Jerry Maguire’. For two whole years everybody was saying ‘Show me the money’, ‘Help me help you’, ‘You Complete me’ and ‘You had me at hello’ ad nauseum. But it doesn’t even make the list? It should win.
Need Office Space….
That would be greeaaat….
In addition to several that have been listed ad nauseum already (Fletch, Dumb and Dumber, Better Off Dead, Vacation), I would add Dazed and Confused to the list. Every Wooderson line alone qualifies.
Animal House Rules!
Otter: Let me give you a hint. She’s got a couple of major-league yabbos.
Boon: Norma!
Otter: No. But you’re getting warmer. Here’s another [falsetto]: “Oh God, Oh God, OH GOD!”
Boon: Marlene! You’re gonna pork Marlene Desmond!
Otter: Pork?
Boon: You’re gonna hump her brains out, aren’t you?
Otter: Boon, I anticipate a deeply religious experience.
Otter: Hi, Eric Stratton, Rush chairman, damn glad to meet you.
Katy: I think I’m in love with a retard.
Boon: Is he bigger than me?
Katy: I’ll write you a note. I’ll say you’re too well to attend.
Dean Vernon Wormer: The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.
Boon: Now. I want you to fix Pinto up, but it’s gotta be a very special girl.
Pinto: Listen you don’t have …
Boon: Now, she should be decent looking, but we’re willing to trade looks for a certain kind of morally casual attitude.
Katy: Oh! You mean, you want someone he can screw on the first date?
Boon: Well put.
Bluto: See if you can guess what I am now? [puts a scoop of mashed potatoes in his mouth, chews it, smashes his cheeks with his fists, spitting it all out] I’m a ZIT! Get it?
All: Toga! Toga! Toga! Toga!
Mrs Wormer: Vegetables are sensuous. People are sensual.
Hoover: (To Boon) Will you tell those assholes to shutup?
Boon: Hey, SHUTUP YOU ASSHOLES!
Bluto: They took the bar! The whole fucking bar!
Bluto: My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
Otter: Better listen to him, Flounder. He’s pre-med.
Dean Wormer: Mr. Kroger: two C’s, two D’s and an F. That’s a 1.2 grade average. Congratulations, Kroger. You’re at the top of the Delta pledge class.
Mr. Dorfman?
Dean Wormer: Zero point two… Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Mr. Hoover, president of Delta house? One point six; four C’s and an F. A fine example you set!
Daniel Simpson Day… HAS no grade point average. All courses incomplete.
Mr. Blu [Bluto has a pencil hanging from each nostril] MR. BLUTARSKY… ZERO POINT ZERO.
Bluto: Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps.
D-Day: War’s over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: What? Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling
Otter: I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
Bluto: We’re just the guys to do it.
Andrew: No one cares about Jerry McGwuire anymore. That’s the point. For two years, it was quotable. Now, it isn’t.
Everyone else: We get it. You like Lebowski.
The vastly underrated “PCU”.
Who didn’t watch that on Comedy Central when it was part of the regular Saturday-morning-movie rotation?
“That’s the beauty of college, Tommy. You can major in Gameboy if you know how to BS.”
In a lot of ways, your most quotable movies connect to the details of your life. My wife calls me “George Bailey” for reasons related to my personality and career path, and so we both quote that film at times. I love the charm of baseball so much that I can’t help but quote “The Natural,” especially the W. Brimley character (“My mama always told me I should’ve been a farmer … “) And who doesn’t have moments from their adolescence that call to mind “Ferris Bueller”? It’s a great list, though.
Young Frankenstein
Wow, tough choices, but I have to declare a Rob Reiner draw for first place with Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride. I can’t go to a wedding without hearing “Wove, twue, wove, is wot bwings us togevver today,” or play a game of Risk without hearing “You fell prey to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia!’” But honourable mention has to go to The Big Lebowski and Tombstone (everything Doc Holliday says is quotable).
Sure it’s a schlocky movie, but Point Break is pretty quotable.
I’d also nominate Fight Club.
I see (before I stopped reading the comments) that Anthony brought the right directors name into the equation. Unfortunately, he did state the wrong movie names. Between that and it not being on the list to begin with, “I would say that there were something dreadfully wrong somewhere!”
From an exuberant “yee-haw” on countless occasions, to a “Did they torture you?” when someone is in need of violins. An instant “I don’t give a hoot in Hell how you do it” when someone begins to explain out loud the steps they will take on whatever random task, to my personal favorite, and most used line, “There’s nothing to figure out, this man is obviously a psychotic” – one movie, above all others, has a quote for my entire life.
“I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed”
“He’ll see the big board!”
“I do deny them my essence”
“You don’t think I’d go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do you?”
“You’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company!”
“Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all this stuff” (or Dallas if you prefer the originally intended, pre-JFK assassination line)
“Although I hate to judge before all the facts are in, it’s beginning to look like General Ripper exceeded his authority.”
the list goes on and on. Hands down, without a doubt, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece
Dr. Strangelove … Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb!
(and sorry if someone else mentioned it one of the many posts, I have yet to get to them all)
At least I do have my second most quoted movie to nominate though, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
“Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!”
Finished reading through the posts before logging (props to Aaron T!) but something struck me – where is Up In Smoke?
“Thats some heavy s*** man”
“What do you guys want?”
“F***in vodka man”
“Sometimes that happens man”
“Where have you been all my life?”
“Almost froze my balls off man”
“I thoughta somethin really funny, man… Your mother!”
“Mostly Maui-waui, but it’s got some Labrador in it”
“I think we’re parked”
“Uuhhh, his name is raaallpph”
“Let’s get chinese-eyed”
“Kinda looks like a toothpick”
“I hope your d***s bigger then this man”
“Hey don’t take those, man. I almost gave you the wrong s***”
“You just did the most acid I’ve ever seen anybody eat in my life!”
“bye bye larda**”
And really, that list goes on and on as well. How did no one mention this movie? I probably hear it quoted as much as any other movie mentioned.
I’m seconding the Ghostbusters vote. It’s GOT to be on there.
We’re not concerned about the QUALITY of the quotes, right? Just quantity?
In that case, I guess I’d go with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Otherwise there are three ahead of it I can think of right off.
“We don’t need no STINKING badges.” from Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
“I used to know a fella was an opry singer, but he went into the cement business and one day he fell in the cement. Now he’s the cornerstone of the post office in St Louis, Missouri.” from Destry Rides Again
“Mother used to tell me ‘Elwood’ (she always called me Elwood) ‘In this life you’ve got to either be awfully clever or awfully pleasant.’ For years I was clever. I recommend pleasant.” from Harvey
“Hey, you and Tommy Lasorda……I hate Tommy Lasorda.”
“I’ll have a bloody Mary and a steak sandwich, and a steak sandwich”
“Charge it to the Underhills”
“Oh, for God, don don”
“Do you own rubber gloves?” “I rent them. I have a lease with an option to buy”
“I’m not even sure that’s a crime anymore. There have been a lot of changes in the law”
“I’m with the mattress police. There are no tags on these mattresses”
“You using the whole fist, Doc?”
“Moooooon River!”
“I knew this is where my mouth would be”
“Can I borrow your towel for a sec? My car just hit a water buffalo”
“I can’t figure out what I was doing in Utah this morning”
“You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to have your face kicked in by me. You have the right to have your balls stomped by him. ” “I’ll waive my rights”
“Come on guys, it’s simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. It’s all ball bearings nowadays”
And so on. How can this movie not even be in the poll? It and “Caddyshack” are easily the most quoted movies among guys of my generation. Supplanted by “Old School” among younger guys.
The answer is the Big Lebowski. There are other good quotable movies here, but they are competing for second place. This is not an opinion. This is the truth.
The only people who did not vote for TBL are people who didn’t see it or members of the square community.
Calmer than you are.
I know there’s no point in posting this so late in the game, but…
Having seen it last night on TV, I have no doubt that Ghostbusters is the most quotable movie of all time. My roommate and I quoted nearly every single line as we watched it. It’s an affront against our human decency that it’s not on this list.
“Where do these stairs go?”
“…They go up.”