Son of bitch. Shit!
That's from Stripes. At the beginning when Harold Ramis is teaching English to foreigners, one student tells the class how much English he knows. The whole class repeats it.
It's become a useful phrase when "son of bitch" is not enough.
Oh good lord, I do this all the time too. Unfortunately lately I've added quotes from my baby niece, which are even less comprehensible than my usual Buckaroo Banzai and Amelie quotes. Dear oh dear. I'm so cheered up to hear I'm not the only one!
If anyone says "Almost there," it is IMPOSSIBLE for me not to say: "Stay on target." It's like playing Marco Polo!
If I can teach the baby niece the alien gibberish I quote from The Fifth Element, then the circle will be complete.
I do this with certain films only. Labyrinth is the main one - I only need to hear half a sentence that was in that film - like 'it's a piece of cake' or 'through dangers untold' and I'm off, spouting paragraphs which make other people start rolling their eyes and wondering if I'm off my head.
Also, I often get the Monty Python song 'Sit On My Face' stuck in my head, which is nearly always utterly inappropriate, forcing me to suppress the inner voices encouraging me to sing at high volume. (I've just looked this up on Wikipedia and apparently it's banned in the States?!)
It's really hard for me to separate Sarah from Brown. Like two minutes ago, when I saw Que Sera Sera on my feedreader, I thought: oh! Sarah Brown posted something!
I don't think I do this with any other names, except perhaps Harry Potter, or Sarah Jessica Parker.
Oh yes, definitely. Dogs and cats, living together!
This is not only a thing; it's a thing that inevitably gets worse when you're married. You will adopt phrases from his favorite movies/shows, and he from yours. Nick might enjoy a couple of ours, since my husband is a serious anglophile:
"...vicious gangs of keep-left signs..." (when one of us bumps into something)
"...and his father uses him as a wastepaper basket." (at the end of a moronically long description of someone)
When a friend of mine, who loves the parent trap as much as I do, actually *moved* to Boston, it was kind of a Touerette's movie line nightmare in our heads for both of us.
definitely yes, my husband and I make a joke at least once a week that incorporates the line from Jaws, "We're gonna need a bigger boat!"
If our fridge is full we say, "We're gonna need a bigger fridge!"
You can see how that would never get old.
Also sometimes when people leave my house I say, "Bring me back something French!" which is from Home Alone.
Yes! All the time- mine are "And all those craaaazy elephants" from How to marry a millionaire and EVERY time I get in a taxi I want to say "Grand Central station and step on it Dahling" from breakfast at tiffany's. This gets considerably worse when I've been drinking and doesn't make the Arizona cabbies very pleasant. I guess this makes me a huge dork. I do also have some song from a freaky show about mannequins that would come to life at night called "Today's Special" that ONLY my brother and I seem to remember...is there anyone else out there that remembers this?
Basically all the lines from Ghostbusters...and a few from The Goonies. Especially "You smell like phys ed!" or "And never get their balls out!"
Oh yes, it is indeed a thing. Sometimes it's also the reason for getting married: so that someone knows exactly what you're saying, and the proper response:
"Impressive, most impressive" (Darth Vader)
"We'll never come out alive" proper response "You're only saying that because no one ever has." (Princess Bride)
other Princess Bride joke:
"Get used to disappointment"
"I've worked hard to become so"
"Again, thank you"
"What a strange person"
"Do you always begin conversations this way?"
And from A Fish Called Wanda: "DisaPOINTed"! (I had to show my husband that one so he'd 'get' me)
um, as I was saying, it is most definitely a thing.
Oh, we do this constantly! And because we're such homebody television zombies, it makes up about 50% of our conversation.
Where did you go on Cape? I grew up there.
It's a thing. And I find that it's also a lot worse for me with the movies we recorded from the teevee that I watched over and over growing up. Sure I can quote Ghostbusters, Princess Bride, Labryinth, Spaceballs, and Annie, but I've also got Overboard and Clue and The Last Unicorn rolling around in there. Which makes me annoying to watch any of these movies with. Also, a close friend became a close friend when we realized we could both reference the same Paula Poundstone comedy routine.
Yes! I do this all the time and nobody ever gets the references. I need better friends or something.
"I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights." from The Breakfast Club
"I'm setting booty traps!" from The Goonies
"I have to return some videotapes." from American Psycho
"I wanna be a shepherd... I wanna move up to Nashua, get a nice little spread, get some sheep and tend to them." from Good Will Hunting
It's totally a thing. Every time we are not taking the most direct route while driving, the "Look kids, it's Big Ben" gets pulled out.
This is definitely a thing. Can't go to an airport without the "white zone/red zone" bit from Airplane. As a matter of fact, many of mine are from that movie: "I like my coffee black, like my men". "Stop calling me Shirley" "Why, I can make a hat, a broach, pterodactyl".
I do this, with movies and Seinfeld episodes, and most are conversations with my boyfriend.
Seinfeld: When someone's done something ignorant? "And you want be my latex salesman..."
Princess Bride: When someone says "I mean it" Response "Anybody want a peanut?"
Patriot Games: When someone is nagging (said with Irish accent) "You told me that already." The nagger responds (also in Irish accent) "So I'm tellin' ya again."
I think it's a selective thing but it selects you, or it doesn't. The key is whether your given partner/date/part-time lover is at least into it, if not a brain-loop quoter as well. If they're not into it...well, that's when to pull out the Tourette's card.
"Heineken? Fuck that shit. Pabst Blue Ribbon!" - Blue Velvet
Another one: "Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Nice shootin', Tex!"
I've never seen Spaceballs, but I totally dig that song too. I first heard it in a Michigan J. Frog cartoon I saw when I was a kid.
Also, it's really fun to get a group of grown men trying to say "multipass" in a cute voice.
Baby Boom runs in my head all the time. "I just want to turn on the faucet and have water. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHERE IT'S COMING FROM!!!"
I can't speak for anyone else, but I also find myself spouting things that make me look crazy. And why it the old stuff that gets stuck in teh brain? I have the same pink parasol lines from Sound of Music. Among others I have, "nobody konws the trouble i see, nobody knows my sorrow" from Spaceballs, "Oh Mithc, it's been so long, so very very long!" from The Parent Trap, and "Son, you got a panty on your head" from Raising Arizona. And don't even get me started on The Princess Bride.
i was shocked when you mentioned the sound of music line, because that specific line pops into my head ALL THE TIME! i haven't even seen the sound of music in years.
that line is also occasionally accompanied in my head by "i'm kurt! i'm 11, and i'm incorrigible. ...what's incorrigible?"
"i think it means... you want to be treated like a boy."
i'm starting to think julie andrews never got enough credit for her understated humor.
It's totally a thing...my brother and I constantly do it. As do my cousins. My most-used line is probably "Hold onto your butts!" whenever I pull out into traffic. Jurassic Park has a lot of great lines. lol SO GLAD we're not the only ones who do this!!
One of mine is also from Parent Trap: "Why, I feel practically naked without lipstick."
I'm that annoying person who relates everything to Seinfeld. Because everything DOES relate to Seinfeld.
Also - there are a ridiculous amount of traffic cirlces in Olathe, Ks. And I always say, "Look kids, Big Ben" - especially when my husband will take at least three loops in one on purpose.
Last one - I know my husband was the one when he got what I was saying when I referenced Labryth. "'Allo!" "Did you just say Hello?" "Nooo - I said, 'Allo!"
Oh, yes, it is indeed a thing. My friends & I are constantly quoting movie lines in conversation; the "Look kids, Big Ben!" was only 1 of the 100 that came up this weekend when we were driving in circles, lost in Chicago. I've introduced my nephews to all the greatest 80's movies like Goonies, Back to the Future, Karate Kid, B'fast Club, Spaceballs, Vacation, etc...and timeless classics like Monty Python & the Holy Grail. They're teenagers now & we've been annoying our entire family for years with all the quotes and responding.
Mine is "Right turn, Clyde!"
Christine -- "Today's Special"! Holy fucking shit, yes! I actually went around asking everyone I know -- everyone -- last year because I could not for the life of me remember what that show was called. I thought I was the only one who had ever seen it! Not only do I remember the theme song, but there is a specific episode, where they are somehow shrunk down tiny and trapped in a top hat and someone tossed in some miniature marshmallows for them, and they eat themselves sick on them and try to stack them up and climb them to escape the hat...is this ringing a bell with you?
(also, I do the movie quote thing too -- it is most definitely a Thing)
I remember Today's Special too. I can still sing the theme song. My friend Emily used to have episodes on VHS that we'd watch sometimes in college.
My family and friend have so very many quotes we use - all the damn time. As a matter of fact, today I said, "The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club." I'd explain why I said that but that would be an essay. Just trust me that it was apropos.
The only thing I seem to have on repeat now is "I likes to eat you with my little mouth, too," from Family Guy when they're spoofing Alien.
Oh this is a definite Thing. My brother and I can spend hours quizzing each other on film quotes cos we have so many lines imprinted on our brains from the stuff we had on video in the 90s but most especially the 80s. Some films, like Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the Princess Bride, are practically useless for these quizzes cos we both know them so well.
Some general favourites in frequent conversational use with my brother and various friends, depending on the film:
"I'll never join you" (must be accompanied by an attempt at the scrunched up rabbity face Mark Hamill employs for this line)
"You want this, don't you" (item in question, usually the remote control, must be patted in sinister fashion like Emperor Palpatine with the light sabre)
"Never had one lesson", to accompany a tuneless/bad use of a musical instrument
Like Jenn above, "it's been so long, so very very long" from The Parent Trap... that gets pulled out when I haven't seen someone in a while.
The Sound of Music and The Quiet Man are both in my head most of the time.
Oh, and when a situation is getting kinda dodgy, myself and one friend like to shout "TO THE TREES!" (from Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves)
oh damn, now I'm all self-aware. Just now a friend's g-chat status said she was in the DANA building and my internal monologue immediately stated: "There is no Dana, only Zuul."
YES! This is a thing. I get the songs and movie quotes, as well as random words/phrases. The other day I walked around with "wasabi green peas" stuck in my head all day, for no reason and with no context.
There's no real way to let it out without looking tourettes-ish, so I usually just leave them bouncing around my head. It's nice to know there are other people out there with the same thing!
Hocus pocus alamagocus!
"A gun rack? I don't even have a gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I going to do with a gun rack?"
I say it every time someone mentions the word "gun."
OK. I actually do tend to say these things out loud, and 99.9% of the time the people I'm around at the time have no idea what I'm talking about. "Why would we need a bigger boat Cindy?". Sigh.
Oh honey, let me tell you. If it makes you feel better...
My brain is a festering cauldron of randomness; from constant movie quotes no one gets to songs I like to sing with incorrect words (and yet that's the way I know then so once it's in there it's in there), random noises, in-jokes that only a VERY select few people really get- many of them I no longer share a continent with, random noises I can make to sound like things (or associated attempts because I believe it is possible in my head at that moment), etc... What spews forth from my antisocial and awkward mouth- mostly unbidden is a litany of crazy that although I do my best to stopper, builds in to a boil of random that bursts forth at THE most inopportune time, making most tourettes sufferers feel erudite.
I will be having a conversation with someone at work regarding let's say the timeliness of a project and out of nowhere reference Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version) and some spark of brilliance with a message that totally relates to my conversation (in my head) IN DETAIL while the person merely stands there bewildered. It's even worse when he or she hasn't ever SEEN the film because once I have started I just go on and on and I try and EXPLAIN the concept of the film. I open my mouth and spew randomness on them like Linda Blair in The Exorcist (there i go again) and all the while my brain is waaaaay above me yelling "SHUT THE HELL UP AND STOP THE CRAZY FROM COMING OUT"... I believe I shall make that the title of my memoir... and reference some obscure play no one had heard or even cares about.
You're not a nutter dear. :-)
~Nate. xxx
There are times when some sort of switch is flipped in my brain and I can go an entire day saying nothing but Han Solo quotes. I don't know, I can *imagine* quite a bit.
Whenever it's taking either one of us a long time to do, understand, say something, my husband and I say: "You're killing me, Smalls!" (From The Sandlot)
If anyone says "Top That" I suddenly do the entire rap from Teen Witch in my head. That's probably the most annoying one that I can't stop from coming back.
Definitely a thing.
"Is this to be an empathy test? Capillary dilation and the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of the... pupil? Involuntary dilation of the iris."
"We call it Voight-Kampf for short."
Also, can I second "We're gonna need a bigger boat"? I used it in a meeting about our requirements management system at work.
"Bitches leave"
Goddamn right it's a thing. And before I read the post, the title of it said itself in my head in the wistful voice of D. Hannah quoting from the teevee: "Six fun-filled days."
Me and Mr. Gleemonex are capable of passing entire evenings in linespeak -- the mere sight of Jennifer Aniston provokes, "Well I know LUMBERGH fucked 'er." Seinfeld, Goonies, Breakfast Club ... anything that was on HBO in the summers of 1985-1989 ... so many that they're crowding out my actual ability to sample any of them here.
Also: Like another poster said above, you are always "Sarah Brown." Even if you changed your name to Farthington-Poncherello (or whatever Nick's last is, which I don't see you doing?), you'd still be SarahBrown to me.
Everyone calls me Sarahbrown, including my immediate family. So while I'll take his last name, I don't think anyone will ever stop calling me by my old one. I like that. It's like my name is my nickname.
For almost 2 years straight my best friend and I were stuck on a "Waiting for Guffman" loop. It was pitiful and shameless...and it almost forced me to stay single till kingdom come. My husband simply did not find it as quotable as I.
sidenote: Christine & Miss B - what was the name of that mouse from Today's Special? Was it Muffy? That show ranks up there with You Can't Do That on Television and Turkey TV for me. God bless Nickelodeon from the 80s...
oh dear god, you are SO right!
in parent trap, when they're tricking Vicky with the "an old indian guide" thing... anytime my mother and i are discussing something large, i.e., a car, an elephant, the planet, we'll make reference to the tigers, "they'll eatcha, you know" every. single. time.
that, and the "coupon day" and "clever girl" from jurassic park.
Oh my god, Dana. I seriously cannot stop myself from saying that out loud, or stopping once I've started. Or excessively emphasizing "a" gun. It would slip out at least once a week when I was a TA and I was always dismayed to find that most of my students were too young to know what the hell I was talking about.
I am also obligated to call my dad whenever I'm in downtown Chicago (several times a year) and cold open with "Well this is definitely lower Wacker Drive" in the voice of Elwood Blues.
I too have lines from Airplane floating around my head, waiting for a chance to exit. I have to respond to the "Surely you..." with the appropriate comeback, even to perfect strangers. Also, anything that Mel Brooks has written, directed or starred in oozes out of me at inappropriate times.
Every time I'm in a city that they visited in National Lampoon's European Vacation, I'll quote it.
London: "Look kids! Big Ben; Parliament!"
Rome: "Hey you look cool!" "I FEEL cool!"
I also mime the movie, when there are no words to quote. Such as this scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfKhRlpjiNo).
I'm always thinking (with a sigh) "It's the stay-pufft marshmallow man" from Ghostbusters. So I get this. Big time.
I'm always thinking (with a sigh) "It's the stay-pufft marshmallow man" from Ghostbusters. So I get this. Big time.
I'm always thinking (with a sigh) "It's the stay-pufft marshmallow man" from Ghostbusters. So I get this. Big time.
We do this too but our sources are old: Caddy Shack, Animal House, Psycho (can't say "cutlery" w/o adding that little stammer), so imagine my delight in adding a new gem from "In the Loop," which we just saw. One of the characters is sarcastically enumerating for another all of the things that did not go wrong during a disastrous meeting, and one of them is, "You didn't take your dick out, well done." It's like I've just bought one of those little all purpose screwdriver things - there is no end of opportunities for this phrase. I don't know how I've lived w/o it for this long.
Beck, are you my friend from college? I swear, my best friend and I did the exact same thing. Years later, my husband and I could still quote WFG all day long.
For instance, long story made longer...
I'm deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other. I spend most of my time reading lips and don't even realize I'm doing it, and I'm so good at it that my husband even forgets about my hearing loss. But occasionally he WILL forget (as husbands do), and he'll talk to me from another room. I'll realize he's talking to me but I can't possibly decipher what he's saying, so I'll yell waaaaay too loud, "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" He'll bodily move himself into the room I'm in, and keep on yelling in an exaggerated manner. Then I'll say, with a little lisp, "Well, now it's too loud." It's just a game we play, and no one, besides a fellow Guest fan, would ever get that.
And by the way, our daughter's hair is in desperate need of a cut, but we've decided to keep it shaggy until Halloween, where she will "turn it up to eleven" and go around the neighborhood as Nigel Tufnall, or David St. Hubbins. (We haven't decided which yet.)
I knew my friend hit best friend-level status when we started rattling lines off to one another. Major League, Top Gun. A Few Good Men, 80s Hughes Films, &, my personal favorite, Ocean's Eleven...
"I hope you were the groom."
pause...
"Ted Nugent called. He wants his shirt back."
Our other friends are totally annoyed with us, but it's really about us having fun.
When I was 19, I lived in a house where the TV antenna didn't work, but it was hooked up to a VCR... where the movie permanently stuck inside was Raising Arizona. So I can still quote this entire damn movie, and do, on a regular basis.
I can also do this with Repo Man, but not because it was stuck in the VCR, but because I am obsessed with the plate-of-shrimp monologue in that movie.
So, yeah. It's a thing.
It's a thing for sure. Both my sister and I have constant movie-quote-itus. We quote That Thing You Do a lot, a movie we watched everyday after school for two years. It sticks with you, and when used right, you seem more awesome.
Christine, Today's Special was my favourite show as a child... I live in Toronto, so it was on TVO all the time, and it was cool to drive past the Bay and see the front doors!
Today's Special had Jodie (who ended up on CBC news), Jeff (the mannequin - hocus pocus alamagocus!), Sam (the security guard puppet), Muffy the mouse, and Mrs. Pennypacker the stock lady! THAT SHIT IS CLASSIC!
You have to youtube it! Today's Special was quality childrens' programming in the 80s!
So we've established that this is DEF a thing, but I thought I'd throw my mind-circling quotes into the mix.
The big one is, "What'd she give him?" "A lock of hair... FROM HER CHEST!!" from Grease. It's great to pull out when you're witnessing girls being awful to each other.
Another classic is "You're right, it's wrong to destroy literature" from the B'fast Club. Nothing is sexier than angsty Judd Nelson.
Every time someone asks me to do something, I say, "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request" it's from Pirates of the Caribbean; very convenient.
And since the timing is apprope, and in memory of Patrick Swayze, "No body puts baby in the corner" is what I pull out when something's not going my way.
The pink parasol line from S.O.M. is a repeater in my head, too!
It is not possible for someone to say something is caught, without me replying "Caught in what? Friedrich's teeth."
At my old job someone mentioned me loosing my job, and like a crazy person I snapped "I didn't loose my job. It's not like opps where'd my job go. I quit!"
I think it you're a fan of pop culture, it's a thing.
Sarah, it may be a last name that's a color thing, or a two-syllable first name/last name that's a color thing because so many people call me LaurieWhite it's ridiculous. (and same thing with my sister and my mom.) This is only flimsy anecdotal evidence, but it's been true for me. It's like I have two first names, or, as you say, that my name is my nickname. Weird.
As for quotes, I do not know what my sister and I would do without What About Bob, The Breakfast Club, Say Anything and Reality Bites to frame our conversations. And constantly, for me:
"There are other children in my club" from The Breakfast Club
"Baby steps to 4 o'clock" from What About Bob
"I am calmly reading" from Reality Bites, along with "This is the winter of our discontent" and the (politically incorrect, yes, can't help it in this case.) exchange: "Are you retarded?" "No, I'm rhyming"
"Oil can!" "Oil can what?" from the Wizard of Oz
"I can't get left" from European Vacation
I could go on but I'm annoying myself, and yes, a thing.
"Record all data from the Stargate" (from Stargate - to be said whenever someone tells you to do something that you would OBVIOUSLY do anyway.)
Yes, I understand this THING. It isn't just about having movies you like to quote often (maybe too often)...because I have lots of those. My sister and I communicate almost entirely using dialogue from pre-1995 Disney movies, Muppet films, and Prancer.
No, this is having things like the King Louie/Baloo the Bear song (the only English words of which are "get MAAAD, bay-beh!") from The Jungle Book pop up to the surface of your consciousness for no apparent reason, and then float and ravel about like tickly sea kelp for a day or two. Good god, it is SUCH a thing.
Absolutely. My whole family does this actually, so at all family gatherings we are basically just speaking to each other in movie quotes. And equally as random ones. Such as the imitation "Hi David (ching ching)" from that old Disney movie Flight of the Navigator. Or numerous lines from Dances with Wolves. I mean crazytown! I thought it was just my family :)