Our family have adopted many little quips from television shows and movies into our everyday conversations. Who has NOT seen Peter from the Brady Bunch saying "Pork Chops and apple sauce"? The movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off has also spurned quite a few "D-O-O economics .... Voodoo economics" as an example. And Seinfeld has also contributed to our chats "you are sooooo good looking". Advertisments too, "twenty four point nine six" "going to market!" both ads from about twenty years ago. The product being advertised is long forgotten but the catchphrases remain alive and well. And more recently "He's a Cruiser man, he's always been a Cruiser man".

What about your friends and family? What things do you say that you've picked up from the movies and TV?

Yes, we do this at our house too. Maynooth particularly enjoys throwing out John Cleese's little gems.

For example, after the umpteenth request to do something, like pick your socks up off the floor, get your feet off the sofa etc ...

MG: Do you know what I'll do to you if you don't ... (fill in the blank)?
Maynooth: You'll have to sew them back on first!

Oh dear, how could I forget Fawlty Towers??
"Piece of cake. Now for the tricky bit"

"Single, thin and neat" -- Seinfeld
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines"-- Airplane
"Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver"
"Hey, Santy Claus, what's a shippin' clerk?" (Little Rascals)
Kramden's "homina-homina-homina"
All overimitated EdMcMahonisms-- "YYYESS!!", "You are correct, sir" and of course the famous "HI-YOOO"
Carson's "I did not know that"
In the same mode, Hank Kingsley's "Hey Nowwww."
Lou Jacobi in "Avalon", ranting, "YA DIDN'T WAIT FOR ME TO CUT DE TOIKEY!!"
Gabbo from "The Simpsons": "That's easy for you to say... you don't have a HAND up your tuchis...OYYYYYY!!!"
Eugene Levy's inimitable 'HOWW ARE YA?!!" from SCTV
"...NOT", really originated, as I understand it, by Steve Martin, but run with effectively by Mike Myers.
"Qantas never crashed" (Rain Man)

"Oh,Nicholas!" (originated from a comedian named Nicholas who talked about his grandma thinking he was the strongest man in the world--> "Grandma,would you like to sit on this STOOOL?!"---."Oh,Nicholas. You should fight crime!")

"Hush,my babies" ---Conan O'Brien

Now this next bit is from comedian Brian Regan (funniest guy ever )
"Has anyone seen this peanut butter and jelly in the same jar? Is there a point to that? Now I'm lazy but,uh, I wanna meet the guy who needs that. Some guy sittin' around going,'I could go for a sandwich but,uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be openin' and closin' all kinds of jars. Washin' who knows how many knifes!"
(Lengthy but my sister and I do it all the time. We even crack up when we see it in the grocery store...)

"How YOU doin'" -Friends
"McFly!!" - with a knuckle rap to the head when my kids don't use common sense.(Back to the Future)
"You talkin' to me?" - Taxi Driver
'You can't handle the truth." - A Few Good Men
"This is Nakedland" - Wings
"Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?"
And in our finest Ahnuld accent:
"I'll be back" and "It's not a tumor."

And in our finest Ahnuld accent:
"I'll be back" and "It's not a tumor."

Also favourites of Maynooth's!

I have a brother and sister who have similar psychoses to me, and we end up doing little skits or bits of movies whenever the mood takes us. Some I can think of off the top of my head....

"Another seven years bad luck for Captain Marvel" (I have mentioned I'm a Monkees freak, haven't I?"
"I have a cunning plan" - Blackadder
"I'm Brian, and so is my wife!!" - Life of Brian
"Nice one, bruvva!" - Human Traffic

...and I'm going to stop before I lose my mind entirely end end up writing out the entire script to a million different movies...

Other frequently repeated phrases around our house:

"And now for something completely different" (Monty Python)
"Not that there's anything wrong with that" (Seinfeld)
"Nudge, nudge, wink, wink" (Monty Python)
"Your head is just something to hang your hat on, isn't it?" (The Thin Blue line, I think)
"It's a fair cop" (Monty Python)

"Not that there's anything wrong with that" is also one of our favs along with "Yada, yada, yada."
"You need a big sandwich" - Wings
"Frank Burns eats worms" - MASH

Where's the beef? Burger ad
It doesn't look good for our hero folks! old serials
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Cool hand Luke

The people that I work with always do the "wiggling fingers under the chin" if anyone complains about their wife or girlfriend. This comes from the old Little Rascles series as it was the secret sign of the "He-man woman haters club".

"Endeavour to Perservere" Outlaw Josie Wales

"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" Monty Python

"Do ya feel lucky punk?" Dirty Harry

Mother Goose will say that is a surprisingly short list for me, the quotes just slip out before you know it.

I could go on forever but yada yada......
cheers
Maynooth

We try and get "I wave my private parts at your aunties, you brightly coloured, mealy-templed, cranberry-smelling, electric donkey-bottom biter" from Monty Python's Holy Grail, into the conversation at least once a day and you get extra points if it is to a perfect stranger.

"Not a lot of People know that..."
Michael Caine
"And here's one I did earlier"Blue Peter.
These often come up in our house.

"You're killin' me,Smalls!" --- The Sandlot
I had to add this because I just said it to my dog because he won't stop begging for my Goldfish crackers. (They're mine!) He's still lookin' at me...

I laughed so hard when I saw this post, because every time we have pork chops we MUST have applesauce to go with, and imitate Peter Brady!

I don't know exactly why the following quotes struck chords with us, but they have and are ingrained into our family life:

"Anytime", and "What the hell are you?" from Predator .

"There's too many of them!", and "You stupid Dikini" from Willow .

"No one knows how she got that way, but there she is" and "Wherrrre arrre you go-ing?" from Freaks .

"Look like a gelfling, smell like a gelfling, maybe you are a gelfling" , and "Don't know (grunt) don't know", by Augra in the Dark Crystal .

This is a good enough thread that I felt we should give it a well deserved update. Around this house, and among my friends there's...

"I could never date a guy who looks like I won him in a raffle!"- [Always]

No soup for you! - [Seinfeld] A common one around my house.

Let's get the sheep out of here! - Brother Dave Garner, 1960's nightclub comedian

[two hillbilly inmates commenting on their prison escape] "We felt the institution no longer had anything to offer us.."-[ Raising Arizona]

"You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred." - Super Chicken [cartoon series]

[warbled off key] "I'm sorreeee I broke your heart Mothuuuur... [hic]" -Otis Campbell, The Andy Griffith Show

"These are some mighty fine Corn flakes, Miz McDunnough..." also from Raising Arizona


"Personally, I wouldn't pay that much for Winged Pegasus!"- True Grit

[ dancing awkwardly]
"We are just two wild and crazy guys!" - Saturday Night Live

[To a fluffy cat, usually, rolled over on it's back..] "Yeees...who's a big MEAN doggie!" - Tom Hanks in Turner and Hooch

I had to laugh at "endeavour to perservere" - we used to say that all the time. My sisters and I can't talk without falling into TV and movie quotes or entire routines, complete with whatever accent the original "voices" had. Old commercials, comedy routines, "Was your head with you all day?" "I meant to do that." "Ancient Chinese secret."
My son has picked up the torch. He's got it worse than any of us. He does accents really well, so nothing is safe. "I vant to be alone." "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." "What would you do with a brain if you had one?"

Those are all hilarious. I might even steal a few.

When a person asks a question to which the answer is something painfully obvious (or in other words, a "duh" moment), my brother and I will sometimes use. "Yeah! We're in the Rockies." from 'Dumb and Dumber'.

Homer Simpson's "D'oh" is versatile, especially when you can use it to replace what would normally be a swear word, as it usually is in my case.

I can't think of any more right now that haven't already been mentioned.

I do this all the time. Then I watch a film I haven't seen in years and realise where I got a certain line from. At least once every Christmas someone in my family picks up the smallest gift they can find under the tree and says 'I hope it's a bike!', which is from a French and Saunders sketch, I think...

These are so funny!


After buying "Titus" on DVD, my best friend's boyfriend Jason(whose the only other person I know who LOVED that show) and I have started using phrases from it. Instead of saying "D'UH!" we say "ERR" a la Titus as a teen.

Jason's friend has some weird fascination with cows, so when he's annoying us we go, "Josh, cow!" Just to make him look. (Just like Titus does with his brother Dave!) Of course this only works if we're driving somewhere...
and, yes, it DOES work!

My sister and I also quote Dane Cook a lot but anyone who is familiar with his work knows most of his stuff can't be repeated here. Except for: "What?! Jackpot!!"

"It's a moral imperative" from Real Genius with Val Kilmer. Hilarious movie.

That's probably my biggest phrase other than the usuals - D'oh, yadda yadda, etc.

"You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred" and "What you talkin' about Willis?" are also regulars at our house.

Also,

"Ten seconds Bob" (when playing board games and somebody takes too long at their turn).

"Oh you are awful, but I like you" (an old Dick Emery line).

"I've got a bad feeling about this" (Han Solo, Star Wars)

"I'm doing it, I'm doing it" (Basil Fawlty)

"Be careful out there among those English" (from Witness with Harrison Ford) is often said to anyone leaving the house, whether family or friend. "Whacking is not much good on a farm" is another one from that movie, that's used when we, jokingly, threaten to whack the kids.
We have quoted movies for years around this place, The Princess Bride and Star Wars ('you must unlearn what you have learned') being rich sources for quotes.
Another favourite is "I rule", said by Kevin Spacey in American Beauty.
One of our good friends is called Dave, which prompts the "Dave's not here" line from Cheech and Chong.
Now it is reaching the point where my teenagers exchange quotes and laugh, leaving hubby and I out of the loop because the quotes are from movies and shows that we haven't seen!