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Old 08-23-1999, 06:12 PM
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In Room Service, a Marx Brothers movie from 1938, is one of the best suggestive lines ever (in an era when such would not be openly permitted, no less). The main story line is that Groucho, Chico and Harpo, in a hotel room, are trying to prepare a play for opening night. Groucho has cheated the hotel out of $16,500--including a bounced check someone else wrote!
Meanwhile, the play's author (Frank Alberston) has moved in. In order to defend themselves against a ferocious hotel executive, the brothers plan to have Albertson play sick. They decide to go through with this, and Albertson is to moan and groan in front of the supervisor. As he goes to the bed, he says,
"Don't you worry! I'll show you the best performance you ever saw in a hotel bedroom!"
Let's hear some more movie lines that could be construed in a suggestive way. Come on, Teeming Millions:
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Old 08-23-1999, 06:18 PM
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Damn, needed some review time for this topic.

When Bacall said to Bogie, "You know how to whistle, don't you? Just pucker up and blow." -- maybe I just have a dirty mind, or maybe it was the look in Lauren's eyes when she said it -- but I've always thought she really meant something besides whistling.

I'm so ashamed. People didn't do that kind of stuff in the 40's, did they?
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Old 08-23-1999, 06:22 PM
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In A Night in Casablanca, Lisette Verea, as a German spy, said Bacall's line to Groucho Marx. Then she walked away; Groucho watched for a moment then turned to the camera and said: "That reminds me--I must get my watch fixed."
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Old 08-23-1999, 06:41 PM
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I don't get it?

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Old 08-23-1999, 06:59 PM
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In Tommorow Never Dies..
When discussing foreign language, Moneypenny says to 007:
"James, you always were a cunning linguist"
Yikes!! I'll bet he is!

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Old 08-23-1999, 10:44 PM
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All I have to say is: watch 'Toy Story'. Tons of lines have double meanings.
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Old 08-23-1999, 10:57 PM
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Many 007 movies have some great, or really bad, double lines. My fav, from Moon Raker:

"What's he doing now?"
"I believe he's attempting re-entry, sir!"
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Old 08-24-1999, 01:08 AM
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The best part of the Bond movies is the names they give the women. I mean, what other serious film can have a character named Pussy?

A friend of mine came up with the perfect name for Bond's first female Russian sidekick: Ivana Godanana. (If you don't get the humor, read the name aloud, with a Russian accent.)

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Old 08-24-1999, 03:30 PM
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To JLPicard: Groucho said that line as he was watching Ms. Verea's oscillating backside.
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Old 08-24-1999, 03:42 PM
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The only memorable thing from Tango & Cash:

Kurt Russell's character is looking at his gun and comparing it to Stallone's...

Russell: "Hey. How come your's is bigger than mine?"
Stallone: "Genetics."

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Old 08-25-1999, 03:07 PM
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"That's pretty stiff" Richard Gere

"No, but it's got potential," Julia Roberts

Pretty Woman

Okay, maybe that is a little more clearly stated than I remember.

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Old 08-25-1999, 06:51 PM
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To JLPicard: Groucho said that line as he was watching Ms. Verea's oscillating backside.

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can you draw a diagram? i still don't get this whole joke cycle.

i never did get the original bacall line either. is that a reference to oral sex or something? if so how? what sort of oral sex peformed by a man involves blowing?
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Old 08-25-1999, 07:06 PM
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Sorry, Rokket..even if the message board could accommodate graphics, and even if I knew how to draw with it, I can't for the life of me remember what Ms. Verea's derriere looked like, let alone draw it in animation. I think her original was adequate.
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Old 08-25-1999, 08:32 PM
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two of the worst come from the star wars trilogy:

In Star Wars during the death star raid one pilot says to Luke "Don't go in so fst you won't be able to pull out in time"

In Empire Strikes Back Yoda says "Size matters not" that's what all 300 year old midgets say....

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Old 08-25-1999, 08:38 PM
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Most of W.C. Fields' movies were filled with double entendre. In "My Little Chickadee", he has a line about knowing how to "dally in the valley."

On early TV, the all-time champion was Soupy Sales. He got away with a lot of stuff because his target audience was kids. I can remember lots of risque lines and images (including a totally nude blonde lady in the doorway) that usually went right over the heads of the little ones watching. He finally got into trouble because (if I remember correctly) he had kids send "those little green pieces of paper with people's pictures on them" to him in the mail on a New Year's Day morning while mom & dad were still "asleep".
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Old 08-25-1999, 09:13 PM
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Hey Ralf, I've heard a lot of stories about things Soupy did on his show, including a few ULs. (The "green pieces of paper" did actually happen, according to Snopes.) However, I've never heard about the nude blonde. Did you actually see that happen?
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Old 08-25-1999, 09:19 PM
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I saw the scene on a "bloopers" show a long time ago. There really was a nude blonde, who was hired to be there as a practical joke on Sales. She was standing off to the side, and not directly in the doorway; she was visible to him and to one of the cameras, but not to the audience or to the camera which was broadcasting at the time.

The program I saw showed the shot from the camera on which the woman appeared. It was network TV, so of course they blurred out all the good parts.

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Old 08-26-1999, 06:03 PM
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Soupy talked about this with Dr. Demento in an interview. The show was live, of course, but what went out over the airwaves did not included "The naked girl" as Soupy referred to her. I even thought she might be Soupy's wife! (But then, he might have been furious if it was.)
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Old 08-26-1999, 11:42 PM
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Okay, now I remember. Thanks, guys.
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Old 08-26-1999, 11:59 PM
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To add on BurnMeUp's comments, there is a list of "Top Ten Sexually Suggestive Lines in Star Wars" floating around the net. I'm too lazy to find it, but any decent humor collection or Star Wars humor site'll have it.
My favorite is Han to Chewy in ANH: "Get in there ya big furry oaf! I don't care what ya smell!!!"

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Old 08-27-1999, 01:17 AM
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http://www.drakeandzeke.com/asheard/starwarslines.html
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Old 08-27-1999, 03:48 AM
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Another Soupy Sales gag - He's trying to teach one of the characters the alphabet.

They are reading from a board of letters and naming the letter. They both agree with everything until the letter F comes up. Soupy says, "F" and the character says "K". Soupy says, "No, this is a K. try again." He shows an F, the character says K. Finally Soupy says, "I don't know what's wrong with you. Every time I see F You See K."

Or something to that effect. I don't remember the exact setup.
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Old 08-27-1999, 04:57 PM
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Thanks, Seer of Auras.
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Old 09-01-1999, 02:51 PM
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"I never drink. . .wine." Dracula 1931.
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Old 09-01-1999, 05:10 PM
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"That's okay. Nobody's perfect."

Joe E. Brown, "Some Like it Hot"
(you need to see the scene to really get it)

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Old 09-01-1999, 10:56 PM
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"Niiiiiiice beaver!"
"Thanks, I've just had it stuffed."

Cracks me up every time.
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Old 09-02-1999, 09:36 AM
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From "Young Frankenstein"

Dr. Frankenstein (looking at large door knockers): What knockers!
Inga: Oh, thank you doctor!
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Old 09-02-1999, 01:12 PM
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Quote:
'Scuse me while I whip this out!
Blazing Saddles

Quote:
"That reminds me--I must get my watch fixed."
Compare a swinging tush to the pendulum of a grandfather clock.


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Old 09-13-1999, 05:02 PM
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Mae West: "Is that your gun or are you just glad to see me?" (while dancing with an undercover cop) Maybe it's a UL. I dunno.

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