# Best final line **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644 "2015-04-14T15:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/81 "2015-04-15T20:32:16Z")
“Shit!” - Most cockpit voice recorders ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/82 "2015-04-15T21:58:32Z")
The security guard in _ **Terminator II** _: “This must be my lucky day!” ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/83 "2015-04-15T22:50:39Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > Little Bill: “I don’t deserve to die like this…I was building a house.” Such a similar line-reading to “Wait! Where are you going? I was going to make espresso.” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/84 "2015-04-15T23:11:32Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Sean Connery in _ **The Untouchables** _: > > “Leave it to a Wop to bring a knife to a gunfight!” Not his final line, which was “What…are…you…prepared…to do!” ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/85 "2015-04-15T23:27:59Z")
‘Murph’ Murphy, one of the fishermen in The Perfect Storm: “This is gonna be real hard on my little boy”. One of the saddest lines ever. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/86 "2015-04-15T23:56:31Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > 2 for one in the same scene: > > Boyd Crowder: “We dug coal together” > Raylan Givens: “That’s right” I’ve put your post in a spoiler. If it’s a huge and/or recent thing, you really want to put it in the spoiler. > [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Damnit, I read one post too many. Yes, because if someone posts a major spoiler that will need to be edited, the best thing to do is quote it so that it appears more than once. I’ve spoiled yours too. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/87 "2015-04-16T00:04:07Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **Breaker Morant** _: > > “Shoot straight, you bastards. Don’t make a mess of it!” Darn it **terentii**! I so wanted to post that one. ☹ Oh well, here’s another, not quit final words, but he only sings a hymn after that. Daniel Dravot: Peachy, I’m heartily ashamed for gettin’ you killed instead of going home rich like you deserved to, on account of me bein’ so bleedin’ high and bloody mighty. Can you forgive me? Peachy Carnehan: That I can and that I do, Danny, free and full and without let or hindrance. Daniel Dravot: Everything’s all right then. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/88 "2015-04-16T00:19:47Z")
“Fly, You Fools!” “Super MAN!” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/89 "2015-04-16T00:46:34Z")
“For a moment there I thought we were in trouble.” - Butch Cassidy I’m pretty sure the final line of the monster in _Flesh Gordon_ was “Oh, shit!” but I’m not going to go through the entire movie to find the scene. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/90 "2015-04-16T00:54:25Z")
“Hold my beer and watch this…” too many times in real life.😛 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/91 "2015-04-16T01:11:23Z")
Here’s one from [The Master](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/98/where-can-i-join-the-millard-fillmore-society): “The nourishment is palatable.” ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/92 "2015-04-16T15:17:39Z")
Rayburn (Christopher Walken) in _Man on Fire_. “Creasy’s art is death. He’s about to paint his masterpiece. And that’s all I say.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/93 "2015-04-16T16:48:26Z")
> [@Satchmo](#): > > Daniel Dravot: Peachy, I’m heartily ashamed for gettin’ you killed instead of going home rich like you deserved to, on account of me bein’ so bleedin’ high and bloody mighty. Can you forgive me? > Peachy Carnehan: That I can and that I do, Danny, free and full and without let or hindrance. > Daniel Dravot: Everything’s all right then. I just had a flashback to a Halloween party I attended when I was working with a bunch of historical reenactors in the '80s: Breaker and Peachy walked through the front door in full uniform just moments apart. (I don’t think they planned it that way, either. It was bizzare!) ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/94 "2015-04-16T16:58:48Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > I’ve always had a soft spot for: > > _**“I’ve… seen things you people wouldn’t believe… Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those… moments… will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears… in… rain. Time… to die…”**_ > > **Blade Runner 1982** > > In real life I have been known to use “Gone… Like tears in the rain” myself. > > TCMF-2L Me too. You know there’s now a [gene](http://www.travelthewholeworld.org/2015/03/the-wanderlust-gene-why-some-people-are-born-to-travel.html) for people who need to travel? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/95 "2015-04-16T17:35:56Z")
Last line of _My Gun Is Quick_ - > [@](#): > > He was screaming with all the fury of the gods dethroned, but my laugh was even louder. > > He was still screaming when I pulled the trigger. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/96 "2015-04-16T18:18:42Z")
“Earn this.” --Captain Miller, _Saving Private Ryan_. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/97 "2015-04-16T19:23:53Z")
So long, and thanks for all the fish! ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/98 "2015-04-16T19:57:06Z")
If I can post a line from a song: “Fellas, it’s been good to know ya” - the cook of the Edmund Fitzgerald ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/99 "2015-04-17T01:45:58Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > “Fellas, it’s been good to know ya” - the cook of the Edmund Fitzgerald Nitpick: Gordon Lightfoot took some liberties in describing the crew’s reaction to the storm. In reality, no distress call was ever sent, and Capt. McSorley’s final transmitted message was: “We are holding our own.” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/100 "2015-04-17T01:48:00Z")
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