# "Brain and Brain! What IS brain?!?" or What's your favorite line of BAD dialogue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676 "2004-10-11T17:59:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/21 "2004-10-12T10:12:35Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > My brother pointed this one out to me. It’s a good line with a stupid line stuck in the middle. When Henry Blake is killed on M_A_S\*H, Radar announces in the O.R.: > > “Colonel Henry Blake’s plane was shot down over the sea of Japan. The plane spun in. There were no survivors.” > > In what way does “the plane spun in” contribute to the scene AT ALL? Hmmm, Radar, you forgot to mention the wind speed at the time, and the water temperature. Funny, I think it contributes to the scene quite a bit. Radar is not, himself, noting what happened to the plane, he’s repeating the bloodless message he just recieved. It makes it all the more poignent that, firstly, it’s as much as he can do to simply repeat the words, and secondly, that the official message _would_ include details that are unimportant to people who are actually grieving for him. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/22 "2004-10-12T10:46:06Z")
Wouldn’t spinning in mean that there was no chance for anyone to have bailed out? ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/23 "2004-10-12T11:41:23Z")
I always wondered what happened to Col. Blake. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/24 "2004-10-12T11:44:32Z")
[I’ll go get my Walkman!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155975/) Given the people involved I was long tempted to believe that there was some elusive brilliance in this line, but after six years I’m still not in on the joke. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/25 "2004-10-12T20:00:53Z")
From _Damnation Alley_, a deplorable screen translation of Roger Zelazny’s novel: “This town is full of killer cockroaches!” From _Night of the Zombies_, one of Elvira’s offerings on \*Movie Macabre \* back in the '80’s: “We zombies are destined to conquer the universe.” The last one literally had me doubled up on the couch, laughing so hard that my sides ached. I mean, come on, some grown man wrote that line, and didn’t see anything wrong with it! ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/26 "2004-10-12T20:24:40Z")
From Dirty Dancing: “Nobody puts Baby in the corner.” Zev Steinhardt ---
**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:** [October 12, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/27 "2004-10-12T21:02:26Z")
From the long-forgotten (and deservedly so) 1990 TV movie _Archie Andrews - Return to Riverdale_ Betty (played by Lauren Holley) “I want to be bad, Archie. Teach me how to be bad!” ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/28 "2004-10-12T21:10:29Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > I always wondered what happened to Col. Blake. McLean Stevenson’s career was shot down over the Sea of Japan. There were no survivors. As he spun into the water, he was heard to exclaim, “I quit the most popular show on TV. What was I thinking?..” ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/29 "2004-10-13T00:32:01Z")
**blowero** McLean Stevenson went on to do “Hello Larry”. So there. I am amazed no one has referenced “Plan Nine From Outer Space”. Well, maybe they’d have to post the whole damned script. One great line is delivered by the police detective: "Inspector Clay is dead … murdered … and _somebody’s_ responsible !!! " ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/30 "2004-10-13T01:24:05Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > I am amazed no one has referenced “Plan Nine From Outer Space”. Well, maybe they’d have to post the whole damned script. The same is true of _Robot Monster_ ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046248/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046248/)), but I’ll never forget: “I must! Yet I cannot! How do you calculate that?!” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/31 "2004-10-13T01:25:11Z")
BTW – I don’t recognize the thread title. “Brain and Brain! What IS brain?!?” Is that an actual line from an actual movie? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/32 "2004-10-13T01:33:18Z")
It’s from the Star Trek episode Spock’s Brain. One of the uneducated servants of the evil computer that stole Spock’s brain reacts in exasperation to Kirk constantly ask about the brain - with that line. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/33 "2004-10-13T02:41:42Z")
Anakin Skywalker in _Atttack of the Clones_: “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.” Ick. ---
**Author:** ![ThatGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@ThatGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/34 "2004-10-13T03:10:09Z")
Everything from this script [http://www.allmoviescripts.com/scripts/6667152193f4e89572e63f.html](http://www.allmoviescripts.com/scripts/6667152193f4e89572e63f.html) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/35 "2004-10-13T05:23:25Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > From **Star Crash** : > > “Imperial Battleship … stop the flow of time!” OMG … I’ve never met anybody else who’s ever seen that movie before! I’ve quoted that line many times as the most ludicrous line I’ve ever heard … . ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/36 "2004-10-13T05:52:57Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > Uh, what? > > It’s hyperbole. The dude knows what a tank is. And this tank was a BEAST of a tank. So what’s the problem? You just too literal? I never assumed that he DIDN’T know what a tank is. I mean, it’s not like Indy pulled him out of some backwater village that had never seen twentiety century technology. My problem with it is that in the first and third movies, Sallah demonstrates his intelligence and competence in a variety of ways. Then, suddenly, he slips into what seems like superstitious native pidgin-English. Why not just say “The Nazis got them” or “They’re in that tank”? The line, as is, always seems so out of character. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/37 "2004-10-13T06:44:49Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > From **Star Crash** : > > “Imperial Battleship … stop the flow of time!” And a very close runner-up from the same movie: _ **"IT’S A SPACE SHIP!!!"** _ ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/38 "2004-10-13T06:56:40Z")
OMFG!\* Read the third customer review in the [amazon.com webpage for _Starcrash_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300132625/). You **must** read it! \*) That’s an acronym for “Omicron Monocerotis is either spectral class F or spectral class G”. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/39 "2004-10-13T08:45:09Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **blowero** > McLean Stevenson went on to do “Hello Larry”. So there. Oh, yes - that was a runaway hit, wasn’t it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676/40 "2004-10-13T09:56:19Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > From _Damnation Alley_, a deplorable screen translation of Roger Zelazny’s novel: > > “This town is full of killer cockroaches!” In his defense, the town was, in fact, full of killer cockroaches. (Yeah, it irks me too that THAT was the only time one of Zelazny’s zillions of books and short stories ever made it to the screen). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-or-whats-your-favorite-line-of-bad-dialogue/268676.md?page=3)