# Challenge us with a non-famous line from a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 2, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142 "2022-04-02T06:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 127
**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:** [October 10, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2525 "2023-10-10T19:01:02Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Clash of the Titans? That’s it! Spoken by Burgess Meredith as Ammon. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2526 "2023-10-10T19:22:43Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I wouldn’t call William Powell “jerkish.” In _ **HtMaM** _, he was quite swayve and deboner. That he was. But he wasn’t the one who said this phrase; it was Fred Clark as Waldo Brewster, saying it to Betty Grable. He was griping about his wife’s relatives coming to New York and wanting to see a show. And he was being a bit of a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2527 "2023-10-10T19:24:44Z")
> “Stuff my orders! I only kill professionals. That girl didn’t know one end of her rifle from the other.” ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2528 "2023-10-10T19:26:29Z")
Is it too early to answer this? I think I will leave a spoiler blur for others to have a chance! The Living Daylights ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2529 "2023-10-10T19:40:08Z")
Correct. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2530 "2023-10-10T20:01:34Z")
> “So tell me, my man… you nervous in the service?” ---
**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:** [October 10, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2531 "2023-10-10T22:49:27Z")
Hmmm. IMDb says otherwise: - [J.D. Hanley](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001635/?ref_=ttqu_qu): There’s quite a party of us up from Texas. - [Schatze Page](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002/?ref_=ttqu_qu): All men? - [J.D. Hanley](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001635/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Oh, some wives too. You met some of them this evening. The others went to a show. You know how the women are when they get to New York. - [Schatze Page](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002/?ref_=ttqu_qu): I know. JD Hanley was none other than William Powell, and Schatze Page was Lauren Bacall. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2532 "2023-10-11T01:55:16Z")
“Bring a sponge.” ---
**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:** [October 11, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2533 "2023-10-11T02:00:22Z")
Is there a defenestration involved here? ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2534 "2023-10-11T02:15:27Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Hmmm. IMDb says otherwise: You’re right and I’m totally misremembering the characters who spoke. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2535 "2023-10-11T02:25:03Z")
It happens. I just had to dissuade my daughter that Cary Grant was in _ **Bringing Up Baby** _, not Gregory Peck. At first, I thought it might have been Spencer Tracy because of, you know, Katharine Hepburn being in it too. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2536 "2023-10-11T02:29:05Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Is there a defenestration involved here? For mine? Not that I can think of. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2537 "2023-10-11T02:33:57Z")
Okay, though I do suspect a messy death. _ **Curdled** _, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2538 "2023-10-11T02:47:31Z")
Not _Curdled_. What did you think the defenestration was? I don’t remember the entire scene; maybe that is the movie I’m thinking of. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2539 "2023-10-11T02:59:45Z")
I remember a line from a film where someone either fell/was pushed out a window or off a ledge, and you’d need a sponge to pick them up. But I can’t think of the specific movie. _ **Curdled** _ has lots of blood that needs to be cleaned up, but I think all the action takes place indoors. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2023, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2540 "2023-10-11T03:08:26Z")
_ **Forrest Gump** _, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2541 "2023-10-11T03:39:07Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I remember a line from a film where someone either fell/was pushed out a window or off a ledge, and you’d need a sponge to pick them up. But I can’t think of the specific movie. No, nothing like that. The answer will make sense when you read the whole scene. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2542 "2023-10-11T03:56:46Z")
Prague once had a defenestration. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2023, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2543 "2023-10-11T04:04:09Z")
“You need a wife for tonight, just tell me. I’ll set it up.” ---
**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:** [October 11, 2023, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2544 "2023-10-11T04:05:31Z")
No, it wasn’t set in Prague. It was an American _noir_, IIRC. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=126) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=128)