# 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:** 173
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3445 "2024-06-16T02:32:01Z")
Since no one gets my Hey, pizza! Line I can only assume you’ve forgotten this wonderful movie. Heres another to help. Things sure have changed since we got kicked out of school. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3446 "2024-06-16T02:53:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Bonesaw is ready! ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3447 "2024-06-19T07:02:14Z")
This one might not, I suspect, have made it outside the UK, but I’ll try it anyway: “All them cornfields, and ballet in the evenings” ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3448 "2024-06-19T07:40:34Z")
This might be too easy. “If I don’t find out who Lila is, I’ll go crazy!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3449 "2024-06-19T13:24:36Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “If I don’t find out who Lila is, I’ll go crazy!” **The Fifth Element** ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3450 "2024-06-19T14:30:46Z")
Incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3451 "2024-06-19T18:08:50Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The Fifth Element Green! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3452 "2024-06-19T18:09:18Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > > [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > > > “Well now, what d’ya suppose hell’s gonna look like?” > > From the same movie said by the same character: > > “Mister, you got a lot of hard bark on you” Hombre ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3453 "2024-06-20T20:09:15Z")
_ **Snoopy Come Home** _? ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3454 "2024-06-20T21:10:46Z")
Yes, well done. I thought that one would be solved a lot quicker. I was just about to post another clue. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3455 "2024-06-21T00:46:32Z")
It was the only movie I could think of that had a character named Lila. Actually came to mind right away. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3456 "2024-06-21T01:35:32Z")
It’s been decades since I’ve seen it, but I seem to remember that Charlie Brown says that in frustration a few times. The next clue was going to be “no dogs allowed.” And a new clue: “That armor plating must be inches thick.” ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3457 "2024-06-21T01:41:38Z")
Last try- Don’t let any more mice in here. They’ve been exploding all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3458 "2024-06-21T01:58:32Z")
We live in a kingdom of rains, where royalty comes and goes in gangs. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3459 "2024-06-21T01:58:56Z")
_ **Jurassic Park** _? ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3460 "2024-06-21T02:27:59Z")
Incorrect. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3461 "2024-06-21T05:43:55Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “That armor plating must be inches thick.” This is driving me mad because I am sure I know it, just can’t put my finger on it. If it’s from a Bond film I’m gonna kick myself… Is it _The Spy Who Loved Me_ ? ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3462 "2024-06-21T06:04:25Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Is it _The Spy Who Loved Me_ ? Yes! During the firefight on the oil tanker, the submarine crews have taken over the docking area, but can’t get in to the control room. Bond throws a grenade that explodes right next to the shuttered door, but has no effect. The British captain says “that armor plating must be inches thick.” There’s a very particular reason why that line sticks in my head. When I was a kid, my mom would sometimes see an actor on TV and comment, “oh, he also played the Japanese soldier on _Gilligan’s Island_”, or something like that. I must have picked up the habit of seeing someone and trying to remember what other roles I’d seen them in. At some point years later, I recognized someone, probably his voice more than his look, but I didn’t know the actor’s name, or the character he’d played. For whatever reason, that was the line that stuck in my head. Whenever I saw him, he was the “that armor plating must be inches thick” guy. I now know his name was Shane Rimmer, and he popped up in a lot of action/adventure/sci-fi films He was in a couple other Bond films, the first three _Superman_ films, and _Star Wars_. If you needed someone to be the voice of Mission Control for a space mission, you called Shane Rimmer. He yells “Jonathan!” at the end of _Rollerball_. When Slim Pickens was trying to fix the bomb doors at the end of _Dr. Strangelove_, and the co-pilot says “target in sight, where in hell is Major Kong?”, that’s him, too. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3463 "2024-06-21T06:19:59Z")
Haha yes that is the scene I was picturing, I just couldn’t picture the character for sure but thought it was probably him. Nitpick: probably a typo but Rimmer is the US captain, not the British one. His voice was well known to British audiences though as he was one of the Tracey brothers in _Thunderbirds_. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3464 "2024-06-21T06:33:21Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Nitpick: probably a typo but Rimmer is the US captain, not the British one. No, not a typo. There were British, American, and Russian subs in the movie. Bond and Major Amasova get transported to a sub to intercept Stromberg’s oil tanker, so I assumed it was the British sub. It gets swallowed up, joining the two already there. But now that you mention it, the movie begins with something bad happening to a submarine, and it’s clearly Royal Navy. The tracking map from that is what sets the whole plot in motion. So you’re right; it’s the British sub at the beginning, and the American sub with James and Anya on board. Rimmer was Canadian, but moved to and worked in England. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=172) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=174)