# Challenge us with a non-famous line from a movie

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**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")\
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> [@lobotomyboy63](#):
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> **Old Woman:** On his hands and knees like that… He looks like a dog, doesn’t he? Looks like old Ginger.
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> **Old Man:** _Sicker’n_ a dog, that’s for sure.

Watching “Terry the Tiger” puke up his cheap liquor in _ **American Graffiti** _.

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**Your women.**  **I want to buy your women.**  **The little girl, your daughters…**  **sell them to me.**

Jake, in the Blues Brothers scene at the fancy restaurant to a fellow patron.

We’re not homosexual, but we’re willing to learn.

Harold Ramis, Stripes.

Wicked Witch of the West, Wicked Witch of the East. Which one was bad?

Blair Witch Project

He would eliminate whether Geoffrey was having an affair, or had become gay. Whether he had a social disease, or had become a Republican. All the things that could have happened to have made you feel he had changed.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978.

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Running isn’t a plan. Running’s what you do when a plan fails.

Tremors

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"Hi.

“I believe the word you’re looking for is…‘AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!’”

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/508 "2022-04-10T21:40:37Z")

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Your father was weak in his way, your brother in his, now you in yours.

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/509 "2022-04-11T00:26:17Z")

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“Jeez. Doesn’t anyone f\*\*\*ing knock anymore?”

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**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)\
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**A:** “You fixed?”  
**B:** “What do you mean?”  
**A:** “You know, are you on the pill or what?”  
**B:** “No.”  
**A:** “No? What do you got, the IOU, that thing?”

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**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/511 "2022-04-11T02:15:28Z")

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> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> And the monkey flips the switch.

_Lost in Space_ (1998)

Hamlet…in love…with the old man’s daughter…the old man thinks.

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**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/512 "2022-04-11T02:16:45Z")

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“Always drink gin with a mark, kid. They can’t tell if you cut it.”

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**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/513 "2022-04-11T02:33:51Z")

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_The Sting_

Albania’s hard to rhyme.

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**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/514 "2022-04-11T02:36:24Z")

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> [@outlierrn](#):
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> The Sting

Correct!

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**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/515 "2022-04-11T02:52:55Z")

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> [@saucywench](#):
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> “Jeez. Doesn’t anyone f\*\*\*ing knock anymore?”

Fast Times at Ridgemount High

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> [@outlierrn](#):
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> _Lost in Space_ (1998)

Ya got it.

We’re coming to get you, Barbara!

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**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/517 "2022-04-11T06:23:17Z")

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“She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up.”

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> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> We’re coming to get you, Barbara!

That has to be the most famous line in the entire movie. I’ve never even watched _Night of the Living Dead_, and I know that one.

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Sorry, but wrong. 😉

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Can I cook, or can’t I?

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> [@Galactus](#):
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> > [@saucywench](#):
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> > “Jeez. Doesn’t anyone f\*\*\*ing knock anymore?”
> 
> Fast Times at Ridgemount High

That quote seems familiar, but Fast Times doesn’t seem right. It’s probably been used a lot.

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**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/522 "2022-04-11T15:39:33Z")

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“Fuck the Diaz Brothers”

Since no one chimed in…

Scarface.

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> [@simster](#):
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> Can I cook, or can’t I

_Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan_, by Carol Marcus to James Kirk, upon the commencement of the tour of the Genesis cave.

“Your stuff all loaded?”  
“Ready to fire.”  
“Got the best spot on the lake. You looking forward to it?”  
“TUBULAR!”  
“He’s only 12, and he’s already thinking about construction.”

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