# 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:** 52
**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:** [May 7, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1024 "2022-05-07T16:10:33Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > “What could go wrong with an old-fashioned?” Strictly speaking, I think it’s: “What is something happens?” “What could happen to an old-fashioned?” ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1025 "2022-05-08T00:54:27Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “When I brought you on this ship, I thought you were cute.” Dark Star ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1026 "2022-05-08T02:11:02Z")
Yep! Pinback and the alien. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1027 "2022-05-08T02:16:18Z")
“Each day is better than the next.” ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1028 "2022-05-08T02:52:21Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **The Apartment** _ ? Sorry, I’m afraid not. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1029 "2022-05-08T02:55:41Z")
Crap! 😠 ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1030 "2022-05-08T03:35:36Z")
“That’s fuckin’ blasphemy. Elvis wasn’t a Cajun.” ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1031 "2022-05-08T03:38:36Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “Mr. Kline, up to nine. Mrs. Dell, personnel. Mr. Levin, thirty-seven.” > “Thirty-six.” > “Walk down.” I don’t know that line specifically, but it sounds like Buzz, the elevator operator in _The Hudsucker Proxy_. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1032 "2022-05-08T03:43:00Z")
I was thinking Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. I don’t know any other movie that features an elevator operator. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1033 "2022-05-08T04:12:23Z")
It’s Hudsucker. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1034 "2022-05-08T04:22:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “That’s fuckin’ blasphemy. Elvis wasn’t a Cajun.” _The Commitments_. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1035 "2022-05-08T05:49:45Z")
Yes! One of my favorite movies, full of great lines like “Say it out loud: ‘I’m black and I’m proud!’” 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1036 "2022-05-08T05:52:05Z")
Fully agree. “Hey Jimmy! Last month, I was an unemployed pipefitter. This month, I’m an unemployed jazz musician.” Many great lines in _The Commitments_. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1037 "2022-05-08T16:40:00Z")
“Who are you working for?” “Blockbuster Video, Des Moines, Iowa.” _“Who are you working for?”_ “Blockbuster Video, Des Moines, Iowa.” “Damn! They train him so well.” ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1038 "2022-05-08T19:08:08Z")
“Where you’re wrong and where you’ve always been wrong is that you fight with weakness and begging. We are fighting with strength and we will win.” ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1039 "2022-05-08T19:36:43Z")
> [@eburacum45](#): > > “One bite from this is enough.” > (munch) “You’re right. One bite is enough for anyone. It’s shocking!” Ah well, no-one got this. It is a bit too British I think; Carry on Cleo, and the next line is “No, no, no; it’s supposed to bite you!” * * * Here’s another British one, a bit more famous- Architect: “I have an awful feeling we’re not going to get our fees on this job.” ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1040 "2022-05-08T19:41:39Z")
“It takes awhile to get to know the town.” “How long have you lived in London?” “All my life.” “How come you don’t have an English accent?” "Hey, I’m lucky to have a _driver’s license!"_ ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1041 "2022-05-08T23:36:55Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “It takes awhile to get to know the town.” > “How long have you lived in London?” > “All my life.” > “How come you don’t have an English accent?” > “Hey, I’m lucky to have a _driver’s license!_” I was sure this was going to be from _A Fish Called Wanda_! _The Great Muppet Caper_ ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1042 "2022-05-08T23:55:03Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > The Great Muppet Caper Correct. I love that scene so much. Still in play: “Who are you working for?” “Blockbuster Video, Des Moines, Iowa.” _“Who are you working for?”_ “Blockbuster Video, Des Moines, Iowa.” “Damn! They train him so well.” ---
**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:** [May 9, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1043 "2022-05-09T01:35:30Z")
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