# 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:** 85
**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:** [August 4, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1684 "2022-08-04T00:09:30Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Arguably more likely, but, again, no. That’s not Lou Peckinpaugh talking to Ezra C. V. Mildew Dezire Jr.? ---
**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:** [August 4, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1685 "2022-08-04T00:21:42Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > That’s not Lou Peckinpaugh talking to Ezra C. V. Mildew Dezire Jr.? Nope. 'fraid not. Not _The Cheap Detective_. The line’s not even _close_ to anything Neil Simon would write. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1686 "2022-08-04T00:32:24Z")
“Make your family proud.” ---
**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:** [August 4, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1687 "2022-08-04T23:13:02Z")
This movie might be a bit more obscure so I’ll post a couple from it… Are you excited? Like the French when Lindberg landed. Boy, that Barney Rubble. What an actor. You’re a willow….you’re a reed….you’re Audrey Hepburn. How hard is it to pass out towels, numbnuts? Well, it’s a skill like anything else. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1688 "2022-08-04T23:44:22Z")
“Listen, do you smell something?” ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1689 "2022-08-05T00:18:51Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “Listen, do you smell something ?” _Ghostbusters_. Love that movie. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1690 "2022-08-05T00:20:06Z")
“You’re walking away from history! History! Did Chris Columbus say he wanted to stay home? No! What if the Wright Brothers thought that only birds should fly? And did Galoca think the Ulus were too ugly to save?” “Who’s Galoca?” “…Never mind.” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1691 "2022-08-05T03:24:21Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Boy, that Barney Rubble. What an actor. > > (SNIP) > > How hard is it to pass out towels, numbnuts? > Well, it’s a skill like anything else. **Night Shift** First time I ever saw Michael Keaton. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1692 "2022-08-05T11:06:11Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “You’re walking away from history! History! Did Chris Columbus say he wanted to stay home? No! What if the Wright Brothers thought that only birds should fly? And did Galoca think the Ulus were too ugly to save?” > “Who’s Galoca?” > “…Never mind.” Robert Preston as Centauri in **The Last Starfighter**. Great flick. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1693 "2022-08-05T12:00:09Z")
“A toy airplane is something that you wind up and it rolls across the floor!” “How _does_ one take the temperature of toast?” “If \*they traced the robots here, they may have learned who they sold them to and that would lead them back … Home!" And one I asked near the beginning of the thread that I don’t think anyone ever answered; “Oh boy, when I die, I hope I go to Accra.” ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1694 "2022-08-05T12:15:26Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > “A toy airplane is something that you wind up and it rolls across the floor!” That must be _Flight of the Phoenix_. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1695 "2022-08-05T12:26:32Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > That must be _Flight of the Phoenix_. Right! But Dorf,ann’s quote that “In 1851 Henson and Stringfellow built a rubber-powered model that flew 600 meters before encountering an obstruction” is all kinds of messed up. Henson never did do any actual airplane engineering. Stringfellow did, but it wasn’t rubber band powered – he built a miniature aluminum steam engine. And it was in 1848 (by which time Henson and Stringfellow had long split up) ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1696 "2022-08-05T13:11:39Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > **Night Shift** First time I ever saw Michael Keaton. Yep. Same here. It’s a good movie but you don’t hear a lot about it. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1697 "2022-08-05T13:27:54Z")
nevermind ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1698 "2022-08-05T14:10:36Z")
Nice grouping. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1699 "2022-08-05T14:20:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > “If \*they traced the robots here, they may have learned who they sold them to and that would lead them back … Home!" Luke Skywalker in _ **Star Wars** _. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1700 "2022-08-05T14:36:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **A:** “Wer ist diese ‘Betty Grable’?” > **B:** “Sie ist eine schöne amerikanische Film-Star.” German infiltrators at the start of _ **Counterpoint** _, with Charlton Heston and Leslie Nielsen. I defy you to watch their scenes together without laughing. I’ve always wondered how anybody could be chosen as an infiltrator without knowing who Betty Grable was. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1701 "2022-08-05T14:40:30Z")
Young Fronkensteen. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1702 "2022-08-05T14:51:00Z")
“In all my fifty years of military service, I have never learned how to bomb half a bridge!” ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1703 "2022-08-05T15:03:56Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Nice grouping. Gene Wilder in **Young Frankenstein** , commenting on Inspector Kemp’s (Kenneth Mars) apparently excellent dart marksmanship. What amazes me about this scene is that it’s basically lifted almost directly from a scene in the movie that most directly inspired it – _Son of Frankenstein_. Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) really does play darts with Inspector Krogh (Lionel Atwill), who has the same wooden arm. Al they had to do was add the jokes and slapstick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=84) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=86)