# 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:** 88
**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 8, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1744 "2022-08-08T12:25:46Z")
“And I submit, Inspector Ballon, that you arrived home, found Miguel with Maria Gambrelli, and killed him in a rit of fealous jage!” * * * “Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight, isn’t it?” ---
**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 8, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1745 "2022-08-08T12:53:01Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight, isn’t it?” Jack Nicholson to Joe Turkel in **The Shining** ---
**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 8, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1746 "2022-08-08T14:05:45Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Jack Nicholson to Joe Turkel in **The Shining** Yes. That’s the line I use when I go into some business and I’m the only customer there. No one has recognized it, yet. I really thought someone would get the other quote first. ---
**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 8, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1747 "2022-08-08T14:12:33Z")
I slept with everybody. My school teacher, my sister’s husband, the string section of the New York Philharmonic. ---
**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 8, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1748 "2022-08-08T14:14:57Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “And I submit, Inspector Ballon, that you arrived home, found Miguel with Maria Gambrelli, and killed him in a rit of fealous jage!” Peter Sellers as Inspecteur Clouseau in _ **A Shot in the Dark** _. ---
**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 8, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1749 "2022-08-08T14:23:53Z")
Yep. It’s easy to remember that it’s from one of the Pink Panther movies, but I don’t always remember which is which. The names were a bit of a giveaway. ---
**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 8, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1750 "2022-08-08T14:34:12Z")
Strictly speaking, it had nothing to do with the Pink Panther. That’s why I was surprised when I learned in what order the first two movies were filmed. I saw _ **ASitD** _ in 1964 and _ **TPP** _ three years later. I always assumed the latter was a sequel, since Clouseau was married and sentenced to prison at the end. It wasn’t until 1976 that I saw _ **The Pink Panther Returns** _. ---
**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 8, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1751 "2022-08-08T16:14:56Z")
Yeah, the actual Pink Panther was a diamond, the theft of which was investigated by Inspector Clouseau, but became so identified with the character that it became the name of the franchise. I don’t think it’s completely ridiculous to say that _A Shot in the Dark_ is part of the Pink Panther series, even if it’s not in the title. A similar thing happened with _The Thin Man_. ---
**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 8, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1752 "2022-08-08T16:28:33Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I don’t think it’s completely ridiculous to say that _A Shot in the Dark_ is part of the Pink Panther series, even if it’s not in the title. **A Shot in the Dark** was an odd film to be a sequel to **The Pink Panther**. It started out as a stage play that had nothing to do with Clouseau, and was, in turn, adapted from a French play. They rewrote it to be a sequel to The Pink Panther. Oddly, Peter Sellers was supposed to star in the original, non-Clouseau film, but didn’t like the script. It was Blake Edwards who turned it into a Clouseau film. > **[A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Shot_in_the_Dark_(1964_film))** > > A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards in Panavision. Produced as a standalone sequel to The Pink Panther, it is the second installment in the eponymous film series, with Peter Sellers reprising his role as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté. > Clouseau's blundering personality is unchanged, but it was in this film that Sellers began to give him the idiosyncratically exaggerated French accent that was to later become a hallmark of the character. The film al... ---
**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 8, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1753 "2022-08-08T16:38:16Z")
For _ **ASitD** _ to be a proper sequel, Clouseau would have had to be pardoned, reinstated, and divorced so he could pursue Elke Sommer. None of this was even mentioned. This is why I wouldn’t recommend seeing the first two movies in the order they were filmed. Some might find it confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1754 "2022-08-08T16:48:18Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I slept with everybody. My school teacher, my sister’s husband, the string section of the New York Philharmonic. _Play It Again, Sam_ (1972) ---
**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 8, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1755 "2022-08-08T21:36:32Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “How many have paid the price for your impatience? How many have died? How much damage have you done? And what is yet to come?” Bumping this one from yesterday. And here’s a new contribution. “Tell [your mother] she’s not gaining a daughter; she’s getting _rid of_ a son!” “…She says yes.” “She has good taste.” ---
**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 8, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1756 "2022-08-08T23:18:09Z")
“I … I have always had an abnormal fear of rats. That’s why I couldn’t stand up to that … rat thing.” and “The creature we saw was a member of the rodent family.” and “Give me your minds, your innermost thoughts. You are powerless. I shall drain your minds and bend your will to mine. You will submit, and I shall possess you.” _ **Journey to the Seventh Planet** _, a classic! ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1757 "2022-08-09T05:28:25Z")
Tell me about it…stud. ---
**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 9, 2022, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1758 "2022-08-09T06:00:56Z")
**A:** “What does a girl have to do to go to bed with you?” **B:** “Try knocking on the door.” ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1759 "2022-08-09T10:04:22Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Tell me about it…stud. _Grease_ (1978) ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1760 "2022-08-09T10:18:59Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > _Grease_ (1978) Yep, in memory of ONJ. ---
**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 9, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1761 "2022-08-09T14:09:17Z")
Two quotes, two movies. “The first to catch his pig and bring it here is the winner.” “What do you know? Somebody left his watch lying around. I might as well have a souvenir. Not a bad-looking watch at that.” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1762 "2022-08-09T14:46:36Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > “What do you know? Somebody left his watch lying around. I might as well have a souvenir. Not a bad-looking watch at that.” The Caine Mutiny. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1763 "2022-08-11T06:17:52Z")
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