Any time I cut myself, I exclaim – in my best Dr. Nick voice (which is pretty good) – “Ah, blood!”
There is a very early Mel Brooks narrated short film called, “The Critic,” where he blasts an animated bit: “I think it’s symbolic of junk!” Any time I hear symbolism, that’s out of my mouth PDQ.
So much to reMEMEber!
and really…
Yep. Me.
Anyhoos:
For that, my trigger situation is:
Yup - a definite go-to if someone took umbrage to something I said. (Loved how that line was eventually spoken in chorus by the time an individual started to say it.)
For me, any lotion reference recalls, weirdly:
Raises hand as well - almost Pavlovian.
Yeah, another definite hand-raiser.
A major peeve - my repsonse is “Will it be better than the one you just asked?”
For me, it’s the SNL lounge lizard Nick Winters belting out “STAR WAAAAAARRRRRRRRSS”, which is how I refer to the movie.
For Whoopi, she always reminds me of ruining the phrase “I swear on X’s grave”. In The Player, a misgiuded eyewitness points out (what the characters and us viewers all know to be) the incorrect suspect in a police line-up, and then reinforcing her decision by swearing on her mother’s grave. In what I thought was the best line in the film, Whoopi asks her, as she leaves, “Where the fuck is your mom buried?”
A couple of my own:
If someone’s taking too long to make a decision, I’ll get all David Byrne on them with a Decide! Decide! Make up your mind!
For buzzkills: Oh, you’re no fun any more.
If I acknowledge the wisdom of someone’s comment (especially in figuring out a problem), I’ll sometimes go “DAT sounds logi-cuhl!” Can’t rememeber which cartoon it was from - from some Sylvester the Cat-like character, IIRC.
Heh, another ID I’ll require…
When asserting that it’s my choice in a matter, I’ll sometimes go “that’s my prer-rog-a-tive”, voiced by a very gruffly-voiced character from a film that I think is The Love God but only 70% sure on that.
Heh, curious how this thread somehow gained (well, so far) four times the traction as this one. Not that I’m expecting threads on more or less the same subject to be the same length, of course, but yeah - certainly a sizable enough discrepancy here for head-scratching.
Probably not too hep or something, because there were one or two unattributed quotes in this thread that I had no clue where they came from.
If something is a revelation to me, I’ll say “aha!” like the lion in Big Top Bugs. It’s ah ha!’, where the second emphasized syllable is spoken with a guttural growl.
Whenever I watch an episode of Star Trek (especially TNG or DS9) with my mother, sister, or best friend, we like to trigger the end of the episode as quickly as possible.
“There’s a mysterious signal coming from this planet.”
“I suppose we’d better investigate.”
Us: “Let’s not.”
end of episode
Nobody’s mentioned mine yet, in 164 posts?
Inconceivable!
Oops, that should be “Acrobatty Bunny”
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Any time someone starts out with “So…” and leaves it hanging too long, my wife jumps in with “buttons on your underwear”; I jump in with " a needle pulling thread".
Perfect segue to 
“Tea, a drink with Jan and Fred!”
A late friend of mine would always append someone saying “So…” with “A needle pulling thread.”
Chumley the Walrus on Tennessee Tuxedo.
When I’m playing an online game with my friend with a map to explore and one of us mentions a dead end the reply is often “Did you have to say dead?” ala Scooby Doo Where are You? Honorable mention to “Can’t get out that way!” from Star Wars A New Hope.
Very often, when contemplating something I really should do but really don’t want to, I channel Bart Simpson: “I can’t promise I’ll do it…I can’t promise I’ll try…but I’ll try to try!”
Conversely, “Trying is the first step toward failure.” —Homer Simpson
Ah yes, right, and the way he talked, like that.
Not sure why I’m conflating it with this, though. (sounds way less Chumley-like, though, which I thought that’s the way it’s said)
At the beginning of “Bring Back Pluto” by… Atmosphere? (eta: Nope, Aesop Rock!) there’s a snippet of a high schooler with a Bronx/Italian accent saying “This is my friend Tony. He’s pretty cool, although he’s not always so smart…”
[check it out, the whole song’s great]
Having a friend, and a student, named Anthony meant that he got that a lot. But it reeeally bothered me that I could never find the original source of the soundbite… and it’s fourteen years old at this point!
Well, suddenly last year, on my hundredth googling of “This is my friend Tony”, there was a hit! An old Health Film (shown in schools?), featuring topics like safe sex and drugs …
…I guess Tony wasn’t too smart about those.
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Another mystery I can cross off my bucket list (along with “Late one night in grade school, did I really see a few minutes of Coronet Blue? Does anyone else remember this?”).
Did you see my contribution to the “Best TV Theme” thread this afternoon, or is this just synchronicity (a remarkable coincidence) in action?
Whenever someone says “Good idea” I channel God in Holy Grail. “Of course it’s a good idea!”
Unfortunately all to often at work I hear “Do you know who I am?” I have to resist the incredibly strong urge to say “This is not a game of who the fuck are you.” That’s from Eddie Izzard.
Whenever anything goes wrong, I channel Basil Fawlty: “Oh, thank you, God, thank you so very much!”
I save Basil for when things go totally pear-shaped.
When anyone says What? I say, Say what One More Time!