The mention of F5 tornadoes reminded me of another one:
Whenever we’re experiencing high winds and heavy rain (especially if we’re out in the car at the time), invariably, either my wife or I will say, “Cow,” then “Another cow.”
To quote Captain America: “I understood that reference!”
I used to work with a Dr. Jones.
If a monster shows up in a movie, someone looks disheveled on a TV show, or my wife has a rough night, I jump my voice up fifteen octaves and bellow:
“Oooo, Puddy, you a WECK!”
“you can’t do that, Bo, you’re just a white punk from the suburbs!” [“Repo Man” quote, right? the only movie I’ve EVER heard the “I blame society” line actually used]
When I’m talking or disputing someone under the age of 45, I have to remind myself that they will probably misunderstand if I say “Jane, you ignorant slut.”
I’m not familiar with the source of that line, but whenever I hear it, I respond as Tom Hanks’ character did in Saving Private Ryan: “Yeah? When’s the last time you felt good about anything?”
Someone mentioned “don’t call me Shirley”. I would add the entire movie.
Anytime anyone says “altogether”
There are lots of places that “Have you seen a grown man naked” fits.
If someone mentions having a bad day or bad week or whatever, I think that it’s a bad day/week to stop sniffing glue.
The list goes on.
My wife and I can’t resist chanting in unison “The Greater Good!” if anyone uses the phrase in our presence (which comes up surprisingly frequently.). We do not usually follow up with “Shut it!”
Whenever my wife or I ask a rhetorical question where the answer is no (such as “Would I forget to turn the stove off?”, the answer is invariably “You might, rabbit, you might”.
That was my Facebook post the day after the 2016 election. “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.”
Like Chefguy says, my life is a string of movie quotes. So much so that my wife often asks me “What’s that from?” if it sounds like a TV or movie quote that she doesn’t recognize.
OK, here’s a fairly obscure one. Who remembers “Hee-Haw”? Our clock radio in the bedroom is tuned to the NPR station at the University of Kansas. When they do their station ID, they rattle off the call letters of a bunch of repeater stations that they have around the state. One is in a town called Chanute, which always prompts me to shout out “Sha-NUTE!”
I’d like to go on record and say that I predict this will be the longest thread in the history of SDMB.
So many to choose from, and some great ones already listed. I use A LOT of movie/song/TV quotes. Some more often than others.
From “Friends”, I’ve used “I’m going to Yemen!” whenever we buy plane tickets.
Another from “Young Frankenstein,” whenever someone mispronounces my name, I reply with “Frodrick!”
From “The Good Place,” whenever I get disappointing news, I reply with Jason’s heartfelt “AAAWWWW!!” (from when he found out he couldn’t ride shotgun in Optimus Prime)
Whenever someone says Dammit, I always add a Janet. I’ve done it so much that the girlfriend and the oldest kid have picked up the habit.
When I’m trying to encourage someone. “You can dooooo eeeet!”
When it’s cold: “It’s a bit nipply out.”
And, of course, “that’s what she said” whenever someone says a double entendre.
For self-motivation, I often turn to Tom Vu’s “nev-a, geev, up.”
Whenever anyone uses the word “surely” I always end my response with “And don’t call me Shirley.” People who have no clue where that phrase came from will laugh.
And I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested.
**Tom Waits ** has a song Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen) that I really enjoy. The first lines read:
There have been many I time when I’ve suffered some minor injury, shaken my head, and commented, “Wasted and wounded”. Extra points when someone notes the reference.
We used to do this at my house, but now we say “This is the way” from later in the same show
Oh, and when the girlfriend says “To be fair” I go through the whole Letterkenny schtick. She doesn’t watch Letterkenny, though, so all I get for my efforts is a weird look.
“Do, or do not: there is no try” In response to someone saying something like “I’ll try to be there by 8.”
“Chicken wing.” If someone has a piece of food on their face.
Whenever any of my friends makes a mistake, I can’t resist saying, “you done messed up, A-A-Ron!” like in the Key & Peele Substitute Teacher skit.