# Favorite "little" jokes in movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 15, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688 "2024-12-15T22:51:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**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:** [December 29, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/341 "2025-12-29T15:35:46Z")
The Humphrey Bogart **movie** , that is. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/342 "2025-12-29T16:07:24Z")
In the James Bond film _The Living Daylights,_ towards the climax Bond is taxiing a large transporter plane down a Soviet airbase runway and he wants Kara, the Bond girl, to drive the jeep she has comandeered into the back of the plane. I never noticed this until it was highlighted on a Bond fan channel on YouTube but Timothy Dalton (probably) ad libs an exasperated ‘f\*\*king hell’ and roll of the eyes, when Kara just isn’t getting the hint, which we don’t hear but see through the window. Now I know about it, it makes me laugh every time. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/343 "2025-12-29T17:13:28Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > And in UHF when the guy says, “Badgers? Badgers? We don’t need no stinkin’ badgers!” Trinidad Silva; also in _The Jerk_ and a recurring role on _Hill Street Blues_. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/344 "2025-12-29T19:27:19Z")
Independence Day, when the military is recruiting anyone who can fly to help with the attack. Randy Quaid’s character talks about his pilot experience, and then adds how he’s excited for payback for when he was abducted by aliens 10 years earlier. As he says this, pretty much everyone rolls their eyes and shakes their head. Alien motherships are hovering over most major cities; clearly aliens exist. And yet it’s still an immediate “gimme a break” reaction to an alien abduction story. Cracks me up every time. I couldn’t find video of the scene on youtube or any other video sharing site, but I did find it on reddit: > **[Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieMistakes/comments/jd1mus/ive_never_understood_this_scene_in_independence/)** ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/345 "2025-12-29T21:56:59Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > And yet it’s still an immediate “gimme a break” reaction to an alien abduction story. Cracks me up every time. The flip side to this is in _Tremors_, when Burt the survivalist kills one of the monsters using his massive home armory. “I guess we’re going to have to stop making fun of his lifestyle!” ---
**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:** [December 29, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/346 "2025-12-29T22:13:56Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Alien motherships are hovering over most major cities; clearly aliens exist. And yet it’s still an immediate “gimme a break” reaction to an alien abduction story. Cracks me up every time. Yeah, aliens are real. They showed up in massive spaceships and started blowing shit up. Do we really think that a few years prior they were content to abduct some cropduster pilot and probe him? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/347 "2025-12-30T01:47:54Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I must have been the only person in that 1974 cinema who had seen _ **The Treasure of the Sierra Madre** _, because nobody else laughed. I had the same experience. Philistines. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/348 "2025-12-30T03:50:22Z")
Just watched Wake Up Dead.Man, the latest Knives Out movie. In one scene, an evil but charismatic priest is confessing to his devoted parishioners that he has an illegitimate son. One of the women present castigates him for his past misogeny and hypocrisy, but the men rise to his defense. One, played by Andrew Scott, declares dramatically, “You have my sword!”, a quote from Lord of the Rings. Another, played by Jeremy Renner, immediately follows with “And you have my….support.” If you are a LOTR fan, you know that when Aragorn says “You have my sword”, that is immediately followed by Legolas with “And you have my bow”. Renner is Hawkeye in the Marvel universe, famous for his skill with a bow. We expect him to say it…and then he very obviously doesn’t. Subtle maybe but amusing if you recognize the quote. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/349 "2025-12-30T11:56:29Z")
In the _Batman_ TV show, at one point Batman says, “That’s all water over the … embankment, Robin.” That’s because Batman won’t say “dam.” Subtle but hilarious. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/350 "2025-12-30T15:21:22Z")
Precisely! Absolutely no appreciation of cinematic culture. 😡 ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/351 "2025-12-30T15:36:29Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The same thing happened when Harvey Korman was handing out deputy badges to the _desperados_ and their boss said “Badges?!? We don’ need no steenkin’ badges!” Once reality set me up to make a pun on that line. Back in the late 1990s one of my customers was a huge international shipping company. One day my contract called me to say that due to some mishap (I forget what), they had to relocate a bunch of cargo containers by barge. I instantly replied (with the accent of course), “Barges? Barges? We don’t need no stinkin’ barges.” I was rewarded with a big laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/352 "2025-12-30T15:38:28Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > If you are a LOTR fan, you know that when Aragorn says “You have my sword”, that is immediately followed by Legolas with “And you have my bow”. Renner is Hawkeye in the Marvel universe, famous for his skill with a bow. We expect him to say it…and then he very obviously doesn’t. Subtle maybe but amusing if you recognize the quote. I love it, but missed it in my viewing. Do you have a video link or a time stamp for this moment? My wife and I were paying attention, but I think this joke just flew past us unnoticed. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/353 "2025-12-30T16:08:49Z")
The Bond movies are filled with “little jokes” and _double entendres,_ delivered best by Sean Connery. Some examples: To Plenty O’Toole (Lana Wood): “Named after your father, perhaps?” When Tiffany Case (Jill St John) asks if he prefers blondes or brunettes: “Well, as long as the collar and cuffs match.” When Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) says “I think my mouth is too big”: “No, it’s the right size … for me, that is.” 🤭 Depositing Fiona’’s (Luciana Paluzzi’s) body after she’s been shot on the dance floor: “Do you mind if my friend sits this one out? She’s just dead.” ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/354 "2025-12-30T16:21:07Z")
I’ll see if I can find a time stamp. It is the scene where Blanc and Jud are watching the video that Cy recorded, when Wicks had the parishioners gathered around and was telling them the truth about Cy and his future plans. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/355 "2025-12-30T16:49:52Z")
One of my favorite movies of all time is an obscure 2004 British comedy called [Millions](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366777/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_millions). In it, a family is moving house, and the main character, a boy of about 7-8 is narrating, telling the audience about all of the complexities of real estate transactions. He mentions the value of your current house as a means of having value to put towards the cost of the house you’re buying. Then the boy’s brother breaks the fourth wall, in the only fourth-wall break in the entire film, looks at the camera, and says, “That’s called equity.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/356 "2025-12-30T17:13:44Z")
I really like this movie. I think it’s an early one by Danny Boyle. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/357 "2025-12-30T17:50:46Z")
It’s a Danny Boyle film, yes. Not sure how “early” it is. I think _28 Days Later_ was earlier, and that made him pretty big as a director. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/358 "2025-12-30T17:57:20Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > If you are a LOTR fan, you know that when Aragorn says “You have my sword”, that is immediately followed by Legolas with “And you have my bow”. Renner is Hawkeye in the Marvel universe, famous for his skill with a bow. We expect him to say it…and then he very obviously doesn’t. Subtle maybe but amusing if you recognize the quote. This reminds me of Sean Bean in “The Martian.” When the nerds are having to explain the Council of Elrond reference to the public relations head. Everyone in the room (and on remote) but her automatically got the reference. And the biggest laugh was that “Boromir” was in the room. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/359 "2025-12-30T17:59:22Z")
Now that I’m Googling, yes, Danny Boyle directed _Millions_ after _28 Days Later_ and eight years after _Trainspotting_. Still, I recommend _Millions_. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688/360 "2025-12-30T18:11:12Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The phone rings, and a guy (Husband?) picks it up. > > **Guy/Husband:** Hello? … You don’t say… You don’t say! … You _don’t_ say! … ~~OK Goodbye.~~. > > **Other person/Wife:** Who was it? > > **Guy/Husband:** ~~I don’t know~~. He didn’t say. > > [Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/q.q.switcheroo).Q. Switcheroo: > > And then the follow-up: > > **Guy/Husband:** Hello? … You don’t say… You don’t say! … You _don’t_ say! … ~~OK Goodbye~~. > > **Other person/Wife:** Who was it? > > **Guy/Husband:** Same guy. I first heard this 2-part joke when I was 10 years old on the record of Spike Jones’s version of _Chloe_. I thought it was the funniest joke I’d ever heard, and am still quite fond of it. Please note my strikeouts to conform to my memory. It is cleaner without those phrases. Somehow the system hosed my quote sources so I tried to fix it manually. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-jokes-in-movies/1011688.md?page=19)