Austin Powers
“…the giant laser. It was invented by the noted Cambridge scientist Dr. Parsons. Therefore I shall call it The Allen Parsons Project.”
From National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation:
Clark: I apologize for my brother-in-law; his heart is bigger than his brain.
Eddie: I appreciate that, Clark.
Lethal Weapon.
Mr. Joshua: “Now, as you may have heard, we have a large shipment of product coming in…”
Riggs: “Why don’t you guys just call it heroin?”
Thought of another one (since I used it tonight). Not a movie, but the animated Mickey Mouse Clubhouse tv show:
Pete: That’s the second biggest [ x ] I’ve ever seen!
First said when he saw a 20 foot tall candy cane.
Running gag on Get Smart, 40 years prior.
What’s the joke? Guybrush Threepwood always says this kind of thing in the Monkey Island series.
The thing he is looking at is ludicrously large for what it is. But it’s only the 2nd biggest of that thing he’s ever seen.
I didn’t realize that was an old gag recycled for the show, but I shouldn’t be surprised.
Gets you thinking about the Ultimate X.
I do like Gene Hackman’s portrayal of Lex Luthor in the Superman movie. He has a great little joke/moment that always made me smile. I’ll paraphrase.
Lex: “One missile is going to Hackensack. The other is going to San Fransisco. Even with your great speed, you can’t get both.”
His lady sidekick: “But, Lex, my mother lives in Hackensack.”
Lex looks at his watch, looks up at her…and just nods no saying, “Nuh uh.”
The pure evil of that is just hilariously well done.
The TV show, Kim Possible:
Ron: “That would be so cool if it wasn’t trying to kill us.”
From Buffy The Vampire Slayer (series)
“There’s something you don’t see every day … unless you’re us.”
I’m watching A Christmas Story and was reminded of one.
In the Christmas morning scene the mother gives the Old Man a bowling ball. It’s blue.
Back then, men’s bowling balls only came in black. This is a woman’s ball.
There’s also the Bo Ling Chop Suey Palace
I don’t think I realized that. I do remember my Dad having a black ball and my Mom a blue one back in the 80’s, though.
“Fra-gile, it must be Italian!”
Never having seen the movie, could it be a reference to “blue balls”?
That’s what I thought. Plus, how can you buy a bowling ball for someone without knowing how heavy a ball he uses, where to drill the holes (and how big) and where’s the tote bag?
And his voice goes up a couple octaves when she drops it in his lap.
Not really, though the ball does drop on his crotch.
It’s true that you can’t just buy a bowling ball without knowing which type the person uses. At the very least, you need to know the weight (at that time the holes would be drilled later; they were sold without them).
But the blue marbled color balls were only made for women (and were not as heavy as the men’s bowling balls).
While not set up as a joke, by the far the funniest little exchange in “All the President’s Men” is when Redford and Hoffman (lighting up a cigarette) are in an elevator, and as the door closes, the former asks the latter, “Is there anywhere where you don’t smoke?”
ETA:
maybe not the “quickest” of jokes…
This line from Miracle makes me laugh- coach Herb Brooks is talking to his wife about the upcoming game against the USSR and possible matchups:
“Yeah and I keep running through them all. Johnson on Mikhailov. Broten on Petrov. Pav against whoever-ov.”
In Don Juan Demarco, it starts with the title character romantically seducing a woman, who responds to his charm and romanticism.
Later, there’s a shot in the same restaurant where the woman is looking around longingly clearly hoping she might run into him again.