“He didn’t say” is much funnier than “I don’t know,” and it’s the line that was used in the WB cartoon I saw.
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A favorite small bit from “Holy Grail” was when the prince shoots an arrow out the window and it hits one of Arthur’s squires. The squire stumbles over to Arthur and croaks “Message for you, Sire. . .” and dies.
He actually says Message for you Sir. I know because I used the audio as my email delivery sound for a while (with the actually bow twang even), and he does not die…though he does fall over quite dramatically.
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In my defense, it’s been years since I saw that movie.
He shall not have been mortally wounded in vain.
Not a movie, but in Ted Lasso there’s a notable chant for one of the popular footballers that goes “He’s here, he’s there, he’s every f’ing where.” It’s chanted quite a bit.
Later there’s subplot where he wants to spend time with his new girlfriend so much that he’s showing up wherever she is, making her feel a bit crowded and exasperated. The beautiful thing is that the joke is so obvious that nobody even speaks the line: He’s here, he’s there, he’s every f’ing where, Roy Kent.
I find that Lasso can be a little too understated with plots and character arcs at times, but that’s one place where they really nailed it.
Oh oh another one from Norsemen, a Netflix series set in Viking-era Norway.
“You’ve got that thing like when a kidnapped person begins to have sympathy for the kidnapper.”
”What do you mean?"
“They haven’t come up with a name for it.”
Norsemen is really a trove of little throwaway gags. I love that show all the more knowing that it wasn’t dubbed or subbed into English. The cast just performed every scene twice, once in Norwegian and once in English.
That show is a gem.
That’s my SMS notification sound. But it wasn’t Arthur, it was Lancelot, and Concord doesn’t die.
“I’ll, uh, just stay here, sir? … Yeah.”
See also, a line about “That could last a few more seasons.” Clearly referencing TV seasons. Someone asks, “Seasons?”, and the other guy goes, “You know, spring, summer, winter, fall…”
Another little joke. In Mel Brooks “Silent Movie”, the only spoken word is “Non!” by famous mime Marcel Marceau, speaking to Mel on the phone. Someone asks Mel what he said, “I don’t know; I don’t speak French.”
In “This Is Spinal Tap,” when the band is about to meet Sir Dennis, Bobbi Flekman tells Nigel, “You don’t talk so much, honey.” The joke being David in the back laughing and saying, “Oh! She knows!”