# Favorite "woohoo!" moments or lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092 "2002-06-26T19:21:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/1 "2002-06-26T19:21:12Z")
What were your favorite moments or lines in the movies when you just knew something fun was gonna happen? My pick for lines would have to be most anything said by **Ash** of Evil Dead. He’s got some of the best tough-guy lines ever. “This…is my **BOOMSTICK!**!” “Come get some!” “Yo, she-bitch. Let’s go.” “Lady, I’m afraid I’m gonna have to ask you to leave the store.” And so many more! My favorite scene would be in **Ghostbusters** when the Marshmellow Man has just made his apperance. The footsteps, the roaring, the screaming people…wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/2 "2002-06-26T19:35:54Z")
The one that quickly comes to mind is the Indiana Jones vs. the sabre-wielding henchman in **Raiders of the Lost Ark**. This could be fun! I hope to think of more. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/3 "2002-06-26T21:00:36Z")
Both _The Phantom Menace_ and _Attack of the Clones_, neither of which are flawless movies, have amazing moments of this sort. Namely, when Darth Maul shows up in the doorway, and whips out the double-bladed light-sabre, and they all take off their cloaks, and you just KNOW that there’s gonna be an asskicking, and then when Yoda shows up to confront Dooku. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/4 "2002-06-26T21:50:09Z")
**Superman II** , when he returns to the trucker diner and kicks that guy’s ass. “Oh - I’ve been…working out.” Others: [ul] [li]“I’m your huckleberry.”[/li][li]The scene in **Absence of Malice** where Wilford Brimley walks in and hands everyone their asses.[/li][li]The scene in **Dirty Harry** when Scorpio has kidnapped the school bus and he sees Callahan standing on that bridge.[/li][li]“Play La Marseillaise!!” (I love that scene, gives me chills every time)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/5 "2002-06-26T22:15:58Z")
Ash-wise, my favorite woohoo! moment in **Army of Darkness** happens after our hero has been thrown into The Pit. He’s running around terrified, then the Wise Man appears. “Strange one! Strange one!!” and tosses down Ash’s chainsaw. Ash leaps up, right arm extended, and his stump connects to it with a wonderful clunk sound. The theater very nearly had a standing ovation. The second-best scene was the first appearance of the steam-powered Deathmobile. “Say hello to the twenty-first century!” Much more grim, but still sort of a woohoo moment, happened in **Insomnia** , when Pacino’s character agony of indecision finally ends, and the next scene is of him, gun in hand, moving down the hall towards William’s apartment. ---
**Author:** ![ukbanshee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ukbanshee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ukbanshee)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/6 "2002-06-26T22:19:11Z")
i cant be bothered to type put the lines, but im sure you know it ! in Good Will Hunting when hes in the college bar…yeah you know the one !! ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/7 "2002-06-26T22:26:52Z")
I always liked the bar scene better in **Good Will Hunting II: Hunting Season**. Also, when Jay pauses the duel to take a hit from his bongsaber. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/8 "2002-06-26T22:27:16Z")
In “Death to Smoochy” right near the end - Ed Norton’s character takes two shots to the padded rhino horn [back - and to the left] at an ice show for children. As he’s lying on the ice, the truth to the story becomes known, and he reaches under this sock, pulls out a pistol, and waving it above his head in one purple paw while trembling with rage, screams: “BUUUURKE!” ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/9 "2002-06-26T22:28:23Z")
And with the number of times I’ve seen it, I cannot believe it didn’t leap immediately to mind: **Aliens** : “Get away from her, you _bitch_!” ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/10 "2002-06-26T22:34:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > **[li]The scene in Dirty Harry when Scorpio has kidnapped the school bus and he sees Callahan standing on that bridge.[/li]** Yes, yes, yes! I pass that bridge every couple of months (it’s at Larkspur Landing, Marin County, California, about 10 miles north of San Francisco). As you are driving north, you get the same view that the camera shows us, from the point of view of Scorpio driving the school bus. I **cannot** see the bridge without an accompanying image of Clint Eastwood standing on it, the Magnum .44 in his hand. At that point, you just know Scorpio’s a goner. He probably knows it too. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/11 "2002-06-26T22:38:39Z")
The wonderful., sublime opening scene from **Butch Cassidy.** As soon as the other guy says, “… I can’t see how you’re cheating”. At that split second, you know whatever happens next it’s going to be _good_. **Pulp Fiction** has quite a few of these moments. When the Bruce Willis character is happily driving along, stops at the lights, and then he and Marcellus see each other at the same time… ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/12 "2002-06-26T23:19:43Z")
**Dooku** –I loved that line. We live in Tucson, and just went to Tombstone a few weeks ago. After that, we had to rent the movie to see how closely it matched up. Val Kilmer was in rare form in that movie. By the way, it was strange seeing a movie that was supposed to be just east of Tucson (in Tombstone), and was actually filmed just west of Tucson (at Old Tucson Studios.) ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/13 "2002-06-26T23:21:15Z")
The line, of course, being “I’m your huckleberry.” ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/14 "2002-06-26T23:31:44Z")
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid–after Harvey Logan says, **Rules?!!? In a knife fight?!?!** ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/15 "2002-06-26T23:55:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drastic \* > \*\*Much more grim, but still sort of a woohoo moment, happened in **Insomnia** , when Pacino’s character agony of indecision finally ends, and the next scene is of him, gun in hand, moving down the hall towards William’s apartment. \*\* > [@](#): > > In “Death to Smoochy” right near the end - Ed Norton’s character takes two shots to the padded rhino horn [back - and to the left] at an ice show for children. As he’s lying on the ice, the truth to the story becomes known, and he reaches under this sock, pulls out a pistol, and waving it above his head in one purple paw while trembling with rage, screams: “BUUUURKE!” Guys, can we use the **SPOILER** tag if we’re going to talk about _recent_ movies please?! :mad: **Antonius Block** , I live in SF, a stone’s throw from Kezar Stadium, in fact. When my friends come to visit, they always want to go over there and recreate the scene when Clint steps on Scorpio’s injured ankle. 🙂 It’s also impossible for me to go up to Mt. Davidson w/o laying at the bottom of the cross and looking up. 😃 I’ll go ahead and add these classics: “YA-HOO!!! You’re all clear kid, so let’s blow this thing and go home!” “The force is with you, young Skywalker…[inhale…exhale]…but you are not a Jedi yet!” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Green\_Fool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Fool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/16 "2002-06-27T00:39:11Z")
…See I’ll never accept the line being “I’m YOUR huckleberry.” Mainly because it makes NO sense. In my mind and in the mind of everyone else I know it is “I’m HERE Huckleberry.” Since Ringo is looking around for Wyatt in the clearing. Thinking Earp’s a coward and knowing full well he is faster than him, Ringo looks pretty damn cocksure. Until Doc steps out. The term “huckleberry” seems like a put down. Similar to Priestly’s effeminate “Sister-boy” character. Can someone explain to me why Doc would say he is RINGO’S huckleberry? * * * Anyway… The final match in Diggstown with James Woods. Thumbs down baby! That scene made everyone in the theater cheer. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/17 "2002-06-27T01:19:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Fool \* > \*\*…See I’ll never accept the line being “I’m YOUR huckleberry.” Mainly because it makes NO sense. > > In my mind and in the mind of everyone else I know it is “I’m HERE Huckleberry.” > > Since Ringo is looking around for Wyatt in the clearing. Thinking Earp’s a coward and knowing full well he is faster than him, Ringo looks pretty damn cocksure. Until Doc steps out. > > The term “huckleberry” seems like a put down. Similar to Priestly’s effeminate “Sister-boy” character. > > Can someone explain to me why Doc would say he is RINGO’S huckleberry?\*\* [This](http://home.earthlink.net/~night666/the_depository/doctalk.html) website explains: * * * “Huckleberry” was commonly used in the 1800’s in conjunction with “persimmon” as a small unit of measure. “I’m a huckleberry over your persimmon” meant “I’m just a bit better than you.” As a result, “huckleberry” came to denote idiomatically two things. First, it denoted a small unit of measure, a “tad,” as it were, and a person who was a huckleberry could be a small, unimportant person–usually expressed ironically in mock self-depreciation. The second and more common usage came to mean, in the words of the “Dictionary of American Slang: Second Supplemented Edition” (Crowell, 1975): "A man; specif., the exact kind of man needed for a particular purpose. 1936: “Well, I’m your huckleberry, Mr. Haney.” Tully, “Bruiser,” 37. Since 1880, archaic. * * * So, when Ringo says “Isn’t anyone here man enough to play for blood?” Doc Holliday’s answer “I’m your huckleberry” means “I’m just the man you’re looking for.” ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/18 "2002-06-27T14:55:52Z")
Mace Windu in **Attack of the Clones** : “This party’s over!” William Wallace on horseback in **Braveheart** , “surrendering” after Murron’s execution, when we first see his hand close on the flail hidden under the plaid on his back as the English soldier reaches for the horse’s reins. Worf in **First Contact** : “Assimilate _this_!” And, of course, every one that’s been mentioned before this. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-woohoo-moments-or-lines/116092/19 "2002-06-27T22:10:17Z")
Billy the Kid in **Young Guns 2** :“I’ll make ya famous”. Slee ---
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