<Nitpick> The admiral’s name is Stockdale. James Bond Stockdale. </Nitpick>
On an episode of the sitcom Family Ties, Alex was looking at colleges. When interviewing at Princeton, the dean he spoke with had the surname of Meminger. The show’s writing staff must have featured a basketball fan or two, as Dean Meminger was a star at Marquette University and later played six seasons in the NBA.
When ever someone asks me a “when” question that doesn’t have a real answer (e.g. “When are you going to get over that?”), I immediately respond “August!”
That comes from an episode of Taxi in which Alex impassionately asks Jim, “When are you going to stand up for yourself?” and Jim gets up and dramatically says, “August!”
geek alert
I was playing World of Wardcraft on Sunday, and one of the quests involves getting ingredients to make a stew.
Someone kept senging messages to everyone in the zone 3 or 4 times saying “Is anyone doing Westfall Stew”.
After the 4th time i responded to the while zone “Westfall Stu doesn’t advertize”.
I only got one person responding, but at least they laughed.
For those of you missing the joke it was from the George Bush Simpson’s episode, where they were having a garage sale, and homer was selling some tool (a bedazzler?) to put rhinestones on clothes, and a jacket he started working on but never finished. The jacket said “Disco Stu” implying it was supposed to say “Disco Stud” when it was finished. At the garage sale this guy in an afro and leisure suit came up and his friend said “Hey Stu, you should buy that jacket” and Afro guy says “Disco Stu doesn’t advertize”. Of course Disco Stu is a recurring character now.
When I’m uncertain as to the arrival time of something, and I’m asked, I quite often will reply ‘Tuesday.’ The reference is to Star Trek : Generations, where all the ship’s nifty components are scheduled to be installed on Tuesday.
MST3K.
A woman in the movie makes a feminist comment to which Crow T. Robot says, “She must be a Kevilist”
I had to call up my friend to tell him that one.
When I hear someone say “act 2”, which happens often, seeing as how I am in a theater company, I tend to say “gesundheit”.
Whenever someone makes a less-than-astounding observation, I reply with “Next stop, rocket science.” Jerry Horn says it to a bartender who understands his slightly complicated order in an episode of Twin Peaks.
Noticing BurnMeUp’s sig, in the last month I’ve more than once commented on the double-time canonization process (figurative and literal) of John Paul II with a comment that normally a saint needs four miracles, but that he’s got only three, and two of them are card tricks. I swiped this from Father Guido Sarducci; I don’t know where Burn’s sig comes from.
–Cliffy
Is that itself a reference to Wimpy’s perpetual promise? (“I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!”)
Everytime I’m cooking or out to eat somewhere, when someone asks “How long 'til the food is here” I always answer “Two minutes, Turkish!”
Of course my SO responds with “You said two minutes five minutes ago!”
Occasionally, here on the SDMB, I tell somebody I’ve “been here since before the beginning.”
The other day, my wife was doing a crossword puzzle. “What’s a 10-letter chapparal bird?” I replied, in a cartoon voice, “Meep, meep.” She got it right away.
“Morons! Your bus is leaving!” - Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day”
Good for just about any social occasion…
Actually, I believe he refers to her as an “Ellen Jamesian”. In another episode (possibly Track of the Moon Beast), Tom Servo refers to someone as a “Calvinist” (one who believes in predestination).MST was rife with arcane, obscure references. One of my favorites was during “The Killer Shrews”: the bespectacled scientist has just finished a long harangue about the shrews and the poison. There’s a pause, and Servo, speaking for the old German scientist, says “Ve need ze eggs, as zey say!”
Any time someone says “It’s possible”, neither I nor my wife can resist adding “pig” to the end. ([Princess Bride)
I don’t think it is… it’d be kind of oblique if it was.
When people suddenly have a small-world moment with someone they just met, I exclaim: “Eagle River!”
explanation:
It’s from Hot Shots!, when all the flyboys are meeting each other for the first time, and one after another explains how they were already connected, with someone eventually mentioning a camping trip to Eagle River, at which point the rest of the room echoes “Eagle River!”
Whenever I’m in some business, especially a restaurant or coffee-type place, and I’m the only customer there, I’ll think to myself, and sometimes say out loud, “kinda slow tonight, eh, Lloyd.”
It’s from The Shining, when Jack Nicholson walks across the huge, totally empty ballroom to the bar, and says that to the bartender.
Nobody’s caught that reference yet.
Ah, I’ve remembered a classic that has fallen into disuse amongst my circle of friends, but which we have used in the past - whenever someone seems reluctant about going along with a plan or idea, the suggestor might often add : “You’ll have the chance to kill fifty, maybe sixty, people…”
It was definitely Kevilist. I was really into Cerebus at the time and it absolutely shocked me.
I did, without reading the spoiler. I love that scene!
It occurred to me that I’m always making references to films and songs. My friends point out that I do. Unfortunately, the come out of my mouth and are then forgotten. I should start keeping track.
CandidGamera: Ooh, that line is familiar! Where’s it from?
Kentucky Fried Movie - the Fistful of Yen segment, specifically.