I was just peeling an orange, dropping the peelings into my office trashcan, and lo and behold, Tommy Lee Jones popped into my head:
“What do we have here? Eating oranges and making fake IDs.”
I’m sure that’s not an exact quote, but it’s roughly what he says in the movie The Fugutive when seeking Dr. Richard Kimball in his flop-house apartment.
Of course, who among us can’t pick up a sword without hearing, “Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
What other movie quotes follow you around all day, as you complete relatively mundane tasks?
I know just enough about computers that friends will call me to help them out with problems. They’ll use certain terms interchangeably, to mean one thing or another, depending on how limited their technical vocabulary is. One friend, no matter what she clicks, opens, closes, moves, etc. refers to everything as a “program”. And I mean everything! So the phrase “I move my program over to this program, double click on it, and open up the program. Then I get the error program.” actually means “I move my mouse pointer over to this icon, double click on it, and open up the program. Then I get the error message.”
In my head? “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
“Have fun storming the castle!” I have to stop myself from saying this sometimes instead of just “Goodbye,” or “See ya.” Man, there’s some great quotes in The Princess Bride.
For those of us who are trivially challenged, would you mind mentioning what movie you’re quote came from?
I was just giggling at myself this morning over this. While processing orders here at work, I often have to go back to the page called “Order Master.” And every time I do it, I say in my head, “Order Master!” And follow it up with a quote from The Last Dragon (which may or may not be the original quote, but it was what my roommate and I used to say every time)–“Sho’nuff!”
Yeah. I know. Kinda lame. On a slightly less dorky note, whenever I underestimate my own strength (or overestimate the weight of something) and almost throw the refrigerator door open or fall over backwards picking up a box that looked much heavier, I find myself quoting Superman II–“I’ve been uh … working out.” Complete with little weightlifting mime, of course.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve used a variation of “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. Move along.” Accompanied with the little hand-wave, of course.
Of course, as a pop-culture geek, I do this kind of stuff all the time. I mean, constantly. So no sooner had I posted, than I thought of more.
Though it’s from TV, not a movie, one of my favorites to mutter inside my head when I’ve achieved something spectacularly mundane is a line from MST3K, from the episode Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell.
“Ha! I was… inside! Now I’m outside! Ha, ha-ha!”
And everytime I hear the word ‘schedule’ pronounced in the manner of the English barbarians, I think of the riff in Dracula : Dead and Loving It.
And, bringing it back to Airplane! : Whenever I manage to spill something on myself, it’s, of course : “That’s when I realized I had a drinking problem.”
Other favorites include : “Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop _____”
Mine’s from the ZBS Media production of The Fourth Tower of Inverness. Whenever someone says something about ‘next time’, I grin sardonically and say quietly, “He thinks there’ll be a next time.”
Whenever I’ve got somewhere to be, but I have to wait for a straggler to finish a phone call or whatever before we can go, I have to fight the urge to yell, a la Michael Biehn in Aliens, “We are LEAVING!”
And when I’m playing Civ III, every time I instruct a city to build an aqueduct, every single time, I am compelled to say to myself in that squeaky voice from Monty Python’s Life of Brian where they’re listing everything the Romans have done for them— “The aqueduct?”
To continue the line of Aliens quotes, whenever I see someone confronted by the consequences of a bad decision, I hear Paul Reiser in my head: “Look, I made a decision and … it was wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley, it was a bad call.”
