# Help I.D. this movie quote!

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**Created:** [July 2, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-movie-quote/185806 "2003-07-02T16:50:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-movie-quote/185806/1 "2003-07-02T16:50:08Z")

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A number of years ago I saw an episode of “Herman’s Head” (anybody else miss that show?) that had a running joke in which the character played by Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa on “The Simpsons”) had two favorite movie quotes that she had always wanted to use in a real life situation. The second (and more bizarre) quote I recognized from the movie "Mister Roberts"and went something like, “Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your damn palm tree overboard!”

The first quote, however, I’ve never been able to identify and went something like, **"Crazy? Of COURSE it’s crazy. But it might just be crazy enough to work!"**

Anybody know where that quote comes from? Herman’s Head was on from 1991-1994, so the quote can’t be from a movie newer than that.

Thanks!

Barry

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-movie-quote/185806/2 "2003-07-02T17:06:27Z")

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It’s a cliché used in innumerable movies, cartoons, etc. Tracking down the very first one would be like finding the first book to use “It was a dark and stormy night”[sup]\*[/sup].

[sup]\*[/sup]_Paul Clifford_ by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-movie-quote/185806/3 "2003-07-02T17:07:15Z")

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godzillatemple

Forgive me, but this sounds enough like some of the things being discussed/mentioned on [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=193276) or at least a good candidate.

I can’t think of a single movie for it, but it feels like one I’ve heard in no telling how many.

I agree on the Ensign Pulver one, though.

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**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-movie-quote/185806/4 "2003-07-02T17:11:11Z")

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Hmmm… Since the “Ensign Pulver” quote was obviously from a real movie, I just assumed the other quote was also from a specific, readily-identifiable movie. Maybe not…

Barry