# It's time for another installment of MOVIE LINES YOU USE IN EVERYDAY LIFE! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586 "2011-09-08T05:11:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/1 "2011-09-08T05:11:49Z")
This, of course, also includes lines from books, television shows, songs, and any other form of popular media. When I was but a phoukling, my family played a game we referred to as Quotes. The idea was to quote a line from a movie, and the others had to figure out which movie it came from. While there was no formal tracking of scores, respect was given for finding a crucial line from a well-known movie that still managed to stump the others. Phoukabro, for instance, still gets kudos for his “whichever way it goes, we’ll need six coffins” from High Noon. Yet, some lines were so practical that, once introduced through the game, they became part of the family dialect. They include: **"I grovel in mortification!"** from _Death on the Nile_. I introduced that one when I was being chewed out for something and so amused the parents, I escaped further retribution. It is now accepted as an apology for nearly any situation. **"Put! Ze candle! BECK!"** from _Young Frankenstein_. Phoukamom intro’d this while teaching a nursing lab and one inquisitive student wouldn’t stop touching thing. They stopped. **"That’ll be the day."** by John Wayne in _The Searchers_. Introduced by phoukadad when I and the phoukabros promised to do chores or some other activity. We now use this on him just as often. **"It might be a tumor."** from _Kindergarten Cop_. I actually got to do this with the original set-up by phoukabro when we were out for breakfast one morning. He was frowning and rubbing his forehead. I asked him what was wrong, and he replied, “Oh, I have a headache.” With a huge grin and a very creepy voice, I immediately said, “it might be a tumor.” There was a half-second where he stared at me, not exactly horrified, but definitely trying to figure out where the hell _that_ had come from. Then he figured it out and said, “Id’s nod a toomah. Id’s NOD!”. This is now used to respond to any complaint from “my car won’t start” to “who ate all the cheese?”. Please, add your own, because I know you’ve got them. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/2 "2011-09-08T05:48:16Z")
It’s too dangerous to use the “it might be a tumor” line in real life cause someone might have a tumor just like “did she die?” also from Kindergarten Cop ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/3 "2011-09-08T05:57:28Z")
Twooooo Dollarrrrrrs! From Better Off Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/4 "2011-09-08T06:25:17Z")
The ever-popular “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means” gets used a lot in my feedback to students on their papers. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/5 "2011-09-08T07:33:59Z")
If I could, I’d use the words/phrases “Believe,” “Bruv,” “Fam,” “Trust,” “Plan,” “Allow it,” “It’s raining Gollums!,” “Let’s get tooled up blood,” “No one’s ever going to call you Mayhem if you keep on acting like such a pussy,” “This is too much madness to explain in one text!,“Alien GorillaWolf motherfuckers,” “Bully van,” “That’s blacker than my cousin Femi,” See? Is that a dog? No, that is not a dog,” “You’d be better off calling the Ghostbusters luv,” “This is sick,” “You go out there and try feeding them some Pedigree chum,” “Easy peasy, lemon squeezy,” and a few dozen others in everyday life, if it weren’t for the fact that I’m a very unhip white woman and no one I know other than my dear but equally unhip husband would have the slightest idea what I’d be going on about. Wishing Attack The Block would hurry up and become a cult classic already so at least _someone_ else would get them ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/6 "2011-09-08T11:19:10Z")
“That’s gonna leave a mark.” Said when I or someone nearby bumps their head on something. (Tommy Boy) “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Said when someone is attempting to use inadequate tools or resources to complete a task. (Jaws, of course) “You’re killin’ me, Smalls.” (The Sandlot) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/7 "2011-09-08T12:40:25Z")
There’s hardly a line in The Emperor’s New Groove that isn’t a part of our family lexicon (Family- a word which here means just me and my offspring). Thanks, I’ll log that away. And I never liked your spinach puffs. Never! This had better be good! Llama face! This is his story. These are my best shoes! Not even on your birthday… Cheese me no likee. What the…how long has that been there? Well, he ain’t gettin’ any deader! Etc. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/8 "2011-09-08T13:08:11Z")
“Isn’t \*that \*a load of clams!?”–Jean Harlow, _Bombshell_ “_Surrounded by assassins!_”–Jimmy Durante, in practically everything “Puh-_lease!_”–unidentified chorine in _42nd Street_ ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/9 "2011-09-08T13:16:49Z")
“Ray, what did you do?” and “That’s your plan? Get 'em?” from Ghostbusters. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/10 "2011-09-08T13:18:52Z")
“It’s a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.” _O Brother Where Art Thou?_ Useful in many parenting situations. “Have you got your tow cable?” “Yeah, I’ve always got my tow cable.” _Cars_. Used in any instance where you need to ask your husband if he brought something along. “Walk this way!” _Young Frankenstein_. Must be accompanied by hunch-back limping. Only one of many YF references. “He VAS MY BOYFRIEND!!” I try to say this to my daughter every time she has a date/boy-girl hang-out situation. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/11 "2011-09-08T13:32:30Z")
“Not any more!” – Inspector Clouseau “As you wish.” – Westley “Children? Chillll-_dren?_” – Harry Powell, to my dogs “Helots!” – Walter Brennan, _Meet John Doe_ ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/12 "2011-09-08T13:36:53Z")
“Well, I’ll be a monkey’s bare-assed uncle!” from _Beavis and Butt-head Do America_ ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/13 "2011-09-08T14:01:53Z")
“Stop kidding will ya and make us some drinks. You just press the button back there marked “booze.” It’s the only way to fly!” (It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.) “So good luck, and may the best man win…except you lady. May you just…drop…dead.” (Same movie.) “I’m an excellent driver.” (Rain Man.) Frequently used any time you can’t get into a car spot, drive the wrong way through a parking station, hit the garbage bin, or have a near-miss with anything. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/14 "2011-09-08T14:15:37Z")
Most often at work, I’ll say “I don’t care” in a Tommy Lee Jones drawl. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/15 "2011-09-08T14:18:50Z")
C’est Moi (_Camelot_) The problems of 2 little people don’t amount to a hill of beans (_Casablanca_) Check out the big brain on Brad! (_Pulp Fiction_) I want something’s flesh! It must die, it must die! We’ve gone on holiday by mistake. (_Withnail & I_) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/16 "2011-09-08T14:19:41Z")
I have a daughter who is a motor-mouth, so I have been known to shout “SILENCE!” at her just to get 45 seconds of respite. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/17 "2011-09-08T14:20:45Z")
“Anyone? Bueller?” Also, whenever anyone says “Bear left” I say “Right frog!” (From The Muppet Movie.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/18 "2011-09-08T14:22:21Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > “Walk this way!” _Young Frankenstein_. Must be accompanied by hunch-back limping. Only one of many YF references. “He VAS MY BOYFRIEND!!” I try to say this to my daughter every time she has a date/boy-girl hang-out situation. Oh, man. I don’t actually want kids, but I do regret that this means I’ll never have the opportunity to embarass them with ancient (to them) movie quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/19 "2011-09-08T14:28:44Z")
From ER (a line delivered by George Clooney): “Never confuse where you work with where you live.” And from MiB: “A _person_ is smart. _People_ are dumb, panicky animals and we both know it.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/20 "2011-09-08T14:35:40Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > **“It might be a tumor.”** from _Kindergarten Cop_. With full accent, to my three-year-old: _“We’re gonna play a wonderful game called: who is your daddy and what does he do?”_ Her reply: _“That’s – not actually a game.”_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586.md?page=2)