I’ve been reading a couple of threads tonight and thought of something. Which lines have you picked up from some entertainment source and now use whenever the time seems right?
Whenever someone asks me how much something cost and I’m not in the mood to discuss, I’ll drop “more than a little and less than too much” from Timecop. Works like a charm every time.
I think the better question for me would be “what HAVEN’T you picked up from a movie, show, or game?”
I think it was Drick Van Dyke in “Diagnosis Murder”:
“I used to grieve because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.”
I was just thinking about this today. For nearly 30 years, whenever I find something I’ve lost I exclaim, “You old African! Kunta Kinte, I found you!”
Yes, sometimes in public. Yes, it’s usually a pen or something.
“Survey says…”
normally I refrain from laughing outloud from things people say on messageboards when other people are in the room, but occasionally it happens. this is one of those times
I have a theory that in the future we will communicate entirerly in pop culture references. In fact my refined version of the theory is we will communicate entirely in Simpsons references 
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I have noticed that, for reasons I can’t explain, I’ve picked up the “On your Merry” to describe leaving. Ex: We can get this and be on our merry.
Why, I can’t say, but I find it resonates with me. I have at my disposal a line from nearly everything, but they haven’t generally infected my speech like that. I intentioally quote many things, I find myself say “on your/my/our merry” before I even know it’s going to pop out.
Countless Simpsons quotes.
“Hand over fingers” (instead of “over fist”) from Mo’ Better Blues
The Family Feud “bip-bowww” sound effect when somebody gets something wrong.
This is very obscure, especially to those too young to remember radio dramas like The Lone Ranger, but there were some old records of TLR where Tonto and TLR find Silver. Lone says, “Look, Tonto, how the sun shines off his coat. Like Silver.” Now, it’s the way he says “silver” that I will use on occasion, sometimes the whole line.
Then there’s how TLR would always mount up whenever they were getting ready to start a chase. It was “Easy. Steady big fellow.” That line comes in handy a lot.
Every now and then, when the occasion is right, I’ll quote James Dean from Rebel Without A Cause with “Well then there now.”
More recent quotables come by the dozens from Raising Arizona including, “Why, Hi, you’re young, you’ve got your health. What do you want with a job?”
The first thing that came to mind out of the infinite number that must infuse my everyday speech is “Story please” whenever anyone alludes to there being much more to tell. I got it from The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace - it is what the heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, says to her boyfriend, Bob (?) Vigorous, her boss at the publishing firm of Frequent & Vigorous, when they are in bed talking and she wants him to tell her a story from one of the manuscripts he has reviewed.
I love that book. I would use “The Antichrist sucked at the red eye of the corpse of his joint” a lot more often, but can’t seem to find much use for it in everyday speech.
Anyone: “… what’s the word?”
Me: “Burn.”
One of my favorite retorts is, “That’s, like, your opinion, man.”
Points for figuring out where that comes from…
The whole family says “And that’s all I need”, even when they’re not leaving the house with the paddle game, lamp, ash tray, or remote. Or the dog. They especially don’t need the dog.
Too easy: The Big Lebowski.
I picked up a good insult against dumb cow-orkers from Stargate SG1 of all places:
“You’re an idiot seven days a week! Can’t you take a day off?”
Let me guess, that was Colonel O’Neil, right?
No actually it was Major Carter. To Colonel Maybourne, I think.
Our whole family uses a line from the Invader Zim episode where Gir orders a pizza any time someone gives one of us something fairly trivial (but desired): “Thank you! I…I love you.”
You have to say it with the right inflection, though.
My friends and I are always quoting “The Boondock Saints” at eachother. A favored quote is “Now what do ye think is in that wee bag over thar?” and, if someone makes a dubious claim, “oh is that so, Rambo?” (imagine an Irish guy rolling the R like crazy)
And of course, anything that Detective Duffy says tends to be quotable. Especially anything about a HUGE friggen guy. And if cuddling is mentioned in any context, Wilem Defoe’s line about cuddling from the movie works fine.
We have also been known to quote Poolhall Junkies at eachother. I’ll say some random trivia type thing, and my room mate will say “Where the fuck do you come up with this shit?” “It’s common knowledge!”
From CSI, I will ocassionally use “That’s a funny place for lubricant.”
From Star Wars, “The Force is strong with this one.” “Use the Force, Luke” (both in a mocking manner) and “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” I also use “Roger Roger” as my standard confirmative response.
I’ll sing Data’s “Tiny Little Life Forms” song from Star Trek: Generations if I’m idling and bored, tapping my fingers on an imaginary console on whatever flat surface is in front of me.
From Firefly, I’ve been known to use “Fwuah” as an expression of percieved badassness on my part (and I use it as a call-out line in the beginning of Serenity whenever Mal first aims his gun towards the camera). “Gorram” and “Rutting” are also regular parts of my vacabulary.
From BattleStar Galactica, I use “Frak”, and from Farscape I use “Frell”.
From Buffy I use “Do you wanna come with?” when I’m inviting someone along to something. I’ll use various Buffyisms and Xanderisms from time to time as well.