# Media references that NOBODY ever gets. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498 "2003-12-17T07:55:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/161 "2003-12-19T06:54:04Z")
Gosh you guys keep bringing up good sources 🙂 “Citizen’s arrest! Citizen’s arrest!” - Andy Griffith Show (Gomer) for when you see someone doing something unlawful or just stupid. “Hello Bedford Falls!” - It’s a Wonderful Life. For when you finally get home. And/or you happen to be in a quaint little downtown area and it’s snowy out (perhaps downtown Bedford, Ohio) “You bet your sweet bippy!” - Laugh In. Just whenever 🙂 “You’re a better man that I am, Gunga-Din” - Gunga-Din. Never saw the movie but I use it all the time, thanks to my mom. more classic SNL: “That’s the ticket!” “I’m ACTing!” “You look mahvelous” “It’s better to look good than to feel good” And general Dana Carvey Grumpy Old Man impersionations. (Back in my day we didn’ thave video games. We had a game called ‘stare at the sun’ where you stared at the sun until your eyes would bleed.) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/162 "2003-12-19T07:30:29Z")
Often, when someone greets me first thing in the morning with, “How ya doin?”, I trot out my best Oscar the Grouch voice: “Rotten, thanks.” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/163 "2003-12-19T08:29:21Z")
**Mr. Wrong** , behold the glory that is [_The Forbidden Zone_](http://www.mdfilmfest.com/2000/filmdetail/forbidden.html). (Not the crap 3D Scifi – the one where Herve plays the Wicked Dwarf King of the Sixth Dimension.) Take the aesthetics of _Hellzapoppin!_, a sensibility that makes John Waters look like Frank Capra, a soundtrack of '30s jazz & pop classics worked over by the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, mix it all up like a batch of bathtub amphetamine, and you’re beginning to get close to _The Forbidden Zone_. It rocked my world, and I’m a fella that doesn’t blink at Russ Meyer or Alejandro Jodorowsky. I also sometimes use “I’ll see ya later, I gotta go change a Tampax,” also from _FZ_, as an exit line/cue that a telephone conversation is over. Everybody get’s _that_, though because I haven’t yet dared to try it on someone that I haven’t already forced to watch _Forbidden Zone_. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/164 "2003-12-19T08:32:02Z")
“get’s”? g’night. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/165 "2003-12-19T09:04:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ZipperJJ \* > “You’re a better man that I am, Gunga-Din” - Gunga-Din. Never saw the movie but I use it all the time, thanks to my mom. Oh man, that reminds me of _The Sopranos_, which in turn reminds me basically all HBO original shows are chock full of good ones: **What, no fuckin’ ziti?** when somebody isn’t coming. From _The Sopranos_. **I come here to feel better. You think that’s a mistake?** : Also from _The Sopranos_. **Fuckers! FUCKERS!** whenever your being screwed by the man. From _The Larry Sanders Show_, when Hank’s request was denied by the network. And my favorite porno movie name of all time: **Catch Her In The Rear** , from Martin Tupper on _Dream on_. (Take off of Catcher in the Rye; he also penned “Eat a Pus, Rex”. hehheh) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/166 "2003-12-19T10:54:37Z")
In response to any comment about something being “very small”: “Are you sure they’re not just far away?” [from _Father Ted_’s “_These_ cows are very small. The ones outside… are _far away_.”] ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/167 "2003-12-19T13:03:31Z")
“Hey Norman, They’re openin’ the bah.” anyone? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/168 "2003-12-19T14:25:29Z")
Great thread. My contributions: - Whenever I think of Fresno - and I’ll have you know I actually lived there, from ages 6 mos. to 3, ah, the memories - I think of **“It all started at a 500-watt radio station outside Fresno, California”** - The opening line Ted Baxter always used when he thought people wanted to hear his life story, from the **Mary Tyler Moore Show**. - Of course - **“This one goes to 11”** from Spinal Tap deserves another mention - I used it all the time. I also use **“I like my coffee black - like my men”** from Airplane all the time, too. - from **Buckaroo Bonzai** - **“Wherever you go in life - there you are”** and **"Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy!!"** - In terms of mysterious lines, where I use it all the time, but can’t remember the source - **“It’s twue, it’s twue”** - can anyone remember where that came from? It sounds like something Tweety might say, but I have no memory of him actually saying it… - In terms of pre-1970’s lines, **Eve** - I use a lot of lines from Casablanca, the Most Quotable Movie of All Time [ul] [li]“Round up the usual suspects”[/li][li]“Of all the gin joints in the world and she had to walk into mine”[/li][li]“You played it for her, you can play it for me - Play it!”[/li][li]“Shocked! I’m Shocked!!”[/li][li]Here’s lookin’ at you, kid[/li][/ul] That barely scratches the surface, but they all see a lot of use. I also use Bacall’s famous line from To Have and To Have Not - **"You know how to whistle, don’t’cha Steve?.."** and The Philadelphia Story - when Tracy Lord talks to Mike Connor and they say “Hey You!” “Hello, You!” or when Mike calls to Cary Grant - “Oh, C.K. Dexter Haaaaven!” Plenty of others, but you get the idea… ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/169 "2003-12-19T15:08:37Z")
Mine may not be pre-70s, but they’re obscure enough and most of them are all mine… **Something gotta be wrong** – I used this recently, the phrasing and spelling is from Grease: “When a man picks a chick over his friends, something gotta be wrong!” **Absotively** and **Not especially** – both from Mannequin. **I dunno, it’s a mystery!** – Shakespeare in Love **What a maroon! What an ignoraninamous!** – Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes. Also, **What for you bury me in the cold, cold ground?** (Tazmanian Devil) **Sadness!** – to explain my feeling when I see something sad. Can also be extended to **Multiple sadness!** From Witchboard, a little known movie starring Tawny Kitaen and no one else. **I am shocked and dismayed at this… shocking dismayance!** – From the TV show Charles in Charge. As far as I know the kid only said it one time and it stuck with me. Response to “It’s not fair!” – **You say that so often. I wonder what your basis for comparison is.** Labyrinth **Anyone? Anyone?** – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/170 "2003-12-19T16:06:25Z")
The “It’s twue, it’s twue!” comes from Lilly Von Schtupp, in Blazing Saddles. She was commenting on how the sheriff was gifted in certain areas. The line that followed was cut out: “Baby, you’re sucking on my arm.” ---
**Author:** ![MrPeabody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@MrPeabody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrPeabody)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/171 "2003-12-19T16:15:03Z")
When someone especially irritates me I look them in the eye and in my best Beavis voice say, “Are you threatening me” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/172 "2003-12-19T16:35:35Z")
Feeling unappreciated? “You give and give and for what? HEARTACHE!!!” - Barney Fife Feeling shocked and/or appalled? “I am shocked and appalled.” - Bart Simpson And why has no one stated the obvious? You know…the one for when someone states the obvious? **"Pirate."** - Capt. Jack Sparrow ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/173 "2003-12-19T16:55:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MrPeabody \* > \*\*When someone especially irritates me I look them in the eye and in my best Beavis voice say, “Are you threatening me” \*\* Do you also pull your shirt over your head and demand TP for your bunghole? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Number Six \* > \*\*I would think this would be the other way around; most of the Marx Brothers movies pre-date the Warner Brothers cartoon era. \*\* Ah, well, see, that just proves Bugs Bunny’s brilliance. ;)[sup]— Smile, and wave to the camera. You’ve been WHOOSHED.[/sup] Sometimes, after we’ve all piled into the car, but I’ve not yet turned the car on, I’ll sit & stare at the steering wheel and say, “He’ll keep calling me…he’ll keep calling me…He’ll make me come over. He’ll make me feel guilty…” from Ferris Bueller Oh, and my brother likes to say, “Why don’t you stick your thumb up your butt?” They think he’s a righteous dude. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/174 "2003-12-19T17:05:29Z")
“So _that’s_ what an invisible barrier looks like” - **Time Bandits** ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/175 "2003-12-19T18:33:27Z")
I remembered some more: “Trumpy! You do magic things!” “Schhhhhhhhhhhmucker’s Raspberry preserves!” Both from the “Trumpy” MST3K. “Oh, wall!” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, I’m usually thinking of the one with Kevin Kline. Handy for when someone’s overacting or overplaying something. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/176 "2003-12-19T18:34:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tygr \* > **Sometimes, after we’ve all piled into the car, but I’ve not yet turned the car on, I’ll sit & stare at the steering wheel and say, "He’ll keep calling me…he’ll keep calling me…He’ll make me come over. He’ll make me feel guilty…"** Once the engine is running I’ll say “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.” My brother usually says “Hit it!” The Cheeze-Wiz and Both Kinds! lines are also frequent in my house. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/177 "2003-12-19T19:07:39Z")
“Cherchez! Allez oop!” and “This way, that way, the other way, AND BACK!” from an obscure skiing movie made in the 1940’s, **Schlitz on Mount Washington** “Firm embrace” - Mel Brooks playing Paul’s strange uncle on **Mad About You** , anytime you want to hug someone “I’m getting angry, and Vermin’s getting 'ungry” - **Time Bandits** , when you’re getting tired of waiting for someone. “Ah ha! Pronoun trouble.” - Daffy Duck, useful in all sorts of situations ---
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/178 "2003-12-19T19:15:59Z")
Tygr: “Finding Nemo” is a treasure trove! When someone has explained something rather poorly: “It’s like he’s trying to speak to me, I know it!” When going on about a new possession: “I shall call it X, and it shall be mine, and it shall be my X.” In amazement at another’s accomplishment: “He touched the butt!” We also tend to get quite a few from “Frasier”… In response to any suggestion of a drinking game: “Veneer!” To curse someone who has outmanouvered you: “Dammmmmmmmn himmmmmmm!” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/179 "2003-12-19T20:42:28Z")
“Hoyage!!!” - from **Gus** , the Disney movie about the field goal kicking mule. Used mostly when I’m bowling with **diku** and one of us forgets to release the ball, sending it halfway down the lane before it lands. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/180 "2003-12-19T21:24:40Z")
Here are some of the most obscure ones I could think of that I’ve actually used: Whenever you’re in heavy traffic, or surrounded by maniac motorists: “They’re all bad drivers!” – Jackie Chan in the English dub of **Winners and Sinners**. (I love that movie!) Whenever someone is mumbling incoherently: “Do you like to draw? Paint? Or maybe just sketch and doodle?” – from the Free Art Test commercial (the one that’s been playing since the Carter administration) with the guy who talks as if his upper and lower teeth are glued together. Whenever someone calls you by name (i.e. “Hey, Bob?”): “YEEEEEEEZZZZZZ???” – that guy from the **Jack Benny Show** who turned up as the cashier at every store Jack ever went to. And here’s one I got to use just last night at a Christmas party . . . Whenever someone asks to borrow something: “Oh no, my brother! You’ve got to buy your own!” – from that unintentionally hilarious commercial for a compilation album called “Hey Love.” (Incidentally, this was also referenced in a John Cusack movie, but I can’t remember which one. **High Fidelity**?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498.md?page=10)