Media references that NOBODY ever gets.

:: giggle ::

“Love is a snowmobile speeding across the frozen arctic tundra, when suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”

“O-kay then” is a favorite of mine, too, as well as some of the quotes from here.

Heh. I don’t. I think of a heavily-accented male Hispanic voice spitting something out and saying “This tastes like Fresno!
From a made-for-tv miniseries spoof on the early 1980s nighttime dramas. I think it was called Fresno!.

DON’T MENTION THE WAR!

You and me both. And it was, indeed, from the extremely short-lived (thank God) soap Fresno!, which was supposed to be a sort of Dallas but with wine plantations instead of oil fields.

Not sure if it was supposed to be funny or not. I seem to remember the commercials making it out to be a comedy, but I also don’t remember laughing at anything in the show.

Aaah my childhood was rife with Airplane! quotes. Now even my mom knows them :slight_smile:

“You can tell me, I’m a doctor”

“What can you make of this?..Well I can make a hat, or a brooch or a pteradactyl”

“Don’t call me Shirley”

“The fog is getting thicker…and Leon is getting laaarger”

“A hospital? What is it? It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now.”

Good to know there’s a whole buncha people here who share the same mindset :slight_smile:

I also did alot of Beavis and Butthead quotes while growing up. They still find their way into my vernacular when watching televison.

“These guys are cool - for a bunch of mimes.” (re: Kiss)

The future sucks. Change it…I’m pretty cool Beavis, but I cannot change the future."

“Ah, manly yes! But Beavis likes it too!” (re: Irish Spring)

“The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the beat.”

“Hey, it’s Pat Nebatar” (re: Pat Benetar)

And last but not least, the most obscure reference I’ve had all Christmas: Christmas Eve On Sesame Street

“Deeeeearrr Santy CLAUS” (Cookie trying so hard to write a letter to santa without eating his instruments of communication)

“The last half of the last cigar in Moscow…” from Doctor Zhivago – used when you’ve run out of about everything.

Some of my favorites:

“Does the rolling help?” “Oh yea, it helps.” from Galaxy Quest.

“By Grabthar’s hammer <something> was AVENGED!” from Galaxy Quest

“Settle down, Beavis!” and “Shut up, Beavis!”

“Oh, no, pal, I don’t take coupons from giant chickens…not after last time.”–Family Guy

“You know those Germans, if you don’t join the party, they’ll come and get you!”–Family Guy

“These go to 11.”–This is Spinal Tap

“No one knows…who they were…or what they were doing…”–This is Spinal Tap

It was a comedy mini-series. Starred Carol Burnette as the owner of a vineyard and I remember the hispanic guy from Electric Company worked on her plantation. I was but a wee lad when it came on but I loved it then.

When someone asks me, “Whatcha doin’?” when it’s totally obvious what I’m doing, I usually respond with: “Playing Soccer.” (from Buffy)

A couple more Buffy ones:
“He’s no ball of sunshine!”

“Please come again for more purchases!” (used when I’m volunteering at our local community theatre’s giftshop)

I also get weird looks from people when I use “Yup, I reckon so.” from The Outlaw Josie Wales.

Volunteering at the theatre makes it even easier for me to come up with obscure references from past plays…usually only the actor that actually had the line gets it, but I still use 'em.

Some play gems:
“Waxing Machine?” (said in a bad spanish accent)

“Go get 'em Punch!”

“Ulcers make me nervous”

“You cockadoodie dirty birdie!” (this is also from the movie Misery)

Two favorites I use again and again:

Rick Moranis, from Parenthood
“How proud you must be.”

Michael O’Donoghue, on being fired from SNL:
“That is, to quote Louisa May Alcott, a fucking lie.”

“I move the stars for no one.”

Used in response to some ridiculous request to have something done by yesterday at the latest. Oddly enough, I’ve said this to various bosses over the years more than anyone else.
Said to the Skeezling when I hear a loud crash from the other room, charge in and ask, “Are you alright? What happened in here?” and get the answer, “Nothing.”

“Nothing? Nothing? Tra la la?”
She thinks daddy’s funny. Daddy thinks she’s trying to give me a heart attack.
[sub]All from the flick Labyrinth, unless I’m missing saramamlana’s quote.[/sub]

“Cambodia?! Aw, maaan!

I usually say this line whenever someone gets ripped off in the fastfood drive-thru…

“They fck you at the drive-thru, they fck you at the drive-thru.” -Lethal Weapon 2

…or I say this when someone gets lousy treatment at the hospital…
“They fck you in the hospital, they fck you in the hospital.”-Lethal Weapon 3

…or I say this whenever someone gets the shaft from their cellphone or cellular service…
“They fck you with the cellphones, they fck you with the cellphones!” -Lethal Weapon 4
I can’t wait for LW5!!!

"This is bad comedy."
–Used whenever something or someone screws up

"Stupid git."
–I like this more than ahole or fker, for some reason

"Trust me, I know what I’m doing."
–Easy for most Dopers, but eludes most folks in RL

What did he mean, slow of mind?

A couple of times, when someone is irritating me, I look at them and say, “You’re making Mr. Fibble very cross” from Red Dwarf.

Another from the Dwarf, my wife told me to get out of her bed and I pointed to the bed and said, “This is mine, (to the TV) this is mine, (to the dresser) this is mine, (signified the whole room) all this is mine”

And from Raising Arizona… “That sure is one bonehead name” (spoken with the accent)

“I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way”

Who killed Roger Rabbit

I say I’d buy that for a dollar all the time, but have no idea where I first heard it. Seems forever ago.

So I’ve got that going for me… from Caddyshack. Very few people come up with the proper response: which is nice

“I love you long time” - until South Park went and popularised it, grrr

I believe I’ll buy that for a dollar was from a commercial that ran a couple of times during something like The Running Man or Total Recall. That’s ringing a bell for me, but I’m prepared to be told I’m full of shit.

I ONCE was actually in a situation where someone spilled a cup full of toothpicks and I very quickly said, “82 82 82” and no one laughed or got it.

I highly doubt I’ll ever be in such a perfect situation for it again.

I use You’re god damn right I did! often, but you better be sure your audience gets it or you just sound like an asshole.