While I frequently quote from The Simpsons and a few other sources, I’ve found that I’m constantly quoting Twin Peaks without knowing it. A few years ago I watched the series again after not having seen it for years and it turns out that all these quirky little phrases I sometimes say to people were originally from that show. The only example I can think of off-hand is when someone says something blatantly obvious I’ll smile and say “Next stop, rocket science.” I said this for years without remembering that I stole it from Jerry Horn at One-Eyed Jack’s.
If there isn’t a Blackadder quote for the occasion, then it probably ain’t worth commenting on.
Of course this rather depends on your life being a series of insults and put downs.
“You rather do walk into these things, don’t you Baldrick?”
I hardly ever quote movies, because most people never see the movies I quote. I’ll sometimes quote the sland teen language Alex used in A Clockwork Orange, but no one knows what I’m talking about (I think I used the term “filthy old soomka” once, and “Moloko Plus”). But for TV shows, I quote The Simpsons, South Park, and Seinfeld.
Let’s see if I can bury the needle on the geekometer again.
Here are shows and movies I quote often, in no particular order:
Monty Python (mainly Holy Grail and Life of Brian)
Star Trek (Several of the movies, TOS, and NG mostly)
Star Wars
Babylon 5
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Ghostbusters
Blackadder
Well, I don’t quote it all the time (thank god, nobody’d be able to stand me), but every once in a while a line from an old Designing Women get’s stuck in my head. This week’s installment (imagine this in Dixie Carter’s accent and mannerisms)
“What I don’t have that’s required to work with you is patience. Because, frankly, I find you to be lazy, rude horny, and dumb.”