# Movie lines you inadvertently blurt out in public **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 7, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748 "2024-01-07T22:09:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/21 "2024-01-08T06:30:13Z")
I also have to confess that whenever I _really_ need a lot of help, whether from a ticket agent, a parts department, tech support, or whatever, I tend to default to, “help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” It’s amazing how people will bestir themselves when I first acknowledge my galactic level of cluelessness. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/22 "2024-01-08T07:04:40Z")
> [@Nyvaak](#): > > Galaxy Quest. "[Surely you don’t think Gilligan’s Island](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26tWWopd_3g) Thanks, that was my guess. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/23 "2024-01-08T10:34:55Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > At my curling club, when someone would throw a particularly fast takeout shot, I used to say “think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?” I get a lot of mileage out of “Listen, your job is to back me up, because you’d starve without me,” whenever my wife disagrees with me or corrects me. Jumping to a different movie, “Back off, man, I’m a scientist” also gets a lot of use in our house. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/24 "2024-01-08T10:41:24Z")
Not a line, but a gesture - whenever I face an automatic door, I do this little semicircular motion with my hand as if I’m opening it with the Force. It’s reached the point that I barely notice myself doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/25 "2024-01-08T10:50:20Z")
Ooh! I’m stealing that. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2024, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/26 "2024-01-08T12:13:58Z")
Any time I start to say “Where is my” my wife immediately blurts out “super suit”. Anyone saying the word “lotion” prompts one of us to say “It puts the lotion on its skin”. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/27 "2024-01-08T13:23:08Z")
I’ve run into guys on long hikes and asked “Any of you boys seen an aircraft carrier around here?” Nobody ever gets it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/28 "2024-01-08T15:32:30Z")
“Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!” The physical therapists loved that one. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/29 "2024-01-08T16:28:47Z")
When I still worked, I had numerous occasions to do Tommy Lee Jones’s “I don’t care” from The Fugitive\*, always with the appropriate drawl. - in the damn dam before the swan dive. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/30 "2024-01-08T16:57:30Z")
“Has anybody seen Sam Lowry?” “Don’t forget to fill out your TPS report.” I deal with a lot of low level officials and nonsensical bureaucracy in my daily life. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/31 "2024-01-08T17:04:13Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Not a line, but a gesture - whenever I face an automatic door, I do this little semicircular motion with my hand as if I’m opening it with the Force. It’s reached the point that I barely notice myself doing it. Perhaps I am a more subdued Jedi or maybe stronger with The Force. Anyway, two fingers about torso high with a slight slide motion opens these doors for me. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/32 "2024-01-08T17:12:46Z")
“Over the line!!” whenever I see a car parked over the parking space, or when someone starts coming over into my lane, or any number of other scenarios where someone is, well…but yeah, that’s just, like, my opinion, man. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/33 "2024-01-08T17:21:19Z")
If asked for information I do not possess, it is excruciating for me not to answer, “Mongo not know. Mongo only pawn in game of life.” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/34 "2024-01-08T17:21:27Z")
Any time anyone asks me what’s for dinner, or what food is available, or if the dogs start begging around, I immediately reply “You’ll get nothing and like it!” ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/35 "2024-01-08T17:38:10Z")
Don’t call me Shirley. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/36 "2024-01-08T17:38:59Z")
In any situation where someone does something unexpected, “This is not 'Nam! … There are rules!” ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/37 "2024-01-08T17:42:29Z")
“Great Scott!” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/38 "2024-01-08T17:56:56Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Anything above normal I sometimes refer to as castle-seige or freight-train weight. Ah, the “Speculative Thunder-Shot”. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/39 "2024-01-08T18:11:41Z")
Thought of two more: To the kids (17 and 16) when handing out chores/expectations: “By order of the Peaky friggin’ Blinders!” (_Peaky Blinders_) My wife and I to express approval: “Effin’ lemon!” (_The Fall of the House of Usher_) My first quote above was from _The Big Lebowski_ in case anyone wanted to know. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/40 "2024-01-08T18:51:51Z")
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