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.
Thanks, that was my guess.
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.
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.
Ooh! I’m stealing that.
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”.
I’ve run into guys on long hikes and asked “Any of you boys seen an aircraft carrier around here?” Nobody ever gets it.
“Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!” The physical therapists loved that one.
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.
“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.
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.
“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.
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.”
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!”
Don’t call me Shirley.
In any situation where someone does something unexpected, “This is not 'Nam! … There are rules!”
“Great Scott!”
Ah, the “Speculative Thunder-Shot”.
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.
I do a Rod & Todd “thank you, door!”