# Movie scenes recalled by a single word **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 18, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112 "2025-01-18T17:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/181 "2025-01-19T20:54:29Z")
Young Frankenstein ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/182 "2025-01-19T20:58:42Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > Ghostbusters? > [@mbh](#): > > “Slimed” is from _Ghostbusters_. > “Aqaba” is from _Lawrence of Arabia_. Yes to both. New one (though it could be either of two movies): _Mother???_ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/183 "2025-01-19T21:16:13Z")
Alien ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/184 "2025-01-19T21:17:04Z")
How about “Kobayashi”? Perhaps evocative of more than a single scene. Bagpipes and “Remember” would qualify from the same movie for me, though. If you’re into bad-eighties-movies-that-showed-on-cable-channels, I would go with “Leon!” > [@Sherrerd](#): > > Mother??? Evokes _Psycho_ for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/185 "2025-01-19T21:21:27Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Mother??? Dirty Rotten Scoundrels? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/186 "2025-01-19T21:21:59Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Mother??? Evokes _American Pie_ for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/187 "2025-01-19T21:22:34Z")
KEVIN! (plus some additional text here because Discourse) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/188 "2025-01-19T21:22:46Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Evokes _Psycho_ for me. Psycho is one of the two movies. If @burpo_the_wonder_mutt meant Alien for “Mother???”—it’s a fair guess as several characters address the computer as Mother; I’m not remembering a specific scene where anyone says the single word in a questioning tone. (But that doesn’t mean it’s not there.) Anyway, the second movie I was thinking of isn’t _Alien_. ETA: _American Pie_—maybe there is a scene of someone saying that single word in a questioning tone (the scene with pastry, in the kitchen?) Not sure. Not the one I meant, anyway. _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels_ —I wasn’t thinking of this but it’s a great guess—Steve Martin, as Ruprecht (sp?) DOES say that single word as a question, to a woman who is not his mother. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/189 "2025-01-19T21:24:59Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > It took me a minute, but I assume that’s a reference to the end of _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_. Correct. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/190 "2025-01-19T21:27:04Z")
“Yutes” ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/191 "2025-01-19T21:28:54Z")
Pabst! ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/192 "2025-01-19T21:32:53Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > “Yutes” My Cousin Vinny > [@Mangetout](#): > > KEVIN! Home Alone ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/193 "2025-01-19T23:28:29Z")
Yes, **Alien** was the one I was thinking of: I think Dallas asks Mother questions near the beginning and I’m quite sure Ripley is trying to ask Mother why she isn’t shutting down the self-destruct before calling Mother a naughty word near the end. No one would know this, but near the end of George Romero’s **Day of The Dead** the psycho doctor who’s experimenting on the zombies leaves a tape recorder laying around that has him talking to his dead mother and questioning if he’s being a good boy, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/194 "2025-01-19T23:31:31Z")
What with that and _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels_, there do appear to be several movies in which someone says “Mother” in a questioning tone. The two I was thinking of were _Psycho_ (which was guessed) and—well, I’ll just say it so we can move on—_Bambi_. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/195 "2025-01-20T00:15:10Z")
As pronounced: slrpnls (one word), actual compound word _should_ be solar panels. (no one said it had to be a GOOD movie) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/196 "2025-01-20T01:00:08Z")
“Blave" ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/197 "2025-01-20T01:13:50Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > How about “Kobayashi”? Perhaps evocative of more than a single scene. _The Usual Suspects_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/198 "2025-01-20T01:15:05Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > “Blave" Oh, well, then, “Mawwaige.” ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/199 "2025-01-20T01:16:44Z")
Yes, “Wuv." ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-recalled-by-a-single-word/1013112/200 "2025-01-20T01:21:55Z")
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