# Movie/TV show quotes that you suspect no one will recognize **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006 "2002-04-16T20:15:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/41 "2002-04-18T06:03:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Telemark \* > \*\*“Who are you?” “I am Hugh.” \*\* Oooh ooh! I know this one! Its form that ST:TNG episode with that borg guy Hugh, right? ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/42 "2002-04-18T06:42:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunshine \* > \*\*Different movie that I LOVED as a pre-teen in the 80’s but find just awful now– > > “Ha ha ha…ha ha ha…ha ha ha ha haa HA! A manly laugh for manly men such as we!” > > (and from the same movie…) > > “That’s Palmer’s retarded cousin Eddie. He thinks he’s Errol Flynn.” \*\* Wow, I didn’t think anybody knew this movie besides my brother and me! “do you like Pacino? ‘I’m dyin over here…everybody’s comin down at me…’ He doesn’t like Pacino! How was I supposed to know he doesn’t like Pacino?” Making the Grade! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/43 "2002-04-18T10:09:39Z")
“Lord, my load is heavy.” ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/44 "2002-04-18T11:19:05Z")
This one’s a classic. **"As a window cleaner, forget it. Put soybeans in it and market it as a soft drink in the ghetto. We’ll put a picture of a rhythm and blues singer on the front and call it Victrola Cola."** ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/45 "2002-04-18T11:27:08Z")
In this life, you can be oh, so smart or oh, so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/46 "2002-04-18T11:52:57Z")
**singular1** ’s is “Harvey.” That’s one of my favorites. I used to think I knew a bunch of reasonably obscure movies and quotes from the same, but y’all are making me feel like a complete Suzy Creamcheese. Lemme see if I can think of a good one… “…I thought I heard my voice…” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/47 "2002-04-18T12:55:57Z")
> [@](#): > > “Old age, its the only disease we don’t look forward to being cured of.” _Citizen Kane_, of course. My second favorite quote from the movie (first is: “It’s no trick to make a lot of money, if all you want to do is make a lot of money,” a line that has some very wide application – it’s not trick to do anything if that is _all_ you want to do.) Here are some favorites: “This is fate we’re talking about, and if fate works at all, it works because people think that THIS TIME, it isn’t going to happen!” “Nobody can handle Handel the way you handle Handel.” “You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll kiss three bucks goodbye!” “Say you’re thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone says plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp. Out of the blue. No use looking for one either. It’s part of the lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything.” “The District Attorney’s a Republican.” “Don’t point that finger at me unless you intend to use it.” “Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.” "And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. " And, of course, my sig. ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/48 "2002-04-18T13:07:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Telemark \* > \*\*“Who are you?” “I am Hugh.” \*\* That’s…oh, damn…Ryan O’Neal, Barbara Streisand, early '70s, grumble grumble, mind like a sieve (opens another window and heads to IMDB)…aha! **What’s Up, Doc!** There are a whole lot of quotes hanging out there with no movies attached to them, but I guess I should add another one (so I’ll make it easy): “Two dollars!” ---
**Author:** ![funkynige](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@funkynige](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funkynige)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/49 "2002-04-18T13:07:26Z")
“Let’s get out of here!” sorry ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/50 "2002-04-18T13:08:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*“You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll kiss three bucks goodbye!” > > “Say you’re thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone says plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp. Out of the blue. No use looking for one either. It’s part of the lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything.”\*\* The first is _Hardware Wars_, second is _Repo Man_. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/51 "2002-04-18T13:13:05Z")
“Up the voltage.” ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/52 "2002-04-18T13:25:19Z")
“And when WE say, ‘Who-o-o wants _pig-snouts?_’ you’ll say, ‘I do! I do!’” ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/53 "2002-04-18T16:40:34Z")
“i’m going to go smear some mud on my ass” ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/54 "2002-04-18T16:40:34Z")
“Why do you have that tape on your nose?” “Exactly.” ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/55 "2002-04-18T16:44:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Atreyu \* > \*\*“Up the voltage.” \*\* Real Genius - love that movie ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/56 "2002-04-18T16:45:16Z")
“I haven’t felt this happy since they said it wasn’t malignant.” 😃 - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/57 "2002-04-18T18:36:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Why A Duck \* > \*\*This one’s a classic. > > **"As a window cleaner, forget it. Put soybeans in it and market it as a soft drink in the ghetto. We’ll put a picture of a rhythm and blues singer on the front and call it Victrola Cola."** \*\* _Putney Swope_? “Pick. Up. That. Banana.” ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/58 "2002-04-18T19:10:23Z")
“Two can play the baby game!” ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/59 "2002-04-18T19:50:30Z")
I’m terrible at guessing, but here’s an obscure one, paraphrased: “You can’t cheat at Bingo. If you could, I would. But you can’t. No, I’m just lucky. Lucky to end up in a town full of losers!” ---
**Author:** ![njufoic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@njufoic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njufoic)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/60 "2002-04-18T20:02:08Z")
“I’ll block it with my body.” “How do you know you’re an idiot?” “‘Are you the police?’ ‘No ma’am, we’re musicians.’” “I am from zee telefeune companee. Zere is zomething zee mattair vith your feune.” -Andrew L [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006.md?page=4)