# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/61 "2002-04-18T20:02:09Z")
> [@](#): > > “Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.” _Advenbtures in Babysitting_. > [@](#): > > “Two dollars!” _Better Off Dead_. “Just where do you guys think you are??” “The Library of Congress?” “Detroit?” “Beyyyyoooond the sun??” ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/62 "2002-04-18T20:17:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*"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: Anyone can say he’s a writer. But when someone else says you’re a writer, THEN you’re a writer. > \*\* That’s Groucho in _A Night at the Opera_. And does your sig come from _The World According to Garp_? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/63 "2002-04-18T20:26:23Z")
I’m Jack Valenti-and these are my cheeks! ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/64 "2002-04-18T22:51:49Z")
“‘Are you the police?’ ‘No ma’am, we’re musicians.’” - The Blues Brothers \* “I am from zee telefeune companee. Zere is zomething zee mattair vith your feune.” One of the Pink Panther movies, \* Return of the Pink Panther \* perhaps? “I haven’t felt this happy since they said it wasn’t malignant.” - Kids in the Hall : Brain Candy \* Here’s one: “Yeah, I killed my mama.” ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/65 "2002-04-18T23:30:37Z")
**Labdad** , I think the Groucho quote is actually from _Animal Crackers_. “I’m Jack Valenti, and these are my cheeks.” - _South Park The Movie: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut?_ Another one: “Just think of it. 150 pure-bred sons of bitches on horseback, and you facing them. Alone.” ---
**Author:** ![Amok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Amok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amok)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/66 "2002-04-18T23:57:25Z")
“Some we give them the good life, others we give it right up the ass.” “If you point a gun at someone, you’d better make sure you shoot him, and if you shoot him you’d better make sure he’s dead, because if he isn’t then he’s gonna get up and try to kill you.” “It’s plot exposition. It has to go somewhere.” ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/67 "2002-04-19T00:05:06Z")
“Some we give them the good life, others we give it right up the ass.” - Once Upon A Time in America \* ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/68 "2002-04-19T01:18:28Z")
that last one reminds me of this one: “one son i put through college, the other i put through a wall” ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/69 "2002-04-19T01:41:16Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by widdershins \ ***Labdad** , I think the Groucho quote is actually from _Animal Crackers_ You’re right! That’s Captain Spaulding’s line, not Otis Driftwoods’.:o ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/70 "2002-04-21T02:35:31Z")
“I just killed my wife. Is that wrong?” ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/71 "2002-04-21T03:13:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MagicalSilverKey \* > \*\*“I just killed my wife. Is that wrong?” \*\* Needful Things. How 'bout: _“I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/72 "2002-04-21T03:25:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by joshmaker \* > \*\*“I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence.” \*\* I just want to state for the record that no matter how many other people know _Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worring and Love the Bomb_, General Turgidson, and Mandrake, one cannot slip such obvious references past this reference-happy media-fiend. 😃 “I wasn’t even supposed to be here today!” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/73 "2002-04-21T03:28:35Z")
“‘Are you the police?’ ‘No ma’am, we’re musicians.’” Blues Brothers. “I am from zee telefeune companee. Zere is zomething zee mattair vith your feune.” Pink Panther (I forget which one. Probably A Shot in the Dark.) I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum." Evil Dead? ---
**Author:** ![tallinu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@tallinu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallinu)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/74 "2002-04-21T03:56:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dante \* > \*\* > > _“I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”_ \*\* They Live (I love that line!) “Suck it up!” ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/75 "2002-04-21T04:53:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dante \* > \*\* > > Needful Things. > > How 'bout: > > _“I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”_ \*\* They Live - starring WCW’s Roddy Piper ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/76 "2002-04-21T06:16:33Z")
“Nearly ready…getting it ready for you now…” “Just me and the moron twins.” “We’re not twins.” “…known as ‘The Rat’…” “Let’s go out dancing! You put on your black dress, and I’ll go shave my tongue.” “Edwina’s insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.” “Push the button, Max!” “They kill, they maim and they call information for numbers they could easily look up in the book.” ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/77 "2002-04-21T06:32:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*"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. " \*\* I know it’s Groucho Marx in (now this is a guess) **The Coconuts.** Try these: “No patty fingers, if you please. The proprieties to be observed at all toimes.” And (really obscure): “Mrs. Jones!” repeated periodically throughout the movie and related to nothing. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/78 "2002-04-21T06:48:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*“Lord, my load is heavy.” \*\* Ah, that was the always-funny Lily Tomlin as Rose Ratliff in her 1988 dual-roled flick with Bette Midler, _Big Business_. (I’m trying to position myself as an understudy to the Movie Geek on “Beat the Geeks” by giving answers which are altogether more than adequate for a simple question, and are, in fact, bordering on the obnoxious. How am I doing?) My quote: “What do you care? You’ll be fighting the war against tooth decay.” ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/79 "2002-04-21T07:23:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\* > > “Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.” > > \*\* that’s from Adventures in Babysitting ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/80 "2002-04-23T02:52:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fibonacci \* > \*\*I used to have a t-shirt with > [“Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!”](http://michelesworld.net/dmm/frog/gremlin/plunk.htm) on it. > Got a lot of blank stares. > Guess you just had to be there. \*\* [hijack many days late] There used to be a night club in the Youngstown, Ohio area (may still be for all I know) called “The Magic Twanger” - nice place. [/hijack] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006.md?page=5)