# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/121 "2012-10-01T02:56:23Z")
> [@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. Loved that show! The Ghoul-An after-school ritual for Detroit kids in the 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/122 "2012-10-01T04:27:49Z")
> [@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. I was there. It was the Andy Devine show, one of the weirdest _mise-en-scene_ of any tv show in recorded history. My former boss and I, who were of that generation, used to say this in business meetings to mystify the noobs. Roddy eta: I believe I saw the original broadcast, in the 50’s. ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/123 "2012-10-01T09:06:21Z")
"Just in case none of youse ever worked with hired soldiers, it’s like this: we handle tactics, that’s all. We give you firepower support and bring up the rear, but it’s your fight you gotta _do it_! Gotta be alive to get paid. Everybody understand? ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/124 "2012-10-01T09:12:26Z")
> [@Tarkus](#): > > “This is something you’d know if you ever spent a day in your life; you never open your mouth until you know what the shot is. You Fucking child!” Glengarry Glen Ross. Far from obscure. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/125 "2012-10-01T17:24:04Z")
“Pick up your shit!!” ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/126 "2012-10-01T18:26:37Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I was there. It was the Andy Devine show, one of the weirdest _mise-en-scene_ of any tv show in recorded history. My former boss and I, who were of that generation, used to say this in business meetings to mystify the noobs. > Roddy > > eta: I believe I saw the original broadcast, in the 50’s. One of my favorite lines, but my wife gives me ‘that look’ when I use it. Gotta love Froggy - he was true evil and the kids ate it up. Does anyone else remember Squeaky & Midnight ? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/127 "2012-10-01T18:59:40Z")
While folks are responding to this ancient zombie thread… > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > 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!” That’s the Devil from Highway 61. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/128 "2012-10-01T19:44:32Z")
> [@Greekfreak](#): > > "Just in case none of youse ever worked with hired soldiers, it’s like this: we handle tactics, that’s all. We give you firepower support and bring up the rear, but it’s your fight you gotta _do it_! Gotta be alive to get paid. Everybody understand? Dogs of War - Christopher Walken? _You almost knocked over your alcohol with your knife._ Same movie _Here’s the deal: I’m not easy to get along with, and I’m sensing you’re a bit of a bitch._ ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/129 "2012-10-01T21:09:13Z")
Heck of a zombie . . . “I sliced an inch off the bottom of the wedding cake.” “I’ll pay a dime a jump to watch you break your neck.” (Both from the same TV series.) ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/130 "2012-10-01T21:22:03Z")
“I’m a dwarf and I don’t even have dreams with dwarfs in them!” ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/131 "2012-10-02T21:12:04Z")
I want to go to las cruces, new mexico!! ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/132 "2012-10-02T23:00:08Z")
“The District Attorney’s a Republican.” That’s from _Miracle on 34th Street_. Here’s one: “Turn to the left!” (And no, I don’t mean the Turn Left episode from _Doctor Who_. This is a movie.) And here’s another: “In all my years I’ve never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn’t be talked about.” ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/133 "2012-10-02T23:40:05Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > I want to go to las cruces, new mexico!! _Wings._ Carlton Blanchard. Hilarious! (And no, I didn’t have to Google.) ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/134 "2012-10-02T23:42:45Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Here’s one: “Turn to the left!” (And no, I don’t mean the Turn Left episode from _Doctor Who_. This is a movie.) If you’re thinking of _Raising Arizona,_ it’s actually “Turn to the right!” ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/135 "2012-10-03T00:58:57Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > “I’m a dwarf and I don’t even have dreams with dwarfs in them!” Good one! That’s Peter Dinklage’s line from Tom DiCillo’s [Living In Oblivion](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113677/), which was Dinklage’s first film. ([the scene from the movie](http://youtu.be/c4SgiPAhQls)) I just read through the whole thread and no one ever got this from the first time. > [@joshmaker](#): > > “How are the twins?” > “Triplets!” > “My how time flies!” Brazil Here are a few from movies I’ve seen recently in the theater. “First, you find a little thread, the little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope, and from the rope you hang by the neck.” “Well, I know the Bible says Jesus turned water into wine, but it didn’t say liquor store wine. It had to have been non-alcoholic wine, because it didn’t have time to ferment.” "Where is your office? What do you do exactly? You know things, I think this is what you do. I think you acquire information and turn it into something awful. " “Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere” “Do you know what’s the major problem in contemporary social life? The tendency to always seek someone cooler than yourself.” “We don’t usually pick up actors off the wharves, but we can’t be choosy right now” "By Gad, sir, you are a character. There’s never any telling what you’ll say or do next, except that it’s bound to be something astonishing. " ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/136 "2012-10-03T01:42:31Z")
“There’ll be no butter in hell!!” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/137 "2012-10-03T02:08:35Z")
> [@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. And if you had Andy Devine’s picture behind it, that would be awesome. For those young whippersnappers who missed it…[cheeziest special effects ever.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9pPFCjRPvM&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/138 "2012-10-03T22:30:11Z")
> [@Tarkus](#): > > “I’m going for it honey!” > > “Ohhhhh Sparkyyyyyy” That’s from national Lampoon’s “Vacation” > [@Equipoise](#): > > \ > > "By Gad, sir, you are a character. There’s never any telling what you’ll say or do next, except that it’s bound to be something astonishing. " That’s from the Maltese Falcon. The good one with Bogart. The rest, I don’t know. “Money can’t buy knives.” ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/139 "2012-10-03T22:42:30Z")
“You, you!” “Who you calling a youyou?!” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006/140 "2012-10-03T22:55:17Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > “You, you!” > > “Who you calling a youyou?!” Frank Burns & Hawkeye [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-show-quotes-that-you-suspect-no-one-will-recognize/104006.md?page=8)