Loved that show! The Ghoul-An after-school ritual for Detroit kids in the 70’s.
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.
"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?
Glengarry Glen Ross. Far from obscure.
“Pick up your shit!!”
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 ?
While folks are responding to this ancient zombie thread…
That’s the Devil from Highway 61.
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.
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.)
“I’m a dwarf and I don’t even have dreams with dwarfs in them!”
I want to go to las cruces, new mexico!!
“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.”
Wings. Carlton Blanchard. Hilarious! (And no, I didn’t have to Google.)
If you’re thinking of Raising Arizona, it’s actually “Turn to the right!”
Good one! That’s Peter Dinklage’s line from Tom DiCillo’s Living In Oblivion, which was Dinklage’s first film. (the scene from the movie)
I just read through the whole thread and no one ever got this from the first time.
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. "
“There’ll be no butter in hell!!”
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.
That’s from national Lampoon’s “Vacation”
That’s from the Maltese Falcon. The good one with Bogart.
The rest, I don’t know.
“Money can’t buy knives.”
“You, you!”
“Who you calling a youyou?!”
Frank Burns & Hawkeye