# Movies or TV shows you only quote one line from **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817 "2016-10-27T01:12:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/21 "2016-10-27T12:09:21Z")
“We don’t need no stinking badges” Only, replace badges with whatever noun that has to do with the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/22 "2016-10-27T13:33:33Z")
Homer Simpson once said “He did it cause he’s stupid. That’s the only reason anybody does anything.” I’ve used that line about a million times, and could not agree with it more. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/23 "2016-10-27T13:39:14Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Homer Simpson once said “He did it cause he’s stupid. That’s the only reason anybody does anything.” > > I’ve used that line about a million times, and could not agree with it more. My favorite Homer quote is: “_Trying_ sounds like the first step towards failure.” Which does have sort of a Yoda-ish truth to it. But coming from Homer, you know it’s just an excuse to be lazy., ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/24 "2016-10-27T13:39:41Z")
‘You know what $4 buys these days? It don’t even buy $3’ - Tony’s dad mocks his pay rise in Saturday Night Fever. ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/25 "2016-10-27T14:02:03Z")
A line from MASH. When asking for a favor someone said to Hawkeye it was the least he could do. To which Hawkeye replied, “Never let it be said Hawkeye Pierce didn’t do the least he could do.” I’ve used that line many times. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/26 "2016-10-27T14:13:27Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Nobody, I mean _NOBODY_ puts ketchup on a hot-dog!" There’s a more famous line from that movie, I think. Me, I have absorbed… “Man’s _got_ to know his limitations.” “I am shocked, shocked I tell you.” “Pretty slick, Slick!” “I am surROUNDed by idiots.” And, from another medium: “NOT THIS RECORD! NOT THIS RECORD!” ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/27 "2016-10-27T14:19:37Z")
Just remembered the line I use more than any other. From Steie in Family Guy. You hear some person singing a song. You ask them “Who sings that?.” They tell you the artists name, then I reply, “Why don’t we leave it that way?” ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/28 "2016-10-27T16:10:37Z")
“Say hello to my little friend” is the one line from _Scarface_ that even people who never saw the movie quote. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/29 "2016-10-27T16:42:15Z")
Homer Simpson: “To alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of lifes problems.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/30 "2016-10-27T16:51:08Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I assume that the movie _They Live_ has other dialogue, but this is the only line I’ve ever heard. _“Not this year.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/31 "2016-10-27T16:53:23Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > There’s a more famous line from that movie, I think. > > Me, I have absorbed… > > “Man’s _got_ to know his limitations.” Same franchise, different film. But, yeah. That’s a good one. Right up there with, \*“Can I say something?” “Yeah.” “Your mouthwash ain’t cuttin’ it.” - ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/32 "2016-10-27T17:22:10Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Same franchise, different film. Right, I know. Almost no one remembers the “catch phrase” from the second movie, even fewer than remember the one from the third in the series. :rolleyes: - > [@](#): > > “Can I say something?” > > “Yeah.” > > “Your mouthwash ain’t cuttin’ it.” \*“Monk… we can hear you.” Used that one just the other day. One of my favorite trope-smashing moments on TV. (Monk walks about ten feet from the police captain with his aide and is discussing their next secret move. In most shows, the other actors believably respect the cone of silence that all of ten or fifteen feet gives. in this case, the captain breaks in with the above, managing not to add, “…like, duh.”) ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/33 "2016-10-27T17:40:50Z")
- “Book 'em, Dano.” _Hawaii Five-O_ We use this one around the house alot, as we have several pets: - “You can smell it.” _Eddie Murphy, Delirious_ ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/34 "2016-10-27T17:52:08Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > - “You can smell it.” _Eddie Murphy, Delirious_ “I can smell you.” - in a cultured Mauve Decade accent (Points for the source on that one.) ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/35 "2016-10-27T19:03:06Z")
Rocky Horror Picture Show: “Nothing. Why, do you think I should?” Change “Nothing” to “No” or appropriate negative as needed… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/36 "2016-10-27T19:19:32Z")
“Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?” From _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_, of course. The response is usually a confused stare.[sup]\*[/sup] That movie has some other great lines, but since no one even recognizes the dynamite line, none of the others ever come up in conversation. - When Sundance says that to Butch, Butch doesn’t reply. Maybe that’s what’s wrong, the line does not have a famous reply, so even if people recognize it there’s no good way for them to show it. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/37 "2016-10-27T19:37:08Z")
EVERYTHING ends badly, or else it wouldn’t end. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/38 "2016-10-27T19:40:53Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > “It’s naht a toomah!” (Kindergarten Cop) This is the one we use all the time. Whenever I or my wife have some unidentified malady, the other will suggest “Maybe it’s a tumor” to set up the line. I never even saw the movie; but that line figured prominently in the ads for it. Plus, who doesn’t like to pull out their Schwartzenegger impression when the opportunity presents itself? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/39 "2016-10-27T19:41:00Z")
“Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!” -Blue Velvet. As true now as it was then. > [@Skammer](#): > > This is the one we use all the time. Whenever I or my wife have some unidentified malady, the other will suggest “Maybe it’s a tumor” to set up the line. > > I never even saw the movie; but that line figured prominently in the ads for it. Plus, who doesn’t like to pull out their Schwartzenegger impression when the opportunity presents itself? There are some choice quotes like when he is asking the kids “WHO IS YOUR DADDY AND WHAT DOES HE DO?” “Our mom says our dad is a real sex machine” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817/40 "2016-10-27T19:50:21Z")
How about movies/TV you quote only one _word_ from? “Eskimo.”–the priest guy, _Heathers_. “Everyone.”–\*Norman \*Stansfield, _Leon_. “No.”–Annakin Skywalker, _Revenge of the Sith_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-shows-you-only-quote-one-line-from/769817.md?page=3)