# Name the movie based only on the punchline. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794 "2008-03-18T16:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/41 "2008-03-18T19:25:10Z")
“I’m kicking my ass! Do ya mind?” ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/42 "2008-03-18T19:28:25Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] “I’m kicking my ass! Do ya mind?” [/QUOTE] Liar Liar ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/43 "2008-03-18T19:36:26Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] Repost unsolved quotes? [/quote] Sure. Mine was: “Never ever in my fucking life has anyone ever been as fucking rude to me as you.” > [@](#): > > “I guess I sort of went west, you know, the way of Horatio Alger, Davy Crockett, the Donner party…” _Grosse Pointe Blank_. One of my favourite movies. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/44 "2008-03-18T19:43:32Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] “. . .They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory”. [/QUOTE] **The Shawshank Redemption.** “Why would they want the Duke’s _son_ killed?” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/45 "2008-03-18T19:44:58Z")
_“Don’t ever hit your mother with a shovel. It will leave a dull impression on her mind.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/46 "2008-03-18T19:46:11Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Sure. Mine was: “Never ever in my fucking life has anyone ever been as fucking rude to me as you.” [/QUOTE] Argh. I know this one. I just watched it in the last couple of months… ---
**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:** [March 18, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/47 "2008-03-18T19:59:07Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] “Why would they want the Duke’s _son_ killed?” [/QUOTE] **Dune**. Mine still unanswered: “Don’t you want to hear my last words?” “I just did.” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/48 "2008-03-18T20:28:53Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] “Don’t you want to hear my last words?” “I just did.” [/QUOTE] _Heist_ Mine: “But this one’s eating my popcorn!” (extra credit for both answers I know of) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/49 "2008-03-18T20:33:47Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] “Never ever in my fucking life has anyone ever been as fucking rude to me as you.” [/QUOTE] **Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.** “Now I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.” ---
**Author:** ![williambaskerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/50 "2008-03-18T20:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] _“Don’t ever hit your mother with a shovel. It will leave a dull impression on her mind.”_ [/QUOTE] Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. "Look at the world and tell me the pleasures of sanity. " ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/51 "2008-03-18T20:43:17Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] “Now I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.” [/QUOTE] **Goodfellas** Mine: “What family doesn’t have its… ups and downs?” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/52 "2008-03-18T20:44:24Z")
> [@](#): > > “Now I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.” **Goodfellas** – the last line in the film (which arguably makes it a punchline) “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard in my entire life” ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/53 "2008-03-18T20:49:32Z")
“I know I’m gonna use good judgement. I haven’t lost my temper in 40 years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this monring, might have got somebody killed… and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won’t, I won’t. The hell I won’t” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/54 "2008-03-18T20:57:16Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] The movie in **The Player**. [/QUOTE] Which was called **Habeas Corpus**. “If that was foreplay, I’m a dead man!” ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/55 "2008-03-18T20:58:52Z")
[QUOTE=Oredigger77] “I know I’m gonna use good judgement. I haven’t lost my temper in 40 years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this monring, might have got somebody killed… and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won’t, I won’t. The hell I won’t” [/QUOTE] John Wayne … and I want to say … “McClintock?” ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/56 "2008-03-18T20:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard in my entire life” [/QUOTE] What’s Up Doc? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/57 "2008-03-18T21:01:09Z")
“So what? Big Deal.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/58 "2008-03-18T21:02:24Z")
> [@](#): > > “If that was foreplay, I’m a dead man!” **Cocoon** If you don’t know this one, you can deduce it: “THere was enough formic acid in his body to kill twenty men!” ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/59 "2008-03-18T21:03:19Z")
[QUOTE=Eutychus] “So what? Big Deal.” [/QUOTE] um - Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension? (by any chance) “You’ve got red on you” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/60 "2008-03-18T21:03:39Z")
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