# 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:** 4
**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, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/61 "2008-03-18T21:04:02Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] um - Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension? [/QUOTE] Bingo! ---
**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, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/62 "2008-03-18T21:05:30Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Mine: “But this one’s eating my popcorn!” (extra credit for both answers I know of) [/QUOTE] I only know one: _Men in Black_. Have often wondered what it’s a reference to. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > “THere was enough formic acid in his body to kill twenty men!” _Them!_. ---
**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, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/63 "2008-03-18T21:15:16Z")
> [@](#): > > “But this one’s eating my popcorn!” **The Sting** , where it actually is the punchline of a joke told by Leonard Barr onstage at the burlesque joint. ---
**Author:** ![InappropriateHumor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@InappropriateHumor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InappropriateHumor)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/64 "2008-03-18T22:10:30Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] um - Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension? (by any chance) “You’ve got red on you” [/QUOTE] Shawn of the Dead. One of my favorites! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/65 "2008-03-18T22:16:29Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] **Goodfellas** Mine: “What family doesn’t have its… ups and downs?” [/QUOTE] **Lion in Winter**. “This is the Voice of Doom calling. Your days are numbered, to the seventh son of the seventh son.” ---
**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, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/66 "2008-03-18T22:19:56Z")
[QUOTE=InappropriateHumor] Shawn of the Dead. One of my favorites! [/QUOTE] Mine too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/67 "2008-03-18T23:27:54Z")
I don’t know if I’m allowed to post as I haven’t guessed any, but how about this one: “There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it’s breathtaking, I suggest you try it.” ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/68 "2008-03-19T00:13:10Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] I don’t know if I’m allowed to post as I haven’t guessed any, but how about this one: “There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it’s breathtaking, I suggest you try it.” [/QUOTE] **Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery** And, since nobody’s gotten it yet, here’s mine again: “I thought I was dead, but it turned out I was in Nebraska.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/69 "2008-03-19T14:44:04Z")
_“Don’t ever hit your mother with a shovel. It will leave a dull impression on her mind.”_ [QUOTE=williambaskerville] Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. [/QUOTE] Yes, but did you know Newman also said it as Hank Stamper in _Sometimes A Great Notion_? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/70 "2008-03-19T14:55:40Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] And, since nobody’s gotten it yet, here’s mine again: “I thought I was dead, but it turned out I was in Nebraska.” [/QUOTE] **Unforgiven.** “Obviously, you’re not a golfer.” ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/71 "2008-03-19T15:01:21Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] “Obviously, you’re not a golfer.” [/QUOTE] _The Big Lebowski_. The one movie absolutely certain to appear in a thread like this one. “There was only one problem. I’d never been in love.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/72 "2008-03-19T16:05:30Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] _The Big Lebowski_. The one movie absolutely certain to appear in a thread like this one. “There was only one problem. I’d never been in love.” [/QUOTE] _Moulin Rouge_ (the Ewan McGregor version) [going into a funeral] “Here… cover up your titties LaVonda…” ---
**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 19, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/73 "2008-03-19T19:40:25Z")
[QUOTE=Eutychus] John Wayne … and I want to say … “McClintock?” [/QUOTE] Yep thats the one. The line that starts the mud pit fight. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/74 "2008-03-19T21:27:13Z")
“Gesundheit!” ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/75 "2008-03-19T23:36:37Z")
“You may go now.” ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/76 "2008-03-19T23:42:02Z")
“Maybe he just wanted to steal our wirecutters, ya ever think of that?” ---
**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:** [March 20, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/77 "2008-03-20T00:44:11Z")
“Nine years of ballet, asshole!!” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/78 "2008-03-20T00:47:28Z")
[QUOTE=Roadfood] “Maybe he just wanted to steal our wirecutters, ya ever think of that?” [/QUOTE] One of my favorites- **Stalag 17** _Maybe that’s why we always wear our hats._ ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/79 "2008-03-20T01:37:22Z")
“I’m not even supposed to _be_ here!” “Who _are_ those guys?” ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/80 "2008-03-20T01:38:06Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] “I’m not even supposed to _be_ here!” [/QUOTE] Clerks, and it’s “I’m not even supposed to be here today!” “Lookin’s free, but touching’s gonna cost ya.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794.md?page=5)