# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/81 "2008-03-20T01:47:24Z")
[QUOTE=pepperlandgirl] “This is the Voice of Doom calling. Your days are numbered, to the seventh son of the seventh son.” [/QUOTE] _The Philadelphia Story._ “You have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.” ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/82 "2008-03-20T01:50:15Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] “I’m not even supposed to _be_ here!” “Who _are_ those guys?” [/QUOTE] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid “I don’t need a compass to show me the way the wind shines.” ---
**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, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/83 "2008-03-20T01:50:55Z")
[QUOTE=hawksgirl] Clerks, and it’s “I’m not even supposed to be here today!” [/QUOTE] “Well, nobody’s perfect!” 😛 ---
**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, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/84 "2008-03-20T01:52:21Z")
[QUOTE=Bill Door] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid “I don’t need a compass to show me the way the wind shines.” [/QUOTE] Mystery Men ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/85 "2008-03-20T01:54:36Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] “Well, nobody’s perfect!” 😛 [/QUOTE] Some Like it Hot (hey, if I can get one, I’ll take it) “It’s all in the reflexes” ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/86 "2008-03-20T02:10:49Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] _Maybe that’s why we always wear our hats._ [/QUOTE] Fiddler on the Roof. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/87 "2008-03-20T03:41:11Z")
[QUOTE=Reno Nevada] “It’s all in the reflexes” [/QUOTE] Big Trouble in Little China “You imbecile! You bloated idiot!” ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/88 "2008-03-20T12:25:51Z")
[QUOTE=Bill Door] Big Trouble in Little China “You imbecile! You bloated idiot!” [/QUOTE] **Maltese Falcon** ‘Well, a girl has to have her standards’ ---
**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 20, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/89 "2008-03-20T12:39:24Z")
> [@](#): > > “Nine years of ballet, asshole!!” Shelley Long in **Outrageous Fortune**. “HOW many Romans?” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/90 "2008-03-20T12:51:29Z")
[QUOTE=hawksgirl] “Lookin’s free, but touching’s gonna cost ya.” [/QUOTE] Trading Places ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/91 "2008-03-20T13:19:55Z")
[QUOTE=USCDiver] “You may go now.” [/QUOTE] Tombstone. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/92 "2008-03-20T13:30:45Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] “HOW many Romans?” [/QUOTE] Life of Brian. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/93 "2008-03-20T13:35:41Z")
1. “Did you just say ‘yutes’?” 2. “All right, pussy, pussy, pussy! Come on in pussy lovers! Here at the Titty Twister we’re slashing pussy in half! Give us an offer on our vast selection of pussy, this is a pussy blow out! All right, we got white pussy, black pussy, Spanish pussy, yellow pussy, we got hot pussy, cold pussy, we got wet pussy, we got [sniffs] smelly pussy, we got hairy pussy, bloody pussy, we got snappin’ pussy, we got silk pussy, velvet pussy, Naugahyde pussy, we even got horse pussy, dog pussy, chicken pussy! Come on, you want pussy, come on in, pussy lovers! If we don’t got it, you don’t want it! Come on in, pussy lovers!” 3. “We have an expression in prize fighting: “Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.” Well my friend, you’ve just been hit. The getting up is up to you.” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/94 "2008-03-20T13:41:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] [going into a funeral] “Here… cover up your titties LaVonda…” [/QUOTE] _Sordid Lives_ And I’d just like to note, for **Sampiro** ’s amusement, that his post was positioned so that I could see that punch line but the username was cut off by the top of the monitor, and I still instantly knew who’d posted it… I was going to use “Well, nobody’s perfect!” but someone stole it. _sigh_ ---
**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 20, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/95 "2008-03-20T13:46:27Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. “All right, pussy, pussy, pussy! Come on in pussy lovers! Here at the Titty Twister we’re slashing pussy in half! Give us an offer on our vast selection of pussy, this is a pussy blow out! All right, we got white pussy, black pussy, Spanish pussy, yellow pussy, we got hot pussy, cold pussy, we got wet pussy, we got [sniffs] smelly pussy, we got hairy pussy, bloody pussy, we got snappin’ pussy, we got silk pussy, velvet pussy, Naugahyde pussy, we even got horse pussy, dog pussy, chicken pussy! Come on, you want pussy, come on in, pussy lovers! If we don’t got it, you don’t want it! Come on in, pussy lovers!” Cheech Marin in **From Dusk 'til Dawn**. “It would have to be made of solid nuclear matter. It would sink of its own weight to the center of this planet!” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/96 "2008-03-20T13:48:18Z")
“The cuckoo clock” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/97 "2008-03-20T13:56:04Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] 1. “Did you just say ‘yutes’?” [/QUOTE] My Cousin Vinny “I dated his wife for a while.” ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/98 "2008-03-20T13:56:43Z")
[QUOTE=TommyTutone] ‘Well, a girl has to have her standards’ [/QUOTE] _Real Genius_ “Who’s got _you_?” ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/99 "2008-03-20T14:09:58Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Cheech Marin in **From Dusk 'til Dawn**. “It would have to be made of solid nuclear matter. It would sink of its own weight to the center of this planet!” [/QUOTE] **Forbidden Planet** “Like I always say - put a fox in the henhouse and he’ll have chicken for dinner every time.” ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794/100 "2008-03-20T14:12:16Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] 3) “We have an expression in prize fighting: “Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.” Well my friend, you’ve just been hit. The getting up is up to you.” [/QUOTE] Oh shit, I totally know this one. It’s Michael Douglas saying it… is it _The Ghost and the Darkness_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-based-only-on-the-punchline/441794.md?page=6)