# New game: 3 film quotes and a common element **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497 "2004-04-28T16:01:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/21 "2004-04-30T21:02:19Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > As to **rjung** ’s puzzles, the first one is a set of three quotes from the same movie, _Toy Story 2_. I think. Actually, 3 different Pixar movies, _Toy Story, Toy Story 2_ and _Finding Nemo_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/22 "2004-04-30T21:08:01Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > **1.** “Let’s go back to my office and talk about this like two reasonable beings.” > **2.** “Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe – women!” > **3.** “Then I hope pain’s something you enjoy.” Well, 2 out of the 3 quotes are spoken by Christopher Lloyd, so I’m guessing that’s the thing in common. Still don’t know one of the quote’s origins though… ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/23 "2004-04-30T21:40:02Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > **1.** “Let’s go back to my office and talk about this like two reasonable beings.” > **2.** “Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe – women!” > **3.** “Then I hope pain’s something you enjoy.” 1. the adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension. 2. Back to the future II 3. Star Trek III - the search for Spock In common… Christopher Lloyd. Try this on for size: 1. “You were right, Billy. I am a butthead!” 2. “If there are any teenage virgins listening, show up at KDRT right now with a jar of petroleum jelly, and ask to speak to Johnny Crunch.” 3. “Oh my God, it’s a necrophiliac’s wet dream!” Only one of these quotes is even remotely obscure, knock yourselves out. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/24 "2004-05-01T11:49:32Z")
Erm… as it turns out, my first quote in the above post is more obscure than I thought at first and I don’t think you can google it. Also, it is quite short. It’s from the excessively strange 80’s “horror” movie _Society_ and I’m positive I have it right. Please someone make the connection - it’s good! ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/25 "2004-05-02T19:25:43Z")
Terribly sorry for the bumping and triple-posting, but I have to at least explain this so that my work won’t have been in vain. > [@UselessGit](#): > > 1. “You were right, Billy. I am a butthead!” > > 2. “If there are any teenage virgins listening, show up at KDRT right now with a jar of petroleum jelly, and ask to speak to Johnny Crunch.” > > 3. “Oh my God, it’s a necrophiliac’s wet dream!” 1. Society - Starring Billy Warlock as “Billy” 2. Ford Fairlane, Rock ‘n’ Roll detective - Starring Brandon Call as “The Kid” 3. Bordello of Blood - Starring Erika Eleniak as “Katherine” That’s right… they’re all from the original _Baywatch_ series. Sorry again… ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/26 "2004-05-03T07:18:52Z")
Puzzle 1: 1. I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn’t miscarry or that their daughter doesn’t bleed to death or that their mother doesn’t suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they’re praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you’re looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn’t like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God. 2. What was I supposed to do – call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others? 3. Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That’s the other guy’s problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the unlimited carnage you are about to witness. Superbowl, World Series – they don’t know what pressure is. In this building, it’s either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One moment you’re up half a mil in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don’t go to college and they’ve repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me? Puzzle Two: 1. Our crusade was such madness that only a real idealist could have thought it up. 2. Now, if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed. Or worse, expelled. 3. You want to know how good he is? I’ll tell you how good he is. He’s better at this than I’ve ever been at anything in my life. He’s better at this than you’ll ever be, at anything. My son has a gift. He has a gift, and when you acknowledge that, then maybe we will have something to talk about. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/27 "2004-05-03T15:10:47Z")
1. _Malice_ 2. _The Sting_ 3. _Trading Places_ All are about elaborate scams. 4. _The Seventh Seal_ 5. _Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone_ 6. _Searching for Bobby Fischer_ Chess Be back in a few with a new puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/28 "2004-05-03T15:21:37Z")
Oh, sure, I finally read my way to the bottom of this thread and then there are no new puzzles to solve. Fie! Although it’s not as if I’d have probably solved more than one of the others on my own. Someone else’s non-obscure quote is usually my movie I’ve never seen. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/29 "2004-05-03T15:23:39Z")
1. “No pulse, no heartbeat. If condition does not change, this man is dead.” 2. “You gentlemen aren’t _really_ trying to kill my son, are you?” 3. “You kiss by the book.” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/30 "2004-05-03T16:51:58Z")
Well, “You kiss by the book” is either from _Romeo and Juliet_ or _Dragnet_. Maybe both. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/31 "2004-05-03T18:28:54Z")
_Romeo and Juliet_ is correct, and the fact that the line is not specific to any particular version may serve as a hint. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/32 "2004-05-03T18:48:42Z")
The quotes are _Murder By Death, North By Northwest,_ and _Romeo and Juliet_, all of which involve someone faking their death. I’ll be right back with a question of my own. I’m always so surprised when I get one that I’m not prepared. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/33 "2004-05-03T18:56:19Z")
_curses self for not previewing last post_ 1. "Listen, I watched four episodes of “Lassie” before I figured out why the little hairy kid never spoke. I mean, he rolled over, sure, he did that fine but, I don’t think he deserved a series for that. " 2. “Okay. Michael Jackson didn’t come over to my house to use the bathroom. But his sister did!” 3. “Oh, really religious, Sean! Why don’t we just do it in Burger King?” This one might be a stretch, but _somebody_ will get it. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/34 "2004-05-03T19:57:21Z")
Your answer was correct, milady. Got numbers 1 and 2 on your puzzle, but 3 is stumping me. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/35 "2004-05-03T20:17:50Z")
Just for kicks, I’ll give you an additional quote from movie #3– “You’re not a virgin, are you?” “Well … Steve, but he doesn’t count!” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/36 "2004-05-03T22:41:18Z")
…which wasn’t very easy. 1. _Explorers_ 2. _The Goonies_ 3. _The Monster Squad_ All are movies about kids who discover that the fantasy/sci-fi things they are obsessed with are real. I’ll be back with a new one in a few. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/37 "2004-05-03T23:10:06Z")
1. "You see - comedy. Love, and a bit with a dog. That’s what they want. " 2. “When I’m done, we’ll be looking for a needle in a haystack. But if we stop now, it’ll be a hundred thousand haystacks.” 3. “Learned a new word today. Atom bomb. It was like the God taking a photograph.” ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/38 "2004-05-04T17:48:05Z")
1. _Shakespeare in Love_ 2. _Enigma_ (and I will admit to looking that one up) 3. _Empire of the Sun_ All written by Tom Stoppard. 1. “What is this, some sort of dork outreach program?” 2. “Who would’ve guessed that everyone in school was a professional dancer?” 3. “Behind every great man… is a woman rolling her eyes.” Okay, this one’s a very strange connection, and it’ll be hard to catch. Would have been easier if I could use TV lines as well, so I’m going to include one line from a TV show that fits into the theme: “How can I say this clearly? I don’t like you. At the end of the day, I pretty much think you’re a vampire.” Good luck–and you’ll probably need the IMDB. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/39 "2004-05-05T12:02:41Z")
Not sure, Draelin. . .is the theme that Dweebs become cool? I only got 1. She’s All That 2. Bruce Almighty Here’s my quiz. The first two should give it away. I’m only 95% sure the third one fits in. 1. “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” 2. “Look at me, jerking off in the shower… This will be the high point of my day; it’s all downhill from here.” 3. “The day’s running down like a tired clock.” [my unsolicited opinion. . .this is a good game but the quotes seem just arbitrarily difficult. Give me some identifiable quotes and a tricky theme, and I like the game a little more.] ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/40 "2004-05-05T12:56:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Here’s my quiz. The first two should give it away. I’m only 95% sure the third one fits in. > > 1. “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” > > 2. “Look at me, jerking off in the shower… This will be the high point of my day; it’s all downhill from here.” > > 3. “The day’s running down like a tired clock.” Sunset Blvd. American Beauty Our Town Theme: Narrated by a dead person. And you were right to be unsure about the third one. The narrator is more of a god-figure than a once-member-of-the-world. I’ll give the next one in a few minutes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497.md?page=3)