# One-Word Movie Quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 23, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849 "2006-09-23T14:49:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/41 "2006-09-23T18:43:57Z")

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Nee!

- The Knights Who Say “Nee!”

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**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/42 "2006-09-23T18:47:47Z")

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[QUOTE=ASAKMOTSD]  
42  
[/QUOTE]

I scrolled through this whole thread thinking, “I finally got to it before someone took my quote!”

Alas, I was wrong…Congrats on beating me to it… 😛

Brendon

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**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/43 "2006-09-23T18:53:36Z")

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“Whoa!”

uttered in a surfer-dude voice

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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/44 "2006-09-23T20:55:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Plynck]  
“Whoa!”

uttered in a surfer-dude voice  
[/QUOTE]

Any Keanu Reeves movie.

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/45 "2006-09-23T21:13:59Z")

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**neidermeyer!**

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/46 "2006-09-23T21:15:14Z")

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Bah…meant to make that in all caps…

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**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/47 "2006-09-23T21:31:07Z")

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Sh…sh…SHAAAARK!!!

FREEEEEEEDOMMMMM!!!

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/48 "2006-09-23T22:36:01Z")

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[Whispering]

Cobwebs!

[/w]

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/49 "2006-09-23T22:41:00Z")

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Pirate.

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**Author:** ![i\_am\_flash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/87869e/32.png) [@i\_am\_flash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_am_flash)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/50 "2006-09-23T22:41:53Z")

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“Gosh!”

or

“Lucky!”

or

“Sweet!”

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**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/51 "2006-09-23T22:56:08Z")

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[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]  
That’s two words, hyphenated.  
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Which reminds me of an entirely different movie - Fletch 😉

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**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/52 "2006-09-23T23:12:50Z")

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_“Precioussss!”_

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/53 "2006-09-23T23:31:31Z")

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[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux]  
_“Precioussss!”_  
[/QUOTE]

Post 19 applies, I’m afraid…

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/54 "2006-09-23T23:39:59Z")

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Just to recap:

**Stella** : _A Streetcar Named Desire_  
**Rosebud** : _Citizen Kane_  
**Plastics** : _The Graduate_  
**Khaaaaaaaaaan!!!** : _Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan_  
**Indians!** : _Easy Rider_  
**brfffffffrrt** : _Blazing Saddles_  
**Beuller?** : _Ferris Beuller’s Day Off_  
**Thirty-seven!** : _Monty Python And The Holy Grail_ (? In MP&THG I think it was ‘I’m 37.’ He did say, ‘Man.’ though.)  
\*\* Adrian!\*\*: _Rocky_  
**No!!!** : _Home Alone_ (? Could be a number of films.)  
**Her? (this one is a TV show)**: I don’t know.  
**Humbug** : _A Christmas Carol_ or _Scrooge_  
**SUPERMAN!** : _The Iron Giant_  
**Waaaaayne!** : _Wayne’s World_ (?)  
**Hope.** : I don’t know.  
**precioussss** : _Lord Of The Rings_  
**Shane!** : Uh… _Shane_?  
**Evita** : _Evita_  
**Camelot** : _Camelot_ or _Monty Python And The Holy Grail_  
**Maria** : I don’t know.  
**Anetevka** : _Fiddler On The Roof_  
**Poppies** : _The Wizard Of Oz_ (?)  
**Crap** : I don’t know.  
**Schwing** : _Wayne’s World_  
**Hal** : The only film I can think of with Hal is _2001: A Space Odyssey_  
**Inconceivable!** : _The Princess Bride_  
**Mawwiage** : _The Princess Bride_  
**42** : _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_  
**Mousibeds** : No idea.  
**Soap.** : I don’t know.  
**DEATH!** : I don’t know. (_The Princess Bride_?)  
**Wrong!** : See above.  
**Nee!** (or ‘Ni!’ or ‘Nih!’): _Monty Python And The Holy Grail_  
**Woah.** : _Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure_ (?)  
**Neidermeyer!** : _Animal House_  
**Sh…sh…SHAAAARK!!!** : _Jaws_  
**FREEEEEEEDOMMMMM!!!** : I don’t know.  
**Cobwebs!** : _Drop Dead Fred_  
**Pirate** : _Pirates Of The Caribbean_  
**Gosh/Lucky/Sweet** : I don’t know.

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**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/55 "2006-09-23T23:49:08Z")

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[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]

[ **Woah.** : _Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure_ (?)  
[/QUOTE]  
**Wile E** nailed it. “Whoa” was the line that got the biggest laugh when I saw the trailer for _The Matrix_, but really - just about any Keanu Reeves movie.

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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/56 "2006-09-23T23:59:25Z")

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To- **GA**!!

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/57 "2006-09-24T00:11:21Z")

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**Mousibeds** : The Green Mile?.

**FREEEEEEEDOMMMMM!!!** : Braveheart

**Gosh/Lucky/Sweet** : Napolean Dynamite

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**Author:** ![Hootie\_McB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Hootie\_McB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hootie_McB)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/58 "2006-09-24T00:57:16Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Her? (this one is a TV show): I don’t know.

Arrested Development

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/59 "2006-09-24T01:10:14Z")

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[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]  
Just to recap:  
…  
**Thirty-seven!** : _Monty Python And The Holy Grail_ (? In MP&THG I think it was ‘I’m 37.’ He did say, ‘Man.’ though.).  
[/QUOTE]

Nope. _Clerks_. Duh.

😃

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-movie-quotes/373849/60 "2006-09-24T01:23:23Z")

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“Attica!”

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