# Origin of "I'm not your friend, buddy"?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 24, 2009, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-im-not-your-friend-buddy/487179 "2009-02-24T08:37:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-im-not-your-friend-buddy/487179/1 "2009-02-24T08:37:58Z")

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“I’m not your friend, buddy!”  
“I’m not your buddy, guy!”  
“I’m not you guy, pal!”  
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It seems that the South Park episode “Canada on Strike” made this exchange popular, but it was also used in Oceans Eleven several years earlier. They way the two characters play that scene seems to suggest they are referencing something else. Is that where it got started, or was Ocean’s Eleven copying someone?

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-im-not-your-friend-buddy/487179/2 "2009-02-24T12:20:06Z")

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Dane Cook also has a similar exchange in one of his bits…GAYLORD!

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**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-im-not-your-friend-buddy/487179/3 "2009-02-24T14:11:22Z")

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It reminds me of John Travolta’s exchange with Bruce Willis in _ **Pulp Fiction** _:

“I’m not your friend, Punchy.”