# Princess Bride: Why so many quoted lines? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609 "2012-11-20T12:31:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/81 "2012-11-21T20:43:38Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Movie quotes also serve as markers of common tastes, as well. If I say “Inconceivable!” and you respond " I do not theenk that word means what you theenk it means", that’s a good sign that your sense of humor is similar to mine; or at least closer than someone who responds “Hunh?” > > For my own part, I probably don’t go a week without quoting _Strange Brew_: “Luke, I am your father! Come to the dark side, you knob!” or “No way, eh? Radiation, has made me, an enemy, of civilization!” > “This isn’t heaven! This sucks!” "What do you think? “British New Wave band, beauty, not my style of music though” “It was no dream, it was in your underwears!” We should go have a (Elsinore) beer together. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/82 "2012-11-21T20:50:55Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > But I don’t even _have_ a little dog. I’d rather have a bottle in front of me… than… a frontal lobotomy! (how profound!) > [@mlees](#): > > zug zug Okay, zug zug. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/83 "2012-11-21T20:57:21Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > And that’s what makes MC Frontalot so clever. In his song _Charity Case_, he uses the word, “possibleness”, and then a couple lines later says, “I know that ‘possibleness’ is not a cromulent word.” That’s in Nerdcore Rising. (I looked up Charity Case because I’m always open to more Frontalot music, but it didn’t have it, searching those lyrics only turns up Nerdcore Rising). ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/84 "2012-11-21T21:02:41Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > Okay, zug zug. Just testing to see if anyone else get’s the reference. I don’t think that “quotable lines” necessarily have to come from anything remarkably witty or clever. (Or even film or song.) ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/85 "2012-11-21T21:04:17Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Just testing to see if anyone else get’s the reference. > > I don’t think that “quotable lines” necessarily have to come from anything remarkably witty or clever. (Or even film or song.) Dabu ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/86 "2012-11-21T21:05:16Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > That’s in Nerdcore Rising. (I looked up Charity Case because I’m always open to more Frontalot music, but it didn’t have it, searching those lyrics only turns up Nerdcore Rising). :smack: You are correct, sir! All of Front’s lyrics here: > **[MC Frontalot | Lyrics](https://frontalot.com/lyrics.html?page=lyrics)** ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/87 "2012-11-21T21:08:21Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > Her: In English? (_The Usual Suspects_)[/INDENT] English, motherfucker! Do you speak it? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/88 "2012-11-21T21:08:46Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Just testing to see if anyone else get’s the reference. I’m pretty sure I got that one. Couldn’t think of an appropriate reply. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/89 "2012-11-21T21:11:33Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > English, motherfucker! Do you speak it? Yippie ki-yay, motherfucker. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/90 "2012-11-21T21:51:36Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yippie ki-yay, motherfucker. I’m a mushroom cloud layin’ motherfucker, motherfucker! ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/91 "2012-11-22T03:22:31Z")
[QUOTE=Balance] I hate Illinois Nihilists. [/QUOTE] I’ve been know to say “Our lady of blessed acceleration, don’t fail me now!” when driving. Oh, and the use of excessive force is approved. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/92 "2012-11-22T06:02:07Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > I’m a mushroom cloud layin’ motherfucker, motherfucker! Out of curiosity, where does this line come from? I read it here for the first time today (seriously, never heard it before), and not 8 hours later I hear a character say this in an anime called “Excel Saga” that I just started watching on Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/93 "2012-11-22T06:11:12Z")
Pulp Fiction (clip NSFW):[spoiler][Pulp Fiction: "I'm a Mushroom Cloud Laying Mother Fucker" - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2BpI6TCDE%5B/spoiler%5D) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/94 "2012-11-22T14:18:05Z")
> [@Just\_Ed](#): > > Pulp Fiction (clip NSFW):[spoiler][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2BpI6TCDE[/spoiler]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2BpI6TCDE%5B/spoiler%5D) Well I’ll be damned. I guess I _had_ heard it before. My excuse is that I only watched that movie once, and it was 15 years ago. The anime character who said it _did_ have an afro similar to Jackson’s character’s, though. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/95 "2012-11-22T14:26:32Z")
For those hoping to find a new source of quotable lines, let me recommend Galaxy Quest. Never give up. Never surrender. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/96 "2012-11-22T22:06:22Z")
> [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > For those hoping to find a new source of quotable lines, let me recommend Galaxy Quest. > > Never give up. Never surrender. By Grabthar’s Hammer - You shall be avenged! That’s a helluva thing… Its the simple things, really. Its only a model. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/97 "2012-11-23T00:18:29Z")
There’s an anime called Girls Bravo that would probably be quite quotable were it more mainstream: “When the hot springs dried up, I did what any right-thinking person would do and filled them with alligators and bananas.” (elderly hot springs resort landlady) “It’s like I’m catnip for lesbians!” (Kirie, one of the main female characters who keeps getting hit on by women) ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/98 "2012-11-23T10:24:18Z")
[QUOTE=NoCoolUserName] For those hoping to find a new source of quotable lines, let me recommend Galaxy Quest. Never give up. Never surrender. [/QUOTE] I don’t know how you’d slip them into everyday conversation, but there are a lot more 🙂 I see you managed to get your shirt off. You were never serious about the craft. It’s a rock monster, it doesn’t have a motivation. This episode was badly written! Well screw that! (You can see that Ms Weaver actually says _fuck that!_ but it’s dubbed over, even a non-gratuitous “fuck” would be a bit out of place in that film) ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/99 "2012-11-23T12:19:27Z")
By Grabthar’s Hammer, you will be avenged! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/100 "2012-11-23T16:35:57Z")
One thing about The Princess Bride is it has a lot of quotes that work well on their own. I generally don’t speak in quotes from Princess Bride or any other movie because I’m not an asshole (no offense, everyone on this entire board), but will make occasional exceptions if either I’m certain that everyone I’m talking to has seen the movie, or if the quote makes sense by itself. I’ve said a few times “Back in my day, TV was called books,” because it’s funny without having seen Princess Bride. Also, “I don’t think that words means what you thin it means” is a good response to a misused word that doesn’t require having seen the movie. I hardly ever use the latter, though, as it’s difficult to say without seeming like you’re going out of your way to be pedantic, but this isn’t about me. The point is I think Princess Bride is one of those oft-quoted movies because it’s funny and quotable for one (people will always quote movies like that), but moreover, even for the movie quote averse, some of the lines could stand on their own and easily apply to everyday conversations. Edit: Oh, I will say “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto,” when in unfamiliar territory, but I don’t think there are human beings that exist (who I would engage in conversation, anyway) who wouldn’t know what I’m talking about. Maybe there’s a seven year old out there who has no idea what that is, but among the rest of us, it’s such an ubiquitous reference that I don’t even consider it dropping a movie quote. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609.md?page=6)