# Single line from a movie or TV show you still giggle over **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613 "2009-02-19T21:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/341 "2009-03-03T01:30:27Z")
**Arrested Development** “Plate or platter?” “I don’t understand the question, and I won’t respond to it.” “Was Aunt Lindsay ever pregnant?” "Oh sure, lots of times. “She’s not _that Mexican_, Mom, she’s _my_ Mexican. And she’s Columbian or something.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/342 "2009-03-24T15:58:28Z")
Seen last night: House: I need a genetic disease. Wilson: I’m sure you’re carrying a few. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/343 "2009-03-24T16:54:56Z")
My Line needs a bit of setup. I was wondering how the show would be received here, but then I saw Bolt and Meet The Robinsons, so I feel I’m in good company. There is an early (old) episode of Spongebob Squarepants from the first season (Hard to belive, 10 years ago.) by the name of “Plankton”, which introduces the antagonist of the show of the same name, for the very first time. The plot of the episode has Plankton trying to teach Spongebob how to figuratively grow a backbone. (Many, many puns are made on the different expressions that get across the same idea, IIRC, backbone is also included in this line-up) One scene has someone not looking where he is sitting, and he actually sits on Spongebob. Plankton is talking to Spongebob, while onlooking. [Paraphrasing the first lines] Plankton: “Are you going to take that?” Spongebob: “No” Plankton: “Well what are you gonna do about it? Now is the perfect time to be Assertive! Assert yourself!” Spongebob then makes a comment: “Excuse me sir, you sitting on my face, which is also my body” Plankton: “That’s it Spongebob, Be Assertive!” Immediately after this, Spongebob basically pick pockets the guy sitting on him. As he does so, you see Spongebob’s finger moving around poking inside the pocket. Spongebob “Beep Beep” Plankton: No no Spongebob, Be Assertive! Not INSERTIVE! Now, the actual line, is when Spongebob goes “Beep Beep”. At once, there is no need at all for it, but the delivery of it, channels something, so epic. You get the sense that they threw the line in, just for the humor, and at the same time, you don’t care. It’s just perfect, common sense doesn’t need to be bothered with it. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/344 "2009-03-24T17:34:40Z")
“There’s a person called Eunice?” “I squeeze a grapefruit once in a while.” “That’s Capricorn, is it?” “Well it’s not literally about cheesemakers, it refers to _any_ manufacturers of dairy products.” “Yes, we are all individuals!” “I’m playing … all the _right_ notes. Not _necessarily_ … in the right order, I’ll give you that.” “_You’re_ giving _me_ the ‘It’s not you it’s me’ line?” “Anything else… would you like the hotel moved a few inches to the left…?” “Computer says no.” What’s Up Doc? / Double Indemnity / Life of Brian x 3 / Morecambe & Wise with Andre Previn / Seinfeld / Fawlty Towers / Little Britain ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/345 "2009-03-24T17:41:03Z")
Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here. Walter Peck: They caused an explosion! Mayor: Is this true? Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it’s true. [pause] Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/346 "2009-03-24T17:52:50Z")
“We . . . thought. . . you. . . was. . . a tooooooaaaaaaad.” ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/347 "2009-03-24T18:18:11Z")
My 9th grade class loves _A Knight’s Tale_ “It’s called a lahnce…helllloooo.” Will Smith in about every movie: “I have got to get me one of those!” ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/348 "2009-03-24T18:48:52Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > **Arrested Development** > > “Plate or platter?” > “I don’t understand the question, and I won’t respond to it.” > > “Was Aunt Lindsay ever pregnant?” > "Oh sure, lots of times. > > “She’s not _that Mexican_, Mom, she’s _my_ Mexican. And she’s Columbian or something.” [Kitty collapses, Lucille downs a shot] “Ah well, back to rehab”. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/349 "2009-03-24T19:13:53Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > There is an early (old) episode of Spongebob Squarepants from the first season (Hard to belive, 10 years ago.) by the name of “Plankton”, which introduces the antagonist of the show of the same name, for the very first time. I wrote this just before I went out to do yard work. While working in the yard, I thought, “you know, that episode was ‘Walking Tall’, not ‘Plankton!’”. Anyway. The line is still there. It really is a “have to be there” type of moment, but it works so well. ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/350 "2009-03-24T19:37:24Z")
Monty Python - The Meaning of Life And spotteth twice they the camels before the third hour. And so the Midianites went forth to Ram Gilead in Kadesh Bilgemath by Shor Ethra Regalion, to the house of Gash-Bil-Betheul-Bazda, he who brought the butter dish to Balshazar and the tent peg to the house of Rashomon, and there slew they the goats, yea, and placed they the bits in little pots. Here endeth the lesson. Keep in mind this was a ‘lesson’ given to a bunch of grammar school kids by a totally deadpan John Cleese. Hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/351 "2009-03-25T16:46:23Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The only funny line in the entire series, and it was the first joke in the first episode. Oh, the time I could have saved by changing the channel after that… The one funny line I remember from “Whoops” (and , yes I remember the show) was when, after the nuclear holocaust, they were being attacked by giant ants: 1st guy: “They must have mutated from the radiation!!” 2nd guy: “You THINK??!!” I still laugh! ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/352 "2009-03-25T17:10:52Z")
In _Without a Clue_, a comedic take on Sherlock Holmes being a buffoon and Watson doing all the work, Sherlock is trying to discover the true identity of Moriarty and after hours and hours of exhaustive reasoning he shouts out: “I’ve got it. His name is Arty Morty!” Still makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/353 "2009-03-25T17:53:51Z")
(Cybill has just had a test shpritz applied at the perfume counter, and wants Marianne’s opinion on the fragrance. Marianne is unaware of this.) _Cybill:_ Hey, smell me! (Holds out her arm.) _Marianne:_ Hey, bite me! [Ludicrously bad quality kinescope here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtWjZjSG9iw) ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/354 "2009-03-25T18:37:57Z")
In the movie _I Love you to Death_, after his wife and mother-in-law try to poison him, a very groggy Kevin Kline holds up a game and says: “Hey Ladies, Mo- **NOP** -o-ly!!” My wife and I still laugh when one of us says it! ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/355 "2009-03-25T19:08:17Z")
This one’s kind of embarrassing because it was so universally panned, but I just like the sentiment. Mallrats: “You’re going to listen to ME? To something _I_ said? Haven’t I made it abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don’t know shit?” ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/356 "2009-03-25T19:39:06Z")
“…and that’s when the C.H.U.D.S. came at me” Homer Simpson …used as the last line in a string of unfortunate events. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/357 "2009-03-25T19:49:08Z")
From MASH, extra lines added for context, italicized line is my favorite Charles Emerson Winchester III quote. **Charles** : Sir, my father knows Harry Truman. He doesn’t like him, but he knows him. **Col. Potter** : Fine, you have dad call Harry, then have Harry call me, and then we will work something out. In the mean time, vamoose. **Charles** : Yes, sir, I am… vamoosing. _But know this. You can cut me off from the civilized world. You can incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates. You can torture me with your thrice daily swill, but you cannot break the spirit of a Winchester. My voice shall be heard from this wilderness and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer._ **Col. Potter** : I think he’s starting to get the hang of this place. ---
**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/358 "2009-03-25T20:30:01Z")
From Family Guy: **Lois** : Peter, do you even know which one of our kids I’m talking about? **Peter** : … Gordon? (Their kids’ names are: Chris, Meg, and Stewie.) ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/359 "2009-03-26T13:21:32Z")
> [@labtrash](#): > > “…and that’s when the C.H.U.D.S. came at me” > > Homer Simpson > > …used as the last line in a string of unfortunate events. A Simpsons line I can’t even explain WHY it’s funny, it just is… Homer, stuck on an island, shouting “Help me, Shee-bus!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613/360 "2009-03-26T13:42:05Z")
Not sure if any Ace Ventura made in here, but I was just watching _Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls_ last night. That movie cracks me up. The scene where he meets the chief and gets a big gob of spit in his face. It’s a great sign of affection for the Wachati. And then he gets one from the chief’s son … “My … aren’t I the popular one.” Kill’s me every time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-line-from-a-movie-or-tv-show-you-still-giggle-over/486613.md?page=19)