# The greatest line from any movie or TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431 "2011-09-24T04:12:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/241 "2011-10-20T21:04:32Z")
From _The Twelve Chairs_ by Mel Brooks, spoken by Dom DeLouise: “Ya, ya ya! Ya, ya, ya!” {pause} “Oh, Boys…?” And: “Epilepsy, my friends! The same disease that struck down our beloved Dostoyevsky! Give so he might live! Give til it hurts!” ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/242 "2011-10-20T21:27:41Z")
_“Well you’re pretty sure of yourself, ain’t ya Virgil? Virgil. That’s a funny name for a negro boy who comes from Philadelphia! What do they call you up there?”_ * * * “They call me MISTER TIBBS!”\*\*\* From \* “In the Heat of the Night”\* with Sidney Poitier as Detective Virgil Tibbs, and Rod Steiger as Sheriff Gillespie. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/243 "2011-10-20T21:43:55Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Actually, that’s the line from the _2001_ book. IIRC, _2010_ has the line simply as “My God! It’s full of stars!” Got it. . ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/244 "2011-10-20T22:22:32Z")
Hudson: “That’s it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?” ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/245 "2011-10-22T03:46:39Z")
julius caesar (rome mini-series): “i didn’t know he existed until he didn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/246 "2011-10-22T04:02:34Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > All good, but since the season finale of Breaking Bad, this has become my favorite: > > “I won.” See, that’s a not a great line at all. It’s a great scene, but taken out of context, it’s meaningless. ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/247 "2011-10-24T17:05:42Z")
From Homer vs Dignity: Homer has hung on to some money at the end of an episode for once, and Lisa is gently trying to prod him into using it for charitable purposes. Lisa: “You know, Dad, there are a lot of poor children out there…” Slow, slow comprehension crawls over Homer’s face. Homer: “I see what you’re saying, Lisa. … I should … buy …a…gun.” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/248 "2011-10-24T19:00:52Z")
Reminds me of another of my favorite Simpson’s lines; Lisa is at a jazz concert, and after the show a man sitting near her is grumbling with disappointment. And Lisa says something like, “You also have to listen to the notes she _didn’t_ play.” And the man replies, “I couldda done _that_ at home.” ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/249 "2011-10-26T05:10:57Z")
From **The Big Lebowski** : Maude and The Dude are watching the beginning of “Logjammin’”, a cheap porno. \*(In “Logjammin’”) Karl Hungus, cable repairman at the door: “My dispatcher says there’s something wrong with the cable?” (In “Logjammin’”) Bunny Lajoya: “Yea, come on in.”\* …snip… Maude, with disdain: “The story is ludicrous… Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.” The Dude: …“He fixes the cable?” ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/250 "2011-10-26T05:47:51Z")
From Eating Raul, the movie where they lure swingers to their apartment for sex but kill them for their cash (with a frying pan)The “client” has asked for a doctor/operating type scene. “Scalpel” “Forceps” “Frying pan” BONG! “Oh well look at it this way, if you’ld done what he wanted he would have died anyway!” ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/251 "2011-10-27T14:38:47Z")
Another one from The Simpsons: Bart is is sitting in a biology class, and speaks enthusiastically about genetic engineering producing a money-human hybrid to serve his needs as an unquestioning slave. Mrs Krabapple tells him to forget it because to produce such a creature woiuld be to play God. **Bart: "God, schmod. I want my monkey-boy!"** That’s exactly how I feel about the whole genetic engineering debate. I want to _see_ some of these wonders before I die, so get on with it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431.md?page=12)