# The Quick Change appreciation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306 "2010-06-07T17:16:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/21 "2010-06-08T14:59:29Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > Where’d you get this, off a matchbook? It’s perfect if you want to pick up Paul Bunyan! I have no memory of that line. Context? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/22 "2010-06-08T15:15:32Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I have no memory of that line. > > Context? The chief of police gets shown a very poor sketch of Loomis that is virtually nothing but beard. ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/23 "2010-06-08T17:19:35Z")
Whenever I am in a hurry and someone just isn’t helping, I’ll use the bus drivers inflection,“I don’t have _time_ for this!” ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/24 "2010-06-08T17:29:07Z")
My wife and I love this movie…very underappreciated and just hilarious. One of my favorite comedies. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/25 "2010-06-08T17:40:29Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > The chief of police gets shown a very poor sketch of Loomis that is virtually nothing but beard. Oh yeah. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/26 "2010-06-08T18:14:31Z")
[Love the film.](http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/2008/08/quick-change.html) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/27 "2010-06-08T18:25:35Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [Love the film.](http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/2008/08/quick-change.html) Great link, thanks. But I disagree that the plot is hard to describe. I pretty much got it just from watching the commercials. And when I worked at the video store, I described it pretty accurately to customers. But yeah, the title didn’t do it any favors. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/28 "2010-06-08T18:33:05Z")
Wera hadu? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/29 "2010-06-08T18:57:24Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Wera hadu? To the God-damned AIRPORT! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/30 "2010-06-08T19:21:50Z")
[Yes, I love it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=98405) What really impress me is **Scarlett67** , whose sentiments have remained virtually identical for nine years! 🙂 “ESP exists, Grimm - they’ve proved it.” “Yeah… you pickin’ up anything from me right now?” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/31 "2010-06-08T19:32:09Z")
Wow, I missed that older thread. Virtually identical to this one! Stop lookin’ at me! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/32 "2010-06-08T19:36:12Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Stop lookin’ at me! And I love the multiple missed shot from his gun, but the unerring aim from the guard’s gun, and the disbelieving look Murray gives the miracle gun after the second shot. ---
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306/33 "2010-06-08T20:08:29Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > Oh Lord, this one’s in our top five. We’re constantly quoting it at each other. > > They ALL cold-cocked me! > \ There’s a DEAD MAN!!! \ $38.82. > \ It’s the KING! > \ Wthethere to? > \ The goddamn AIR-PORT!! > Flores para los muertos. Los muertos! Los MUERTOS!!! > Oh sir, you forgot your map! And our million dollars! > > I’d better stop, I’m supposed to be meeting someone. > > By the, if any of you fans ever want to track down the book this was based on, don’t bother. We did, and it was awful. Mad props to the screenwriter for turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse. I’m gonna respectfully disagree here…as someone who loves the movie and the book. Quick Change is not Jay Cronley’s best, but it’s pretty funny. Another great book by Cronley, and a pretty damn funny movie, is Good Vibes. They changed the title of the movie to Let It Ride. Check it out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quick-change-appreciation-thread/542306.md?page=1)