# The single greatest line in My Favorite Year is **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 30, 2024, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260 "2024-05-30T05:40:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/1 "2024-05-30T05:40:11Z")
"Hey Janine, when are you going to let me into your box? " OK that is not the greatest, but I’ve just starrting watching. I could have said “Captain from crap!” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/2 "2024-05-30T05:43:05Z")
A fun film, which I need to re-watch one of these days. My favorite is [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7z-M92N4L8): “This is for ladies only!” “So is _this_, ma’am, but every now and then I have to run a little water through it.” ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/3 "2024-05-30T06:11:06Z")
“These must be his drinking socks.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/4 "2024-05-30T06:41:23Z")
“I’m not an _actor_ — I’m a _movie star!_” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/5 "2024-05-30T08:24:14Z")
This exchange _Stockbroker #1: [looking over the edge of the balcony]_ I think Alan Swann is beneath us! _Stockbroker #2:_ Of course he’s beneath us. He’s an actor! _Stockbroker #1:_ No! I think Alan Swann is beneath us right now! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/6 "2024-05-30T11:26:50Z")
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/7 "2024-05-30T14:38:50Z")
“Parrot.” Rookie had the best lines: “Where was the pork?” “You can’t! There’s Jews here.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/8 "2024-05-30T15:02:26Z")
Bring Allan Swann to Brooklyn? Sure, what are you ashamed off? Everything! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/9 "2024-05-30T15:15:03Z")
That’s what comes to mind for me. Love that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/10 "2024-05-30T22:27:00Z")
As of today, the greatest line is “Oh God this makes me happy.” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/11 "2024-05-30T23:28:11Z")
Indeed, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/12 "2024-05-31T11:40:01Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > “This is for ladies only!” > > “So is _this_, ma’am, but every now and then I have to run a little water through it.” This was the first that I thought of. I loved Selma Diamond in this movie. I loved this movie! > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > “I’m not an _actor_ — I’m a _movie star!_” My second favorite line… ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/13 "2024-05-31T12:57:53Z")
**“Tongue…death!”** The entire sequence: _“They’re not serving tongue at lunch today, are they Leo? No tongue on show day. Twice they served tongue on show day, twice the opening sketch died… No tongue, get it? No tongue. Tongue,death!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/14 "2024-05-31T13:08:16Z")
“Hey! Somebody stole my gal!” ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/15 "2024-06-02T05:31:33Z")
“Aaaaarrrg, LASH ME, you swine! You’ll not loosen MY tongue!” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/16 "2024-06-02T05:38:42Z")
“You like it? I only wore it once!” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-line-in-my-favorite-year-is/1002260/17 "2024-06-02T19:36:03Z")
Love love love that movie! “Alfredo, you needn’t wait. We shan’t need the car any more. We’re going to throw up in the park and then walk home.”