Leslie Nielsen once said in an interview that he didn’t have a clue of the impact his depan delivery of “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” would have. People use to come up to him on the street and quote it.
Hmmm. . . I had always considered it more likely from The Twilight Zone.
My favorite misquote that was made “real” by other movie is
“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”
It was made “real” by the bandido in Blazing Saddles (1974), misquoting the original one in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”
The cake is a lie
“All your base are belong to us.”
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”
“Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?”
“I’m too old for this shit.”
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“I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane.”
Around here there’s this:
This is interesting because this is the opposite of a throwaway line becoming a catchphrase: it started as an internet joke about what Samuel L. Jackson’s character would be saying in the movie, so the Snakes on a Plane people went back and added it to the film before it was released.
In the movie UHF, the late Trinidad Silva was receiving a shipment from the pet store:
Badgers? Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!
“Are you ‘avin’ a laugh?” was the fictional catchphrase from the fictional television show “When the Whistle Blows” within the actual BBC show “Extras.” Ricky Gervais’ character did not want this to be his television character’s catchphrase though, as it was supposed to be a one-off comment in the pilot, but the BBC executives loved it so much they forced it on him as a catch phrase.
Not exactly a one-off line that became a real catchphrase, but it addresses the sentiment of when that happens.
“I know”
My personal favorite “mini-quote” to use in everyday language.
“You keep using that word…”
“Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!”
Actual throwaway line here…
“We’ll leave the light on for ya.”
I heard Tom Bodett speak on this on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me several years ago and he said he had trouble when he started doing the commercials for Motel 6. He was nervous and would speak too fast and was afraid he was losing the gig.
So he was recording one and saw that he’d gone too fast and had a few second left and improvised that phrase and it stuck.
So I says to Maybel I says . . .
Have fun storming the castle!
Lighten up, Francis.