I also love the scene where the Germans rear end the Pinto.
I’d quote the good lines from Real Genius, but I’d be quoting the whole movie. There are some I use/think of all the time, however.
Avert your eyes if you don’t want to see good Real Genius quotes.
“Coming? It’s not even breathing hard!”
“Do you run?”
“Only when chased.”
"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, ‘I drank what?’ "
“I guess it goes from God, to Jerry, to Kent… to the cleaners.”
“Okay, Jesus. Lemme have it!”
I also love the sequence with the tape recorders in the classroom.
“If they find out you’ve seen this, your life will be worth less than a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory.”
Does anybody have the text of the “last rites” read by the priest on the way to the electric chair? That part had me in hysterics.
Can some kindly mod please fix the title of this thread? It’s driving me crazy that the exclamation point is missing!
Our surgens did all they could, but it took them 2 hours just to get the smile off his face.
Martin, thank God! I’ve been here 20 minutes already.
I absolutely love when he wakes up from the dream about school. I for one would have the exact same reaction.
And there’s this:
Hillary: “Some things are much better left unsaid.”
Nick: “Like what?”
Hillary: “Well, you know, sometimes when you blow your nose into a tissue and you put it in your purse, then a little while later you have to reach in there for your lipstick or something and your hand gooshes into it and …”
Nick: “OK! OK! You’re right, somethings are better left unsaid.”
As for Real Genius, do I have to tell you how much this movie was adored among those of us attending an early entry program at an engineering university?
“Dr. Hathaway, I saw your show the other night on radioactive isotopes, and I’ve got a question for you.”
