What films and TV programmes have quotes which have entered your everyday language or do you never "quote" anything? I think done in the wrong way it is incredibly tragic but clearly that wouldn't apply to the way I do it...
The main one for me is Alan Partridge, which seems to have a quote for every occasion should you require it.
Also Wayne's World, Spinal Tap, that Werther's Original advert where the grandad taps the boy's head and he goes "owwww", Dude Where's my Car. It sort of depends on the people you are with and obviously the situation.
And what are your views on this practice generally? Clearly there is nothing more annoying than a group of people sat around in the pub just endlessly quoting something shit like Little Britain, but I think most people (that I know) tend to quote something from time to time.
partridge and the office
are the main ones for me. i use them all the time, even in completely inappropriate situations.
did i nooooooo want to hear that
e.g whenever i see a painting
in someone's house, i have to say
"i dont know why i bought this painting".
you sound like me
I like the way your user name is called Fernando Partridge
and I had to complete that whole painting quote in my head
i can read you like a book.
and not a very good book either. certainly no bravo two zero by andy mcnab, which actually gets better with every read.
it's actually improves with every read
I really am sorry
A common one for me
is "unbelievable" as you step out of a situation in which you have been annoyed (re:alan and the laughing man in the lift)
i do that too
shit, we have alot in common. The Lex Files!
fancy a pint later on? no? neither do i. thankyou..
nice array of pasties you've got there
don't want one, just making small talk
.....
I bug the hell out of my best friend by quoting Janice from Friends and saying to him "YOU LOVE ME!! You know it...you just don't know you know it!"
In the voice as well.
You can all throw things at me now :-(
i am not a number
I try to avoid it if at all possible
but the occasional Curb or Soprano quote will be used
HBO snob
spaced
mean girls
americas next top model
clueless
league of gentlemen
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah
how can you quote
ANTM?
'in youse tall bitches faces!'
'you make me wanna study psychology. more.'
excellent!
don't think I could pull them off though
this, is americas next top model.
not americas next best friend.
or,
I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE SHOUTED AT A GIRL LIKE THIS BEFORE!
<3 Mean Girls
sarkyfox is so fetch!!
but you LOVE ladysmith black mambazo!
i reckon if we shaved your head
you'd look like a British male.
have i missed something here?
or are you just being nasty?
it's a line from Mean Girls
you doofus.
It's while she's in the health product store talking to Janis Ian and Damian about Regina George.
Call yourself a fan?
i only select the choice lines
not the throwaway ones.
i beg to differ.
shush
i haven't seen it in about 2 years. these are being pulled up from BEYOND THE GRAVE
i can't believe you thought I was being nasty
you are a mean girl.
:(
the second bit is from the film!
it's when she has a party and doesn't invite Damian and Janis and they drive passed to give Cady the painting Janis did after the art show but they have an argument about the party.
I want my pink shirt back!
god i fucking suck
have a caltine bar.
:)
Hehehe
You smell like a baby prostitute
'trang pak is a grotsky biatch'
.....
It's like I have ESPN or something. My breasts can always tell when it's going to rain
or when it's raining.
....
I'm so watching Mean Girls tonight :-)
i might watch it on sunday.
i need to buy it.
damn you all.
the wicker man remake
neverending source of comedy.
Partridge
Peep Show
Spaced
Family Guy
Red Dwarf
The Office
Father Ted
"two packets of toffos."
god i love toffos
My wife
often calls me 'me julie' which can get embarrassing when out & about. You get looks that say 'what the FUCK did she just call you?'. I have been known to quote League of Gentlemen but only in situations that warrant it.
LoG is ace though.
"Oi! Three Bluebirds!"
Alright clever dick
That's enough.
"you work shy set of bastards,
you'll never amount to anything. Sit up straight you bone-idle lazy cun-"
^workshop on self-esteem for the unemployed.
HEATHEN!
u forgot buffy!
i quote buffy and angel all the time.
Because most of my closest friends are ones that
are in the films we do, it's mostly stuff like that. With no real sense. I'm not going to post any quotes because they're all pretty much "had to be there" kinda things.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace!
so many good ones!
She was like a candle in the wind...unreliable.
Watch out, he's got a stick!
We need to lick this problem before it turns round and slaps us in the nuts!
Being in a band means
always quoting Spinal Tap: "How's this work then?" "It's not you, it's your fackin' wife!"
or Some Kind of Monster: "This is just so fucking stock!" "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!" etc.
Also Anchorman: "That escalated quickly" and Wayne's World: "Dude, you're... amazing." "Thanks, I like to play"
Haha
Some Kind of Monster was prime quoting material when I was in a band too.
"If that was me, I would deleete it..."
Wayne's World
Recently, when I see something even vaguely surprising or out-of-the-ordinary, I've taken to saying "Woah, Dick van Dyke Show." This is generally met with blank looks from my work mates.
At Glastonbury a couple of years ago I was camped next to a bunch of 17-year-olds who seemed to spend about 3 hours every day sat round quoting ONE FUCKING SCENE from Team America at each other over and over again. In the end I had to murder them all with a tent peg.
Which scene?
Shheeeh right...
:)
Not that "what would you do" song?
It is good though
..
The whole "dick" "pussy" "arsehole" speech
I like
Ixnay on the condescension there, chet
and
Exsqueeze me, some real gigs?
CARRRR!
GAME ON!
me and my
mates either do the office or early auf weidershen pet which has amazing lines and they are even funnier if you attempt the geordie accent!
we also throw the odd sopranos one in which is always something paulie walnuts has said!
Bullseye
there was a good episode once
where a man on there had a badge on which said "nob of the week".
in moderation
chris morris stuff, napoleon dynamite, um, stuff
.
Pretty good. PRETTYYYYY, PRETTYYYYY, PRETTYYYY good.
Increasingly I am saying this without even thinking about it, I should probably stop.
Spaced or Shaun of the Dead occasionally, Family Guy often, Arnie movies religiously
and, having got their DVD for crimbo, watched it relentlessly and started quoting lines from it, i now feel like a member of Every Time I Die.
I do/have done this far to much
Various phrases from TV programs and films that became a staple part of my vocab at various points in my life:
"That's just, like, your opinion man" - Big Lebowski
"You're entering a world of pain" - BL again
"(insert name) shut up, the grown ups are talking" - New Statesman
"Because the population of luxembourg isn't that big" (said when someone asks a ridiculous/nonsensical question) - New Statesman again
"Great preface" - Sean's Show
"This country" - Alan Partridge
"It's high noon on my sundial" - Beavis and Butt-Head
"Do you have any idea how disrespectful that is?!" - Weird Science
"JTFC" - Team America
and so, so many more. I should think up some interesting things to say myself.
I use
"How's THAT for a slice of fried gold" far too much.
I love Shaun Of The Dead.
Day Today
Jam
Alan Partridge
<the shame>
Spaced
League of Gents
obviously
Peep Show.
I walk around sometimes and narrate my life inside my head as if I were Mark or Jeremy.
bf
'this is the worst birthday ever'
from Malcolm in the Middle where he beats up a giant kid who is much younger than him
all the time!
my favourites would be:
anchorman
the office
partridge
wayne' world
men behaving badly