You might as well know this about me: I am notorious for quoting movies in middle of conversations. You might have even noticed that I do this sometimes on the blog.
I love to do it especially when the movie line somehow fits into the conversation as though it belonged there. Adds to the humor.
The Director does this, too. Sometimes The Director and I will have entire conversations using only movie lines, while The Wild One yanks out her hair.
Just as an example…here are just a sample of some of the movie lines I use most often. See if you can guess them. (Answers are below.)
- “Either you karate do, yes, or karate do, no. You karate do “guess so”– (*squish*) just like grape. Understand?”
- “It’s cute. It’s like a little clue.”
- “No. That’s not true. THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!” (last part done as a scream)
- Pretty much the entire script of The Princess Bride.
So I was thinking of a funny story waaaay back when Aaroneous and I lived in the same town, playing on a worship team together. I was leading a worship team rehearsal, and we were doing a sound check or something, and the volume was way up on some of the instruments.
I stopped the music, shook my head, and said:
“Sorry, fellas. You’re just too darn loud.”
Without missing a beat, Aaroneous, standing behind me, leaned into his microphone and said in a deep voice:
“Back to the Future. 1985.”
And he was right.
Answers to movie quotes above:
- The Karate Kid, 1984
- Sleepless in Seattle, 1993
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980
- The Princess Bride, 1987
Wayward Son
Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo.
I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.
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I quote liberally from:
The entire script of “O Brother, Where Are Thou?” (Les, her brother and I can quote that back and forth at each other forever). For that matter, all Coen Brothers movies are quotable (esp. “The Big Lebowski” and “Raising Arizona”).
“Princess Bride”, of course.
“Snatch”.
Anything from Monty Python.
Too many others to count.
All too easy.
“Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania Station?”
“Ya, ya, track tventy-nine. Oh, can I give you a shine?”
“Eyegore, could you give me a hand with the bags?”
“Soitenly, you take the blonde and I’ll take the one in the toiben.”
"You're a daisy if you do." & "Well, bye." (can you guess those?)
Anything Yoda had to say, especially, "Do, or do not. There is no try."
And, for the trekkie in all of us, "I'm a doctor, not a …"
If she weighs the same as a duck , she’s made of wood! and therefore.. She’s a witch!!!
and many MST3K comment quotes..
like:”Joe Don Baker is Mittens!!”
or:
“who’s the puffy guy who’s a big blurry sex machine?”
Also a few random quotes from The Nightmare Before Christmas
You blogging’ to me? You blogging’ to me? You blogging’ to me? Then who the h*ll else are you blogging’ to? You blogging’ to me? Well I’m the only one here. Who do you think you’re blogging to? Oh yeah? Huh? Ok.
This isn’t my real job, you know.
No?
Nope. My friend Harry and I are saving up money for a pet store.
That’s nice.
I got worms!
I beg your pardon?
That’s what we’re gonna call it. I got worms! We’re gonna specialize in selling worm farms. You know, like ant farms.
I can’t believe it.
Life is a fragile thing, Har. One minute you’re chewin’ on a burger, the next minute you’re dead meat.
But he blamed me. You heard him. Those were his last words.
Not if you count the gurgling sound.
@shaun,
Yeah, yeah – all of MST3K.
“Are YOU a potato?” gets used in our house a lot.
“I’m not dead yet!”
Home Alone:
said to the doorman:
“What kind of idiots do you have working here??”
Doorman’s response:
“The finest in New York”.
You had me at “Hello”…
Of course anything from Princess Bride, Monty Python, or This Is Spinal Tap.
Only slightly less well known, is this! The Tick. Lot’s of great quotes there.
Just so happens that the Director and I were exchanging movie quotes from Galaxy Quest on Facebook just last night.
And also…thanks for the link love, bro!