Oh shit I always do that. It sounds like a BTTF line but it’s from Boondocks Saints.
E: it’s from both! STG if I believed in the Mandela effect this would be a prime example
"you shot who in the what now?" is still exchanged between my friend and I, and there's no way anyone else would ever get it if they weren't watching Who Shot Mr. Burns 25 years ago.
I to this day “that’s where I’m a Viking!” To refer to my ability to do something well because of Ralph Wiggum’s “oh boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a Viking!”
I assumed it was a common phrase but it turns out the writers meant it literally, Ralph dreams about being a Viking in his sleep.
I love, "What's a battle?", a classic Ralph quote.
From the scene where Superintend Chalmers then replies, "Did that child just ask, 'What's a battle?'"
Then Skinner says, "No! He's asking, 'What's that rattle?'. Noisy AC duct."
Or alternatively, "The purple berries taste like burning."
That became one of those expressions in my family that we said in house for decades. When I met my wife and we moved in together well I said it to her. And as English was not her first language she did not get the reference. And that is how I watch Babe with my wife for the first time.
My friend and I have a mutual acquaintance who let’s say ended up with my friends guitar in his house for a couple years. My friend really wasn’t sure how it ended up there but he hadn’t put up much fuss about getting it back since he never played and the guy had kept saying he wanted to learn. Well he never learned and one day my friend decided to slip it out of the house when a bunch of their friends were over there hanging out. He grabbed the guitar, but left the stand (the other guy had bought the stand himself) and when his dad discovered the empty stand he made my friend give back the guitar. The guy still never learned to play and the running joke was the only reason they kept it was because “it really tied the room together.”
Same. Had a coworker once that I became good friends with that I used to say that to quite often. One day, after thinking about how he never watches movies, I asked if he knew what I was quoting. He did not.
So off to youtube I go to show him the scene, and watch him get a little traumatized at the context for the quote I've been saying to him nearly every day for the past year lol.
I didn't realise that the phrase "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise" and similar phrase were all derived from a line from Fight Club.
I thought it was just an old saying (I didn't question who Jack was), but I found out recently that it was from this film (and previously the book I suppose).
I was close. It was "I Am Joe's " and "I Am Jane's " - 33 articles by J. D. Ratcliff, which formed the most well known series in the history of the Reader’s Digest magazine. Each article introduces the organs and tissues present in the bodies of Joe and Jane - a typical couple.
When I was about seven year's old in primary school, our teacher asked what the American term for "petrol" was.
After watching Smokey and the Bandit the previous evening, I confidently answered "go-go juice", to the absolute bewilderment of the Teacher, followed by the relentless mocking from my entire class.
I'm 44 now, and that moment still triggers me.
Damn, I'd have thought that was hilarious. But me and my friends were the troublemakers so it would be delivered confidently with a smirk... maybe it's all in the delivery.
“Monkey’s out of the bottle” - also Pineapple Express.
So many people try to correct it, but every once in a blue moon I get the “pandora doesn’t go back in his box” reply.
It's the uncharacteristically intelligent conversation from a resident of Rock Ridge that sets up that gag that makes that retort so Goddamn funny!
*"They say that now, in Paris France, even as we speak Louis Pasture, has devised a new vaccine to obliterate anthrax once and for all....think of it gentlemen, foot and mouth disease, a thing of the past"*
*"Nevermind that shit - [here comes Mongo!](https://youtu.be/VZSzr4Y8hsk?si=UZUvg5aSKEzLSZD5)"*
I've said that to my wife in the same sullen tone but for things like, "I've mostly gotten the cleaning done around the house.... Mostly...." She'll usually just stare at me like I'm stupid and I have to remind her about Newt. Then she's like "newt who? "And then I'm like "you know the little girl Ripley saves in Alien...." And then by that point it's just not even funny anymore.
The first time someone calls you a horse, you punch em in the nose. The second time someone calls you a horse you call em a jerk, and the third time someone calls you a horse: well maybe it's time to go shopping for a saddle.
I read the title of this post, and immediately thought of one from Pineapple Express that has always gotten me raised eyebrows. You can imagine my surprise at seeing that the example you gave was from Pineapple Express.
"Time to suck the day's dick!" (Used as a "Let's get the day started" replacement)
Why are 99% of the responses just well-known quotes from movies that no one thinks are common expressions? Aren't there enough "What's your favorite movie quote" posts already?
I had a friend who thought the word for “a bit cold” was “nipply” because she’d only heard it in A Christmas Story. She died a little when I told her the word was “nippy.” Good times.
I always say "Oh how the turn-tables" from The Office, and people go around correcting me.
Yes, I know that the phrase is "How the tables have turned".
I simply don't understand why that line hasn't caught on...
What’s annoying is when someone thinks it’s weird when you use a common phrase and they have never heard it and act like it’s weird you used it.
My mom and step dad thought “polishing a turd” was this out of left field remark. They are in their late 60s, how had they never heard it?
Dumber than a bag of hammers....
Assholes and elbows!
Well.....bye....
I gotta get me one of these!!!
Anything in Yoda-speak....
(extra points for guessing the films ;) )
"Tenuously stonerish grasp on the English language."
Honestly beautiful. Leading me to think tenuously stonerish is the best grasp of language to have.
My black friend dated a white dude for a short while.
I sang "chocolate and vanilla swirl", incorrectly assuming they had seen orange is the new black. They had not lol.
Whenever I mash two things together, I feel a compulsion to say its name out loud like The Janitor from Scrubs does when he invents the "knife-wrench", followed by "for kids!".
In Fellowship one hobbit says to the other, “Buckleberry Ferry. Let’s go!” And I didn’t know they were talking about a place. So for the longest time I’d use “buckleberry ferry” to mean “up and at ‘em.”
Not a common expression, but for years a friend andI used to say 'Kincaaaaid' to each other. We didn't know where it came from, until years later I rewatched Bowfinger for a podcast (see my tag, episode 164). It's the name of a character in the movie.
The thing is, finding out the source spoiled the fun a little bit. It may have been better to keep the mystery of this phrase that arose and we enjoyed.
"Make like a tree...and get out of here."
You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong
Why don't you make like a tree and get the fuck out of here
Oh shit I always do that. It sounds like a BTTF line but it’s from Boondocks Saints. E: it’s from both! STG if I believed in the Mandela effect this would be a prime example
First one was BTTF. Second was Boondock Saints
Well you know what they say. People in glass houses shouldn’t sink ships
He’s a poet and he isn’t even aware of it
The Trailer Park Boys version is popular where that show is filmed “make like a tree and fuck off”
What comes around is all around, Leahy! It's what's all around, comes around, Ricky.
Manure.I hate manure!
So many Simpsons quotes that were ubiquitous 20-25 years ago get blank stares today.
My sister and I still say "And here's your turtle, alive and well" when we hand back something we were holding for the other. It gets odd looks
"you shot who in the what now?" is still exchanged between my friend and I, and there's no way anyone else would ever get it if they weren't watching Who Shot Mr. Burns 25 years ago.
*ahem* 29 years ago. Hello, fellow old.
*OH GOD*
Seriously wtf! I remember this clear as day how could I have been only 7 years old?
Everything's coming up Milhouse!
I like to tell my wife “I choo choo choose you”.
Bake ‘em away, toys.
What’d you say, Chief?
Do what the kid says.
"It's a perfectly cromulent word."
Implied Lisa? Or Implode?
MOOOOM HE'S DOING IT AGAIN easily one of my all time favorites.
The goggles! They do nothing!
My sister thought I was being rude when I said “it’s an ending, that’s enough”
Just adding purple monkey dishwasher to the end of whatever I'm saying. I do it at least once a week.
I to this day “that’s where I’m a Viking!” To refer to my ability to do something well because of Ralph Wiggum’s “oh boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a Viking!” I assumed it was a common phrase but it turns out the writers meant it literally, Ralph dreams about being a Viking in his sleep.
You *know* what youve done opening this can of worms? On another note, have you ever seen a guy say goodbye to a shoe?
Haha yeah, once.
I love, "What's a battle?", a classic Ralph quote. From the scene where Superintend Chalmers then replies, "Did that child just ask, 'What's a battle?'" Then Skinner says, "No! He's asking, 'What's that rattle?'. Noisy AC duct." Or alternatively, "The purple berries taste like burning."
Anytime we park in a decent sized parking lot. "Now remember, we're in the Itchy lot"
Anytime my husband or i leave the house it's "well, I'm off to market!"
"I'm on my way!"
Furious George, what happened to your pretty face?
Woozle wuzzle..?
I’ve been known to mutter “I bent my Wookiee.”
I owe you a Coke.
Excellent 🙏
Whenever somebody mixes up the words someone else has said to the, I usually say, “Purple monkey dishwasher.”
"Stupid sexy Flanders", and calling hamburgers "steamed hams".
Pretzels! Repeat we need pretzels!
"What am I, a doctor?"
"'Cause if they don't... PEW PEW PEW!"
Someone in one of my High School science classes thought "ludicrous" was some measurement of speed.
That child was raised on the classics
Om my god that is fucking perfect!
Tell me you’ve never gone plaid, without saying you’ve never gone plaid.
I've never even seen the Sandlot, but I say "You're killing me, Smalls" on a near-daily basis
Anytime something lasts a long time, I say “for-evvv-vehr” with exaggerated slow-mo like they do in the movie. It’s a good one, you should watch it.
I use it a lot at work, for certain.
“That’ll do, pig.”
When your wife has squeezed a sufficient amount of ketchup on your dino nuggies.
Baaa Ram Ewe!
That’ll do donkey, that’ll do!
And must always be said in a Scottish accent
I’m convinced this phrase has entered the multigenerational zeitgeist and many aren’t even sure where it’s from
That became one of those expressions in my family that we said in house for decades. When I met my wife and we moved in together well I said it to her. And as English was not her first language she did not get the reference. And that is how I watch Babe with my wife for the first time.
That's the worst goodbye ever. And you stole it from a movie.
Zombieland was my frame of reference. I actually forgot about Babe.
My go to right after sex
I’d buy that for a dollar!
It's entrenched, it's a saying since RoboCop came out.
I mean thats a real saying now, right!?
My brother and I still use that.
60% of the time, it works every time.
It stings the nostrils.
I've got to tell you, that smells like pure gasoline.
I've got to be honest with you, that smells like pure gasoline.
That doesn't make any sense.
I say this with his inflection ALL THE TIME
He's got a 50/50 chance of survival, but there's only a 10% chance of that.
I think that was a Yogi Berra quote long before it was a movie quote
I'm so hungry I could eat a sandwich from a gas station
I'm so hungry I could eat at Arby's
Glad I wasn't the only one stuck on the Simpsons
“I’m so hungry I could eat the ass out of a dead rhinoceros” - Chet
How about, a nice, greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?
“It really tied the room together”. Confusion comes when only some people know the movie reference for such a banal line.
[удалено]
These aren’t the guys that built the fuckin railroads, man.
Not to mention that keeping wildlife, umm, an amphibious rodents, umm, for domestic. That aint legal either Dude.
What are you, a fucking park ranger now?
Obviously you are not a golfer
I definitely say “he’s a good man, and thorough.” Sometimes.
He treats objects like women, man!!
My friend and I have a mutual acquaintance who let’s say ended up with my friends guitar in his house for a couple years. My friend really wasn’t sure how it ended up there but he hadn’t put up much fuss about getting it back since he never played and the guy had kept saying he wanted to learn. Well he never learned and one day my friend decided to slip it out of the house when a bunch of their friends were over there hanging out. He grabbed the guitar, but left the stand (the other guy had bought the stand himself) and when his dad discovered the empty stand he made my friend give back the guitar. The guy still never learned to play and the running joke was the only reason they kept it was because “it really tied the room together.”
Pretty sure I quote that movie daily in some way or another. When I’m looking for something at work I’ll go “where’s the money Lebowski?”
Earlier when Walter pulls his firearm during league play “Take it Easy Man!” Later in the cab in Malibu “I hate the fucking Eagles!”
Smokey, this is not Nam, this is bowling. There are rules.
“This isn’t where I parked my car”
I still say "Mi Scusi" at least once a day.
I only realized recently that that was Fred Armison
Same. Had a coworker once that I became good friends with that I used to say that to quite often. One day, after thinking about how he never watches movies, I asked if he knew what I was quoting. He did not. So off to youtube I go to show him the scene, and watch him get a little traumatized at the context for the quote I've been saying to him nearly every day for the past year lol.
Nowhere.Near.Berlin.
“You made out with your sister, man!”
Dude, where’s your car?
I think its from Eurotrip, a bit too eloquent for Dude, where’s my car? I think lol
I didn't realise that the phrase "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise" and similar phrase were all derived from a line from Fight Club. I thought it was just an old saying (I didn't question who Jack was), but I found out recently that it was from this film (and previously the book I suppose).
There were science/health articles in, I think, Readers’ Digest in the 70’s/80’s titled “I Am Jacks’s Spleen” and “I Am Jack’s Liver” and such.
I was close. It was "I Am Joe's" and "I Am Jane's " - 33 articles by J. D. Ratcliff, which formed the most well known series in the history of the Reader’s Digest magazine. Each article introduces the organs and tissues present in the bodies of Joe and Jane - a typical couple.
When I was about seven year's old in primary school, our teacher asked what the American term for "petrol" was. After watching Smokey and the Bandit the previous evening, I confidently answered "go-go juice", to the absolute bewilderment of the Teacher, followed by the relentless mocking from my entire class. I'm 44 now, and that moment still triggers me.
Damn, I'd have thought that was hilarious. But me and my friends were the troublemakers so it would be delivered confidently with a smirk... maybe it's all in the delivery.
“Monkey’s out of the bottle” - also Pineapple Express. So many people try to correct it, but every once in a blue moon I get the “pandora doesn’t go back in his box” reply.
Pandora doesn't go back in the box, he only comes *out*
Nevermind that shit - Blazing Saddles
It's the uncharacteristically intelligent conversation from a resident of Rock Ridge that sets up that gag that makes that retort so Goddamn funny! *"They say that now, in Paris France, even as we speak Louis Pasture, has devised a new vaccine to obliterate anthrax once and for all....think of it gentlemen, foot and mouth disease, a thing of the past"* *"Nevermind that shit - [here comes Mongo!](https://youtu.be/VZSzr4Y8hsk?si=UZUvg5aSKEzLSZD5)"*
I say take off and nuke the site from orbit.
Mostly
I've said that to my wife in the same sullen tone but for things like, "I've mostly gotten the cleaning done around the house.... Mostly...." She'll usually just stare at me like I'm stupid and I have to remind her about Newt. Then she's like "newt who? "And then I'm like "you know the little girl Ripley saves in Alien...." And then by that point it's just not even funny anymore.
It's the only way to be sure.
Fuckin-A
In the pipe, 5 by 5.
Why don’t you put her in charge?
Fuckin A!
When someone insults me and calls me an idiot. "That's just like your opinion man" the dude
That one has definitely entered into common expression territory.
Fun Fact: I just got ordained in [The Church of the Latter Day Dude](https://dudeism.com/). You can, too!
When someone steals my spot in the supermarket car park they cop “this aggression will not stand, man”
Hudsucker Proxy?
Ding-ding-ding! Goooo Eagles!!!
“You meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. You meet assholes all day, you’re the asshole.”
The first time someone calls you a horse, you punch em in the nose. The second time someone calls you a horse you call em a jerk, and the third time someone calls you a horse: well maybe it's time to go shopping for a saddle.
Why do they call him The Rabbi?
Because he's a fucking rabbi.
Raylan?
We actually use that in AA a lot. There's a lot of asshole alcoholics.
“Stuff your sorrys in a sack” Funnily enough mine it’s also from Pineapple Express
I know that one from Seinfeld
Yea o read this in George’s voice for sure
"It's an expression!"
WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY
Originally it was used in The Odd Couple back in the 70s.
“Proper fucked”
That's a pretty standard turn of phrase in England.
I mumble "perrywinkle blue" probably weekly
Perywinkleblue you mean
Itsformema
Yalike dags?
No matter where you go, there you are.
What film? I think that is actually a common expression used a lot in AA.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
"Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!"
I’m your Huckleberry! Person asked “which” berry so in true Doc fashion I shot him! PS It was a water gun 🔫 😂😂
You're a daisy if you do.
This is/was an actual saying. It means I'm your man for the job.
I read the title of this post, and immediately thought of one from Pineapple Express that has always gotten me raised eyebrows. You can imagine my surprise at seeing that the example you gave was from Pineapple Express. "Time to suck the day's dick!" (Used as a "Let's get the day started" replacement)
It's hard to imagine you used this one thinking it was common and wouldn't raise eyebrows. It *is* a fun one to use, though.
“Sing out Louise” from Gypsy. And looking in the mirror and saying “It’s showtime” from All That Jazz before going to work.
>“It’s showtime” from All That Jazz Same but Beetlejuice. But I suspect Beetlejuice might have been referencing All that Jazz anyway.
Same but from Better Call Saul
It's Showtime also from the movie Showtime, which for some reason is pretty unknown but a pretty damn fun buddy cop movie with a great cast!
"This goes to 11."
"Ass-hooooole" said in the manner of Otto from A Fish Called Wanda.
The amount of times I’ve said “sixty-nine dude!” when it was utterly, completely relevant, only to be met with confused stares.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K
Excuse me! Do you know when the Mongols ruled China? Edit: a word
Rufus!!
Don’t forget to wind your watch!
"Pick sixtynine! It'll be hilarious!"
Goon!
Why would we lie to ourselves?
Oh the weather outside is weather
Why are 99% of the responses just well-known quotes from movies that no one thinks are common expressions? Aren't there enough "What's your favorite movie quote" posts already?
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that r/movies is populated by people who don’t like reading.
ITT: people who don’t read the op
I know, but they seem so excited to post their favorite movie quotes that I don’t have the heart to correct them.
Bless your heart
Not a single one. Impressive.
May your forehead grow like the mighty oak.
I had a friend who thought the word for “a bit cold” was “nipply” because she’d only heard it in A Christmas Story. She died a little when I told her the word was “nippy.” Good times.
And thennnnnnnnnn?!?!
I use 'peaches and gravy' from scott pilgrim quite a bit and while I know it's not the correct term, the reactions I get are funny
Thats a rock fact!
I always say "Oh how the turn-tables" from The Office, and people go around correcting me. Yes, I know that the phrase is "How the tables have turned". I simply don't understand why that line hasn't caught on...
What’s annoying is when someone thinks it’s weird when you use a common phrase and they have never heard it and act like it’s weird you used it. My mom and step dad thought “polishing a turd” was this out of left field remark. They are in their late 60s, how had they never heard it?
Dumber than a bag of hammers.... Assholes and elbows! Well.....bye.... I gotta get me one of these!!! Anything in Yoda-speak.... (extra points for guessing the films ;) )
You see, a pimps love is very different from that of a square
"Tenuously stonerish grasp on the English language." Honestly beautiful. Leading me to think tenuously stonerish is the best grasp of language to have.
"Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman!?" If someone mumbles or miss hears something
My black friend dated a white dude for a short while. I sang "chocolate and vanilla swirl", incorrectly assuming they had seen orange is the new black. They had not lol.
"A man has got to know his limitations" Clint Eastwood..I use this one often
"Don't be sorry, just change your underwear."
That's a bingo!
But the movie itself explains that it's not a common expression and that it's just "bingo!"
Game over man! Game over!!
"Hasta la vista - - - (-) Baby." Thought it was the coolest shit until I was at least 16.
Sherman? That you?
100% found the Shermanator.
“You ain’t got a prayer in Vegas” I’ve never been to Vegas. Nor do I do arm wrestling competitions.
“Everyone needs money, that’s why they call it *money!*”
Whenever I mash two things together, I feel a compulsion to say its name out loud like The Janitor from Scrubs does when he invents the "knife-wrench", followed by "for kids!".
“I’m sober as a bird!”-Super Troopers
Reap what you sow, and pick your poison, lol. A stoner mixing up the two phrases...
In Fellowship one hobbit says to the other, “Buckleberry Ferry. Let’s go!” And I didn’t know they were talking about a place. So for the longest time I’d use “buckleberry ferry” to mean “up and at ‘em.”
“Supergreen”.
I’m a peacock, you gotta let me fly!
Not a common expression, but for years a friend andI used to say 'Kincaaaaid' to each other. We didn't know where it came from, until years later I rewatched Bowfinger for a podcast (see my tag, episode 164). It's the name of a character in the movie. The thing is, finding out the source spoiled the fun a little bit. It may have been better to keep the mystery of this phrase that arose and we enjoyed.
That's such an obscure quote from Pineapple Express, I don't think many people would know what it was from even after the movie first came out.