Any time someone asks how much money someone needs we always quote Eddie from Vacation: About $52,000.
And I passed out Jelly of the Month Club certificates one year at work to several folks (myself included) but no one in management when raises/bonuses sucked.
This is one of my personal favorite parts of the tour. Please say hello to our residents, Pedro and his wife Inez. Inez has a clay pot that she seems very proud of. She has carefully detailed it with lots of paint and glaze. And Pedro is working on an “adobe.” Can you say that with me? “Adobe”.
Really, Y’all have been my favorite tour group ever.
Cool Hand Luke (Obviously, “What we have here is a failure to communicate”)
Elf (“You sit on a throne of lies!”)
O Brother Where Art Thou? (“R-U-N-N-O-F-T”)
The Muppet Movie (too many to list)
Raising Arizona
The whole recidivism exchange at the parole board; “her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase”; “you go back in there and get me a toddler!” “Don’t tell his mama that, it’ll break her heart!”, “mind his little fontanel!”, “Don’t cut yourself, Mordecai”, “you get that diaper off your sister’s head!”
@LostTexan Once I had the most golden opportunity to quote Mean Girls and I missed it. My husband is part Mexican, but he doesn’t really look it. Nonetheless, he has a very common Mexican last name. Once a friend said, “So I gotta ask, if you’re Mexican, then why are you white?” What I should have said was “Oh my God (friend’s name), you can’t just ask people why they’re white!” but I didn’t realize the missed opportunity until a day later.
As is obvious, Mean Girls is on my list. Also, Dodgeball, Elf, Men in Tights, Pulp Fiction, A League of Their Own, The Breakfast Club, and A Christmas Story. Also, a special shout out to two movies in particular: Army of Darkness and The Ref (which are a shade darker than a lot of the movies noted here). Notable quotes include “This is my boomstick!” from Army of Darkness. Also from The Ref “Excuse me! Excuse me! Excuse me! The corpse has the floor!” and “Grandma’s chewing through her gag again.”
The thing I quote more than anything else though is definitely Firefly (TV, obviously). Namely, when confused: “She understands. She doesn’t comprehend” and when making a mess while eating “My food is problematic.”
When I have not heard from D2 for days- used in a text message- she totally gets it.
‘sanka- you dead mon?’ I usually use alive instead of dead though. It’s from Cool Runnings.
And for those The Princess Bride fans - there’s a cute book by Cary Elwes about the making of the movie. It also contains stories contributed by a lot of the other actors. It’s called “As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride”.
From Meatballs with Bill Murray, a movie about raging teen hormones and coming of age at summer camp.
Wealthy snotty kids at Camp Mohawk are on brink of winning the big competition over the cut rate kids at Camp Mohawk and lead advisor Bill Murray gives them an inspiration speech the night before the finals ultimately leading a chant where they are all in unison screaming…
It just doens’t matter !
It just doesn’t matter !!
It just doesn’t matter !!!
Of course all the “loser” kids deliver in the end, and they win, probably because the pressure was taken off of them to do so.
Still a great movie.
Finding Nemo
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming (Dory)