I regularly reference movies in everyday conversation. Obscure, strange references that upon mentioning them, should others get my reference, they immediately become my new best friends. I remember when I realized that
Matt Fraction knew "Three Amigos" as obsessively as I did and now, I think, should we ever be trapped in a room together, it would eventually devolve into Dusty Bottoms quotes. After quoting "Beetle Juice" today in reference to a spreadsheet I received from a vendor ("this book reads like stereo instructions"), I thought I might make a wee list of some of the lines I've worked into my repetoire, just because. There's one new line in there that I'm going to be working hard to adopt so if I reference lockjaw around you, maybe a thumbs up is in order.
"Three Amigos"El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora?
Pablo: Can I have your watch when you are dead?
El Guapo: It's a sweater!
Sam: Take the Amigos' clothes.
"Steel Magnolias"M'Lynn: Drink your juice, Shelby.
"Uncle Buck"Maizy: That's a pretty stupid thing to do during flu season.
U.B.: Oh, the OUTER door...because there's nothing on this one.
U.B.: Maizy, if the object of the game were to get the ball as close to the pins without knocking any of them over, you would be champion of the world.
"Beetle Juice"Old Barber Bill: He's got hair right down to his goddamned shoulders and he says to me, "Just...just trim it a little."
Betelguese: Stick around, round boy, we're gonna have some laughs.
Delia: Oh look, an indoor outhouse.
Adam: This book reads like stereo instructions.
Receptionist: And let me tell you, if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have had my little accident. (Who, by the way, was played by Carmen from...yes..."Three Amigos".)
Charles: Birdies.
Charles: I had Maxie Dean on the phone.
"One Crazy Summer"George: CHILI DOG.
"Kicking and Screaming"Max: Is that a pyjama top?
Otis: No...yes.
Kate: Why's everything gotta be so glum wit'cha? Parkin' spaces, toppings on pizza... (I'm pretty sure that's paraphrased, but that's what stuck.)
Otis: Monkeys, monkeys, Ted, and Alice.
Skippy: COUGARS!
Friedrich: Two grape!
"Donnie Darko"Crazy Evil Health Teacher: Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion.
"Lone Wolf McQuade"Dakota: How would you like to bite that in the butt, develop lockjaw, and be dragged to death?
Wow. I've got weird taste in movies.