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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit, you want me to pick just one line from the best parody movie of all time?!

I guess if I were forced to pick, it would be:
"I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate."
"So what does that make us?"
"Absolutely nothing."

[–] Tenthrow 3 points 1 year ago

Which you are about to become!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm surrounded by assholes!

Honorable mention because I use this one surprisingly often:

1-2-3-4-5? That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No more beaming! This time, I’ll walk! opens the door and it’s right there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why didn't anyone tell me my ass was so big?

Also, I always loved the 'She's a bass, who knew?' line.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Comb the desert. "We ain't found shit!"

[–] Xylinna 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] RojoSanIchiban 4 points 1 year ago

"We aint found shit!"

  • Tuvok
[–] justhach 6 points 1 year ago

Oh, man, sooo many

"Whats the matter, Colonel Sanders? Chicken???"

"Just what I needed. A Druish princess."
"Funny, she doesn't look Druish."

"Alright, the short, short version. Do you? Do You? Good! You're married, now kiss her"

And the entire "I'm surrounded by assholes" scene

[–] OogieBoogieMan 5 points 1 year ago

So many of the others I first thought were already here so… I see your Schwartz is as big as mine

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 5 points 1 year ago

Raspberry. There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry! Lone Starr!

[–] grue 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

gestures broadly at entire script

[–] RojoSanIchiban 1 points 1 year ago

Truly the only proper answer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with @ringwraithfish about that being a very hard choice.

...

Nope, can't decide between (all paraphrased because I mainly remember the German translation)

  • "Comb through the desert!" [cut, followed by troopers using a giant comb on the sand]
  • The passcode scene
  • "Water, water!" "Water, water!" "Oil, oil!" "Roomservice, roomservice!"
  • "Didn't I say only pack what we need for survival?" "But I can't live without this thing!"
  • "Yoghurt! I hate Yoghurt!" [followed by underling offering to change Big Helmet's breakfast and a rebuke that that wasn't what he meant]
  • "He's an Asshole, sir." "I know that, I want to know his surname!" "That is his surname, sir." [Big Helmet asks who else on the ship is an Asshole and nearly everyone holds up their hand.] "I knew I was surrounded by assholes!"
[–] Tenthrow 1 points 1 year ago

"It's my industrial strength hard dryer... and I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT!" LOL so good.

[–] 7u5k3n 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Goodness..

They've gone to plaid!

...and change the combination on my luggage

Oh no....not again!

Dink dink... Dink dink dink dink dink dink... Dink dink.

[–] Burninator05 4 points 1 year ago

Sir. The radar, sir. It appears to be...jammed.

[–] zcd 4 points 1 year ago

MAIWWAGGGEEE

[–] Tenthrow 3 points 1 year ago

Lonestar! I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.

[–] amnesiacrobat 3 points 1 year ago

There’s so many great ones, but one I use daily is “you went over my helmet?!”

[–] SpringMango7379 3 points 1 year ago

“Why didn't somebody tell me my ass was so big?”

[–] _thebrain_ 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my friends recently got scammed online. He should have known better. But when he got the ticket and the number on it was 123 456 789 10 11 12, I had to tell him that was the same as the combination on my luggage

[–] Tenthrow 1 points 1 year ago

Classic! I feel bad for your friend though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This will seem strange, because it isn't one of the quotable lines you usually think of.

But, "That's gonna leave a mark" when Barf forgets the seatbelt. That bit is so classically John Candy. It may not seem like it, but watch the scene and see how he plays it. Subtle, which is so rare with a bit physical humor.

I laugh as hard at the way he delivers that otherwise not very funny line as I do almost anything else in the movie.

It doesn't hurt that the line itself has become a family in-joke of sorts. We've got kids in the family that use the line when they bump into something or whatever, that haven't seen the movie yet.

Now, the scene that makes me laugh the most is the "oh no, not again" bit in the diner. The whole scene is great, what with that reference to alien, the dancing baby xenomorph, and the Pullman/Candy reaction.

But the seatbelt line encapsulates what I've always loved about Candy.

[–] Tenthrow 2 points 1 year ago

He is sorely missed. We don't really have anyone like him anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Such a great movie. To add to the list...

It's Mega Maid, sir. She's gone from suck to blow.

Light speed is too slow. We'll have to go right to Ludacris speed.
Ludacris speed?!?
What's the matter Colonel Sanders? Chicken?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I'm not a human, I'm a mog!

Half human, half dog.

I'm my own best friend."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When will then become now!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Space Balls FLAMETHROWER!!!

[–] IphtashuFitz 2 points 1 year ago

You mean:

Spaceballs: The flame thrower!

The kids love this one.

[–] TIEPilot 2 points 1 year ago

We have gone plaid.

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