Quote Meme II: The Reckoning
1. But why'd I have the bowl, [name]? Why'd I have the bowl?!
The Simpsons, from this exchange:
Milhouse: Wow Bart, Laddie's great, way better than your old dog.
Bart: Really? I guess I was the only one that loved him.
Milhouse: You got that right. Remember the time he ate my goldfish, and you lied to me and said I never had a goldfish? Then why'd I have the bowl, Bart? Why. Did I Have. The Bowl??
2. I hated her SO ... much, that it... flames, flames, on the side of my face, breathing, breathless ... heaving breaths...
Clue, Mrs. White (the fantastic and fabulous Madeline Kahn)
3. What are you, a wizard, a genius? ...You stupid...hotel manager!
Best in Show, Parker Posey's crazed weimeraner-owner character. Best in Show is another movie I could quote all day long.
4. Close it! Close it! Close it up again!
Yosemite Sam in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Knighty Knight Bugs:
Sam: Open that bridge, varmint! Open it, I say!
[the drawbridge drops on top of Sam]
Sam: Close it! Close it! Close it up again!
[Drawbridge opens, leaving a flattened Sam]
5. Black eyes, like a dolllll's eyes.
Quint (Robert Shaw) in Jaws, a movie I've loved deeply since I was nine years old. When I was a kid, I had a crush on Richard Dreyfuss's character (I can offer no comment on that at this time), but I was fascinated by Quint. Farewell and adieu, you fair Spanish ladies...
6. You're bastard people, you're just bastard people!
Corky St. Clair (Christopher Guest) in Waiting for Guffman.
7. Smell baaaaaad!
Ludo in Labyrinth -- this is recognized nearly universally by people (well, mostly women) of my generation. Of course, maybe I've just got a particularly Henson-inclined sample to draw from.
8. Diagnosis? Bad babysitting.
Dr. Hibbert, again from The Simpsons.
9. We'll be reaching speeds of three!
The MST3k episode "Space Mutiny," one of my all-time favorites for sheer ridiculousness. Features Sting, Debbie Reynolds, and God.
10. Nojo on the rojo.
Mulder (David Duchovny) in the X-Files episode "Little Green Men." I don't remember the rest of the episode, I didn't even particularly like the line, but I'll be damned if it didn't lodge itself deep in the language center of my brain.