Quotables
“Have you ever heard of Aristotle? Socrates? Plato?”
“Yes.”
“Morons.”
Quick, can you name the wonderful movie from which those lines originated? Bonus points to the first one who gets it right!
Christmas break, two weeks of much-needed time off, provided my family with the opportunity to watch a lot of our must-see-over-and-over-again movies. The ones we all love for various reasons, the ones that never gather dust on the DVD shelf.
It’s become almost a game around here, who can remember the most quotes, who can pull one out when a) least expected and b) yet totally appropriate for the situation we happen to be in. Like, for example, if we see a rabbit hopping through the backyard and one of the kids say, “Oh, it’s just a wee little bunny.”
Some of you may recognize that line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, one of the more, ah, creative endeavors to come out of the 70s. It’s like a train wreck, that movie, and I can’t look away… (My favorite line: “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.” My favorite scene? A background shot of a man trying to tie coconuts to a swallow.)
How’s your Adam Sandler knowledge? Know this movie?
“That’s two thus far, Shooter.”
“Good, you can count.”
“And you can count on me…waiting for you in the parking lot.”
That scene from Happy Gilmore makes me laugh every time. As does almost all the scenes in Aladdin, a Disney masterpiece, full of witty dialogue and great characters, especially the Genie:
“Did you rub my lamp? Did you wake me up? Did you bring me here? And all of a sudden you’re walking out on me? I don’t think so.”
Christmas break or long weekend or a rare night home, I love when my family (even if it’s not *all* of us every single time) is able to gather together to re-watch movies we’ve seen a dozen (or more) times. But more than that, I love when we’re sitting down at the dinner table a few nights later quoting lines to each other or trying to out-quote each other.
Those are the scenes I really treasure.
~heather
