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Top 100 Movie Quotes

These are the top 100 movie quotes of all time, according to the American Film Institute. Can you name the movies they appeared in?
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Last updated: December 7, 2019
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First submittedDecember 26, 2012
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Movie
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Gone With the Wind
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
The Godfather
You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender.
I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
On the Waterfront
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
The Wizard of Oz
Here's looking at you, kid.
Casablanca
Go ahead, make my day.
Sudden Impact
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Sunset Boulevard
May the Force be with you.
Star Wars
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
All About Eve
You talkin' to me?
Taxi Driver
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Cool Hand Luke
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Apocalypse Now
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Love Story
The stuff that dreams are made of.
The Maltese Falcon
E.T. phone home.
E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
They call me Mister Tibbs!
In the Heat of the Night
Rosebud.
Citizen Kane
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
White Heat
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
Network
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Casablanca
A census taker once tried to test me.
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
The Silence of the Lambs
Bond. James Bond.
Dr. No
There's no place like home.
The Wizard of Oz
I am big! It's the pictures that got small.
Sunset Boulevard
Show me the money!
Jerry Maguire
Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
She Done Him Wrong
I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
Midnight Cowboy
Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By".
Casablanca
You can't handle the truth!
A Few Good Men
I want to be alone.
Grand Hotel
After all, tomorrow is another day!
Gone With the Wind
Round up the usual suspects.
Casablanca
I'll have what she's having.
When Harry Met Sally...
You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips
together and blow.
To Have and Have Not
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Jaws
Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges!
I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
The Treasure of the
Sierra Madre
I'll be back.
The Terminator
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
The Pride of the Yankees
If you build it, he will come.
Field of Dreams
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
Forrest Gump
We rob banks.
Bonnie and Clyde
Plastics.
The Graduate
We'll always have Paris.
Casablanca
I see dead people.
The Sixth Sense
Stella! Hey, Stella!
A Streetcar Named Desire
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
Now, Voyager
Shane. Shane. Come back!
Shane
Well, nobody's perfect.
Some Like It Hot
It's alive! It's alive!
Frankenstein
Houston, we have a problem.
Apollo 13
You've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
Dirty Harry
You had me at "hello".
Jerry Maguire
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in
my pajamas, I don't know.
Animal Crackers
There's no crying in baseball!
A League of Their Own
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Annie Hall
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Psycho
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Wall Street
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
The Godfather: Part II
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Gone With the Wind
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
Sons of the Desert
Say "hello" to my little friend!
Scarface
What a dump.
Beyond the Forest
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?
The Graduate
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
Dr. Strangelove
Elementary, my dear Watson.
The Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.
Planet of the Apes
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Casablanca
Here's Johnny!
The Shining
They're here!
Poltergeist
Is it safe?
Marathon Man
Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!
The Jazz Singer
No wire hangers, ever!
Mommie Dearest
Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?
Little Caesar
Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.
Chinatown
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Hasta la vista, baby.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Soylent Green is people!
Soylent Green
Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Surely you can't be serious....
I am serious...and don't call me Shirley.
Airplane!
Yo, Adrian!
Rocky
Hello, gorgeous
Funny Girl
Toga! Toga!
Animal House
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Dracula
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
King Kong
My Precious.
The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers
Attica! Attica!
Dog Day Afternoon
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
42nd Street
You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going
to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight,
and away we're gonna go, go, go!
On Golden Pond
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Knute Rockne,
All American
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Goldfinger
Who's on first.
The Naughty Nineties
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now,
about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole!
It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
Caddyshack
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
Auntie Mame
I feel the need—the need for speed!
Top Gun
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Dead Poets Society
Snap out of it!
Moonstruck
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
Dirty Dancing
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!
The Wizard of Oz
I'm king of the world!
Titanic
79 Comments
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Level 74
May 27, 2012
It's "a streetcar NAMED desire" not "NAME"!!!
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Level 46
May 28, 2012
I apologize for the typo and have resubmitted. Thank you for remaining calm.
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Level ∞
May 31, 2012
:)
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Level 37
Jun 4, 2012
Haha, nice one. Great quiz BTW, even though I only got 62 :)
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Level 60
Aug 5, 2015
Yeah! How could you be so stupid as to correctly type only 99% of the clues and answers on the first attempt! If you were a baseball player, you'd be batting as low as 0.990!!
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Level 55
Jan 6, 2013
Got 94, and I knew who said the other 6, but I couldn't think of the movie.
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Level 55
Jan 6, 2013
Also, the "what a dump" line is in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."
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Level 56
Aug 5, 2015
Yes, that's what I put. Never heard of the film it's supposed to be from.
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Level 89
Aug 5, 2015
In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Taylor is quoting Bette Davis from Beyond the Forest.
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Level 76
Aug 18, 2015
ephiii is correct, but the line is only as famous as it is because of Virginia Woolf
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Level 73
Sep 6, 2020
Same, I watched it recently.
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Level 78
Sep 21, 2021
Since this is based on a list that was published, I think it makes sense only the original counts.
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Level 27
Jan 6, 2013
So arbitrary that it's silly to include a rating adjective.
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Level 91
Jan 6, 2013
What a great quiz!
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Level 19
Jan 6, 2013
I thought its alive was from Weird Science... hehe..

Anyway, I only got 22, I am so not a movie buff...

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Level 80
Jan 7, 2013
Wow... I really haven't even heard of so many of these movies. Still happy with my 51.
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Level 59
Jan 7, 2013
I kept trying "Rain Man" for "Who's on first."
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Level 89
Feb 17, 2020
Oy ve. They even watch the Abbot and Costello clip in the movie.
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Level 33
Jan 7, 2013
Great quiz. Hmm... did pretty well. It's a shame so few people know treasure of the sierre madre, maltese falcon etc. Some terrific films there.
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Level 68
Oct 27, 2017
I tried Treasure of Sierra Madre, several times - guess i missed a 'the'?
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Level 62
Jan 9, 2013
Knew a lot of the quotes but had no idea which films they came from, so got just over half right- quite pleased with that.
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Level 57
Jan 12, 2013
Great quiz! Got 95 right the first time - I knew 4 of the others, but just could not think of the title.
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Level 46
Mar 16, 2024
I'm not a big movie person in that I tend to stick with independent foreign films. I am a big indie person. That being said, I did better than 80 percent of people. On normal quizzes I get 94% on average so considering this is not my subject area, I think I did pretty well.i think it was a good, comprehensive quiz.
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Level 12
Jan 22, 2013
Can't think of a Sherlock Holmes movie when he says that, because in the books/novels those exact words are never spoken. Didn't do too bad, couldn't think of Sixth Sense to save my life.
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Level 78
Aug 29, 2023
While the line was never said in any of the original Conan Doyle stories, it was distinctly said in a number of films. The first one was probably the 1929 movie The Return of Sherlock Holmes, which starred Clive Brook and was Holmes's first talking picture, but was most famously used in the movie the AFI cites in this list, 1939's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone.
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Level 69
Jul 17, 2013
I heard Katherine Hepburn in my head saying "You're my knight in shining armor" but I just couldn't place the movie. I was positive that "Make my Day" was the movie Dirty Harry...learn something new every day.
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Level 74
Oct 21, 2014
The line, "Go ahead, Scumbag, make my day," was used in a 1982 film, Vice Squad. The fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact, (1983) gets the credit.
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Level 73
Oct 18, 2013
Only 6% for Marathon Man? Laurence Olivier was brilliantly creepy in that film. Dustin Hoffman was Dustin Hoffman.
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Level 25
Feb 7, 2014
this quiz reminds me of the great movie ride in hollywood studios orlando
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Level 75
Feb 27, 2014
I got 59, and I have never seen the ones I got wrong, so I'm happy with that.
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Level 39
May 30, 2014
could we please try to be a little more specific with the James Bond Quotes? Shaken not stirred could be any of the, like 15, bond movies!
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Level 69
Jun 6, 2014
It is the first movie that contains the line. Besides, it is the AFI who is deciding this list, per the description at the top.
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Level 30
Aug 15, 2014
Love the idea for the quiz but there are a few mistakes. In every James Bond movie he says Bond, James Bond and martini shaken not stirred, not just those two. Furthermore, I think "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is a more important line in The Shining than "Here's Johnny". Also, the line "What a dump" is very important for the movie Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, I would argue even more important, or at least count both. One more thing is the line "Who's on first" should also be accepted for the movie "Rain Man".
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Level 89
Aug 5, 2015
Were any of those other movies on AFI's top 100?
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Level 78
Aug 29, 2023
Blame the American Film Institute. It's their list.
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Level 83
Oct 15, 2023
I disgree with your Shining example. As someone who has not seen it, "Here's Johnny" is iconic enough that even I know what movie it's referencing, surely the iconic-ness of a quote would affect it getting into a "top quotes" list
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Level 81
Aug 4, 2015
Terminator 2 should be sufficient for T2: Judgment Day.
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Level 55
Aug 5, 2015
For "Plastics", did anyone else try Mean Girls first? No? Just me? Okay...
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Level 51
Aug 5, 2015
no, me too...
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Level 74
Aug 5, 2015
Sorry that no quotes were included from To Kill a Mockingbird or Schindlers List or so many other great movies. I don't understand their criteria for "top 100" but different strokes for different folks I suppose.
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Level 78
Aug 29, 2023
Their criteria was "got the most votes from members of the American Film Institute."
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Level 70
Aug 5, 2015
I can see that if I had watched Casablanca, I would've gotten a MUCH better score on this quiz!
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Level 69
Feb 29, 2016
Hell, your entire LIFE would be much better if you watched "Casablanca"! Hop to it, seriously. It's for your own good.
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Level 48
Mar 3, 2017
I just entered Casablanca before reading any of the quotes. Then Godfather.
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Level 55
Aug 8, 2015
Although it might seem that initializing film titles, like LOTR, is a horrible modern laziness of the Internet Age, you actually open this quiz with the grandmamma of them all, and it should be accepted for the answer. GWTW ! (Saw a reference to it in a 50s Arthur C Clarke story.)
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Level 69
Feb 29, 2016
Great quiz idea, Rachel!
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Level 30
May 12, 2016
Slightly disappointed at the lack of Tarantino and Wright films, but most of these aren't ones I tend to watch anyway
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Level 85
Sep 3, 2016
Got a 68. Never been so happy to get such a mediocre score. Great quiz. I love that it wasn't one slam dunk after another. Nice range in this one. I get bored with so many pathetically easy quizzes. It's also nice to have a quiz where you actually LEARN something from the ones you miss. Good job!
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Level 60
Oct 6, 2016
The line "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into," is used in many Laurel and Hardy movies, the first being "Double Whoopie" (1929) and "The Laurel-Hardy Mystery" (1929). In 1930, they even had a movie called "Another Fine Mess," the title being based not on the quote -- which is accurately used in the film -- but on newspapers' inaccurate quotes. This page has a list of the various times the line is used: http://www.stanlaurelandoliverhardy.com/nicemess.htm Credit should be given for any of these answers.
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Level 48
Mar 3, 2017
The quizmaster made no attempt to 'correct' the AFI's entries.
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Level 78
Jul 27, 2018
The AFI only including feature-length movies, so while "another nice mess" was used in all of those shorts you mentioned, Sons of the Desert is the first feature Laurel and Hardy used it in. Similarly, Abbott and Costello had said "Who's on first?" countless times on stage, radio, etc. before, but The Naughty Nineties is the only feature in which they did the routine.
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Level 12
May 29, 2017
Watch the movie Corpse Bride. It has the "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." line in it.
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Level 81
Jul 16, 2018
Quite a few of these quotes have been in multiple movies. Some.. like.. "I want to be alone," "what a dump," "hello, gorgeous" etc seem downright generic. But maybe the lines in question were delivered in a memorable or original way. Like.. "they're here!" from Poltergeist. I'm sure that phrase has been in thousands of movies. But never uttered in a particularly memorable way as it was in Poltergeist.
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Level 70
Aug 25, 2019
Then there's the Bond quotes - "Shaken not stirred" & "Bond. James Bond" - in which they're asking for the first film the line appeared in. Those lines are much more iconic to the franchise and the character rather than when they were first uttered.
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Level 39
Oct 5, 2017
SOOO HAPPY TO SEE DOG DAY AFTERNOON
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Level 46
Mar 16, 2024
Great film but I missed the sex reassignment surgery part. I just paid attention to the awesome robbery and realism of the film. The streets of NYC in the 70s. It was so much to take in that I didn't focus on the relationship of the characters.i always thought Scorsese directed that film because of the excellent cinematography of NY in the 70s but he didn't.
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Level 36
Feb 17, 2018
49. Knew the quotes, couldn't remember the movie. Also, got confused with the specificity required in the "Dirty Harry" and "Godfather" quotes.
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Level 75
Jun 29, 2018
100 greatest movie quotes of all time? Pffff
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Level 81
Jul 16, 2018
The only ones I missed that I had actually seen before were Caddyshack and Dead Poets Society. And maybe Animal Crackers I can't remember if I've seen that or not. I definitely saw Duck Soup. 12th grade Creative Writing teacher was a big Marx Brothers fan.
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Level 56
Apr 29, 2020
I Love You 3000 is needed to add.
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Level 78
Aug 29, 2023
Well, if you get a chance to go back to 2005 you be sure to tell the AFI to include it.
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Level 68
Jun 7, 2020
I find it amusing that only 30% get Soylent Green... when it's right there in the quote.
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Level 59
Sep 5, 2020
What about "No, I am your father"
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Level 78
Aug 29, 2023
What about it?
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Level 35
Sep 21, 2021
In Australia "Airplane" was called "Flying High". Please allow this as a correct answer also.
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Level 78
Sep 21, 2021
Hmm... but AFI has it as Airplane! on their list, so you should probably contact them.
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Level 35
Apr 28, 2022
Great quiz. Really enjoyed it
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Level 89
Aug 4, 2022
I knew the Gipper was Ronald Reagan, but couldn't remember the title of the movie. :(
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Level 63
Aug 27, 2022
Couldn't remember which Abbot and Costello film had the skit in it.
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Level 71
Jan 26, 2023
What a stupid list lol

Just a bunch of nostalgic boomers who picked their favorite movies and then picked a line from them as opposed to the other way around

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Level 69
Feb 9, 2023
I tend to disagree with AFI's lists, but I still did pretty well as someone from Gen Z. I would've wanted to see some newer stuff like Why So Serious
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Level 78
Aug 29, 2023
That would've been a trick, since this list came out three years before The Dark Knight did.
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Level 69
Feb 9, 2023
51
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Level 71
Mar 9, 2023
Beyond the forest?
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Level 56
Mar 31, 2023
"They call me Mr. Tibbs!" I kept trying The Lion King. Pumba says it as he is charging the hyenas...lol. I never realized it came from In the Heat of the Night
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Level 78
Aug 29, 2023
Except Pumbaa says "They call me Mister Pig," rather than "Tibbs." But yes, it's a reference to the line from In the Heat of the Night.
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Level 46
Mar 16, 2024
I really do think you should accept all the James Bond movies in which he says"Bond, James Bond.."
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Level 46
Mar 16, 2024
What about "girly, tough ain't enough" Million Dollar Baby. And something witty from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.. there is SO MUCH in that 1971 film that is hilarious. Like " ill give them anything they want anything to get Harold back!!!" they want your case of Wonka bars...silence...Mrs Curtis did you hear me, it's your husband 's life or your case of Wonka bars!!!!" Pause... "How long will they give me to think it over?"
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Level 52
Aug 8, 2024
Last week On the Waterfront turned seventy years old, so I made a "I Gouda Been a Contender Burger" to celebrate. It was a Bob's Burgers meets Marlon Brando moment.