Today is Thursday, or as it's known in my world - Movie Review Day  - which means I make the trek down to the ABC Studios in town, at 5:30 pm, step over all the cables on the floor on my way through the building to the bus out the back where they’re transmitting (the station is undergoing major renovations) and pontificate for ten minutes about whatever film happened to take my fancy.

Earlier in the day, I ran into a friend who reminded me that it was MRD and we got talking about our favourite lines from movies, specifically, the most memorable lines. I don’t mean the tagline quotes movie publicists are fond of, but the lines from films, TV or even ads that actually become part of your everyday language — either in their entirety or paraphrased — among family and friends.

This set me to thinking about how often we do this, (and so as proof I can waste time doing anything to avoid housework), here is a list of my favourites and when they tend to appear:

Not happy, Jan

Who can forget that memorable Yellow Pages ad?

That’ll be the phone, Reg…

Another Yellow Pages classic. I think the ad ran fifteen years ago, and someone still says it every single time the phone rings…

Remember the force, Luke.

A must when you spy someone trying to lift something heavy and so much more useful that actually offering to help...

That’s one for the pool room.

From The Castle, a silly 1997 Australian comedy I don’t even like. Happens at Christmas and birthdays when someone gets a gift they particularly like.

You should open a shop.

Also from The Castle. High praise, indeed.

She wants to root him, she wants to root him (in a singsong voice)

Someone in my family always says this during a love scene on TV. Or even a hint of a love scene. At the first whiff of sexual tension, even. From one of my all time favourites, Hercules Returns, a 1993 film I would trade one of my children for, if I could find it on DVD.
(Note to US readers who don’t get this. Rooting something in Australia has a very, very different meaning to rooting for someone in the US, which here, we call barracking, as many an unsuspecting tourist has discovered to their intense embarrassment… LOL)

What seems like every second line from the film Clueless.

And every third line from Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion.

My all time favourite, however, comes from an atrociously bad 1988 post-apocalyptic movie called World Gone Wild. It’s a line Bruce Dern says to Michael Paré after he lets the bad guys get away and is the ultimate condemnation for someone doing something really, really stupid.

The magic works better when there be bullets in the gun, asshole…

my favourite line from a movie that gets used whenever I'm threatening to do physical bodily harm to my kids if they do something dumb/stupid/dangerous or all of the above:

I'll cut your heart out with a spoon

The quotes that get used most in my household come from either "Withnail and I" (a brilliant film with Richard E.Grant and Paul McGann), or one of the many Monty Python films. I was both very proud, and immensely embarrassed, the other day when my 6 and 10 year old sons went marching around Woolworths singing "Every Sperm is Sacred" at the top of their lungs ... and they got all the words right too! I had to pretend I was cranky ;)

Relax, no need to give away your offspring:

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