"Nobody's perfect."
"If you build it, they will come."
"We're not worthy!"
"They're digging in the wrong place!"
Okay that last one could just be me.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
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Jars - Oct 27, 2005 3:14:39 am PDT #8287 of 10002
Frankenbuddha - Oct 27, 2005 3:34:34 am PDT #8288 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Give me back my HAND!"
also
"Who's laughing NOW??!?!?!"
and
"Grooooovy."
Can you sense a theme here?
"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
I've definitely been on the interbunny too long - I had to read this 3 times before I didn't see "Badgers?"
Fred Pete - Oct 27, 2005 3:47:27 am PDT #8289 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
"You can't handle the truth!"
Not too famous, but deserves to be among the best: "My dear, that's something you need never worry about."
"You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
Another NTFBDTBATB: "I know. And you know I know. And I know you know I know. And Henry knows it. We're a very knowledgeable family."
Nutty - Oct 27, 2005 4:04:57 am PDT #8290 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Somehow I think the "hill of beans" speech in Casablanca is better known than "Of all the gin joints." Anyway, when AFI does their top 100 films, and they get to Casablanca (usually #2), they show the "hill of beans" speech.
In terms of classic lines, I think "Top of the world, ma!" is the sort of line that people know despite having no idea what movie it comes from. I would say it is very meta, but I don't think you can be meta if you have no idea what you are talking about.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2005 4:06:34 am PDT #8291 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think you can be meta if you have no idea what you are talking about.
Don't you have to be meta, if you don't know what you're talking about?
My head hurts. I should have tea.
Jessica - Oct 27, 2005 4:41:56 am PDT #8292 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm trying to decide if "Play it again, Sam" should be in the list, since it's not the actual quote.
Well, not from Casablanca, anyway.
tommyrot - Oct 27, 2005 5:00:15 am PDT #8293 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Luke, I am your father."
JZ - Oct 27, 2005 5:24:29 am PDT #8294 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
NTFBDTBATB:
"Positively the same dame!"
Nutty - Oct 27, 2005 5:36:12 am PDT #8295 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
My thinking is that meta is a knowing abstraction of an idea out of context (or juxtaposition of contexts and ideas). This version of acontextual quoting is more like verbal eggcorns, where people invent plausible meanings for words/phrases, that happen to be completely wrong, but kind of work if you're willing to overlook recorded history.
Like turning "card sharp" into "card shark," which has come to be the norm, but not in a meta or ironic way.
Nicole - Oct 27, 2005 5:45:42 am PDT #8296 of 10002
I'm getting the pig!
I should probably do a re-watch of Salem's Lot. I was ten or so the first time and I watched most of it while hiding behind my mom. The sound of fingernails tapping and/or scraping on a window pane still gives me goosebumps.
I'm sure I'd giggle at it *now* but nsm then.