Buffy ,'Lessons'
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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.
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.
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."
That movie is just FULL of wonderful, wonderful lines
My favorite:
John: A knife! He's got a knife!
Eleanor: Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!
Not to be rude/nitpicky, but it's "Frankly."Because correcting corrections is more fun, it's "Frankly, my dear..."
"These aren't the droids you're looking for."
"Come with me if you want to live."
"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
"STELLLLLLLAAAAAAA!"
"You talkin' to me?"
Another one that's usually misquoted: "Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
We're a very knowledgeable family."Heh. I always liked "The royal corkscrew finds me twisted?"
And let's not forget, "There'll be pork in the treetops by morning!" and "I'd hang you from the nipples, but it'd shock the children."
"They're digging in the wrong place!"
Okay that last one could just be me.
It's just you. I can say that, because "Bad dates." is just me.
Other quotes I use all the time that I doubt anyone else does:
"Let's go do some crimes." (optional add-on: "Let's get sushi and not pay.")
"Ah will not be pawed at."
"Listen up, you primitive screwheads."
"Game over, man! Game over!"
That HP lawsuit - we're two weeks away from HP -- will the Wyrd Sisters really prevent us from seeing it?
Or just the Canadians?
"It goes to eleven."
"Open the pod bay doors, Hal."
"None more black."
"I've seen hard-boiled before, but you...you're ten minutes."
"I don't kneel. It bags my nylons."
"You're not too smart. I like that in a man."
"Get that cat out of here!" (said during surgery)
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
"A pint of bitters. In a thin glass."
"Don't knock masturbation. At least I'm having sex with somebody I love."
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father: prepare to die."
will the Wyrd Sisters really prevent us from seeing it?
Doubt it very much.