You’re at a party, meeting someone new. You politely extend your hand, but he ignores the gesture and introduces himself as Captain Jack Sparrow. You ask the man/pirate if he is having a good time at the party.
"Are you talkin’ to me?" says the stranger with the unlikely name of Captain Jack Sparrow. You’re thrown off. Who else would you be talking to? Then the "captain" points to a man across the room and says, "If I saw myself dressed like that, I’d have to kick my own ass."
You realize this attractive, perfectly normal looking person is actually suffering from a common malady known as EMQ — Excessive Movie Quoting.
"I’m going to…" you start, but the EMQ’er cuts you off mid-sentence.
"… make him an offer he can’t refuse?"
You sigh, exasperated. "Don’t you think all the movie quoting is tiresome and annoying?"
"Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn."
"Well, I think it’s annoying."
"Are you trying to seduce me?"
"No, I’m not."
"You had me at hello."
"Oh, that’s just perfect."
"Screws fall out all the time; the world is an imperfect place."
"What’s your problem?"
"Houston, we have a problem?"
"Seriously, cut it out."
"I wish I knew how to quit you."
"I wish I knew how to get rid of you."
"What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate."
"I’d say so."
"Ditto."
"Give it up."
"There’s three ways to do things, the right way, the wrong way, and the way I do it."
"Nothing will ever get through to you, will it?"
"Never tell me the odds."
Do you or a loved one suffer from EMQ? What movie quote do you love to slip into casual conversation, and what movie quote makes your ears burn? When boarding a boat, do you run to the bow, lean over the railings, and scream, "I’m the king of the world"? If so, you may have EMQ. Seek help.
Not a movie but I am guilty of randomly qouting Arrested Development in every day conversation
I don’t movie qoute but I am guilty of slipping Arrested Development qoutes into every day conversation
Hey, me too! COME ON!
Anything from Zoolander. I slip them in and see if anyone catches them. If they do we can be friends.
My cousin is a chronic sufferer of EMQ. On Saturday for Halloween, he was Borat and was harrassing people at Dennys at 3 in the morning, it was hilarious. My sister and I suffer from ESQ – Excessive Simpsons Quoting, which is ten times worse than EMQ.
When i am on a plane and it is experiencing turbulence, i jump up and scream, “Pull up Striker, we’re too low!”
Not a movie, but everytime my friends and I watch a team get a first down in a football game we quote “That’ll move the chains” from a Saturday night live skit. very sad.
Reminds me of that episode of “Undeclared” when Rachel dates that guy that won’t stop doing impersonations. He was a talented guy, but I’d be gouging my eyes out too after a couple of dates.
I EMQ Ferris Bueller all the time.
“I am very cute, very alone and very protective of my body! I don’t it violated or killed, okay? Speak any English? DICKHEAD!”
“[enter name of anyone] is so tight, if you stuck a lump of coal up his a** in two weeks you’d have a diamond”
I could go on and on.
Oh, and I have also started to use 30 Rock phrases in daily conversation. Namely….Enorme’….Chase the chunk…
My brother Evan and best friend Danny cannot get through any conversation without quoting any number of movies. They are also known to call you at random and ask you to name the movie a quote came from. My husband is still stuck trying to figure out “okay bye bye”. He even netflixed “Only You” hoping it was the source. It was not.
My husband and I have been known to quote TV shows to each other. Not to other people, because then it just gets annoying. My favorite is, “I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond to it” and recently, “Amaaahzing!”
Mean Girls is excessively quotable…some gems:
“Do you even go to this school?”
“Ohmygosh I love your (insert “fugly” outfit item here)! Where did you get it?”
“God love ya, you girls keep me young.”
…those three are applicable almost anywhere.
i constantly find myself quoting Clueless…those just never get old
Totally agreeing with the previous poster. Mean Girls is definitely my generation’s favorite quote harvest ground. Other constant quips:
“Boo, you whore.”
“I like INVENTED her.”
“I don’t hate you because you’re fat. You’re fat because I hate you.”
“I want my pink shirt back!”
Oh, Lindsay. We’ll miss you.
I quote Tremors way too much. “Don’t you have a home to go to.” works great in traffic. And Walter has the best lines, “I didn’t DO it!” “Graboids!…You gonna be sorry you didn’t give it a name.” So many other great lines too.