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The 11 Most Over-Quoted Movies Of All Time

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The 11 Most Over-Quoted Movies Of All-Time

Do you remember the first movie that truly made you laugh? Not just chuckle, but that stuck with you so hard that you kept replaying parts in your mind and cracking up for days on end after the fact. For me, that movie was Monty Python and the Holy Grail. A mere sixth grader, the day after I saw this movie that was 13 years older than I am, I was incessantly quoting this movie to my friends. In my mind, I was doing them a service by relaying the pure comedy ecstasy I’d come into contact with.

Within days, all my friends had seen the movie multiple times over, and we spent months cracking each other up by either quoting scenes wholesale (particularly the Knights Who Say Ni) or just dropping a random quote in a haphazardly appropriate spot (given the recent election meddling, you can’t deny that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is a system of government we should at least consider). Quoting movies creates a sense of community; it’s an inside joke that everyone is in on. Unless you abuse it.

You see, as the good folks over on the Touching Base Podcast alluded to this week, there are some movies whose quotes have entered the general lexicon to the point of critical oversaturation. Most of these movies are great in their own right; we’re just tired of hearing the same quote over and over. To that end, I’m here to help not only by revealing the most over-quoted movies, but also what quotes specifically we need to pump the brakes on. These opinions are not only based on oversaturation but on whether the quotes themselves add little to the flow and originality of a conversation. Basically, I’m here to make sure you’re not the eighth person doing a shitty Bane impression from The Dark Knight Rises.

1. The Hangover

Hilarious movie, for sure, but it has been overquoted ad nauseum, especially right after the first one came out. The two shitty sequels did a great deal to lessen its quotability and impact, but it gets ranked highly because the quotes are generally irrelevant.

Please stop with:

– It’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
– You are literally too stupid to insult.
– How dare you, she’s a nice lady!
– So long, gay-boys!
– Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon.

But feel free to keep using:

– Not you, fat Jesus.
– Think you can get away with that shit, not up in here! NOT UP IN HERE!

2. Mean Girls

I know this is going to sting a lot of current and former sorority girls, but holy shit this movie has been quoted into oblivion. It hurts my heart because this is easily a top-5 movie for couples to watch together, with amazingly broad appeal. Having said that, the quotes that get overused are really, really low impact.

Please stop with:

– On Wednesdays we wear pink!
– Stop trying to make *fetch* happen. It’s not going to happen!
– Get in loser, we’re going shopping.
– Boo you whore!
– She doesn’t even go here!
– My breasts, they can sense when it’s going to rain…well, they can sense when it’s raining.
– You can’t sit with us!
– FOUR for you, Glenn Coco! You go, Glenn Coco.

But feel free to keep using:

– Oh my gosh, Karen, you don’t just ask people why they’re white.
– You smell like a baby prostitute.
– Don’t have sex. Because you will get pregnant, and die. Don’t have sex in the missionary position, don’t have sex standing up, just… don’t do it. Promise? Alright, everybody grab some rubbers.

3. Borat

Borat is a chief offender for a special reason. It’s not that the quotes are bad or stupid, it’s that everyone and their mother quotes this movie attempting to do that horrific accent. Unless you’re Sacha Baron Cohen, you cannot pull of the accent, so just leave these generally cringey quotes in the grave where they belong.

Please stop with:

– My name-a Borat!
– I like you. I like sex, VERY much!
– Although Kazakhstan a glorious country, it have a problem, too: economic, social, and Jew.
– High five!

But feel free to keep using:

– We need somewhere to park our black asses for the night.

4. Anchorman

Anchorman was the consensus over-quoted movie by the TB boys, and it was my knee-jerk reaction when they were discussing the topic as well. While the movie is over-quoted, I can’t hate it too much because so many of the quotes are insanely, irreverently hilarious no matter how many times I hear them. There are still quotes we can do without, but there are plenty that we can continue to enjoy.

Please stop with:

– Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale’s vagina.
– I’m kind of a big deal. People know me.
– I’m in a glass case of emotion.
– Why don’t you go back to your home on whore island?
– Well… THAT escalated quickly.
– They’ve done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time.
– You stay classy, San Diego.

But feel free to keep using:

– I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother Dorothy Mantooth out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again.
– I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT!
– Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
– Knights of Columbus, that hurt!/Great Oden’s Raven/By the Beard of Zeus/Spiderman’s balls, that hurt/Uncle Jonathan’s corn-cob pipe!
– Baxter! Bark twice if you’re in Milwaukee… Is this Wilt Chamberlain?
– Jazz flute is for little fairy boys.

5. The Princess Bride

Similar to Mean Girls in terms of oversaturation by the basic segment of society, The Princess Bride has the misfortune of being a bit more widely quoted by the male population. The humor is not as strong as Mean Girls, though it does have some good quotes for the sentimental types.

Please stop with:

– As you wish.
– Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
– INCONCEIVABLE!
– You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
– Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder today. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam…

But feel free to keep using:

– You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – the most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia” – but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line”!
– I just want you to feel you’re doing well. I hate for people to die embarrassed.
– Please consider me as an alternative to suicide.
– You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you. You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.

6. Talladega Nights

Much like the other oft-quoted Will Ferrell movie, Talladega Nights was everywhere when it first came out. Unlike Anchorman, however, this movie’s quotes were mostly restricted to southern trash haters/wannabees instead of generic white guys who found their lines for life.

Please stop with:

– If you ain’t first, you’re last.
– Dear Lord baby Jesus.
– Don’t you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!
– I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo t-shirt, cause it says, like, I want to be formal but I want to party too. Cause I like to party, so I like my Jesus to party.
– Mike Honcho (just anything involving that name is played out).

But feel free to keep using:

– Help me Jesus! Help me Jewish God! Help me Allah! Help me Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise use your witchcraft on me to get the fire off me! Help me Oprah Winfrey!
– We go together like cocaine and waffles.
– Chip, I’m gonna come at you like a spider-monkey.
– I’m gonna scissor-kick you in the back of the head.
– Greatest generation my ass, Tom Brokaw is a punk.
– I’m all jacked up on Mountain Dew!

7. The Dark Knight

Not a comedy, but man this movie gets quoted left and right. However, there is a good reason for this, namely Heath Ledger’s masterful performance as the Joker. I can’t say I blame anyone for dropping lines from the greatest superhero movie ever made, but it does make the list.

Please stop with:

– You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
– Some men just want to watch the world burn.
– He’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now (or the inverse).
– WHY SO SERIOUS?
– Let’s put a smile on that face.
– Wanna see a magic trick?

But feel free to keep using:

– Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair!
– The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.
– You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong.

8. Zoolander

I’ll admit a bit of personal bias on this one, I think Zoolander is one of the most overrated comedies of all time. I get why people like it and think it’s funny, but it’s just not the type of humor that I gravitate towards. Add that to the fact that there are so few good lines from this movie that get quoted repeatedly, and I get really irked when I hear some of these phrases.

Please stop with:

– What is this? A [insert any noun here you unoriginal dolt] for ants??
– Why male models?
– That damn Hansel! He’s so hot right now!
– The Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.

But feel free to keep using:

– You think that you’re too cool for school, but I have a newsflash for you, Walter Cronkite… you aren’t.
– I’ve got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.

9. Austin Powers

Another movie that strongly shaped my formative years, I probably quoted the first two Austin Powers movies incessantly (the third I will just pretend never happened). Nevertheless, back in the 90s this movie’s quotes took over to an extreme and so it makes the list. Total bummer.

Please stop with:

– Yeah baby!
– Riiiiiiiiiight.
– One [hundred] billion dollars (with the pinky).
– Who throws a [whatever noun]? Honestly!
– (In a Scottish accent) I want my baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back ribs. I want my baby back baby back baby back baby back baby back ribs.

But feel free to keep using:

– He’s the snake to my mongoose…or the mongoose to my snake. Either way it’s bad, I don’t know animals.
– All I want is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their frickin’ heads.
– Throw me a bone here!
– Alright, this is re-goddamn-diculous.

10. The Wolf of Wall Street

Two words, one reason this movie is on this list: Matthew McConaughey. Every dude out there has done the McConaughey schtick. None of you can do it even slightly as well as you think you can. Let the man do his thing.

Please stop with:

– The chest thumping thing.
– Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket. I myself, I jerk off at least twice a day.

But feel free to keep using:

– What kind of hooker takes credit cards?
– I am not gonna die sober!
– I’ll tell you what: I’m never eating at Benihana again. I don’t care whose birthday it is.

11. Napoleon Dynamite

Another movie that was just quoted constantly throughout the early to mid-2000s, Napoleon Dynamite is another comedy that never quite landed for me. Worse, you could not get away from all these massively overused quotes.

Please stop with:

– Your mom goes to college.
– Tina, you fat lard!
– Whatever I feel like I wanna do, gosh!
– I guess you could say things are gettin’ pretty serious.

But feel free to keep using:

– Nunchuck skills… bowhunting skills… computer hacking skills… Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.
– Knock it off, Napoleon! Make yourself a dang quesadilla.

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