Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
Three buddies sitting around a table debating the best of everything and discussing what is on their minds
Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
Cinematic Gold: Toasting to Iconic Movie One-Liners That Define Our Dialogue
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Ever wondered why some movie lines stick with you long after the credits roll, popping up in conversation at the most unexpected times? Buckle up for a riotous ride through cinema history as we, Three Guys Around A Table, cherry-pick the most hilarious and iconic one-liners that have infiltrated our everyday banter. We're not just talking about chuckles; we're talking about those moments when someone drops a "There's no crying in baseball!" from "A League of Their Own," and the room erupts in knowing laughter. Sit back, relax, and get ready to nod vigorously as we celebrate those quotable gems from "Animal House," "The Big Lebowski," and more, which have not only shaped our movie-watching experience but have become the social glue among friends, families, and even strangers.
Prepare your best "I am serious...and don't call me Shirley," because this episode is a treasure trove of anecdotes and insights into the phrases that have transcended the silver screen to become a part of the cultural zeitgeist. From the endless charm of "Forrest Gump" to the satirical genius of "Airplane!" and the quirky lines of "Napoleon Dynamite," we explore why these snippets of dialogue resonate so deeply with us. And just when you think you've heard it all, we hit you with a curveball, teasing an upcoming episode that's sure to keep you guessing. So, grab your favorite drink, and let's toast to the endless entertainment and connection that these cinematic one-liners provide.
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Speaker 2Best Of A podcast about the best of everything From the mundane to the ridiculous. Just three buddies sitting around the car table talking about things that absolutely matter to no one. You know we like to talk about things that matter absolutely to no one, but I guess they matter to us and hopefully other people will join us in with that. So we're picking up on another best of today. We enjoy these. It creates some good banter and some good conversation.
Speaker 2Today we're going to address the best of quotable movies and I know that across the generations, the three of us have here Mark and as many more years than us can talk about a lot of 92 going strong, a lot of quotable movies and, uh, I know that, uh, you know, I know our kids have all uh quoted movies to us. My son did just today. So, um, mark, why don't you start us off? What's a good, uh quotable movie?
Speaker 1and listen, we're not. There's no uh there's no guidelines here one of the first talkies that I remember. See, gunther likes it.
Speaker 2Oh the talkies yes, as opposed to those silent movies you used to watch.
Speaker 1Man, there are so many, and I'm an auditory learner, always have been so. If I hear something, I generally can remember it. It's always been my learning style so I, like I've always loved to quote movies and, um, some of the first ones that I can remember, uh, watching as a uh, you know, as a kid, or some of the first ones that I I like to quote, so I would uh probably throw out there. Animal house is, uh one of the ones that I I saw I love that movie when I was way too young.
Speaker 1Uh, you know to to see, but um, I mean, goodness gracious zero point zero, whenever I don't know that I've ever seen it.
Speaker 1Oh my goodness. Oh, that's fantastic. Yeah, mind if we dance with your women. Uh, there are so many lines in that, in that movie, that are uh, I mean, john Belushi was at his very best and uh, yeah, uh, I'm a zit, get it and you know when. When they're when they're hitting the golf balls on on the Hill at the college and you know giving always try to hit through the ball. Just everything about that movie is fantastic. That would be my first one. I got a lot of other ones.
Speaker 2Hang on. What is one word? You can say that anybody who's ever seen that movie would know exactly what movie you're talking about.
Speaker 1Gator Toga, togaator toga toga, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, greg is greg is okay, this is.
Speaker 2This is greg right now. You're obviously not a golfer all right, what's next, greg?
Speaker 1um, I mean, I've got two big ones, but the one I would pick first is and I quote it all the time it's the Big Lebowski. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2I mean, it's got some great lines in it. Fantastic. Obviously, you're not a golfer.
Speaker 1Obviously the bowling ball falls down. I quote it almost every day. Yeah, every day. I quoted it today, Sitting at the breakfast table this morning. What did I say?
Speaker 2Nice marmot Sitting at the breakfast table this morning. What did I say, nice marmot? No, I said I'm staying, I'm finishing my coffee.
Speaker 1I'm staying Finishing my coffee.
Speaker 2Enjoying my coffee. Enjoying my coffee. Oh my God, how many times do we quote that to each other? I mean, it's constant. All of them.
Speaker 1I hate the Eagles man. What's the one we just used just recently?
Speaker 2I'm going to go find a cash machine Just below. It's really good.
Speaker 1I mean for quotes, it's fantastic and for people that are hearing us, it's a bummer man, it's a bummer mean. For quotes, it's fantastic, and for people that are hearing us, it's a bummer man, it's a bummer. Is this a weekday?
Speaker 2You make a pretty good Caucasian Jackie. For those people who have not seen the Big Lebowski do yourself a favor. Put it in perspective of the time that it was filmed and enjoy it. Yeah, because you know what happens when you. I am the Walrus.
Speaker 1You know what happens when you do something to somebody else I am the Walrus.
Speaker 2I would tell Donnie to do something.
Speaker 1They're nihilists.
Speaker 2They don't like anything. He fixes the cable.
Speaker 1Well, that rug really tied the room together.
Speaker 2Am I wrong? No, am I wrong. That's Greg's favorite line, right there. It is my favorite line there.
Speaker 1All right, Chris, you're up, you know.
Speaker 2I've got to go with Step Brothers.
Speaker 1Will Ferrell, John C.
Speaker 2Reilly Mary Steenburgen, and I can't remember Dr Dillbeck. Don't call me Dr Dillbeck, okay Dillbeck.
Speaker 1Right, I mean how many?
Speaker 2times have you heard her go? Hello, miss Lady. Oh it's Pam. No Pam, oh, pam, p-a-m-m.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2That movie is so great, that's great.
Speaker 1I was just watching Cops.
Speaker 2I'm really sweaty right.
Speaker 1Ava loves that one she loves that one.
Speaker 2It is when they're trying to get people to not buy Dr Dillbeck's house, they're doing everything they can. They're mowing in a Nazi uniform.
Speaker 1That's funny. Yeah, I forgot about that, oh my goodness, that is so great.
Speaker 2That's just a good, quotable movie. It's a recent movie. What is that? Is it Onions, onions and Ketchup? All right. Now the tuxedo seems kind of messed up right.
Speaker 1I'm going to jump in with one right on the heels of that that happened before it. But one of the same actors, a guy to go with Anchorman with Will Ferrell.
Speaker 2San Diego, it means a whale is Well that escalated quickly.
Speaker 1Brick killed a guy with a trident 99% of the time?
Speaker 2no, 60% of the time. It works every time, every time Brick killed a guy with a trident. You want to come to the pants party? No, 60% of the time it works every time, every time. You want to come to the pants party?
Speaker 1You know that one is one I use all the time is when he's talking about I have many leather-bound volumes.
Speaker 2Smell of rich mahogany, my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
Speaker 1You are a smelly pirate hooker.
Speaker 2Damn it, baxter. You know I don't speak Spanish. You ate the entire cheese wheel.
Speaker 1I'm not bad, let's go back to your home on Whore Island.
Speaker 2I'm not even mad, in fact, I just love it. Yeah, love it.
Speaker 1That's fantastic, that's a good one Aqua lung oh. Hey jazz flute.
Speaker 2Come on now who doesn't like that.
Speaker 1Right, that's fantastic, greg. What's your second one, smokey?
Speaker 2in the Van.
Speaker 1I knew it gotta be. You seem a little tall on the radio.
Speaker 2Who you chasing?
Speaker 1Sheriff. Nobody chasing me, boy A Diablo sandwich and a Dr Pepper and make it snappy. Get some hush puppies, Daddy Got time for that.
Speaker 2Your hat fell off, Daddy.
Speaker 1I hope your head was in it. That's edited version. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2You can think about it, just don't do it.
Speaker 1No, you're going to meet me at no church, that's right. Yeah, she was dancing down there.
Speaker 2Oh my God, it is so good. He must have had a lot of friends.
Speaker 1Been a pre-maiden, almost killed 20 law officers, got a girl in a car, took a cross state line. That's the man act and I don't think he's got permission. So that's kidnapping. What about when he kicks the guys? Who are hijacking the car on the side of the road and he kicks the guy and he goes. That's an attention getter. Jackie Gleason was just amazing. You notice every quote we just did was Jackie Gleason. We didn't give hardly any Burt Reynolds or Salad. Yeah, you're right, you know the things I always come up with is.
Speaker 2I'm going to go stuff some groceries down my neck. I'm going to go to some groceries down my neck. Yeah, I'm going to go to the choke and puke. Yeah, yeah, you know that movie is just so good, except for about two minutes, the worst two minutes of the movie I know. They had to have it. They shouldn't have done it. Yeah, it was terrible, and they had to play the slow song. Call him the bandit, you. You want to take your hat?
Speaker 1off. Oh my God, why the one line? That we haven't mentioned that I use all the time was because why do you want all that beer? For?
Speaker 2Because he's thirsty, you know that Courtesy of big anus and little anus. Oh, I love your suits. What size?
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like a double extra fat and a dwarf he goes. I'm going to need a car.
Speaker 2I'm going to need a fast car, faster than that Like count the money out.
Speaker 1What do you need all that beer?
Speaker 2for he's thirsty. Paul Williams, the great Paul Williams.
Speaker 1Alright, what's your next one? Oh man, you know If you're struggling with one. I got one. You know what I have to go to the movie Tombstone, and it's the first non-comedy that we've mentioned, but eminently quotable.
Speaker 2I'm your huckleberry. Yep, why, johnny ringo? You look like someone just walked over your grave kilmer's best movie. Yeah, yes, I think so too.
Speaker 1I mean, I think his performance as jim morrison and the doors was unbelievable. But overall tombstone, yeah gotta be. I like this. Uh, did you ever see the doors, by the way, with him? He is well but you jim seemed a story behind that he lived and basically he sang the song.
Speaker 2He did everything for like six months prior. Yeah, it was so immersed in it. Um, you smell that smell like somebody died.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, that's a good one. Well, yeah, bye. Yeah, well, bye I Booth. Yeah, that's a great one.
Speaker 2Well, I didn't think you had it in you. I like that. It's a good one.
Speaker 1Go ahead and skin it, skin that smoke wagon and see what happens to you.
Speaker 2You tell them I'm coming and hell's coming with me. Love it, Love it. That's a really really excellent movie.
Speaker 1I'm going back to comedies, though, and I've got to say Caddyshack. Oh yeah, they're just Rodney Dangerfield Again, just like Sheriff Justice and Jackie Gleason. Rodney Dangerfield as Al Chervik in Caddyshack is one of the greatest characters of all time. You know, hey Wang, what's with the pictures? It's a parking lot, you know.
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 1Wang, what's with the pictures? It's a parking lot, you know. Oh, this is the worst looking hat I've ever seen it must give you a free bowl of soup if you wear a hat like this.
Speaker 2Oh, it looks good on you, though it's such a good movie.
Speaker 1It's a.
Speaker 2Cinderella story yeah. Bill Murray, it's so good, Go for it, go for it go for it go for it. What's he say to Danny? No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no Be the bull Fa, fa, fa, fa, fa fa fa. What does he?
Speaker 2ask Danny about going to college, he said the world needs ditch diggers, danny. Oh yeah, I don't know what I'm watching on television, but it's very intriguing. Oh, they're diagramming a play.
Speaker 1Oh, that's hockey ice, I'm sorry, okay.
Speaker 2I didn't realize what I was looking at there. I thought it was curling for a minute.
Speaker 1That's Craig Berube, the former head coach of the St Louis Blues. I was getting ready to say that.
Speaker 2I thought it was, I figured yeah.
Speaker 1Obviously you're not a golfer. Exactly what's your next move? Hey, smales A thousand bucks.
Speaker 2You missed that putt Judge Smales Of all the nerve. I'll have to think about it for a second. How about a fresca?
Speaker 1Huh, ted Knight had some great lines in that movie too. My niece is the type of girl with a sort of zest for living.
Speaker 2The last thing we need is a little loose talk about her.
Speaker 1I want a hamburger, no a cheeseburger I want a hot dog. You'll get nothing and like it.
Speaker 2One of the funniest scenes, and that's when they're betting on whether he's going to pick his nose and eat it here. I like this one. It's okay, it's baby Ruth.
Classic Movie Quotes and Conversations
Speaker 1Those are all good. El Hugh, would you come and loofah my stretch marks? Oh, here's one. This is a good one. Hey, that's a peach, huh. Oh, dolly, I'm hot today. That couple's like 180 playing golf Hits it like 12 feet. You're not a man, you're a bishop. For God's sakes. There's so many good lines in that.
Speaker 2I mean I could go all day and the one that we haven't talked about is during the, when the bishop's playing golf and he's like I don't think the heavy stuff's coming down from the dirt I keep playing.
Speaker 1That's exactly right. I use that one a lot. I keep playing. Yeah, that's eminently quotable. You got one, I do.
Speaker 2All right. I caught you a delicious bass, greg's, out there. Hey, you got another one. Do you know any sick nunchuck skills? How about? I'm trying to become a cage fighter. What movie is this? How about do the chickens have large talons? Napoleon?
Speaker 1Dynamite. Look, I tried to watch it with you guys and it was just torture.
Speaker 2It's so good, are you ready? It's awful, pedro offers you his protection.
Speaker 1Hey, so let me, let me, let me throw one at you from that. I don't know what the point of the movie was there is no point.
Speaker 2That's what's great, yeah there was.
Speaker 1It was a waste of two hours, oh my gosh. Okay, lyle is one of my favorite characters. He has very few lines. He's the old man that shoots the cow in the beginning. Oh, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2Two weeks ago I was over there in that Greek mansion, a show-show narrowhead over there, my next-door neighbor can do that guy's voice better than he can. And what you want to make a bet. I can throw a football over the mountains. Yeah, coach, would have put me in fourth quarter. We'd have been state champs.
Speaker 1No doubt, no doubt in my mind, uncle Rico, baby Love it.
Speaker 2That is so good. How's the dealio sound now?
Speaker 1Um, yeah, ava, and I will quote that movie just nonstop, incessant back and forth Wherever I feel like gosh.
Speaker 2He's not hanging out with us, is he?
Speaker 1How about this one? How about this one? Is grandma there? No, Can you come and get me. What for Napoleon?
Speaker 2My lips hurt, real bad my lips hurt real bad.
Speaker 1My lips hurt real bad, gosh. Hey, napoleon, give me some of your tots, don't get your own Lafonda is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Speaker 2I'm 100% positive. She's my soulmate. Don't worry, napoleon, I'm sure there's a babe out there for you too. Peace out, peace out.
Speaker 1Greg, you got another one.
Speaker 2No, those are your two biggies. That's it. I'm tapped out.
Speaker 1You all have hit Napoleon Dynamite. Four people have watched that you honestly don't need another movie besides those two that you mentioned? No, my two are fantastic. I mean seriously, I would throw the Big Lebowski. You can quote it daily in any conversation.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1There's something in it, a hundred percent. I would throw Blazing Saddles.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, it's really good. It's a good one. And I would also throw let's see, let's see how quickly you can get this movie. What?
Speaker 1Yeah, you can't quote it. That's the problem. Wait what? So let's see how quickly you can get this one. All right, Joey. Have you ever been in a Turkish prison? Joey, you ever seen a grown man naked? I?
Speaker 2don't I know this, but I can't think of it. I know it. I don't think I should say it.
Speaker 1Really, Surely you can't be serious. And don't call me Shirley. Exactly I am. And don't call me Shirley, Exactly. I am serious and don't call me Shirley.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 1Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking. Excuse me.
Speaker 2I speak jive, exactly Airplane.
Speaker 1It's been centuries since I've watched that.
Speaker 2Oh God, that's a funny one Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Speaker 1Oh, I thought of another one.
Speaker 2That's pretty good, hang on. Hang on, we skipped over. Yeah, it's Hedley Lamar. Oh yes, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1Major League's got some good quotes in it?
Speaker 2Yes it does you? Know I mean it's very bad to drink Jobu. I can't say anything about Jobu. Jobu, I stand up for you. I respect you. You no, help me now.
Speaker 1It's got some pretty good lines, just a bit outside.
Speaker 2Tried the corner and missed Ball four, ball eight. He's loaded the bases Just a bit outside, tried the corner and missed Ball four, ball eight.
Speaker 1He's loaded the bases, that's all right. No one's listening.
Speaker 2Absolutely. It's got some good ones. Come on, there's some more out there. We're missing. There's a million of them the Ocean series.
Speaker 1I love all those. It's one of our favorites.
Speaker 2Pay me my money in cash. You think we need a fourth.
Speaker 1Yeah, we need a fourth.
Speaker 2Yeah, we need a fourth. How about?
Speaker 1Forrest.
Speaker 2Gump Jenna. Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1Life's like a box of chocolates it's got some good ones in it. I mean all of them, yeah, yeah, I mean Lieutenant Dan Ice Cream. So I'll give you one from that that I use every time that I eat shrimp, every time I order shrimp somewhere. Shrimp scampi.
Speaker 2Shrimp gumbo, shrimp barbecue, shrimp.
Speaker 1I mean every time I'm looking at a menu. It's funny barbecue shrimp. I mean every time I'm looking at a menu.
Speaker 2It's funny and then he goes and I think that's it. I think, that's it, oh, that's, yeah, that's. I'd say that's good, that's two good ones.
Speaker 1I'd say we've been pretty comprehensive on that.
Speaker 2But you know, I'm just looking real quick.
Speaker 1They're saying that Pulp Fiction is a great quotable oh it truly is and that was just on television yesterday yeah, I, I love that movie though well, I mean love it. I need to re-watch it.
Speaker 2It's been 20 years since I've watched it, you know what they call a.
Speaker 1You know what they call a quarter pounder in france, royale with cheese royale with cheese because they're on the metric system.
Speaker 2hey, who's that motorcycle belong to? It's a chopper baby. Yeah, who's it belong to? It's a chopper baby. Yeah, who does it belong to? Zed? Who's Zed? Zed's dead baby. Hop on.
The Path of the Righteous Man
Speaker 1Love that movie. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the tyranny or something. What is Ezekiel? Ezekiel 25, 17. Samuel L Jackson's so good at that?
Speaker 2Oh fantastic, I think we've covered it, can we do the llama story real quick, where we're sure, greg, you want to start, and thanks for listening to this week's podcast, the best of presented by the beer brothers, I think it was about available on all formats. Just continue to let it keep going so we can finish the story.
Speaker 1Okay to catch our next episode I will, you never know.
Speaker 2So I, who will be the best of next? Have a great day everyone about four has it been four.
