Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Movie Quote Answers
Well, folks...it's been a month since I posted the most recent edition of the Invisible Ben Movie Quote Contest. This year, of course, was extra special because I actually opened up the event for commenters. Given the amount of discussion the contest provoked in previous years on other blogs' comments sections, I was hoping that people would leap at the opportunity to post. But either I was too late hopping on the comment bandwagon or my readership has dwindled...or both, because after a month, there were only 7 comments. And one of these was the Sleeper chiding me to post more regularly.
Which is not to say that people didn't do well in this year's contest. I passed the list around to some folks here at Old Ivy and none of them held a candle to the people who posted below. No one even broke 10, which says something about the quality of students they have here...most of them are far too busy being brilliant to indulge in such mindless procastination. The top scorer from the comments below was my charming and wonderful girlfriend who had a confirmed 22, beating out the entire Invisible Family by 4.
Unfortunately for her, however, she was not the winner due to some submissions received via the InvisiblE-mail. In fact, we have a tie for first place. Neither of the overall top scorers this year felt like posting a comment, however, preferring instead to remain smugly above such vulgar demonstrations of their pop culture prowess.
Congratulations go out anyhow to the Scotsman and the Blogger of Justice, both of whom correctly identified 31 of the 50 movies below from the quotes. Extra kudos (or as my former principal would say kudo's...as in "belonging to kudo") go out to the Scotsman, the first repeat winner of the Invisible Ben Movie Quote Contest. 2003 and 2006. Good show.
All right, that's it for this year's movie quote contest. Here are your answers:
1. You were in a 4g inverted dive with a MiG28?
Top Gun
2. Getta your tootsie-frootsie ice cream!
A Day at the Races
3. What are you doing here?
A very brief cameo.
Me too.
The Great Muppet Caper
4. We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder.
Double Indemnity
5. I've never been alone with a man before, even with my dress on. With my dress off, it's most unusual!
Roman Holiday
6. I was the equivalent of a 98 pound weakling. I would go to the beach and people would kick copies of Byron in my face!
Dead Poets Society
7. Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Dracula
8. Think of your children pledging allegiance to the maple leaf. Mayonnaise on everything. Winter eleven months of the year. Anne Murray...all day, every day.
Canadian Bacon
9. You'll be able to spit nails, kid. Like the guy says, you're gonna eat lightning and you're gonna crap thunder.
Rocky
10. You've seen a general inspecting troops before haven't you? Just walk slow, act dumb, and look stupid!
The Dirty Dozen
11. I am not going to New York to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn't you see Fatal Attraction?
Sleepless in Seattle
12. Anyone who isn't dead or from another plane of existence would do well to cover their ears right about now.
Dogma
13. Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Mildred Pierce
14. One more thing, Sofie... is she aware her daughter is still alive?
Kill Bill: Volume 1
15. I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky!
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
16. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
17. Two penguins are standing on an ice floe. The first penguin says, you look like you're wearing a tuxedo. The second penguin says, what makes you think I'm not?
A Prairie Home Companion
18. You still picking your feet in Poughkeepsie?
The French Connection
19. Why didn't you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars.
Oh, I'll remember that when we need forty cars.
It Happened One Night
20. "H" for "Hurry," "E" for "'Ergent,'" "L" for "Love me," and "P" for "P-P-P-Please help!"
Yellow Submarine
21. Hey. Hold it. Now, are we actually gonna go before a federal judge, and tell him that some moldy Babylonian God is going to drop in on Central Park West, and start tearing up the city?
Sumerian, not Babylonian.
Ghostbusters
22. Not only does he know how to treat his editor-in-chief with the proper respect, not only does he have a snappy, punchy prose style, but he is, in my forty years in this business, the fastest typist I've ever seen.
Superman
23. I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
Zoolander
24. Walther PPK, 7.65 millimeter. Only three men I know of use such a gun. I believe I've killed two of them.
Goldeneye
25. I had not come to Hollywood to fight with a man dressed as Hitler.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
26. Since the United States Government declares this man to be Santa Claus, this court will not dispute it. Case dismissed.
Miracle on 34th Street
27. And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
28. Hey, I got a dedication here that's for a friend of the ol' Wolfman. And he wants me to play the next song for a blonde young lady in a Thunderbird.
American Grafitti
29. Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?
Little Caesar
30. So, again we are defeated. The farmers have won. Not us.
The Seven Samurai
31. Helping the little lady along are you, my fine gentlemen? Well stay away from her, or I'll stuff a mattress with you! And you, I'll make you into a beehive.
The Wizard of Oz
32. Well, you know, race cars don't need headlights, because the track is always lit.
Well, so is my brother, but he still needs headlights!
Cars
33. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You put on music. Now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.
The Graduate
34. Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide gorilla? Is that what you’re telling me?
Young Frankenstein
35. What difference does it make where you buy underwear? What difference does it make? Underwear is underwear! It is underwear wherever you buy it! In Cincinnati or wherever!
Rainman
36. I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it...
Fistful of Dollars
37. But what if none of us goes for the blonde? We won't get in each other's way and we won't insult the other girls. It's the only way to win. It's the only way we all get laid.
A Beautiful Mind
38. It's a dinglehopper. Humans use these little babies to straighten their hair out.
The Little Mermaid
39. Attica! Attica!
Dog Day Afternoon
40. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.
The Grapes of Wrath
41. Now we got here in the state of Louisiana what's known as the Napoleonic code. You see, now according to that, what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband also, and vice versa...
A Streetcar Named Desire
42. That's all right. He can call me “Flower” if he wants to. I don't mind.
Bambi
43. Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong.
The Breakfast Club
44. People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.
V for Vendetta
45. You're two wonderful people who happened to fall in love and happen to have a pigmentation problem.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
46. They called me chicken. You know, chicken? I had to go because if I didn't I'd never be able to face those kids again. I got in one of those cars, and Buzz, that - Buzz, one of those kids - he got in the other car, and we had to drive fast and then jump...
Rebel Without a Cause
47. Who is that? Nietzsche? So you stopped talking because of Friedrich Nietzsche?
Little Miss Sunshine
48. But if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
Jurassic Park
49. As my first act with this new authority, I will create a grand army of the Republic to counter the increasing threats of the Separatists.
Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones
50. They're here already! You're next! You're next! You're next!.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Well, folks...it's been a month since I posted the most recent edition of the Invisible Ben Movie Quote Contest. This year, of course, was extra special because I actually opened up the event for commenters. Given the amount of discussion the contest provoked in previous years on other blogs' comments sections, I was hoping that people would leap at the opportunity to post. But either I was too late hopping on the comment bandwagon or my readership has dwindled...or both, because after a month, there were only 7 comments. And one of these was the Sleeper chiding me to post more regularly.
Which is not to say that people didn't do well in this year's contest. I passed the list around to some folks here at Old Ivy and none of them held a candle to the people who posted below. No one even broke 10, which says something about the quality of students they have here...most of them are far too busy being brilliant to indulge in such mindless procastination. The top scorer from the comments below was my charming and wonderful girlfriend who had a confirmed 22, beating out the entire Invisible Family by 4.
Unfortunately for her, however, she was not the winner due to some submissions received via the InvisiblE-mail. In fact, we have a tie for first place. Neither of the overall top scorers this year felt like posting a comment, however, preferring instead to remain smugly above such vulgar demonstrations of their pop culture prowess.
Congratulations go out anyhow to the Scotsman and the Blogger of Justice, both of whom correctly identified 31 of the 50 movies below from the quotes. Extra kudos (or as my former principal would say kudo's...as in "belonging to kudo") go out to the Scotsman, the first repeat winner of the Invisible Ben Movie Quote Contest. 2003 and 2006. Good show.
All right, that's it for this year's movie quote contest. Here are your answers:
1. You were in a 4g inverted dive with a MiG28?
Top Gun
2. Getta your tootsie-frootsie ice cream!
A Day at the Races
3. What are you doing here?
A very brief cameo.
Me too.
The Great Muppet Caper
4. We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder.
Double Indemnity
5. I've never been alone with a man before, even with my dress on. With my dress off, it's most unusual!
Roman Holiday
6. I was the equivalent of a 98 pound weakling. I would go to the beach and people would kick copies of Byron in my face!
Dead Poets Society
7. Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Dracula
8. Think of your children pledging allegiance to the maple leaf. Mayonnaise on everything. Winter eleven months of the year. Anne Murray...all day, every day.
Canadian Bacon
9. You'll be able to spit nails, kid. Like the guy says, you're gonna eat lightning and you're gonna crap thunder.
Rocky
10. You've seen a general inspecting troops before haven't you? Just walk slow, act dumb, and look stupid!
The Dirty Dozen
11. I am not going to New York to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn't you see Fatal Attraction?
Sleepless in Seattle
12. Anyone who isn't dead or from another plane of existence would do well to cover their ears right about now.
Dogma
13. Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Mildred Pierce
14. One more thing, Sofie... is she aware her daughter is still alive?
Kill Bill: Volume 1
15. I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky!
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
16. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
17. Two penguins are standing on an ice floe. The first penguin says, you look like you're wearing a tuxedo. The second penguin says, what makes you think I'm not?
A Prairie Home Companion
18. You still picking your feet in Poughkeepsie?
The French Connection
19. Why didn't you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars.
Oh, I'll remember that when we need forty cars.
It Happened One Night
20. "H" for "Hurry," "E" for "'Ergent,'" "L" for "Love me," and "P" for "P-P-P-Please help!"
Yellow Submarine
21. Hey. Hold it. Now, are we actually gonna go before a federal judge, and tell him that some moldy Babylonian God is going to drop in on Central Park West, and start tearing up the city?
Sumerian, not Babylonian.
Ghostbusters
22. Not only does he know how to treat his editor-in-chief with the proper respect, not only does he have a snappy, punchy prose style, but he is, in my forty years in this business, the fastest typist I've ever seen.
Superman
23. I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
Zoolander
24. Walther PPK, 7.65 millimeter. Only three men I know of use such a gun. I believe I've killed two of them.
Goldeneye
25. I had not come to Hollywood to fight with a man dressed as Hitler.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
26. Since the United States Government declares this man to be Santa Claus, this court will not dispute it. Case dismissed.
Miracle on 34th Street
27. And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
28. Hey, I got a dedication here that's for a friend of the ol' Wolfman. And he wants me to play the next song for a blonde young lady in a Thunderbird.
American Grafitti
29. Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?
Little Caesar
30. So, again we are defeated. The farmers have won. Not us.
The Seven Samurai
31. Helping the little lady along are you, my fine gentlemen? Well stay away from her, or I'll stuff a mattress with you! And you, I'll make you into a beehive.
The Wizard of Oz
32. Well, you know, race cars don't need headlights, because the track is always lit.
Well, so is my brother, but he still needs headlights!
Cars
33. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You put on music. Now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.
The Graduate
34. Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide gorilla? Is that what you’re telling me?
Young Frankenstein
35. What difference does it make where you buy underwear? What difference does it make? Underwear is underwear! It is underwear wherever you buy it! In Cincinnati or wherever!
Rainman
36. I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it...
Fistful of Dollars
37. But what if none of us goes for the blonde? We won't get in each other's way and we won't insult the other girls. It's the only way to win. It's the only way we all get laid.
A Beautiful Mind
38. It's a dinglehopper. Humans use these little babies to straighten their hair out.
The Little Mermaid
39. Attica! Attica!
Dog Day Afternoon
40. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.
The Grapes of Wrath
41. Now we got here in the state of Louisiana what's known as the Napoleonic code. You see, now according to that, what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband also, and vice versa...
A Streetcar Named Desire
42. That's all right. He can call me “Flower” if he wants to. I don't mind.
Bambi
43. Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong.
The Breakfast Club
44. People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.
V for Vendetta
45. You're two wonderful people who happened to fall in love and happen to have a pigmentation problem.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
46. They called me chicken. You know, chicken? I had to go because if I didn't I'd never be able to face those kids again. I got in one of those cars, and Buzz, that - Buzz, one of those kids - he got in the other car, and we had to drive fast and then jump...
Rebel Without a Cause
47. Who is that? Nietzsche? So you stopped talking because of Friedrich Nietzsche?
Little Miss Sunshine
48. But if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
Jurassic Park
49. As my first act with this new authority, I will create a grand army of the Republic to counter the increasing threats of the Separatists.
Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones
50. They're here already! You're next! You're next! You're next!.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
