TV and Film Quotes that are “in jokes” within your family

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I’m sure I’ve seen this done before (whether here or on Twitter) but it does always make me laugh to see the quotes people use in their day-to-day lives.

There’s a couple that spring to mind for me - firstly a later Friends episode where the father of the babies Monica and Chandler are going to adopt could be a murderer and Chandler refers to him as, “Shovvely Joe” - DH and I use that about anyone a bit shady!

And more recently there’s a few Brooklyn 99 episodes around a MLM scheme where they all greet each other saying “Boom Boom”; again DH and I say this to each other!

I also always pronounce Socrates as “So-crates” like in Bill and Ted, I’m sure anyone overhearing me would think I was a little bit dim.

There are definitely others, will add them if any come to mind.

Lots of Victoria Wood quotes for us too particularly Chernobyl looked nice in the brochure when viewing photos of too good to be true holiday destinations

I have an idea - we always have to sing the song from Molly and Mack.

We say Ooohhhh yess like the churchill dog when we really want to do something / think someone has had a good idea.

We use lots of quotes from the Lego Movie:
Darn, darn, darn, darny darn.
Good morning, city!
You just wrecked it.
All I'm asking for is total perfection.

From My Little Pony:
Sweep sweep sweep sweep sweep.

From Shrek:
You're going the right way for a smacked bottom. (Only said among adults)

Pippi Longstocking:
Now you know why I swim with my clothes on.

Pam Ayres quoting her own father, on doomed DIY:
You might as well have left the job alone.

On greeting particular friends in person as going in for a hug "is that a canoe in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?" This applies to male and female.

If we can't find something, particularly clothes "Honet, where are my pants?"

My and my brother quote a lot of Bottom. Every Christmas Day one of us texts “has he been?” and the other replies “oh he has!” followed by “gold, Frankenstein and Grr..... oh! A blue headscarf!” DH is all 🙄 about it.
I also like to say “to the chopper” in a terrible Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonation whenever we go to get in the car. The kids even day it now and they’re not old enough to watch Predator 😂

We also use so many of these!
'Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries!' when anyone starts talking about their family.
'Tucker's Law' is quoted (always in full) when something goes wrong (yes, right down to the 'tea-towel' bit).
'Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and you ask me to...' when asked to do something considered menial.
Every time someone talks about fjords, we (well, mostly me) come over all Slartibartfast and start talking about the 'wiggly bits'.
'Run Away! Run Away!' and 'Scarely was his armour damp...' when slightly scary things happen. In fact, most of MPATHG is quotable...

I now realise we spend most of our conversations quoting things to one another.

Punch it chewy when joining the motorway. Star wars
Pizza dudes got 30 seconds if ordering a pizza. Ninja turtles.

‘Hello Stephen, it’s Clem Fandango, can you hear me?’
‘Yes I can hear you, Clem Fandango’
From Toast, when calling from an different room or something

‘Are you ... my friend?’ From boardwalk empire.

Lots of Alan Partridge references, ‘Ooooh, Ladyboys!’

The most over used is definitely ‘That’s what she said’. From the US Office Applied to anything vaguely rude-sounding.

‘It’s not fair is it Keith?’ From Nuts in May

There are lots of others from shows like Father Ted and Peep Show and Gavin and Stacey but I can’t think of them all now!

There was a Maltesers ad years ago, where a wide mouth frog purses his lips to make his mouth tiny, and says “you don’t say”. My dad and I still do this

When dd was younger we both loved watching the ice age films and still quote loads from the films. The ones I can remember are

We're going to live, we're going to diiiiiiiiiiiiiie!! When something good happens followed by something bad.

I don't like this guy he reads minds....
When I pull a skeptical face.

I ain't exactly lactating right now pal
When we want to make each laugh.

I've just remembered another one. Whenever we visit a posh house such as a National Trust property we channel Alan Partridge and (very quietly) call out for 'Bono' as if it were his house.

Oh I nearly forgot, whenever anyone gets out their purse... “Sir, you have a woman’s purse!” Tom Baker in Blackadder.

"Smoke me a kipper" when saying goodbye /be back soon from Red Dwarf.
There are loads and I can't think of any atm.

Oh, and when I have to list something out loud, I always finish with "And a partridge in a pair tree" from Home Alone I think 🤷‍♀️.

Don't call me Shirley (from Airplane) whenever anyone says Surely.

"It's a building with patients, but that's not important right now" (etc etc) also from Airplane

"Are we going to put it all in the middle and share" (but with visual miming) from Gavin and Stacey, whenever we talk about ordering a Chinese

"Is it a cunning plan?" whenever someone has a plan - from Black Adder

"What did you expect to see out of a Torquay bedroom window?" (with slight variations, depending where in the world we might be) from Fawlty Towers

"Well , they were all the right notes, although not necessarily in the right order" (musical household ) from Morecambe and Wise.

Every time we are looking for something in the fridge, it's "What am I missing, what am I not seeing?" in the style of a generic angst-ridden TV detective.

There's an eddie Izard sketch which was animated by Lego men about what it would be like working on the Death Star

The food is hot you'll need a tray is said frequently round here

Have you switched it off and on again (IT crowd): Used every time DH asks for technical advice

Feeeed me! (Little shop of horrors): DD uses this all the time. She is also known as Audrey 2.

These are not the droids you are looking for (Star Wars): Every time I ask the DC to do stuff.

So many Monty Python/Princess Bride/Hitchhikers Guide/LOTR/ HP/Father Ted/Derry Girls and Black Adder quotes are in daily use. Brookland nine-nine also gets used between the DC.

"too slow chicken marengo" gets a lot of use in our house, along with the "I'm gonna eat you little fishy" song, from Red Dwarf.
DH is also keen on "it's Saturday night Rimmer, no one works on a Saturday night".

"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank on gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and were wearing sunglasses" before any long journey.

We like Seinfeld! Most quoted are ‘they are out there and they are loving it’. We are tending to refer to the guinea pigs when we have let them have a run round the garden but on the show Kramer is talking about his genitals when he’s decided to give up wearing underpants.

Also ‘was that wrong?’. This is George’s conversation with his boss when he is being fired for sleeping with the cleaner in his office, it’s not so much that you have done something wrong when we use it, it’s just that it’s too late now!

Less frequently but to be treasured is ‘serenity now’ and the other will answer with ‘insanity later’. We work at the same dysfunctional organisation so it is needed sometimes!

@BitOfFun, I totally heard that in a Touch of Frost David Jason voice and I don't remember ever watching a single episode - fancy that!!??

I think more of Carrie Mathieson in Homeland, but I'm not entirely sure she's ever said it!

For anything even slightly warm - 'Lynne, it's hotter than the SUN!