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.

@magicstar1 me and my Dad do that 'oh you don't see many of them round here' 😁

DH and I tell each other to “be careful out there”, when we go to work. We’re only just old enough to remember Hill St Blues.

If the food cupboard is a bit low and we’re trying to decide what to cook, it’s “cheesey peas?”.

My DB says “Abyssinia” instead of “I’ll be seeing you”- is that Alan Partridge ?

If something goes spectacularly wrong we say “Your we’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off” . DS(11) always gets in there first, as it’s legitimate swearing!! I said it at work a while ago, and nobody had a clue what I was on about.

*DH and I tell each other to “be careful out there”, when we go to work. We’re only just old enough to remember Hill St Blues.,
Let's do it to them before they do it to us

From the Simpsons, whenever someone is giving unhelpful instructions to someone else doing a complicated task: "Rotate your main finger topwise". Also if someone just needs to turn their head to see something, "Mr Burns ..." (from the time when the people of Australia join hands to spell his name and he can't even be bothered turning his head to see it)

When serving food, from Blackadder: "would you like your [food served in a particular way], or as God intended?"

And, a reference only people who lived in a particular country in the 90s & saw a Yellow Pages ad will get, "When can you bring it in?", "Pretty soon?"

We do often talk about looking for something "On the line" (can't remember the name of the film )

My DB says “Abyssinia” instead of “I’ll be seeing you”- is that Alan Partridge ?

Alice used to say that in the Vicar of Dibley, usually to the bishop.

My dad uses the word "cromulent" which is an obscure quote from The Simpsons.

("I never heard the word 'embiggens' before I came to Springfield."
"I dont know why, it's a perfectly cromulent word")

In This Country- genius and worth watching if you haven’t seen it- the main characters attend a meeting for an MLM and one of the women listening to the presentation calls Kurtan “a very rude man! Very rude!” And me and DH say this to one another a lot when someone has been rude. We also say “it’s not matching, it’s clashing” quoting Mark from Peep Show when anything has a vaguely loud print.

IF we think someone is talking a load of old rubbish we say "boswolox",which was unbelievably, the active ingredient in a face cream advert about 20 years ago,

There was an absolute c&£# of a bloke on Wife Swap once. He would bark orders at his wife from his perch on the sofa. DP still uses his phrasing and intonation if he wants a cup of tea.

Carol!

CAROL!

We do a lot of Victoria Wood / dinnerladies quotes. 'manky, manky, manky, do not enter' 'ha ha, straight to video' 'two ways to Urmston' 'my friend Kimberley' and 'Malibooooo' among many others

Also obv the Blues Brothers when going on a long drive, Monty Python for injuries

Love these so funny!

Whenever we are in a supermarket, my sister and me always quote “Nice packet of Crunchy Nuts you got here. Pretty expensive, as I recall” in the cereal aisle. It’s the daft little things . (It’s from Peep Show)

Lots and lots from Withnail - a few which come to mind:
'Get in the back of the van' when there is any tardiness getting in the car;
' It's you he wants, offer yourself to him' when there's a big spider that needs dealing with; '
'We've come on holiday by mistake' - when it's raining on a day out

'Fascist!' from Life is Sweet, whenever someone says anything moderately centre left or which might otherwise offend my Corbynist teenage son. (As in, a mild observation that Keir Starmer is making a good fist of PMQs...)

'I don't like to fly in the face of popular opinion' ( Blackadder) - response if someone says you've been a bit to clever for you're own good

your own good - the shame!

This is so like having a conversation with my brother, all the Blackadder, Monty Python stuff.

The DH and I quote a fair amount of spaced, friends, H2G2. Loving this thread!

OP we also like a bit of partridge and would add "back of the net" when pleased with ourselves. "tea or coffee, tea or coffee " when DH offer the other a hot beverage and "they're sex people Lyn" (that one is for the over familiar new friends on holiday. Agree "Lyn it's hotter than the sun" is useful day to day.

Also we do -

That's what she said, (reckon we use this 20+ times a day. )
Title of your sex tape
Listen to me Kimmmeeeeee
You great big hunk o spunk (DD dies when I say this to DH)

So many from Gavin and Stacey. That program is possibly the most perfect comedy ever written.

Oh, we also like to customise Bus stop wan&@r for any annoying person in general.

Excellent thread by the way, I'm sniggering at lots of these 😁

A childhood one was from the Ladybird cassette of the Wind in the Willows: "Get off my nice clean barge!" This was said by the barge woman, seeing through Toad's washerwoman disguise. When Toad then stole her horse, "leaving the barge woman shaking her fist at him," fist-shaking became a family thing.

From the Vicar of Dibley:
"Deny the Easter Bunny once, your first child will henceforth be a dunce."
"This hairbrush will feature prominently in the punishment, and your pants won't."
"All those poor people with tinselitis!"

Also, the plaintive voice that Alice used a lot, especially at the end of each episode when she failed to see the joke she was being told: my mum would use exactly the same voice when telling me why a childhood plan wouldn't work, and she hadn't even seen the Vicar of Dibley.

“That’ll be greeaaat” said in a Scottish accent a la Shrek

“Red sauce, brown sauce, or no sauce at all? “

DH asks this whoever a child has to decide something. It’s from Danny Baker’s old 5 Live radio show.

‘We need more monkeys’ from Toy Story when they are using the monkeys to make a ladder out the window. We also use it if we need more of something.

‘don’t go into the long grass’ from Jurassic Park, whenever the dog runs into long grass

And obviously it’s the law to say ‘I’ll be back’ Terminator style.

Can’t see a box of crunchy nut without doing that @BabloHoney. Also “you know what it means by the way it makes you fee!” Is one of mine and my husbands favourite Jeremy quotes when the other is puzzled by something.

Also "Great scott!" whilst clutching hair like Doc Brown in Back to the Future, when ever something not very catastrophic happens.

Another American Office one, when one of us can't find our phone, walking round the house looking for it hollering "Where's my freaking phone Jim?"

If my husband has enjoyed my food he'll say "lovely bit of squirrel jackie"

Also, after recently watching Osark weve started one, if our daughters are acting out one of us will say "looks like you could use a lemonade" the kids have no idea what we're on about.

Lots of Alan Partridge...”I love you...in a way”.
“He was a smelly man”.
“Stop getting Bond wrong!”
DH also likes to let me know how much he loves me via the medium of the Infanta’s translator (The Blackadder) - “My love, my love, I have waited for this moment all of MY life”.

Hilarity ensues 😄

Back to Alan Partridge again - 'monkey tennis' to describe any concept where the name has existed first and the details are twisted to fit. Particularly in relation to bizarre TV programmes.