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Your favourite funny line from TV or film

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ChinBristles · 26/06/2022 16:10

After much consideration, the one I quote the most is Sheldon from Big Bang Theory: "Saturday night is laundry night". It just so covers me when I'm introverting on the weekend.

I'm guessing "Pivot!" may be a popular choice!

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DisplayPurposesOnly · 26/06/2022 18:23

Another Dinnerladies one

Thora Hird as Dolly's mum: Did you get that skirt from a catalogue
Jean: No
Thora: Pity. You could have returned it.

I quote a lot from Blackadder and Spaced.

MadameDragon · 26/06/2022 18:24

Charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim flam machine

AlpacaTheBags · 26/06/2022 18:26

Dougal: “God Ted, I’ve heard about those cults. Everyone dressing in black and saying our Lord’s going to come back and judge us all.”
Ted: “No… no Dougal, that’s us. That’s Catholicism you’re talking about there.”

SSDDagain · 26/06/2022 18:26

"It's only a scratch"
From the holy grail. Normally said when someone has managed to damage themselves in this house.

Loads from dinner ladies, that was a genius series.

My mind has gone blank but I know we quote films and TV all the time!

devildeepbluesea · 26/06/2022 18:26

@elQuintoConyo it was Live With Pam from her series of standalone sitcoms….Victoria Wood Presents maybe? Ithink it was the inspiration for Pat and Margaret.

PermanentTemporary · 26/06/2022 18:27

"You were a tomato!"

Love Tootsie.

devildeepbluesea · 26/06/2022 18:28

The most recent one to have me literally crying with laughter wasn’t strictly a line.

Friday Night Dinner, the boys are arsing about as usual. Jonny has nicked his mum’s phone and texted Adam: “You were a failed abortion. Love, Mum x”

KyaClark · 26/06/2022 18:30

"With respect sir, move away from me or I will piss in a cup and throw it at you"

Broadchurch

Babdoc · 26/06/2022 18:34

@Cotherstone, I was struggling to remember any episode of Dr Kildare involving twenty emphysematous Scotsmen in his New York hospital, until I realised you probably meant Dr Finlay’s Casebook! Grin

bellac11 · 26/06/2022 18:35

Theres some classics here, the Andrew Previn 'Im playing all the right notes...'

Plus 'Infamy, infamy...'

I was going to say from Withnail and I - 'we've come on holiday by MISTAKE'

Several hilarious lines from Some like it Hot.

bellac11 · 26/06/2022 18:36

AlpacaTheBags · 26/06/2022 18:26

Dougal: “God Ted, I’ve heard about those cults. Everyone dressing in black and saying our Lord’s going to come back and judge us all.”
Ted: “No… no Dougal, that’s us. That’s Catholicism you’re talking about there.”

And Ted trying to teach Dougal about perspective

'Small.....far away'

MissSteak · 26/06/2022 18:42

”… and none for Gretchen Wiener.” Mean Girls

said to the dogs, often.

SammyScrounge · 26/06/2022 18:49

Billy Connolly on the Glasgow Airport Attack. I nearly ended myself I laughed so hard.
It's on you tube

Floydthebarber · 26/06/2022 18:57

Gavin and Stacey, when Pam is holding up the sign for them at the airport and is asked why it is wonky and she replies, "because of the big pen!" Dh and I say that whenever something hasn't gone right.

We also say, "Shut that door!" because our parents did and we are not 100% sure what programme it came from!

MrsWidgerysLodger · 26/06/2022 18:57

Cotherstone · 26/06/2022 18:04

Glen describing Nicola whilst panicking as looking “like a squirrel caught in a peddle bin” in The Thick of It.

Love "The Thick of It" So many absolutely golden one liners from Malcolm Tucker. My most oft repeated tend to be "Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off" or "about as much use as a marzipan dildo".

BurnDownTheDiscoHangTheDJ · 26/06/2022 19:00

"It is, as my dear old mother would have said, double wank and shit chips."

  • Glenn, The Thick of It
Mrssophie · 26/06/2022 19:01

Friends: when Rachel is in labour at the hospital and there are no private rooms.
Rachel says to Ross "they save all the private rooms for the important people...what if I was the president"
Ross replies "then we'd be in trouble you don't know where any countries are" makes me giggle because it slightly reminds me of me...although I'm getting better!

Loads from only fools and horses especially uncle Albert's one liners "who's Rachel" and triggers maintaining his old broom "this old broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles" 😂

TroysMammy · 26/06/2022 19:07

Lots from the League of Gentlemen.

"Oh Edward, will heaven be like Swansea?"
" Yes Tubbs, but bigger. "
I love this as I live in Swansea.

bellac11 · 26/06/2022 19:07

Floydthebarber · 26/06/2022 18:57

Gavin and Stacey, when Pam is holding up the sign for them at the airport and is asked why it is wonky and she replies, "because of the big pen!" Dh and I say that whenever something hasn't gone right.

We also say, "Shut that door!" because our parents did and we are not 100% sure what programme it came from!

Shut that door - said in a camp northern voice is from Larry Grayson, complete legend.

CuriousCatfish · 26/06/2022 19:11

''look at the muck in here'' also Larry Grayson.

AclowncalledAlice · 26/06/2022 19:11

Stephen King's The Mist.

After throwing a tin of peas at a religious zealot, the elderly lady says

"Stoning people who piss you off is perfectly OK! They do it in the Bible, don't they? And I got lots of peas!"

JackieQueen · 26/06/2022 19:12

Ashes to Ashes.
Bolly: The mind is a amazing organ.
Gene Hunt: I've got an amazing organ.
Bolly: (giving Gene side eye): It's capable of much more than you'd think.
Gene: Right again.

Loads more from this and Life on Mars but some would probably get me banned! 😁

Lorrymum · 26/06/2022 19:16

'Theres no crying in baseball!" Tom Hanks, "A League of Their Own"

Namechanger1002 · 26/06/2022 19:17

Floydthebarber · 26/06/2022 18:57

Gavin and Stacey, when Pam is holding up the sign for them at the airport and is asked why it is wonky and she replies, "because of the big pen!" Dh and I say that whenever something hasn't gone right.

We also say, "Shut that door!" because our parents did and we are not 100% sure what programme it came from!

Larry Grayson - can’t remember the program. Wasn’t Blankety Blank. It was the one he did with Isla St Clair - contestants had to remember prizes on a conveyor belt I think

Namechanger1002 · 26/06/2022 19:18

Namechanger1002 · 26/06/2022 19:17

Larry Grayson - can’t remember the program. Wasn’t Blankety Blank. It was the one he did with Isla St Clair - contestants had to remember prizes on a conveyor belt I think

The Generation Game!