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Most quoted film/tv programme in your house?

203 replies

LittleBinChicken · 15/03/2026 11:18

For us, definitely Frasier.

Favourites include:

“Off you go…”

“Do I look like I scuba??”

”Fine! I guess I’ll just have to make my own tea!”

”I guess it must be too much to ask that there not be GUN PLAY in my living room!”

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MaidOfSteel · 15/03/2026 13:49

‘On my order, unleash hell!’ Or words to that effect, from Gladiator.

SpecialAgentMaggieBell · 15/03/2026 13:50

Friends and Bad Boys.

Pashazade · 15/03/2026 13:50

Blackadder
Princess Bride
Chuckle Brothers 😁

Miranda65 · 15/03/2026 13:51

The Thick of It
Blackadder
Schitt's Creek
Ab Fab
The Young Ones

DistractMe · 15/03/2026 13:51

Honourable mention to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

PersephoneSmith · 15/03/2026 13:51

Red Dwarf.
are you sure? It does mean changing the bulb

Im going to eat you little fishy

space weevil

it’s a banana…

steaming pile of hotspur

I could go on 😆

ConstitutionHill · 15/03/2026 13:52

Spinal Tap.

Aparecium · 15/03/2026 13:54

Ai was just pissing by yewr door..

Allthegoodhorses · 15/03/2026 13:56

Come the fuck on Bridget..

Where the fuck is my fucking coat

Eight is a lot of legs David

Loads from Paddington - bonked on the head by a baguette and Shush, Gerald, I need you to Shush

AndresyFiorella · 15/03/2026 13:58

Blackadder 'we/I definitely did not kill that delicious plump-breasted pigeon'

'why do nice girls hate me?!'

Red Dwarf 'I would do, but the King of the Potato People won't let me' (often used by DD when I ask her to do a chore)

Miracle on 34th Street 'this feels like a pointless exercise Brian'
And in response from Buffy 'no it's totally pointy'

NewGoldFox · 15/03/2026 14:00

Peep show - mostly the Christmas episode “Think what it’s doing to the mechanism” and “hello, Christmas smoothie”

AppropriateAdult · 15/03/2026 14:00

Gavin & Stacey and The Office, mostly. Both eminently quotable.

marginallyawake · 15/03/2026 14:01

Hitchhiker’s Guide, Star Wars and Crocodile Dundee.
”Here I am, brain the size of a planet…call that job satisfaction? ‘Cos I don’t “.
”That’s not a knife!”

MoreIcedLattePlease · 15/03/2026 14:03

Probably Borat Grin Great success!

Other high-ranking references would be:
Inbetweeners
The Good Place
Father Ted
Fast Show
Monty Python

And, only one line, but incredibly frequently used at the moment is "''MERICA!" from Team America, because we use piss-taking as a coping mechanism.

GetOffTheCounter · 15/03/2026 14:03

For us it's The Big Bang theory

'How do you know that? .. 'Because I go outside and talk to people'.

'25 cats'

'I'll say nothing but secretly judge you'... 'How very Christian of you'

Whenwillthewashingend · 15/03/2026 14:03

The Royle Family, and Friday Night Dinner.

MoreIcedLattePlease · 15/03/2026 14:05

Twitinthewindow · 15/03/2026 13:43

🤣 I say this too! Nobody ever recognises it though!!

We like to use "8 is a lot of legs, David" whenever we're moaning about how hard something we've done was. 😂

NigellaDelia · 15/03/2026 14:05

Bambi ~ "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything"

hollyandribbon · 15/03/2026 14:10

Friday Night Dinner
Gavin & Stacey
Schitts Creek
Friends

and yes to “where the fuck is my fucking coat” and “eight is a lot of legs David” as well as “Ant or Dec” instead of Ant and Dec

LamentableShoes · 15/03/2026 14:11

NewGoldFox · 15/03/2026 14:00

Peep show - mostly the Christmas episode “Think what it’s doing to the mechanism” and “hello, Christmas smoothie”

Potatoes aren't vegetables. Aren't they... not bread...

WhosGotTheKeysToMyBimma · 15/03/2026 14:14

Eyesopenwideawake · 15/03/2026 13:29

"10 minutes Turkish"

Said most nights when dinner is almost ready.

"It was two minutes five minutes ago"

Most quoted for us is Spaced/Hot Fuzz

"Just a tenner"
"You've got red on you"
"Actually IN the bed"
"Just the one swan, actually"
"I've got some fucking jaffa cakes in my coat pocket"
"Skip to the end"

ThatGreenFawn · 15/03/2026 14:15

"That'll do pig" (babe) and "No, bad grasshopper!" A bugs life are quoted lots here.

murasaki · 15/03/2026 14:17

League of Gentlemen, Father Ted, Alan Partridge.

RightOnTheEdge · 15/03/2026 14:19

Schitts Creek.
Me and dd15 are always quoting it especially "The bébé"

Gotback · 15/03/2026 14:21

Seinfeld
Frasier
Spaced
Snatch
dinnerladies