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Random quotes you get stuck in your head

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HammergoHammer · 18/01/2023 20:02

Not sure if this is just odd, but I get random quotes stuck on a loop in my head sometimes from films or tv shows.
Today it's
1.) practically wasting away (Ursula, the little mermaid) I am fat and use this quote daily
2.) 'you're going to eat your babies!' (from this absolute mental pastor (pastor Phelps) on a Louis Theroux episode on the most hated family in America. Don't say this out loud.
3.) 'you're trailer trash who won the lottery, dude' (from Teen Mom 2, Nathan to Jenelle). Think this one to myself when I find a surprise 50p in my bag.
4.) 'she touched me, without touching me' creepy Damien to Giannina in Love is Blind. I hear it in his strange, deadpan voice and shudder.
What's yours?

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Pizzamyamour · 18/01/2023 20:12

My Nan (although not sure if she got it from somewhere else) - if the truth hurts, look inwardly

Runningoncoffeealone · 18/01/2023 20:24

DSS visited once and had picked up the word "yeet." Initially I hated it, but now it's something I find myself thinking (or even saying out loud) whenever I throw something in the bin or chuck laundry in the basket 🙄

Also "it's going to be a bumpy ride" comes into my thoughts every single time I travel anywhere in a vehicle (Harry Potter) 😁

Maybebabyno2 · 18/01/2023 20:40

'No need to get all malignant' - Bring It On, say it to my partner in pretty much every jokey row. Absolutely never in any context where it would make any sense.

HammergoHammer · 18/01/2023 20:44

@Runningoncoffeealone oh my god, me too with the bumpy ride! In a terrible Jamaican accent

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Shesasuperfreak · 18/01/2023 20:48

Anything from Friday the movie
"Make it enough"
"Thats my only problem"
"My neck and my back"
"Everytime I'm in the kitchen, your in the kitchen "
"Sinny sin sinnn"

Jagley · 18/01/2023 20:49

Whenever I hear "an eye for an eye" I always hear "and the whole world goes blind" in my head. I think it's Gandhi, no idea where I heard it!

Quite often say "the problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem", I love it, it's Jack Sparrow 😄

SantaBakula · 18/01/2023 20:55

Not quotes per say but if I hear a word , phrase , even if its just part of a conversation when compleat strangers pass me in the street .
That can go round in my head for ages sometimes.
A bit like a song earworm but just words .
It drives me nuts sometimes

ShinyMe · 18/01/2023 21:03

Do you mean like earworms, but for non music, OP?

If so, then after a few hours watching Morse at the weekend on ITV3 then I often walk round the house saying 'it's June dad!' to myself, keeps me entertained for hours.

theswoot · 18/01/2023 21:05

I was having a massage recently and when she was working on my neck and scalp I suddenly remembered Tracy Jordan in 30 Rock saying “heavy is the head that eats the crayons” and it took everything I had to not laugh out loud.

Alstoybarn · 18/01/2023 21:10

theswoot · 18/01/2023 21:05

I was having a massage recently and when she was working on my neck and scalp I suddenly remembered Tracy Jordan in 30 Rock saying “heavy is the head that eats the crayons” and it took everything I had to not laugh out loud.

😂😂😂😂😂

Cellotapedispenser · 18/01/2023 21:17

'BOWLED SHANE' in a really terrible Australian accent everytime we get a bowl out to eat. (Shane Warne cricket reference, sad now but still can't stop myself)

FineBerol · 18/01/2023 21:21

Frasier

is quoted every day in our house, just randomly or prompted by tenuous links

"get ouuuuuuttttt"
"Man who says duvet"
"Night terror, bette noirs"
" flesh is burning nanna nanna naana"
"I don't know whhyyyyy"

And so many more

TitsHerbert · 18/01/2023 21:30

"And what would I want with a big tin of ham" I can't for the life of me remember who said it - think it was a female comedian years ago but I say it every time I'm in the tinned cupboard

MissingMoominMamma · 18/01/2023 21:36

We frequent say, “Whoa there, Lesley!”

I have absolutely no idea why.

MissingMoominMamma · 18/01/2023 21:40

I’ve just googled ours and now I know!

Batterball · 18/01/2023 21:41

I have lines from Clueless, legally blonde, Miss Congeniality, Hamilton, pretty woman and some others that go around in my head. If there is the smallest most minuscule link to any of them in a conversation they pop out of my mouth. Same with song lyrics, once I hear a similar sounding sentence the song is in my head for the day 🙄

over Xmas we were watching some crime caper on TV, guy screams for them to get on the ground. Me and the kids all at once said “THis is an Alaia. An a-whatta. Like a totally important designer” (line from clueless when she’s held at gun point.
Poor hubby just sighed 😳

Goingforplatinum · 18/01/2023 21:45

We have horses out the back of our house and a stream. Everything I see the horse drink the water I always say 'you can lead the horse to water, but you cant make it drink' DH is getting very annoyed at me

CheesyChipsOnWembleyWay · 18/01/2023 21:53

Mention temporary traffic lights and I will immediately go "past Mcvities" and end up on birdhall lane.

tinytemper66 · 18/01/2023 22:12

Out vile jelly-King Lear

Reader, I married him. -Jane Eyre

not my daughter you bitch. Last HP book

Live of the fatta the land -OMAM

I have fought the good fight. I have run the race. Letter from St Paul to Timothy.

BatshitBanshee · 18/01/2023 22:18

"MENTION IT ALL!"

"how am I doing? I'll tell you how I'm doing, not well bitch"

"Fuck you till Christmas!"

"I don't give a fuck, his name is Steve"

"You better believe I'm going to talk about it"

"Wot a focking Liberty" - particularly annoying considering I really don't like Catherine Tate

Lots more, but annoyingly my ear worms have gone silent

BatshitBanshee · 18/01/2023 22:19

Oh oh OH

I cannot look at a tin of Fox's Biscuits without immediately saying:

"tell em Vinny sent ya".

fblake · 18/01/2023 22:21

pan or pam, i think i can sort out this pan pam situation - Step Brothers

Sisiwawa · 18/01/2023 22:28

I'm claustrophobic Darren! By the GC

TwitTwoodiniEscapeOwlogist · 18/01/2023 22:28

There was a one off BBC comedy drama way back in the seventies I think. I can't remember anything about it except it was Richard Briers and I think...Michael Gambon?....on a train going through the countryside.

And Briers looks out the window and says "Hello, hello, first cow of the day, swiss roll for tea!"

I always say it in my head the first time I look out of a train window and see a cow.

WineCap · 18/01/2023 23:26

'I'm going to twist your back like mine so you'll never get out of bed again. NEVER GET OUT OF BED AGAIN!' - Zelda from the original Pet Sematary. Chills me.

I also think of so many Pride and Prejudice quotes allll the time.

Cheesy ones:

  • This too shall pass
  • Rocky's pep talk: Life ain't all sunshine and roses, it's a very mean and nasty place. Etc. Etc.' (It goes on for a while if you don't know it).
  • Suck it up buttercup