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Ok, I'm not talking pickup lines and this goes for TV too, especially Saturday morning cartoons. There are so many phrases that just sound so incredibly cheesy and yet for some reason they keep getting used over and over and over in films and TV shows.
Like: "That idea is so crazy, it just might work!"
Or: "I will get you if it is the last thing I ever do!"
What are some others you can think of?
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is it a problem that many of these lines have come up in normal conversations I've been in with my friends?
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No, no, I'm talking about lines that are cliche, that movies and TV like to use over and over. (They are usually really DUMB movies and TV) They are the sorts of things no one would *ever* say in real life.
Except that today, Porter said to me, "That's so crazy, that just might work!" Which sparked this train of thought in my head.
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quote:"It doesn't do anything. That's the beauty of it."
I still vote for that M*A*S*H episode - "Depressing News" from season 9 - where Hawkeye builds a tower from tongue depressors. Can't prove it yet because they aren't showing season 9 in reruns currently.
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(Maybe I'll appreciate that one and use it when I'm older, but I've NEVER heard anyone say that one...)
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Fallow it feigning ignorance that I was responding to plaid, and pretending that he thinks that I was saying a movie quote. *deletes snarky comment*
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Again, not a distinct line, but any time the police captain berates the rogue detective for blowing up half the city to capture a nearly insigificant hood.
"You know how much your shenanagins cost this city?! I have the mayor breathing down my neck!"
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Isn't the line "It doesn't do anything....." actually from "The Meaning of Life" when they are talking about the machine that goes ping?
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"Oh man, that thing killed two people already!" "Lets be calm about this, we gotta have a plan!" "You want a plan? Well then, f*ck it up! That's my plan!"
THats a line you'll hear outside of movies on a very regular basis... especially when dealing with science teachers.
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"Hey lady, here's your pizza, and here's you pepperoni!"
Trust me, the only result is 2-10 behind bars and a free pych exam.
Oh, you didn't mean those type movies.
"You'll be sorry you broke up with me."
No they won't.
Never.
"You scruffy looking nerf hearder".
It just gets you blank stares and a geek reputation.
May also result in another free psych exam.
"Today is a good day to die."
Maybe, but its a better day to live.
"Tis a far far better thing I do..."
Maybe, but nobody cares. Just shut up and do it.
"Look, its spiderman!"
If you are not standing outside a theater, under a bill board, or near an arachnid lovers house, this will also get you a free Psych exam.
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"I've said it before, and I'll say it again..."
Or, the common action-movie line during action sequence: "Let's go!" and "This way!"
Does anyone say that when they're in great danger? I can imagine "Run!" or "Argh!"
Another thing that really bothers me is when bad things happen in high-tech movies the control centre gets a loud beeping siren so no one can see anything. And the lights go red and/or flash, so no one can see anything! It looks scary but it's completely impractical.
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