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Javert, you make it sound like it not for the fact that you can't think of this movie, you acually would be getting sleep. Could this be true? People actually sleep around here?
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Well, I just watched it again, and it is definitely not Real Genius. The dialogue for the spherical whirlygig was this:
quote:Chris Knight: You didn't touch anything, did you? Mitch: No. Chris Knight: Good. Because all of my filth is arranged in alphabetical order. This, for instance, is under 'H' for "toy. Mitch: What is it? Chris Knight: It's a penis stretcher. Do you want to try it? Mitch: No. Chris Knight: I'm just kidding. It's yet another in a long series of attempts to avoid responsibility.
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I guessed neverending story before... and now Im guessing The Time Machine... but just guesses.
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Maybe it was in a preview to a movie nobody say, like "Striptease" or "Showgirls". So we all saw the line but no one saw the actual movie. I'm not trying to out anyone who may have actually seen those, by the way.
My current vote goes for a sitcom episode. I'll have to check with my brother in law who is way into Seinfeld. It's like we've all been neuralyzed or something.
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First of all, Kayla, I didn't call myself a normal human being, so I don't see why you thought of it as an insult.
And just so everyone knows, I told my roomate this line and he swears he's heard it too. Just thought I'd say that so we know this isn't contained just in Hatrack. No mass halucinations here! Posts: 3852 | Registered: Feb 2002
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Okay, I'm shifting my vote to the mass hallucination camp. This is like those psychological traumas that are elicited so consistently from victims such as alien abduction and satanic ritual abuse. The line probably gets put in scripts all the time and then rejected with "trite" or "awk".
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I have been racking my brains trying to figure out what type of character would be impressed by something that doesn't actually do anything. Although the intonation of the quote, as it gets played back in my head sounds similar to the lilt of Willy Wonka or Doc I don't actually think they would be impressed by something that does nothing. Can anyone think of any character that might??
One character and situation that does spring to mind ... and I don't know where this comes from and I could be being ludicrous is Whoopi Goldburd in the Star trek film with the nexus.
Can someone go and check it out for me. My connection is far too sloth like at a meager 18,000 bps.
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OK, I'm gonna vote for Ghostbusters or something similar. For some reason, I'm seeing Dan Ackroyd delivering that second line.
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My take on it... Matilda and Flubber are both too obscure (which is my own bias since *I* haven't seen them ). No, really, I doubt any of my friends with whom I first discussed this would have seen either.
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Thalia, you should really see Matilda. It's wonderful My roommates made me watch it in hopes of sparking some self-recognition.
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Some pwebbers (if you want to trust them) suggest that it might be a movie with Eddie Murphy in it about where he is a politician. They even provided a close quote to it.
What do we do? (in reference to being a politician) We don't do anything, thats the beauty of the job.
Its really close, but I think we are looking for something else.
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The Tick posted this on the ST:TNG fan thread:
What will that do? Geordi: Not a damn thing, but it sure as hell *sounds* impressive! ------------------------------------------------------------------------
I think this is from a relatively early episode where the Enterprise is outgunned by some folks who gained warp travel by some means other than their native intellect.
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Yeah, that Eddie Murphy movie A Distinguished Gentleman was already mentioned - I've seen it, too... but the quote isn't exact.
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I grew up on Willy Wonka. I've seen it many, many times. It's not that. Everything in the chocolate factory did something. THAT was the beauty of it.
Other than that. I'm betting it's not even a movie quote. If you, as a girl, cannot come up with more than a couple of lines... it's just some kind of memory bug. Some kind of cultural experience that we all have. I don't actually think it's a movie.
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