Small left-field lines or moments that crack you up

"You look like Aladdin." - Superbad

Cera's delivery kills me.

Homer screaming out the window "THAT WASN'T PAAARRRRRTTTTT!"

This occurred to me out of nowhere, given how minor it is:

I saw The Family Stone (it was an assignment, I swear!) and there's this moment where the family is passing around some sort of book. Luke Wilson's character glances at it, passes it on, and as someone else reads it he mumbles off-screen, "I can't read."

Destroyed me. It's been a while, so I may have completely butchered the description, but it's The Family Stone, so who cares.

'OK. So. She's a Dog'.

from 'Ghostbusters'

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Angelica Huston pointing to the correct location on the map in The Life Aquatic, as well as Dafoe's, "Not if I don''t see you first, sonny!" (see sig).

The unsolved, mini (2x2) Rubik's cube on Fantana's desk in Anchorman.

Ralph Fiennes' delivery of the word "pooof" to the one-eyed thief in In Bruges. (Pretty much anything he says qualifies, to be fair)

"That's just, like, your opinion, man".

Think I've covered all the normal geek bases now.

*Indy notices Nazis on the side of the truck*

"Erhh...."

"There is no Peter, only Zuul..."

Recently I laughed at an emotional Jigsaw moment that came out of nowhere during Punisher War Zone.

Just when I think I'm gettin bedduh....
I SEE MY REFLECTION IN A MIRRUH!

*starts crying*

Tropic Thunder, the look Downey gives after saying "script-book, spit that shit out man". First he looks like he's about to burst out laughing and suddenly breaks into this totally possessed stare. It kills me!

People give Intolerable Cruelty shit for being a weaker Coen Bros movie, but it's still filled with moments of pure gold. Like when Clooney is hiring Wheezy Joe to kill Marylin and Joe asks him "Who's the pigeon?" Clooney just looks around the room totally freaked out, like he expects ninjas to come rappelling down from the ceiling or something... "The What?!?!"

Such a great comedic performance by him.

Lots of moments like this in the Adventureland trailer. Especially this one from Kristen Wiig: "This is how we met!". Wiig's delivery, Target Lady aside, almost always destroys me.

From 'John Carpenter's Vampires':

Jack Crow: You ever seen a vampire?
Father Adam Guiteau: No I haven't.
Jack Crow: No... Well first of all, they're not romantic. Its not like they're a bunch of fuckin' fags hoppin' around in rented formal wear and seducing everybody in sight with cheesy Euro-trash accents, all right? Forget whatever you've seen in the movies: they don't turn into bats, crosses don't work. Garlic? You wanna try garlic? You could stand there with garlic around your neck and one of these buggers will bend you fucking over and take a walk up your strada-chocolata WHILE he's suckin' the blood outta your neck, all right? And they don't sleep in coffins lined in taffata. You wanna kill one, you drive a wooden stake right through his fuckin' heart. Sunlight turns 'em into crispy critters.

Quite possibly the best left-field description of vampires.

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Two things out of Pineapple Express.

1. The ridiculous look of Dale running around with a gun in his hand in the abandoned government weed lab.

2. Ed Begly Jr. threateing Dale to fuck him in the street if he doesn't comply.

And out of Ghostbusters.

Bill Murray's reaction after Akroyd tells Zuul to leave.

"That'll do Ray, let's go." That line just breaks the tension so well.

"Ahahahaha, I'm so aroused!" -- Anchorman

First time I saw it was a shitty cropped bootleg at my friend's house. It's said by Brian Fantana, I found out when I bought it later, but I actually thought the gag worked better if no one on screen was saying it.

"Hey guys, the bathroom at this place is INsane." Bill Hader at the burger stand in Hot Rod

An otherwise forgetable movie...

Most of the best moments from 'Ghostbusters' could fit in this thread. That's part of what makes that movie so classic.

'It's true. This man HAS no dick'.

I'd like to think that that line was an ad-lib on the spot.

"I'm just as God made me, sir!"
-Paul Benedict, RIP
This Is Spinal Tap

I thought Tony Shalhoub's unfazeable character in Galaxy Quest had some good ones. Like the shot of him eating the crackers and cheese during the atmospheric entry.

"I gotta sit down, otherwise I'm gonna shit on your feet."
- Elliot Gould to Scott Caan, OCEAN'S TWELVE

Exacerbated when Scott Caan visibly cracks up laughing in the shot.

Not a throw away line in Tropic Thunder, but one a lot of people seem to miss is Robert Down Jr.

"I don't break character until I've recorded the DVD commentary track!"

And in Step Brothers I laughed non-stop when I noticed that John C. Reilly was wearing wrist bands to match his t-shirts.

To continue the parade of Ghostbusters quotes:

"Listen! You smell something?"

and

"You... you've earned it." (Venkman gives Egon a candybar while Ray smiles and nods approvingly)

From 'The Usual Suspects':

Fenster: Man, I had a finger up my asshole tonight.
Hockney: Is it Friday already?


McManus: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Oswald was a fag.

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"Go, girlfriend. I'm your mother." Super Troopers.

"No, I'm married. That means 'No Stickin, just Lickin'!' "

Shane Vendrell, The Shield.

The way Bud reacts to Miller after he says John Wayne was a fag in Repo Man.

"That doesn't necessarily make him a homo, Miller."

And the way Heath Ledger roughs up Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy in The Dark Knight.

Those are all obvious Ghostbuster jokes. THE left field quip in Ghostbusters is from the beginning, when Dana's angry test subject tells him he can keep his two dollars.
"I will, mister!"

Bill Murray owns this thread.

I'm re-watching West Wing again and there's so many in there but my favourite so far is:

"You know, I was watching a television program before with a sort of a roving moderator who spoke to a seated panel of young women who were having some sort of problem with their boyfriend, apparently because the boyfriends had all slept with the girlfriends' mothers. Then they brought the boyfriends out and they all fought right there on television. Tell me Toby, these people don't vote do they?"

I also love the many different waya that Jed says "Yeah" and Danny says "Okay"

But from a dramatic standpoint, in the Excelsis Deo episode when Toby is talking to the homeless guy whose brother died and he delivers the line "I'm a powerful man..." kills me every time. His realization that his power means nothing to these guys is incredible.

The funniest non-joke part in GHOSTBUSTERS is when Murray gets evicted from his campus office, and with a complete lack of emotion, drones "This is preposterous. I demand an explanation".

Never ask a grumpy drunk Murray to come in and do post-synching!

"Lot's of straight guys like to watch their buddies fuck"

Borat: This is a VCR......recorded.....

"Someone must have told them about my little manuever at the battle of Tanaab"

Personally I was thinking of the guys in the hotel ball room when Murray rips off the tablecloth, and off-screen you hear him say, "The flowers, are still, standing!"

Anyway, this far in and everybody's ceding the topic to Bill Murray with not one mention of Chevy Chase? The fuck? One bit from CADDYSHACK kills me when he's asked if he went to Vietnam, and he says, "Me? Nooooooo. Homo."

"'Cause it's different than us, see, 'cause it's from outer space!"

---Kurt Russell, annoyed with having to explain what's going on in The Thing.

"Oh my gawd, he just ordered a giant glass of milk!" from Ghost World destroys me every time.

Jack Burton: Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn... call the president.

Probably my favorite line from 'Big Trouble in Little China'.

Jack Burton is just one big quip (or depending on your point of view whatever the opposite of a quip is?)

"I just feel kind of.......feel kind of invincible"

Another from Anchorman: After Ron explains that San Diego's ancient meaning is "Whale's Vagina", Christina Applegate responds with a very deadpan, "Ha, ha, that can't possibly be true."

The Simpsons is a treasure trove of oddball lines referring to offscreen events. Some of my favorites are Homer's "Ugh, this is worse than the album Grandpa released!" and Marge's "See all that stuff inside, Homer? that's why your robot never worked!" and "Remember when I made fun of your father's Sherlock Holmes hat? He sulked for a week and then closed his detective agency."

Waiter: Excuse me, Señor. You are a member of the club?
Fletch: No, I'm not, I'm with the Underhills.
Waiter: They are left, Señor.
Fletch: It's all right, they'll be back. He went out for his urinalysis.
Waiter: Would you like some drinks, Señor, while you wait? I will put it on the Underhills' bill.
Fletch: Yes, very good. I'll have a Bloody Mary and a steak sandwich and... a steak sandwich, please.

Banks is right. Chevy Chase could give Bill Murray a run for his money on the ad-libs from out of nowhere.

From 'Fletch', by the way.

Liz : You hang out with my friends? Sorry, a failed actress and a twat?
Shaun : Well, that's a bit harsh.
Liz : Your words, Shaun!
Shaun : I did NOT call Dianne a failed actress! - Shaun of the Dead

"Milk was a bad choice" - Anchorman

Two of my favorite one-off jokes

O BROTHER, off-screen, nearly inaudible: "We're in a tight spot!"

The first two times I saw this movie, I happened to have a beverage in my mouth mid-swallow right at that moment, and both times I needed a good 5 minutes of recomposing to keep from making a mess. I'm more careful now.

I was just about to say the line about Homer's Detective agency and low and behold it was right there.


And also from Fletch. The way Fletch talks to the two cops who are shaking him down and when they leave the chief's office.

"Why don't you two go down to the gym and pump each other."

"Hey is that Tommy Lasorta?"
"Yes it is."
"Well, I hate Tommy Lasorta" *Smashes picture with his fist*

Liz Lemon (looking at Tracy Jordan sitting on a chair in the hallway that's actually a sex doll): What are you doing in the hallway?

Tracy Jordan (jumps out from behind the wall): Or am I?!

Essentially all of 30 Rock makes this list.

From Arrested Development

"Who the Fuck ate my hard boiled eggs?!" And then Tobias sulks to the Charile Brown music.

David Cross' impatient line, "I am MAKING a birdhouse" in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It cracked me up and has stuck with me ever since.

When Ron Burgandy signals the News Team and Paul Rudd goes "We've literally been here the entire time." might have been the only time I laughed when I saw it in the theater. It's grown on me since.

Paraphrased from Pineapple Express:

"Hey, anyone seen my bigger knife?"

Continuing the Anchorman nonsequiturs, Paul Rudd dancing in his underwear trying to distract Corningstone, and Champ presenting his crotch to her like Vanna White. Possibly the only time I laughed at David Koechner that entire movie.

I'm not a big fan of True Lies (it's okay) but this exchange always makes me chuckle whenever I catch it:

Faisil: They call him the Sand Spider.
Spencer Trilby: Why?
Faisil: Probably because it sounds scary.

Billy Madison is a treasure of weird moments, but my personal favorite is when Steve Buscemi's character gets off the phone from talking to Adam Sandler. Best use of an ELO song in a movie.