Lines that flew above your head when you were young

Ghostbusters:

Dana Barrett: "I want you inside me."

Peter Venkman: "Go ahead! No, I can’t, sounds like you’ve already got at least two people in there already. Might be a little crowded."

The king of this thread:

"I'm Plenty. Plenty O'Toole."

"Named after your father, perhaps?"


When I was finally old enough to get that joke, I laughed for about 15 minutes straight.

I saw Airplane many times as a child. It wasn't till I got old enough to understand what being an alcoholic meant that I got the running joke in Airplane where he throws water in his face and says "I have a drinking problem"... made an already funny movie just a bit more funny.

Also, I don't think I got the "Do you like Gladiators" joke till I got older too. It still made me laugh as a kid even without fully understanding the true meaning.

I know The Goonies isn't very popular around here, but I still love it. I bring it up, because I'm ashamed to admit that it wasn't until I was into my late teens that I realized "One Eyed Willie" is a penis joke.

"Back to the Future."

In the Twin Pines Mall parking lot, Doc Brown steps out of the DeLorean in his funny getup, and Marty asks him, "Is that a Devo suit?"

Later, when Doc of 1955 is watching the footage that Marty shot:

"What's this that I'm wearing?"

"Oh, that's a radiation suit."

"Radiation suit. Of course. From all the fallout of the atomic wars!"

Sneakers

".. and give him head whenever he wants"

"and give him he . . help . . . whenever he needs. Be a beacon . . in his sad and lonely life."

True Romance. The entire conversation between Big Don and Drexel about "eating pussy". The idea that they're so poor that they're forced to eat cats completely made my mind boggle.

In 'Alien', during the dinner table sequence, Parker and Lambert trade a few lines that I never understood until I was older. I don't remember the lines, but the sequence:

Parker bitches about the food
Lambert: 'You shovel it away like'
Parker: 'Yeah, well, I'd rather be eating something else...' smirk
Lambert: mutters 'Oh my God' under her breath.
Kane: 'Yeah, well at least then you know what it's MADE of'.

Dumb and Dumber

"Pull over!"

"No it's a cardigan!"

Flash communicating telepathically with Dale:

Flash: "God, this girl is turning me on..."

Dale: "What was that? I didn't catch that."

Flash: 'Nothing! Nothing!"

Blazing Saddles: "We give you this laurel and hearty handshake . . ."

Took 3 viewings before I realized they were referencing Stan and Ollie.

In the same spirit as the preceding post, from History of the World, Part 1: "the servant waits while the master baits!"

Countless double entendres and many of the female character names from the Bond films.

I watched ALL of them when I was a kid. TONS of times. I can barely muster any interest in the series now, I really should revisit.

"If you're us, and we're you, what number are we thinking of?"

*pause*

"69!" *air guitar riff*

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Frost: Hey, I sure wouldn't mind getting some more of that Arcturian poontang! Remember that time?

Spunkmeyer: Yeah, Frost, but the one that you had was a male!

Frost: It doesn't matter when it's Arcturian, baby!

I will have to add myself to the list of people who became fans of the Bond films at an age when most of the puns/character names ETC went right over my head. I didn't understand what Bond was on about with his last line in TWINE till well after DAD's release

From Ghostbusters:

Peter: He's a sailor, he's in New York; we get this guy laid, we won't have any trouble!

It's funny how people tend to associate Ghostbusters with being a kids movie when Peter is intimating that they find the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man a prostitute.

The Muppet Movie:

"They don't look like Presbyterians to me..."

"Have you tried Hare Krishna?"

Both hilarious and straight over my lil kid noggin.

Speaking of Ghostbusters (from part 2):

Dana: It's late, I really ought to put him down.
Peter Venkman: May I?
Dana: Yeah, if you want to.
Peter Venkman: [points in baby's face] You're short, your bellybutton sticks out too far, and you're a terrible burden on your poor mother.

At the time, it just seemed like a weird non-sequitur from Murray.

This one for me. I'm embarassed to admit how old I was when I finally got the joke. Before that, I always thought it was a simple bit of physical comedy.

I had no idea what Martin Short's Mail plane joke meant in Three Amigo's.

From the 1st Naked Gun: "Nice beaver!"

Re Airplane!, first time I saw the movie I distinctly recall feeling that the topless panic scene warranted further study, yet I was not sophisticated enough to get the "blowing Otto" business. Oh to be young and innocent again!

JAWS

As nude Crissie takes to the water, Cassidy tries in vain to disrobe and join her and says, "I'M COMING! I'm definitely coming..."

Not sure if this would technically count, but from Batman Returns:

Max Shreck convincing the Penguin to run for mayor: "Imagine... you'll have the ear of the media. Access to captains of industry. Unlimited poontang."

Reason I'm not sure if this counts is that even back when I was a kid and this movie first came out in theaters, I actually DID know what the phrase "poontang" meant. I saw this movie countless times growing up all throughout the VHS days, and I should've by all rights gotten the joke way the hell back when... but for some reason I don't remember ever once actually hearing the line loud enough for it to register (since Walken all but whispers it: and also my hearing in one ear has always been fairly terrible). It's not that I wouldn't have gotten it, its that I just somehow never noticed it. It wasn't until sometime around high school (after watching the movie on DVD with a friend who at the time owned a pretty badass Dolby surround setup) that I actually managed to finally make out the line at all, and I completely lost my shit that they got away with throwing that in there.

That was actually one of the key instances that got me into the habit of rewatching a lot of English language movies on DVD with the subtitles on, just to spot check for little throwaway lines like that that I might not have picked up on during the first (or even first few) go rounds.

I love how much of a dirty perv the Penguin is in that movie.

I clicked on this thread specifically to confess that.

It's all the funnier because I was always as straight faced as Chevy Chase is that scene.

I am embarasesd to say that until this thread that joke went totally over my head, i thought he was just bonding with the baby in his own special way.

I can honestly say, I never picked up on that Max Shreck line. That's great. I wanna re-watch Batman Returns now.

How about this gem from same movie:

"Weren't you a blonde when I came in?"
"Could be."
"I tend to notice little things like that - whether a girl is a blonde or a brunette."
"Which do you prefer?"
"Well, as long as the collar and cuffs match... "

This one just occured to me: I had no idea what was supposed to be going on with the candy bar in the underwear thing from the end of ACE VENTURA. I forget the dialog from the scene (something about hemeroids?), but I remember it was the big climax of the film and Carrey used it to shame the villain

Not a line, but I saw the Shawshank Redemption when I was still young and it never clicked that Andy ever got anything other than beat up by the Sisters.

It's admittedly been awhile since I've seen the film, Kate, so we could be talking about a completely different scene I don't remember, but are you in fact referring to the ending reveal of Einhorn/Finkle? Because that's no candy bar...

Now that I think about it, I actually have no clue. I only ever saw the movie once on home video the year it came out, and I think it was my mom who said something about a candy bar. She was also the one that told me the weaponry wielded by the TMNT was for the purposes of slicing pizza, so perhaps my memory of the AV:PD is less than sound

I think we were discouraged from renting it again by my parents, and when I was old enough to go out and see it on my own, I was kind of past the point in my life where I had a desire to watch ACE VENTURA PET DETECTIVE

EDIT: Literally the only things I remember about the movie are: something to do with a ring and a diamond falling out of it, a football field, and Ace getting a gun pointed at him when he rings a door bell. That and the candy bar thing

Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. Frollo wanting to fuck Esmeralda FLEW over my head. Watched it a few years ago for the first time in ages and was so shocked that I replayed the "Hellfire" sequence just to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. Still can't believe they got that in a DISNEY movie.

Yeah, I remember watching that in the theater as an adult and thinking, "Holy shit, this just got seriously dark!"

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh man...

Oh gosh...

Thank you, Kate. Thank you so much.

Raising Arizona:

"Hurry up now, I'm in Dutch with the wife."

Woody Allen films, especially the early funny ones:

"I got a Ph.D in oral sex."
"They make you take any Spanish with that?"

And I wasn't even that young when I saw The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, but it was a good ten years before I realized that Trudy's giving birth to quintuplets is foreshadowed by her account of... dancing... with five different guys on the night in question.

Flash Gordon "I knew you were up to something. I confess I never thought of necrophilia."

As a kid I thought nercophilia was how they faked Flash's death.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Donatello: You're a claustrophobic.
Casey Jones: You want a fist in the mouth? I've never even looked at another guy.

I watched this a few years ago and was literally stunned for a sec. Wait, what?!

Obviously it's not a very good line, but still...

I first watched Austin Powers on video with my family. I asked my step-sister to explain the "I never forget a pussy...cat" line in front of everybody. Cracks me up thinking about it now.

My favorite gag from any movie has to be the ten second scene in History of the World Pt 1 where Oedipus is begging. Once I hit high school and learned who Oedipus actually was, I realized its genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0quUM-Nr2c

My older sister was a huge Dirty Dancing fan - she'd watch the VHS all the damn time, and I'd be in the room for a good fraction of it.

And it wasn't just a line, it was the whole abortion angle in Dirty Dancing... which is basically the entire movie.

When I saw it again at like 16, I felt like an idiot. And a misogynist. And a loser for watching Dirty Dancing again at 16. Good movie, though.

"It's my virgin alarm. It's programmed to go off before you do!"

I knew what a virgin was when I was like 9, but I didn't get the second part.

"How's this for a wet dream?"- I was allowed to watch the NOES movies at an early age, and I think I was in fourth grade when part four came out. I had NO idea what Freddy was talking about.

"It's the man with the badge! The po-lice! The cops! The fuzz! The P-I--"
"Don't. You. DARE."

Years before I figured out where they were going with that.

Don't forget the whole thing of Mel Brooks' character almost certainly being a Nazi war criminal.

"You think they're sleeping in Dusseldorf? Every night a new knob, a new dial..."

More Brooks humor that dodged me as a kid:

"Help me out with this, help me out with this!"
"Just think of your secretary."
"There we go."