The guy gave a really funny example of blurting some catchphrase in the middle of…I can’t remember, maybe a classroom or an meeting at work, and getting some very strange looks.
My apologies to whoever sent the e-mail.
So since I can’t remember his story, I’ll tell you one of mine.
I was visiting some friends of my wife’s and a football game was on, and a beer commercial came on featuring a very shapely young lady. Without even thinking, I muttered “Oh, I hate to shoot a butt like that!” It got very quiet. I think some of her relatives still talk about that.
Ever have any experience like that?
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I had a time when somebody invited me to a party and I said “Will there be mashed potatoes?” The person just looked at me for about a minute.
Occasionally, when someone offers me coffee, I’ll tell them “I like coffee” with the weird little voice that the blonde guy in Skydivers uses. I don’t think it really catches anyone’s attention though.
Not a solo but a duo…I was steps away from walking into a conference room to give a presentation and my friend stopped me in the hallway so we could do our limbering up hands on knees rotation exercise from the Speech short. I still crack up about this years later.
I forget the movie – but there was one of the older sci fi classics where radiation made a man become a giant. Ultimately he began to die because, as a doctor explained, “Your heart is only made of one cell.”
The MST3K line is “You’re not a real doctor, are you?”
I work in a healthcare office so . . . .
A couple of my co-workers were talking about finding directions to somewhere. One of them ended up asking me a question and I can’t remember what was said to set it up, but I got to slip in “I don’t go map findin’ behindin’,” from The Final Sacrifice.
I’m sure they don’t know the reference, but we’re a weird bunch so no one batted an eye at the comment.
When someone knocks at my door, I say “Come out!” (Gunslinger)
Off topic: I got a foot of snow on the ground where I live (Chambersburg PA) and it’s still coming down! Good time to watch Santa Claus.
Frank’s “I don’t fink on soul brother.” This is unfortunately primed and ready for anytime I don’t know what to say, so I say it at work a lot.
When someone comes up to me to ask me something, I’ll wheel around as if caught by surprise and say “I’m not an alien!” or “I’m not a communist!” or, if it’s an attractive woman who appraoches me, “I don’t live with my mother!”
Always good for a laugh.
When out in a wooded area with people like a wildlife refuge or whatever, I can’t help to shout out “Watch out for snakes!” at some point.
I try to work in ConHugeCo to official training documents as an example company whenever I can.
My friend Matt and I always go back and forth with the “buh da BAH da” Bond snippet from Agent for HARM.
To wit:
We’re both reporters, now at different newspapers. When we worked at the same one, I’d go up to his desk (or vice versa) and say something like, “The library is having a book sale. Buh da BAH da!”
We also play golf. “I think this seven-foot putt breaks to the left. Buh da BAH da!”
On occasion I’ll hear somebody say “Think about it.” To which I’ll usually add “Won’t you?”
You know you want me, baby!
I actually said that to a girl once. She didn’t slap me either. She just gave me the ol’ shocked look!
I like to say, “Crank the Molly Hatchet and let’s ROLL!” when going on a car ride, but that’s not too outlandish, assuming the other person(s) know who Molly Hatchet was.
It was ME Sampo!
Here was the story:
I’m the lead singer for a heavy metal band and we were playing at an all-ages club. Cursing was strictly forbidden. At one point my guitarist leaned into his microphone and said, “It’s f***ing hot up here”. Without thinking, I blurted into my microphone, “Language, Bernice!” You could suddenly hear a pin drop in the club and even my bandmates were staring blankly at me. So I mumbled the name of the next song and launched us into it as fast as I could.
PS- When I said, “Language, Bernice”, I should point out that I said it EXACTLY the way Mike says it in whatever episode it’s from- in kind of a girly voice.
At times when someone is serving ham at some function, I’ve made jovial reference to the sawdust in my stomach exploding.
I’m still surprised I’ve never been committed.
This sort of fits: Last Thursday my office had it’s Christmas party. There was a rather paltry (fake) tree sitting on a table near the food line, and someone commented on it. I responded with “Yes, it’s small and of no account” (Rifftrax Christmas show). The guy in front of me had been to the show and started laughing his head off. Thing is, nobody was looking at me for what I said, but he was drawing a lot of stares.
At a meeting, federal government in the beltway, a nasty troll of a person (who lived to embaress others in any way possible) was lambasting people and a momentary silence occurred. I blurted out ‘Well it looks like we do have fun on this job huh?’ a play on comment I heard several times on MST3K. The entire room erupted in laughter except for one party. Several people congrated me after the meeting. Well no good deed goes unpunished. The nasty troll became my own Pearl Forrester!?
Whenever I’m climbing a lot of stairs with someone else, and get a little out of breath, I’ll often say “Sides of [my] heart blowing out like old tires!”, from Final Sacrifice…..only my wife gets that one, if she’s the one with me.
Out of nowhere I’ll use the phrase “As elusive as Robert Denby” and it’ll get the same reaction that it got from Mike Nelson in the FIRST place.
Also, “… won’t you?” will get added to random sentences.
Throwing out: “If you’re like me, and I know am” never fails to get blank stares from any crowd. :mrgreen:
When I’m on the elevator and someone else is with me, I’ll occasionally say “Push the button Frank”. Since the assistant store manager’s name is Frank and is widely reviled I get a lot of dirty looks…. Oh, well. Someday someone else will laugh.
I also use push the button frank alot. I also use “I’m bob evil” whenever I see an evil looking business man. Lets see any time potatoes are mentioned I lanch into “boil em mash em stick em in a stew” like they do in the two towers riff and sometimes the chicken legged guy song from “hollywood after dark”. My friend will take to saying “manos” in a questioning manner at random moments of silence.
On several occasions, I have blurted out, “I sure hope he said ‘peanuts.'” Sometimes I get laughter, sometimes quizzical stares.
When someone offers me coffee, I usually use the “I like coffee” bit, unless I need to get it myself. “Where is it, your coffee?” This works for anything, by the way. “Where is it, your lasagna?”, etc.
If I’m stretching at my desk, I might say “Mmmm. ROWSDOWER.” in a fake Troy voice.
I also randomly toss out “WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES” sometimes when my wife and I are getting out of the car at the mall or other busy places. One time some guy called back with “ROXY!” That was kinda neat.
Oh, this just happened right now! My wife and I were just talking about what to make for Christmas dinner, and she suggested ham. Of course, I said “Ham. I love it.” in a deadpan Vorelli voice. She doesn’t get it…
If you ask someone to do something and they reply with “I don’t wanna…/I hate doing that…/I don’t feel like doing that…”, say “I know” in a suave voice while raising your eyebrows. They’ll want to do it even less than before, but you’ll feel good.
This happened to me on two seperate occasions. Once at work someone came to sit with my co-workers and I where I happened to say “Join us, won’t we.” That got a few stares. The other was when watching what I can only describe as childrens programming that shouldn’t be for children, (so cute its creepy) and saying “Now there’s some good old-fashioned nightmare fuel.” That one didn’t even register. :???:
I get blank stares from my wife many times for my comments, also a few here and there from coworkers though I can’t think of a single example to give right now.
Remember when Servo was over-sarcastic in First Spaceship to Venus? During a group conversation back in college, we were discussing classes we weren’t looking forward to. At one point, I used his “OHHH! Sign me up for that!” line and it got deathly quiet among my fellow students. :oops:
My dog’s name is Madison (Maddie) for short – {we got her when she was already five years old and she came with that name already! Cool, huh?} – often when walking her, if she does that “hunting dog” stance that spaniels do when she sees a squirrel or something, I’ll go “Madison!” like in “TISPWSLABMUZ” – I think “Oooh, how clever I am” but nobody at the dog park gets it.
im a recoerding engineer. whenever theres a technical glitch, at the moment i figure it out i blurt out “oh there was a green button the whole time!” Or when we are counting any large numbers i inject ” (crunchy sound then. . 235 sir” I also like singing “normal view – normal view- normal view , NORMAL VIEWWWWW!!!! especially when im editing on the computer
I have a younger girlfriend- I’ll sometimes say to her “I had jello today”
I’ll also routinely say- “hey, I’m not an alien, I’ll ram my ovipositor down your throat and lay eggs in your chest, but hey, I am not an alien”
Get a lot of weird looks.
“The HELL!?” is my favorite little interjection of surprise.
Funny you should mention this,
Generally I use too many too often but am used to being stared at.
few days back my wife and I were driving daughters new car, when a rain sprinkle occurred ..we both simultaneously “Put me on intermittent
,Joe!”
We had our Christmas Party yesterday, and since I work for a state agency I wished everybody a “Merry Christmas, if that’s OK.” One person said, jokingly, “It’s not”, but I doubt anyone got the reference.
Oddly all the quotes I regularly drop are often so much in context that people just think I’m being funny. Like at parites when I say, “Hey everyone, free samples of me.” I also regularly use the term, “wide awake nightmare,” whenever possible.
I think the only time I quote something MST3K related and get blank looks is when I’m alone with my wife. :)
I like to occasionally suggest to people that we could go “chase bunnies on a minibike ’til their hearts explode…”
In moments of amazement, I’ll say “Hey, check it out! There’s an oven in the living room!” from ‘Eegah.’
Yeah, that draws a few blank stares.
I was watching Cold Case Files with my boyfriend and the narrator said, “He never regained consciousness.” and I blurted out:
“He was dead, so it makes sense.”
Some unhappy customers were demanding to see my manager because their food wasn’t cooked the way they wanted it. He was in no mood to deal with them so he asked if I had offered them free drinks. I said, “I tried but they keep dry-clicking their revolvers at me.” Everybody in the kitchen ran to the dining room to get a look at my customers.
After saying something funny, many is the time I will use Servo’s “hoo-Hoo” laugh to indicate I get my own joke.
Also once during a walk through some crunchy leaves, my best friend blurted out, “Somebody’s breaking shredded wheat biscuits!”
Me and my best friend always break into the “Manos?” questioning in front of our friends, most people don’t get those references. Whenever someone’s hands are out of sight I always say “Hey mister, get those hands of fate at 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock.”
I make a LOT of MST3K (and spin off) riff references…
I do make reference to Bulk McLargehuge and premutations thereof whenever I see a particularly beefy guy doing something.
Oh, look! It’s the local color….White trash!!!! The other day when I took a walk I was singing to myself. Heart pounding, knees grinding…..Mitchell.
Hmmm, I do like to yell out “Hikeeba” when I’m about to perform some sort of physical action. Loved to do it when we’d take batting practice before a softball game. Every time I’d swing, I’d yell, “Hikeeba.”
Also love to mention things about my “patent papers” at work when I can squeeze it in.
I’ve been known to blurt out “Oh, Lupita!” at inopportune moments, usually when I see an impossibly adorable little girl. I’m amazed I haven’t been arrested yet.
I also like throwing “extruded plastic dingus” (spoken exactly the way Servo says it) into my conversations.
Whenever I’m watching a movie or TV show when someone dies, (particularly if they fall), I always say, “I regret nothing!”
I live in a beach resort area, so I see lots of lighthouses and pictures and such. So one day I was in the mall, and they were showing some paintings from a local artist and one of them was of a lighthouse. And I said in a loud haunting tone, “Tom Stewart killed me!”.
I got a lot of weird looks from that, but I got a good laugh out of it.
Another one I use frequently is whenever I’m watching a game and the announcer says “And the crowd goes wild”, I give a less than enthusiastic ‘yay’.