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Weekend Discussion Thread: Riffs You Use in Daily ConversationThis week marks the first suggestion for a weekend discussion thread that I got via twitter. (And, as always, discussion thread suggestions are welcome.)
Alert reader Wes Hanks wrote:
One we use around our house is “Well! Let’s not do THAT again!” (when something bad happens). What about you? 180 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Riffs You Use in Daily Conversation”Commenting at Satellite News
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The one I get to toss around that makes everyone in the office where I work think I have mental issues is from MST3K: The Movie. When I am working on the website with my boss, she always “Ok, now go back to Normal View” which prompts me to then say in an increasing volume “normal view…..normal view….Normal View….NORMAL VIEW!!!!”
I am always on the lookout for when someone says peanuts…
” I sure hope he said peanuts”
and I have actually gotten to use the Thunderdome (and even ThunderGnome) in real life.
For some reason we do a lot of quotes from “I Accuse My Parents”. These three come up quite often.
After failing to do something (especially someing small and simple) – [in sing songy voice] “Try again, ’cause something’s wrong.”
When someone does something stupid, “There’s stupid, really big!”
And if the conversation rolls around to meals, you can’t help but ask, “How would you like a nice hamburger?” in the voice of Happy Chef.
Don’t forget to say “I’ve got underwear and peanut butter and that’s all I need.” when leaving a room. (“Watch out of snakes” works well too). :)
It now occurs to me that most people must think I’m weird– I use MST3K lines a lot. Here are my favs:
“Wha happa?”
“I sure hope he said ‘peanuts.'” Whenever anyone says the word peanuts.
“Ha ha ha ha ha… your costume is ridiculous!” (Actually, I keep this one to myself most of the time.)
“Torcha!” Always useful.
“That’s a mutant turd” Always cracks my husband up.
“He resents my dune buggy!” Any time someone complains.
“Know him? He was delicious!” Great fun to say when someone has big beard.
“I like it very much.” Constantly used around my house.
“I sure hope it doesn’t get hot.” When temperatures spike and everyone is clearly miserable.
“And she’s an acrobat, Ted.” When I see an older man with a young woman.
When I was teaching full time, I’d walk into the faculty room at lunchtime and say, “Fire up the grill, ladies, it’s time for a manwich!” (from a Hercules movie)
I’d also tell my band students, “get down, get funky!” They wouldn’t understand, but it was okay.
At our home we also use: “Say! Who’s the new girl?” “Eat my photons, smallhead!” and “Are you boys using an interocitor?”
Whenever my wife and I see a new movie produced by Universal, I always say “The earth has no weather,” or “The earth is having a really nice day,” so often, now when we see the logo she just turns and looks at me sternly.
While not technically riffs, two that come to mind are from skits or commercials.
1. “with enough L-Triptophan to knock you on your sorry Thanksgiving ass.” Gets used alot around the holidays at my house.
2. I want to decide who lives and who dies, to which my wife comes back with Oh I don’t know…
3. My all time favorite, She had a 5 pound potty…. Must have had a big breakfast. This one makes me giggle even while typing it.
“A five-pound potty!” comes up a lot when walking the dog, or when the DH or I have spent a bit too much time in the bathroom.
I break into a chorus of “magnificent Tom Servo” song at least once a month…”bigger than life…bigger than YOU!”
“Levi’s loose fitting clown jeans” for whenever we see more underwear than pants on today’s youth.
“The Hell?”
“McCLOUD”
“Tom Stewart killed me!” which we say at random moments for no clear reason.
When staying at cheesy motels/hotels, we quack whenever the door to the hallway opens.
“My-my-my-MY-GOD!”
“SAAAAAAAAAAAAY!”
“normal view…Normal View…NORMAL VIEWWWWWWWW!”
“DO SOMETHING!!!”
“Why am I alone with my dark star?”
“You’re the laziest man on Mars.”
“Thank God I saved you!”
And, although there aren’t many occasions to use it, I’ll always love “and! Naughty *spank*! and Naughty *spank*! and you are a naughty girl in the tushie! Naughty-naughty-naughty this way! Naughty-naughty-naughty that way..” etc etc
I forgot a few:
We have a road named Mitchell here that always makes the traffic reports. “Mitchell!”
For several years we did our grocery shopping at Martin’s, so we would do the “Welcome to Martin’s. What up?” riff everytime.
“It’s a xxx of savings, at Menard’s” is also common (we lived near one of those, too).
This past weekend at a Anime Convention I was at, I kept yelling out ,”Will there be mashed potatos.”, when different people would say the had something importent to say.
“Ok, Panda bears and they can fly.”
” He tampered in God’s domain.”
“Well it looks like grampa tried to program the VCR again”, or ” OOPS.” -Robert Zadar version, when the image of a mushroom cloud is shown on TV.
“So Brak is that Polish?”
“Rowsdower!”
“Smuckers Jelly.”
“Fisssssher.”
“Here’s a toe nail.”
When I lost my hair from when I went through cancer. -I’m fine now, been cancer free for quite a few years.- I would randomly say ” Glen was 50 ft tall.”
“So this is squirrel pudding.”
“Rex Dart Eskimo Spy.”
The auntie Mc.Frank Skit, when there’s a llama around.
“I think I just saw a finger.”
My friends and I have had whole conversations made of nothing but MST quotes.
” Our next guest is B.F. Skinner, He’s going to put you in a box.”
Johnny Long bow’s stew quote
Krankor’s laugh
“Ah, another thing spawned from Hell, Japanmation.”
“I’m Cherokee Jack.”
“Hey, the sand crabs are using their death ray.”
And countless others.
In Girl in Gold Boots, Critter punches the icky elf guy and Mike makes this…sound. It’s kind of a Lucy-ish wheeze. “eeeeoooooouuuuuwwww” My husband likes to make that sound when he’s playing violent video games and an enemy goes down.
Also, from Final Sacrifice, “Pipper-Blank” and always in the Jim Henson based voice of Mr Pipper.
…pipper digs….
Unfortunately, making decisions is not a strong suit in our house. So we use this line A LOT:
“We’ve decided to CUT HIS THROAT in a church–
Nonono!”
(Aren’t you glad I added backstory to that entry. Yeah, it could’ve really made us look creepy and, appropriately ‘AWK-waaaard”.)
“So, you live around here much…do you?” from Cave Dwellers
“Roger(substitute friends name), this is God pick up the pace”, when someone is slow.
“Sure I can see wh… Huh!?”
Today’s forecast calls for intermittant God.
Anytime we are driving and hear someone honk their horn we cry out “I got a new bathing suit!” from Eegah
Randomly we’ll yell “Mr Beardsly?” from Squirm for no real reason or when searching for something.
When someone stinks up the bathroom we warn people that “It smells like Coleman Francis in there” from Red Zone Cuba.
“Watch out for snakes” from Eegah as a farewell saying.
“Big McLargeHuge” (or any other riff about his size) from Space Mutiny
“Has anyone seen my dog” from Manos
From gigantic Tom during Out of This World – “Movie bad…movie go way!”
“Watch out for snakes” – that gets some odd looks
When something musical of debateable quality is wrapping up – “Rock Candy Baby your mine (pow), Rock Candy Baby your mine (uuh)….”
“Want some” also from Daddy-O, needs the right inflection.
Whenever I see an abruptly reversing car or other object, I try an emulate a reversing tape sound to the best of my ability (I think that’s from MST3k)
“You can do stupid things!”, “It stinks!”, “Pepperidge Farm remembers!, Pepperidge Farm remembers!!” “McCloud” – Pod People is a gold mine.
I’ll stop now.
OK few more –
“It’s those magic eleves again”- Hired!
“ha ha ha…what’s in the pipe Santa?”
good random follow-up question in any cicumstance from one of my favorite host segments – “Funny or not funny floating?”
Oh yes and constant references to “bargain clown”
I can’t believe I forgot to mention this (mainly because I haven’t gotten to in a long time).
“My smoothie gives me great power!” whenever downing one from wherever.
“So, you live around here much…do you?” Classic.
Favorites;
“Can the baloon juice gramps”
and also breaking out into a sort of aria like singing, when ever we see a person or perhaps an object with its mouth open AS seen in Werewolf (singing skull) and the singing sharks in Devilfish. Ahhhhhhhh!
I know there are a ton that I can’t think of right off the bat, but when I read this thread the first one I thought of is when my husband or I ask the other a question and they don’t answer right away, the one who asks always says “take your time, its a tough question” from The Touch of Satan.
I see all of these quotes I need to add to my lexicon.
I use “huzzah” a lot…I get a lot of weird looka because noone likes mst3k here except my Cousin and aunt.
I sing the songs,occasionaly..I once broke out with Creepy girl,for some weird reason :shock:
I also use “the Hell” or Good ole fashioned nightmare fuel!” Very sparingly,both of them.
and this isn’t technically a riff,but I call a lot of people,friends and such,Honey.
and a Schick commercial=Schick into shape
And i often call people slackers,IE(“Buzz is a slacker”)
what an awesome thread
I quote from a lot of different eps, but for this thread for me, Cave Dwellers is doing it.
“How much Keefe is in this Movie?”
“Ator…Ator my sweet friend…”
“Your capes are FABULOUS!!!”
“What do you, the viewers at home, think?”
One favorite of my girlfriend and I is when we can’t find something we say it’s “as elusive as Robert Denby.”
“Coffee? I LIKE coffee.”
“Rowsdower-mobile…away!”
“It made you mad…MEAN mad!”
I don’t know if this counts as a riff or not, but I often find myself using Servo’s “Wow” at appropriate moments.
There’s a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver whose last name is Menard, so whenever I watch a race on TV, I always say “there’s a (whatever) of savings at Menard’s!!”
If anyone is reading this thread so far down…here are mine! My mom and I are the big MST fans, so often we quote these to each other in general conversation:
“It’s all hot and it hurts and stuff!” (don’t remember which ep–something early)
“Only love pads the film” (Sidehackers)
“I’m coming out, and I’m not wearing any jewelry or accessories!” (also Sidehackers)
“That guy’s got a ball of pain inside” (from Crawling Hand.) Sometimes said in its entirety, usually shortened to “He’s a ball of pain”. Often used when talking about tv characters (i.e., on Lost, Sayid working for Ben and being all tormented–prime example of being a Ball of Pain)
“What color is the sky in her world?” (from Crawling Eye.) I use this almost daily when dealing with the crazies out there.
“…hopped up on goofballs” (don’t remember which ep.)
“Oh I love to laugh, long and loud and clear!” (Crow, but I don’t know which eps.) Because I do :-)
“Did he just say licky me?” Girl in Gold Boots
My husband and I use lots of MST riffs … most people who haven’t seen the movies think we’re crazy, but it’s a fun little in-joke for us!
“the hell??”
“We’re a fun couple!”
“I like it VERY MUCH!”
when we’re watching a movie and someone/something is about to be revealed … “It’s the blond guy. He’s a soultaker.”
“OK, Doctor Goofy!”
“Do you notice the strange indentations in their foreheads?” “Nooo!”
Finally, we’ll often make this exchange at random:
– “It’ll be a nice day if it doesn’t rain.”
– “It’s always a nice day if it doesn’t rain.”
– “If the sun’s not too warm.”
Almost forgot: One of these guys is going to see his own intestines.