Fun lines from John Hughes movies

[prberk]

In addition to the very nice RIP thread for John Hughes, I thought it might also be nice to have a thread dedicated to the great list of lines that have come from his films. Some have stuck with us and become part of the cultural landscape.

So, which is your favorite line, or what that makes you laugh? Or just remember a special time in your life?

The best one overall is probably the one quoted by EpcotServo in the RIP thread: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
-Ferris Bueller

But I still have to laugh when I hear:
"What's a-happenin', hotstuff?!" from Sixteen Candles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfTwTbXvR8Y

(He says it pretty "happening" pretty clearly there, but I seem to remember it as "a-happenin", and I don't really know why??!!)

Paul

 

[DormaNesbit]

Yes he totally stumbles the word happening! The Donger has another line that is funny too but not appropriate for a family web site!

From Ferris---he's describing Cameron

Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ____, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.


(sorry, not that that is too family friendly, but I did edit the word myself!)

Unfortunately, I've used that quote to describe some people I know.

 

[WDWmazprty]

Here's one of my favorite interactions between John Candy and Macaulay Cauilkin in Uncle Buck:


Miles: Where do you live?
Buck: In the city.
Miles: You have a house?
Buck: Apartment.
Miles: Own or rent?
Buck: Rent.
Miles: What do you do for a living?
Buck: Lots of things.
Miles: Where's your office?
Buck: I don't have one.
Miles: How come?
Buck: I don't need one.
Miles: Where's your wife?
Buck: Don't have one.
Miles: How come?
Buck: It's a long story.
Miles: You have kids?
Buck: No I don't.
Miles: How come?
Buck: It's an even longer story.
Miles: Are you my Dad's brother?
Buck: What's your record for consecutive questions asked?
Miles: 38.
Buck: I'm your Dad's brother alright.
Miles: You have much more hair in your nose than my Dad.
Buck: How nice of you to notice.
Miles: I'm a kid - that's my job.

 

[maggiegrace1]

Weird Science..

"He doesn't even have his license Lisa. Gimme da keys!, Gimme da keys"



Breakfast Club

“Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did was wrong, but we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain…and an athlete…and a basket case…a princess…and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.” — Brian Johnson


Sixteen Candles

“I can’t believe I gave my panties to a geek.” — Samantha Baker

 

[maggiegrace1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z727wXHEJMg

Not a quote but one of the best scenes from "Pretty in Pink"..

I heart Duckie..

 

[WDWmazprty]

FromThe Breakfast Club:

John: I just wanna know how one becomes a janitor because Andrew here is very interested in pursuing a career in the custodial arts.

 

[DMC-12]

Claire Standish: You know why guys like you knock everything?
John Bender: Oh, this should be stunning.
Claire Standish: It's because you're afraid.
John Bender: Oh God, you richies are so smart, that's exactly why I'm not heavy into activities.
Claire Standish: You're a big coward.
Brian Johnson: I'm in the math club.
Claire Standish: See, you're afraid that they won't take you, you don't belong, so you have to just dump all over it.
John Bender: Well, it wouldn't have anything to do with you activities people being -------, now would it?
Claire Standish: Well, you wouldn't know, you don't even know any of us.
John Bender: Well, I don't know any lepers, but I'm not going to run out and join one of their ----- clubs.
Andrew Clark: Hey. Let's watch the mouth, huh?
Brian Johnson: I'm in the physics club too.
John Bender: Excuse me a sec. What are you babbling about?
Brian Johnson: Well, what I had said was I'm in the math club, uh, the Latin, and the physics club... physics club.
John Bender: Hey, Cherry. Do you belong to the physics club?
Claire Standish: That's an academic club.
John Bender: So?
Claire Standish: So academic clubs aren't the same as other kinds of clubs.
John Bender: Ah... but to dorks like him, they are. What do you guys do in your club?
Brian Johnson: Well, in physics we... we talk about physics, properties of physics.
John Bender: So it's sorta social, demented and sad, but social. Right?

 

[DMC-12]

John Bender: You know what I got for Christmas this year? It was a banner ______' year at the old Bender family. I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said "Hey. Smoke up Johnny."

:lol::lol:

 

[DMC-12]

There as so many good lines... I can quote the whole damned movie...lol


John Bender: My impression of life at Big Bri's house, "Son?" "Yeah, Dad?" "How was your day, son?" "Great, Dad. How's yours?" "Super. Say, how would like to go fishing this weekend?" "Great, Dad. But I got homework to do." "That's okay, son. You can do it on the boat." "Gee." "Hon, isn't our son swell?" "Yes, dear. Isn't life swell?"
[kiss]
[punch]

:ROFLOL:

 

[WDWmazprty]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is one a lot of people forget about. John Candy and Steve Martin were great together!

Neal: Del... Why did you kiss my ear?
Del: Why are you holding my hand?
Neal: [frowns] Where's your other hand?
Del: Between two pillows...
Neal: Those aren't pillows!

 

[WDWmazprty]

Of course you can't forget National Lampoon's Vacation:


Clark: So, this is the ol' homestead.
Eddie: Yeah, but I don't know for how long? Bank's been on me like flies on a rib roast.
Clark: I know the feeling.
Eddie: Enough 'bout my problems. Hell, looks like you could use a cold one. Clark: Now, you're talking Eddie! (Eddie takes a swig of an open can and passes it to Clark. Then opens the last on the ring and begins to chug. Clark is disgusted.)

 

[MaxsDad]

Megan McCallister: You're not at all worried that something might happen to Kevin?
Buzz McCallister: No, for three reasons: A, I'm not that lucky. Two, we use smoke detectors and D, we live on the most boring street in the whole United States of America

Clark: I think you're all ____ed in the head. We're ten hours from the ____ing fun park and you want to bail out. Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun. We're all gonna have so much ____ing fun we'll need plastic surgeory to remove our ________ smiles. You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of your a________! I gotta be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose!


Big Ben! Parliment!

 

[ThinkTink721]

Some quotes from my 2 favorite John Hughes films:

Vacation

Car Salesman: "Now, I owe it to myself to tell you, Mr. Griswold, that if you are thinking of taking the tribe cross country, this is your automobile. The Wagon Queen Family Truckster. You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it."

Cousin Eddie: "I don’t know why they call this stuff hamburger helper. It does just fine by itself, huh? I like it better than tuna helper myself, don’t you, Clark?"
Clark: "You’re the gourmet around here, Eddie."

Clark: "Real tomato ketchup, Eddie?"
Cousin Eddie: "Oh, nothing but the best."

There are many more memorable quotes from this one!


Sixteen Candles

Lumberjack: "What's your last name?"
Long Duk Dong: "Dong."
Lumberjack: "What's your first name?"
Long Duk Dong: "Long."
Lumberjack: "What's your middle name?"
Long Duk Dong: "Duk."

Jake: "Happy birthday, Samantha. Make a wish."
Samantha: "Well, it already came true."

Howard: "Dong. Where is my automobile?"
Long Duk Dong: "Oto-mo-biiile?"

Long Duk Dong: "What's happenin' hot stuff?"

Long Duk Dong: "Very clever dinner. Appetizing food fit neatly into interesting round pie."
Mike Baker: "It's a quiche."
Long Duk Dong: "How do you spell?"
Grandpa Fred: "Well you don't spell it, son, you eat it."

Long Duk Dong: "Okay. I'm comin'. Hello? Jeez, this place is so confusing. Okay. Go away! I call F.I.B. I call police! Go away!"
Jake: "Open the door."
Long Duk Dong: "No way, Jose!"
Jake: "Open the door."
Long Duk Dong: "You beat up my face."
Jake: "You grabbed my nuts."
Long Duk Dong: "Is that you?"
Jake: "Yeah, that me."
Long Duk Dong: "Oh, I'm so sorry. I thought you my new - new-style American girlfriend."
Jake: "Forget it, man. Just get Samantha, all right?"
Long Duk Dong: "She not here."
Jake: "jerk me around, man. Where is she?"
Long Duk Dong: "She got married."
Jake: "What?"
Long Duk Dong: "She at the church. She getting married to oily bohunk."
Jake: "Married?"
Long Duk Dong: "Married."
Jake: "Married?"
Long Duk Dong: "Yeah. Married."
Jake: "Married?"
Long Duk Dong: "Married! Jeez."

The entire movie is practically memorable quotes!
I also love it when Jake comes to p/u Samantha at the church.

:wave: