No Memorable Quotes?? - The Loved One (1965) Discussion

[–] 18 years ago

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How about Mother Joyboy (talking about her pet Mynah bird): "I call him Ghandi, 'cause he's so skinny!" or ""It's time for King Chicken!"

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[–] dumb-okie 17 years ago

one of my most prized items is a sign picture of winters with THAT ("there must be a way to get all those stiffs off my property") as the inscription... he was totally game for signing it!

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[–] foxfirebrand 16 years ago

The line about getting stiffs off my property might've been Jonathan Winters' favorite too. In the fall of 1982 I was working in the Baskin-Robbins in Toluca Lake, near Universal Studios, and Winters was a regular customer. In fact, trainees were prepped on just what it was he would order.

He came in once when I was standing near the tub of fudge brownie or whatever flavor, and so ended up waiting on him.

"How are things in Whispering Glades?" I asked.

He looked up at me kinda squinting and said "oh, YOU're the one who saw that movie. It grossed about a dollar sixty-nine."

Then as usual with him, he jumped out of chitchat mode and went into character, took a step back, and performed that favorite line in his fiercest dead-serious CEO voice-- "There's got to be a way to get all those stiffs off my PROPERTY!"

Another thing this anecdote tells me is that he remembered the movie in spite of its extremely poor reception at the time of its release-- and obviously thought something of it. Don't we all!

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[–] Remarque 18 years ago

"I have my usual...Deep Dish Lolita and tea with a sprig of mint"
"I'll have a gold water nut flip"
"So I said, you know I think this things on fire!"
"Oh she's every inch a queen"

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[–] brechtbug 18 years ago

ATerrific Film. Some of my favorite lines.

"The foot curls a bit you know, when rigmo sets in"
"Not merely waterproof, nor moisture proof Mr Barlow, But DAMPNESS proof"
"Rayon chafes you know"
"Taking him all in all...This was a man"
"The police here have developed new methods of dealing with hooligans like you. Dogs and Cattle Prods."
"You think everything is silly! This house is silly! I'm silly! The Presidents silly!"
"Butane burns bluer"

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[–] Molly-31 18 years ago

Well, I was going to quote the "deep dish Lolita" order, but someone beat me to it, so I'll add dessert:

"Have you seen the cranberry sauce?"

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[–] babe 18 years ago

Don't remember the entire thing but the poem that ends with .. "red protruding eyeballs and black protruding tounge" is a real classic.

"....can dance a little ..."

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[–] hirampm 18 years ago

"Resurrection!! NOW!!!!"

"I'm saving up for Mom's big tub."

"...all of them massacred."
"What, all of them?"
"Yes. Individually, over the years in different parts of the world, by the regional savages there."

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[–] dgave 18 years ago

Blessed Reverend says one of the advantages of converting Whispering Glades into an old-folks' community is that client "turnover is, ahem, rather brisk."

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[–] alanr4447a 18 years ago

Rev. Glenworthy: Sadie swallowed it all -- hook, line and pole!

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[–] Basho 17 years ago

They told me Francis Hinsley,
They told me you were hung,
With red protruding eyeballs
And black protruding tongue.

I wept as I remembered
How often you and I
Had laughed about Los Angeles
And now 'tis here you'll lie.

Here, pickled in formaldehyde
And painted like a whore.
Shrimp pink, incorruptible,
Not lost but gone before.

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[–] nettwench 14 years ago

I CANNOT BREATHE!!! ROFL ROFL CHOOOKE ROFL CAN'T TYPE !!! ROFL!!!!!

Thanks so much for remembering the entire poem!

My favorite line: "Shrimp pink, incorruptible!" Effing brilliant!

This movie is just the gift that keeps on giving!

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression

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[–] the_dagons 17 years ago

Mrs. Joyboy's parrot squawking "There is no death! There is no death!

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[–] drgreen-1 17 years ago

I loved the part at Milton Berle's house when Barlow is discussing methods for taking care of the dog. I don't recall the terms he used but Berle didn't understand and Barlow ends up saying something the effect that the dog could be burned, buried or scattered.

I agree with you. As many people have already shown there are lots of good quotes in The Loved One.

I have the laser disc version but it's in a storage locker.

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[–] drgreen-1 17 years ago

Basically the whole bit with Coburn when Barlow enters the country. The best part was when he said that he had won a trip to either Calcutta or Los Angeles. Barlow then says that he just decided what the hell upon picking LA.

Then there's several quotes about saving for moms big tub.

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[–] Egghead7 15 years ago

"It's the ghoul from the graveyard!"

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