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Best line of the movie?


Grabs shoe from tray: "I'm on a diet, but what the hell?"

Also, I recall falling off the couch when he says "Birdie Num-Num" in the intercom.

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...this movie has an incredible amount of funny lines - each one cracking me up. "Birdie num num" is a classic -loved the throwing birdseed at the dam bird. "Howdy Partner" is another line with Wild Bill. The opening scenes are a gut buster. Gavin McLoed with his arm up as the million $$ set is detonated before cameras rolling is great. I needed a rol of toilet paper with the caviar scene. "Eeeuw stinks!" It's a classic - I tellya - classic!!!

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I'll second birdie num num, for some reason, this has stuck with me since the first time I saw it in 1970.

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Yeah I think the num num bit was one of the funniest things i have ever seen.

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Good gosh, there are so many very funny lines and a lot of are funny because of the way they are delivered.... here are some that come to mind right away.... (I hope I remember them as accurately as possible)....

In the beginning of the film, the producer is asked who "the foreigner" was who just walked in... he says...
"Oh someone my crazy mixed up wife probably invited!"

I also like the conversation Bakshi has with Wyoming Bill Kelso at the pool table while the cowboy is snuggling with the Italian actress over a cue stick ....

Bakshi: "What is this game you call to get the brightly colored balls in the hole?"
Kelso: "Pool"
Bakshi: "POO?"
Kelso: "Not poo! POOL!"
Bakshi: "Oh, POOO-EL"
Kelso: "That's right!"
Bakshi: "How many people can play this poo-el?"
Kelso: "Oh one or two or whole bunch of people!"

My favorite line in the film is the big producers line as the servants are rescuing the paintings from the chaos...... he spots a portrait of his wife in the arms of a butler and exclaims....

"NOT THAT ONE, YOU IDIOT... just the GOOD stuff!"



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I thought that line was "Excuse me but what is this game with the mulititude coloured balls", I don't know if he put the word "called" at the end of the sentence tho.

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Everybody loves "Birdie Num Nums" what can I say? The scene where he gets ahold of the intercom and you hear "Num num num...." is priceless!

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What about when he clucks like a chicken and everyones looking around too see where the sound is coming from, that's in the same scene.

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birrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdy num nums

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-Producer: "I'll see you never make another movie again!!!!!!!"

-Hrundi: "Does that include television?"



I see you have the machine that goes PING

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Howdy par-tin-er!

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Bakshi : Do you speak Hindustani ?

...
Michèle : Do you speak French ?
Bakshi : I know one sentence : dans quelle direction se trouve la Tour Eiffel ?


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The funniest line to me is when he's upstairs talking to a clearly charmed Michele and goes into "Thirty days have September..." and completely botches it. Great piece of writing and Sellers delivers it perfectly, of course.

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YESSSS !
except my brother that got six months !

Thirty days hath September
April, June and November
February has twenty eight alone
All the rest have thirty-one
Except in Leap Year, that's the time
When February's Days are twenty-nine

I just found it on an English site (I had no idea that it could exist)where it is called 'aide-memoire' which is, of course, an English word.
I France, we count with our fingers other than the thumb (finger = january = 31 days, interval = february, finger = mars, etc).
So I completely missed this part.

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In the Philippines, we were taught to count with our knuckles. The knuckles are the months with 31 days. The soft intervals of the knuckles are the months with 30 days.

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"When would you be available for me to pick up my hat?" (final scene)

"It's like an Indian person painting a moustache and a beard on your ladybirds" (Jumbo the elephant)

"Does that include television sir?" (filming "Extravaganza")

"I shall have to remember that one!" (Hrundi mistakenly thinking the Congressman's description of a robbery was a joke)

"Speak Hindustani?" (to Mrs. Dumphey outside bathroom)

"I would have been dissapointed if you hadn't crushed my hand" (To Wyoming Bill Kelso")

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When Bakshi is waiting with this lady by the bathroom door waiting to go to the restroom. Lady is watching him somehow staring at him and both have nothing to say to each other ... Then Bakshi asks the lady:
- Do you speak Hindostani?
- No

That was the funniest part for me. Poor Bakshi wanted to say something to break the ice, but since there was nothing in common between these 2, he did not know what to ask! So he asked "Do you speak Hindostani?" and lady without emotion or changing her face just said "NO".

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My personal favorite:

Drunk Blonde "What's in there?" (swirling her drink)
Hrundi "What, in here?"
DB nods
Hrundi motioning "No, there is nothing in here"
DB "Yes there is"
Hrundi, "I don't know - I don't think so" (donning reading glasses, looking) "...no, there is definitely nothing in there. If there were something it's gone away now anyway."
DB, a little louder "But I can SEE it!"
Hrundi (backing up ever so slightly) "What is it?"
DB "I don't know but I don't LIKE it!"

Other favorites:

Divot motions to drunk waiter "Hey waiter, come over here"
(drunk waiter responds)
Divot "See that guitar? Go get it."
Drunk waiter "Get the guitar." (goes staggering off)

Hrundi "In fact there are certain man-eating animals that will eat only the feet, will leave everything else, will not touch one other thing"

Director (after pointing out to Hrundi he's wearing an underwater watch), "Got the time?"
Hrundi looks, then covers watch "Oh my god"
Director "All right, lunch everybody"


General Clutterbuck on phone, after Hrundi pushes button to retract bar and has the prolonged drink/phone exchange with him: "The picture? Yeah, it was going fine until some idiot blew up the set"

Hrundi "...I am merely spectating"

Divot "You're meshugah!"
Hrundi "I am not your sugar."

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I'd have to go with.

"GRAB EM BY THE WIGWAM!"

~D

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