Lets hear 'em folks, what is your favorite line from this great movie? I have many, one of them is when Alan Arkin is pulling an unconscious henchman out of a cab as bullets are flying everywhere, then Peter Falk looks behind him, pauses and says, "What a guy!" and resumes firing. Hysterical!
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That whole scene when he's talking about the giant Tse Tse flies carrying the children away kills me! Especially, when Alan Arkin rolls his eyes as Peter Falk starts talking about the 'Flamenco Dancers of Death' (José Grecos de Muertos) and Guacomole Act of 1917. I love this movie :-)
'I am such a good driver it's incomprehensible they took my license away"
'I tell you the benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed. That's really the key to the benefits program'
"Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!"
Years ago while doing time as a Blockbuster Video store manager, I had a Japanese businessman come in looking for a movie. After looking around the comedy section for a while, he looked a little confused, so I went over to ask if I could be of assistance. He said that he was looking for a movie, but he didn't know the title in english, only the translation, which of course was very different. I said to try me, we might get lucky. He said okay, it's "Don't Shoot, I'm A Dentist."
I took him right to it.
I always thought BMW should have offered a flame paint job option...
Awesome story!
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Yup! I often forget the title of this wonderful film... but never this line:
"Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!"
What gets me is that Peter Falk's character yells it just as Shel arrives at the car uninjured from the gunfire. Then he promptly and obediently turns around, returns in a straight line to where he was before and retraces the path back to the car but zig-zagging this time. Hilarious! You gotta see the scene. It's on YouTube, if you don't own the movie.
"you can rinse now dear", "Mrs. Adelman can not bite down", "next time we're in Tejeda Shel, you have to try the chicken sandwich, they make it on a hard roll, with an orange juice, or pineapple, you know the big one, el grande and coffee, do you take coffee Shel", "all they had was hustler in spanish, el hustlaro", "I'm your classic agency type, lean athletic, low to the ground, are you interested in joining, the benefits are tremendous, the key is to not get killed, thats really the key to the benfits package", quite possibly the funniest film of all time
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I have used this line at every opportunity since I saw this movies years and years (and years...) ago! LOVE IT!!
Serpantine, Shel Serpentine
Most memorable
ON GAME OF Thrones a captive ran a straight line and got shot by an arrow and died and I had to think of this movie
Had to add the scene where their on there way to tehana and the flight attendant stands at the front of the plane and starts in w/ the routine about seat belts, flotation devices, etc ... in chinese
"My car has flames !!!!"
The chinese guy doing the flight attendant safety demo is my favorite bit, followed closely by the Tsetse fly and Guacamole Act scene...
share It's just brilliant to me to have a CIA agent, after 20 years on the job, reacting to gunplay and international espionage as if it's all just another day at the office.
During a car chase, he's talking about a chicken sandwich. I love his line to Sheldon during the Manhattan diner scene: "You made an excellent choice with that split-pea soup."
One of the best-written, most unique comedies ever made.
When Garcia tells them he paid 50K for a painting and Shel says, softly, "what a schmuck" breaks me up\
Shel:"I've only had 4 women, one my wife, once before and once after"
Garcia, after providing them blindfolds "Hey, Vince, you won't forget I do this?'
Just about anything Vince says is hysterical. One of the funniest movies ever.
So many to choose from....one the smartest comedies ever made.
When Vince is explaining the engravings to Shelly, he says that if the dictator starts printing his own money that the banks will collapse, they'll be riots in the streets, mass suicides and "atonal music."
"I'm such a good driver it's incomprehensible that they took my license away."
I always crack up, too, when Vince & Shelly make it back to the car on the tarmac and realize they don't have the keys. The rear window is shot out, and Vince says, "outta the car."
"Oh, and is that Mrs. General there?"
"It never wears out, AND you can't paint over it."
"Naw, I'm the classic agency type....low to the ground, compact. I'll tell you the benefits are fantastic. The key is to not get killed. That's pretty much the key to the benefit program."
"What the hell is this show?"
"Are you kidding, man? This is The Price is Right. It's the All-American game show."
"And they're supposed to guess what all that crap is worth? Is that the general idea?"
"Yeah."
"Aha....How long has it been on?"
"Since about 1911."
i just watched it on TCM tonight. still laughing. this is without a doubt my alltime favorite comedy. you guys have done well with about a quarter of the lines. we could go on all night but one line which is so subtle is when Falk and Arkin finally make it back to the hotel from the tarmac. He calls the General to tell him there taking a cab out to his estate. You don't hear the General ask but Falk goes " the car ? oh it was malfunctioning " the windows weren't working properly. hysterical.
shareWhen my parents saw this in the theater they (and the friends they went with) were in their early 30s. They were the only ones who laughed at the flight attendant/co-pilot. (Apparently the teenagers who filled the theater had never been on a plane before.)
shareYeah, I love anytime Peter Falk says "What a guy."
And not so much a line, but I love the scene where Falk and Arkin are in the hotel lobby, and Falk keeps tackling Arkin and that they are talking things through tackled on the floor.
Sheldon (Alan Arkin) is running down the street carrying the bag containing the treasury plates. As a bullet flies past his head he says, "Oh God, please don't let me die on West 31st Street!"
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You missed the even better line: "Don't shoot, I'm a dentist!"
My all-time favorite comedy! Favorite parts?
* The shooting squad singing "Buffalo Girls"
* The General's "Fine Art" collection
* Totally agree with the poster upthread who mentioned the Flight Attendant ("blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Mae West!)
*. Shel: "I have FLAMES on my CAR!"
Funniest. Movie. Ever.
The one that always sticks in my mind is "Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!"