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What's your favorite 'joke' from Moonraker


Mine is in the opening scene: The warning light in the 747 that alerts the pilots to the Moonraker's ignition. WHY would there be a warning light for the shuttle ignition in the plane's cockpit?! LOL. Somebody anticipated it might be flown off the top of the plane some day???? It makes me laugh every time. Perfectly tongue-in-cheek camp.

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There's too many.............the cable car alone has two moments that always make me smile, even though I know it's coming.

Falling over the side of the cable car -

Hang on, James!
The thought had occurred to me.

With Jaws on his way up to the cable car -

I might have guessed!
Do you know him?
Not socially. His name's Jaws. He kills people.


The fight in the ambulance and Bond gets knocked into Holly's lap, with his face very close to her own Goodhead.

Ohhh!
Sorry about that!

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I might have guessed!
Do you know him?
Not socially. His name's Jaws. He kills people.


^^ This.

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Drax: James Bond. You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season.

Drax: You missed Mister Bond.
Bond: Did I?

See you guys at the 10 year prison reunion - Ben Richards

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Drax: Frederick Gray. What a surprise. And in distinguished company, all wearing gas masks. You must excuse me, gentlemen, not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow.

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I love when q says that bond is attempting reentey. I also love it when James tells drax take a step for mankind.

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Agreed on the gas mask one. And so deadpan too. 

~.~
There were three of us in this marriage
http://www.imdb.com/list/ze4EduNaQ-s/

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The man in Venice who does a double take when he sees the hover gondola and looks at his drink thinking he's hallucinating (same man as in the Spy who loved Me).

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James: I am looking for dr. Goodhead
Goodhead: you just found here
James: a woman

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That and "please allow me to show you the way"

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My finely-wrought dream approaches its fulfilment.

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Your "dream," whatever sort of nightmare it is, hasn't a chance, Drax.

More cheese in the dialogue than in all of Wisconsin.

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A visual joke: Bond winking at the paramedic(Drax's man) and the blank expression on the medic's face.

James?
I think it may be time to go home
take me round the world one more time
Why not!

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Yes! I love that one. Imagine Dalton winking at a captor. Moore owns this kind of silly Bond.

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I love all the gags in "Moonraker" (cause I like to laugh and have fun), but my favorite has to be the super at the end... "Filmed on location in blah blah blah and Outer Space!" That exclamation point gets me every time. :D

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