the funniest line - Galaxy Quest (1999) Discussion

[–] otter 12 years ago

"Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!"

If we're going to die, let's die looking like a Peruvian folk band!

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[–] MovieLovinMe 11 years ago

I just finished watching this for the 100th time on my IP's On Demand.
I heard that line again and started cracking up.

Just how non-nonchalant/matter-of-fact she says it, it's too funny.

"...that's the best trick I've ever heard in the history of your bitch-ass tricks!"

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[–] OutwardExpansion 10 years ago

I agree,

"Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!"

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[–] TRhett 8 years ago

"Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!"

THAT'S IT! I wondered if anybody else got how funny that was . . . in a movie full of funny one-liners. "Don't do that . . . I'm not kidding." "Just like mother used to make." - Sir Alexander Dane (Michael Rickman - one of my all-time favorite Brit actors).

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[–] schmidtkenn11 7 years ago

It's ALAN Rickman, not Michael Rickman.

"Home is where they don't want you to leave." (Stephen King, Revival)

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[–] azdkelly 8 years ago

Yes!!! The best line in the whole film definitely. Because it shows that even the rest of the assume Guy is going to die before any of them. I always have to pause it at that part I just burst out laughing

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[–] MuchToBeGratefulFor 12 years ago

This doesn't seem to be on too many people's lists, but it's when Alexander tells Jason to figure out the rock monster's motivation, and Jason replies it's a rock, it doesn't have motivation.

Alexander: That was always your problem Jason, you were never serious about the craft.

You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi

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[–] joyfarrah 12 years ago

I like that one as well, and when Alexander says to Jason, after he's been fighting the monster, "well I see you managed to get your shirt off"! I love STTOS and I love seeing Kirk with his shirt half off!
In fact I think if they ever wanted to do another ST sequel, now that sadly Scotty and McCoy are dead and Nimoy and Shatner are getting older, Tim Allen would be a good "mature Kirk". Dont know who could do the others though. Possibly Jim Parsons from B Bang theory could play SPock.

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[–] ta2me92704 12 years ago

There are so many, but for me it's the opening of the computer store (if you look at the print ads, you can see that they are the exact style of Fry's Electronics ads), "By Grabthars hammer, wh-what a savings..."

My ignore list is much too long for a sig line.

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[–] fourth_time 7 years ago

Yes! Nearly everything uttered by Alan Rickman in this movie is funny. The "What a savings" delivery is my favorite.

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[–] iratazork 12 years ago

When Tony Shalhoub gets transported up, his comment, "That was a hell of a thing." cracks me up!

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[–] Ron2011 12 years ago

When Tony Shalhoub gets transported up, his comment, "That was a hell of a thing." cracks me up!

Yeah, me too! That whole scene is a funny one!

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[–] Ron2011 12 years ago

I like when they're trying to use the transporter device to beam the Captain to the ship. They try on the pig-lizard. The Thermian says, "it's inside out"... then a moment later, "and it exploded". That whole scene is funny.

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[–] philoj 8 years ago

I used this once to explain how one of our servers crashed. Only one guy in the room got it, and he was fighting so hard not to laugh out loud while everyone else looked confused.

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Philo's Law: To learn from your mistakes, you have to realize you're making mistakes.

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[–] bluzup-1 12 years ago

one of my favourites too

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[–] blackfunkster 12 years ago

"It's a rock, it doesn't HAVE any vulnerable spots!"

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[–] pushbutton2begin 11 years ago

There's a scene in THE FORGOTTEN (Julianne Moore) where a character is tied to a chair and being interrogated. The character in the chair says that aliens abducted Julianne's child, then he's very suddenly and violently sucked through the roof - still tied to the chair.

The first time my wife saw that in the cinema, she immediately said, "Now that was a hell of a thing."

There are some very subtle lines in GQ as well. Just before the characters get glooped up to the ship, you can hear the woman Guy is trying to chat up say, "But you live with your mother!"

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[–] westal_sage 10 years ago

Yep that's just funny!

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[–] sorednax3 12 years ago

So far, I agree with everyone.

My personal fasvorite, "There's a red thingy, headed toward a green thingy. I think we're the green thingy." - Guy

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[–] niklasenskog 12 years ago

My thoughts exactly. And I love Guy's semi-stoned "I'm just jazzed about being on the show man."

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[–] ghostfan 12 years ago

Probably can't get this quote quite right, but I love it when the actors are trying to explain that it's just a TV show -- not actyal archives.... the ailens look confused, and then Gwen starts with.. Gilligan's Island... certainly you don't think...?

Ailens all sigh unhappily... "Oh those poor people...."

(Made even funnier, I think, because Sherwood Schwartz, the GI creator swears that people were sending telegrams to the head of the Coast Guard, saying "go rescue these poor people before they starve to death..."

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[–] BelleCBelle 10 years ago

My favorite too! Sam Rockwell sure knows how to handle a comedic role.

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[–] patrik_ch7 10 years ago

Pretty much anything Alan Rickman says. I always start laughing whenever he says "by Grabthar's hammer"

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[–] somebunny00 12 years ago

When Tommy suggests a bird call for the signal and Jason replies, "What are you, an infant?"

Idk why, but that just cracks me up every time. :P

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[–] ralpmg 12 years ago

How about at the end when they coming out of the ship announcer says
about allan rickmans character
gibe him a big hand hes british

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[–] WHg343 12 years ago

when Tony Shaloub wlaks away looking at the floor and says...wow....these floors are really clean...it was like a Monk moment

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[–] kneazles 12 years ago

Mine had to be the miners/minors confusion:

Sir Alexander Dane: Could they be the miners?
Fred Kwan: Sure, they're like three years old.
Sir Alexander Dane: MINERS, not MINORS.
Fred Kwan: You lost me.

I just giggle insanely to myself because it's such a great, common homophone issue.

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[–] joyfarrah 12 years ago

Yes "give him a big hand, he's British!" is good, esp wehn Alan Rickman looks so confused....

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[–] Ron2011 12 years ago

So many funny lines in this movie, as people post it just reminds me of how many there are!

Malthazar after they won the fight. "The ship was as big as this." "A very clever deception!"

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[–] Muinaiset 10 years ago

Same. It's hilarious.

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[–] DrWhen 12 years ago

"Well, he's outside."

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[–] hitpawz 12 years ago

"You have a last name, Guy"

"DO I!? DO I?"

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[–] welshfaery 12 years ago

"Look around you, can fashion some form of a rudimentary lathe....GET OFF THE LINE GUY"

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[–] welshfaery 12 years ago

IS THERE AIR!!! YOU DON'T KNOW!

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[–] Philo89 11 years ago

In the 1970s porn movie "Flesh Gordon" there's a scene where Dr. Zarkov walks out of the spaceship, takes a deep breath, then says "Good - there's air here."

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[–] jgroub 10 years ago

"IS THERE AIR!!! YOU DON'T KNOW!"

This. This makes me lose it, every single time.

I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

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[–] behamut 9 years ago

Probably one of my favorites, especially how he ends it with taking in a big gulp of air and holding his breath.

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[–] jgroub 9 years ago

Yeah, that's a great touch. The whole movie is so incredibly pitch perfect. The writer was a f'n genius. Well, not Einstein genius, but you know.

I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

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