I don't know about anyone else, but I laughed so much when the mayor referred to his wife as a lemon. (I added that quote in the quotes section).
Definitely one of the greatest lines in the film.
What are your favourites?
So long, and thanks for all the fish.share
"It's full of hydrogen."
"Can they fix it?"
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I thought the Mayor said "And this is Len" introducing his mate instead of his wife first, either way it was funny.
Why quote other people when I like the sound of my own voice?
The mayor did introduce Len first, but quickly realised he'd made an error in etiquette and immediately introduced his wife...referring to her as the lemon. It was a clever joke that was poorly directed, but the writers had set it up beautifully earlier when the wife asked the mayor which dress she should wear and he picked the yellow, which she firmly insisted was "lemon". That enabled him to refer to her as "the lemon" when introducing her. But it was poorly staged, since she was the only one in the small group wearing any colour, therefore there was no need at all for him to refer to the colour she was wearing! I feel sure the writers had in mind that there would be at least one other woman present in the scene to make it reasonable that he should specify the colour the wife was wearing.
fave line has to be when the guys found out that the Ambassador was coming to visit and Sam Neill said that they couldn't fool him about them losing Apollo 11 as he knew quite a lot about it and Mitch says "He doesn't know where it is does he". Had me in stitches. Mitch cetainly had the best lines
shareyou treat us like a pack of galahs
... thats a kind of parrot
why a penny?? did you stick a penny in there? if i find a penny.. im taking you down!
Carrier Pidgeon...that was a great one!!!
And maybe not a funny line but a line that gets used alot around our house is when Mitch sez "whose playin funny buggers!"...we say that all the time
Carrier Pidgeon has become a family joke in my house, especially because we have family who come from Parkes and the joke comes up whenever we have to call one of them.
I also like
Rudy: Halt who goes there?
Cliff: It's us Rudy.
Rudy: Who's us?
Cliff: Cliff and Bob
Rudy: Oh, Hi Bob
Bob: Rudy!
*Cliff and Rudy talk more, then fall silent*
Rudy: Halt who goes there?
Sheep: Baaaaaa
Not as funny when you write it down, but my sis and I re enact that often.
-Whistler
"whose playin funny buggers!"...we say that all the time
Scottish by any chance? We say that all the time. Seeing that portrayed by Aussie characters, especially in the 60's made me wonder if Australians used that in the 60's, if at all.
The context in the film was apt, but we tend to say it when someone's played a prank on us - somebody replaces another guy's beer bottle with a bottle of cold, milk-less tea and after a sip... "Right, whut bastird's playin' funny buggerz???"
In reply to the earlier 'hydrogen' joke, it has a follow up near the end of the film.
Dad "What's happening now?"
Bob "They're coming in to land now."
Dad "Did they get rid of all that hydrogen?"
Bob "Dad, they need that."
LOL I only found out this year that a galah was a galah! My dad used to tell me they were called Gilly murphys?! LOL so embarrassing.
I'm born and bred from Parkes and always love to tease people and say I used to play cricket on the dish all the time LMAO, and about 97% of them would believe me too!
My FIL used to work for NASA at one of their receiving stations at about the same time period. He and his co-workers used to go up and play all sorts of games on the dishes (they had three). Once he was up doing maintenance and someone didn't check before adjusting the dish. He almost fell off and theirs were way up in the air.
sharei don´t exactly know the words, always hear the german translation;
but i like "i can´t believe that rudy´s part of this" .
and rudy: "well done", thinking that he speaks with armstrong.
and the talk about loving weekends, and loving fridays...(glenn + janine).
and that "version" of the star- spangled banner (laugh)
there are so many nice things in that film! i love it!
wave
m.
ALL LIFE IS EQUAL
Yeah, I liked the line towards the end when Rudy says congratulations and thinks he's speaking to Neil Armstrong.
Another part that sticks out (not a spoken line though) is when the band plays the US national anthem at the reception for the US politician and they play "Hawaii Five-O"
After all has been said and done, more has usually been said than done...
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(looking curiously up at sky) "is that you Neil" hahahaha funny stuff
sharehaha every scene with the army dude in it (sry don't know his name)
plus "I must stress that these are NOT to scale!" *holding up a model space shuttle and much larger model astronaut*
cracked me up!
or like everytime the conversation got awkward:
"Gravy?"
"Peas?"
"Lamb?"
or
"Honey can you keep a secret?"
"No"
haha there's so many lines i liked in this movie.
i'm doing it for my english oral and it's really good!
I played poker with tarot cards... I got a full house and four people died!!
Haha, honestly, it's one of the greatest Aussie movies ever.
"And it went, wherever I, did go..."share
This film has so many one-liners in it...
The lemon one is definitely my Mum's favourite.
Don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but there's a scene where Glenn is showing Janine around the dish and he points to the computer and says something like
"It does in half an hour what it used to take me a week with a slide rule"
and Mitch adds
"and a basketball".
Several lines:
The U.S. National anthem.
The dinner at the bob's house:
- elbows.
- ...and there is an antenna on the roof.. "transmitter Dad.."
Rudy, sector A, B, C ... D, over...
- Where did you get those sunglasses.
Bob to the US ambassador:
"she is May, my wife, she is the lemon."
The TV commentator "I must stress that these are NOT to scale!" holding up a model space shuttle and much larger model astronaut. I took a double take "did he really say that?" it looked like a clip from an actual broadcast!
US Ambassador - "He's very good. Reminds me of a young Frank Sinatra."
Parkes Mayor - "Yeah, if not better..."
Shop keeper - "Saw the NASA bloke the other day. Came by looking for pretzels"
Parkes Mayor - "Pretzels? Yep. It's a world event!"
The beauty of this film is that it is so quotable.
my favourites are
" Is that a gun?"
" yeah, but don't tell mum, she will take it away from me"
" Who goes there? "
" Baaaaa!!"
the whole scene with the explanation using the basket ball analogy gets me every time.