Quote help!!!!

From what I can find out, the phrase is first used in the motion picture Cool Hand Luke, delivered by actor Strother Martin, and then as follows (including references)...
1969 - In The Amazing Spider-man #74, Spider-man mentions the phrase to Caesar Cicero, a mob man.
1984 – In the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard (episode "Cool Hands, Bo and Luke"), the phrase is uttered by Colonel Cassius Claiborne (Morgan Woodward) when addressing inmates Bo and Luke Duke after a failed escape attempt.
1988 - In the film Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest P. Worrell is a cabdriver who picks up Santa Claus at the airport. Santa mistakenly pays his fare with game-board money, and Ernest says, "What we've got here is a failure to accumulate."
1990 - In the case Effects Associates, Inc v Cohen in the 9th Federal Circuit, Circuit Judge Kozinski introduces his judgment saying "What we have here is a failure to compensate."
1991 - Hard rock band Guns N' Roses sample the line, and its ensuing speech, direct from the film for the introduction to their song "Civil War", from their Geffen album Use Your Illusion II. They also use the line during the bridge of their song "Madagascar", from their album Chinese Democracy (2008).
Jim Carrey played a prison warden in a skit on the comedy show In Living Color (1990-1994). When a riot broke out, Carrey uttered the phrase before being immediately overcome by the inmates.
1993 - Used once in the Rugrats episode "Cool Hand Angelica".
1993 - Uttered by Kramer in the Seinfeld episode "the Puffy Shirt"
1993 - quoted by Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer) in the movie Tombstone.
1994 - Chris Thomas samples the line on the track "Hellhounds" from his album 21 Century Blues... From Da 'Hood
1995 - Damon Wayans uses the line in the film Major Payne after nicknaming one of the ROTC soldiers "Cool Hand Luke".
1995 - Gabrielle (Reneé O'Connor) uses the line while in prison, in episode 5 of season 1, The Path Not Taken, from series Xena: Warrior Princess.
1997 - The Frasier episode "Three Days of the Condo" uses the line as the title for one of its scenes.
1999 - The Pace Brothers use the line in the comedy clip 'Hooked On Ebonics' posted to youtube by chesworthmd on February 26th, 2007.
2000 - Terry Pratchett uses the line in his novel The Truth (vocalized by Mr. Pin).
2002 - The line is quoted by the bandit unit in Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft 3.
2003 - In CSI Miami episode Hard Time, the parole officer uses the line. Horatio Caine smiles, and they both say they liked that movie.
2004 - Robbie Coltrane uses the line on his television series Cracker after an argument that resulted in a woman throwing a glass of water in his face.
2004 - Viv Leacock uses this line in "Family Sins" (Albera Productions) while attempting to intimidate "Marie Devereaux" (Deanna Milligan).
2005 - MF Doom uses the line on the song "El Chupa Nibre" on the DANGERDOOM album.
2005 - Roddy Piper uses the line during a segment of Piper's Pit at WrestleMania 21.
2005 - Agent Tony DiNozzo quotes this line in the Frame Up episode in season 3 of NCIS as he is leaving the holding cell.
2006 - "Failure to Communicate" is the title of an episode of the television series House in a reference to a patient's word salad inflected speech.
One strip of the newspaper comic Garfield uses the phrase, when Jon does not feed him. It is also used in the same context in Garfield on the Town.
In a Johnny Bravo episode, where Johnny is wrongfully imprisoned, the warden repeatedly uses the phrase. However, Johnny always replies with "What?" The warden thinks Johnny is ridiculing her and proceeds to beat him up, however it turns out Johnny was saying that because he couldn't hear her for some reason.
In the game Sam & Max Hit the Road, when talking to the cat outside the Freelance Police's office Sam use this phrase when the cat doesn't respond to his questions.
2007 - It is spoken by a character whom Michael Myers stabs to death in a bathroom stall in Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween.
2008 - In the C.S.I. episode Two And a Half Deaths, a woman dies from her blood not clotting after a car accident, and the medical examiner exclaimes in mock southern drawl "What we've got here is failure to coagulate".
2008 - In the 11th episode of season 2 of Californication, "Blues From Laurel Canyon", Hank Moody says "What we have here...", after discharging a shotgun to stop a girlfight at Lew Ashby's party.

Hope that's of use?

Andy M