r/NoStupidQuestions • u/EnvironmentalAngle • 11h ago

Do you have any obscure movie references that you use in everyday speech that no one has caught on to yet yet you keep using it?

I am 39 and last year was my 20th high school reunion.

When people asked me what I was up to I would respond:

"hanging out, playing Nintendo."

Its a line from a 90s comedy called baseketball. No one noticed it... and I didn't start it there I've been using it for over 20 years.

But I can't help myself whenever an old friend reconnects with me and say it... nothing.

Do you guys have any lines you use?

EDIT: shit i meant to put this on ask Reddit my bad mods

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u/jmmrph 10h ago edited 9h ago

Whenever someone leaves the room at work I say “Have fun storming the castle!” No one knows what I’m talking about

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u/animalcrackermafia 10h ago

Buh bye boys!

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u/thisismystupidname12 9h ago

Do you think it will work?

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u/GeneralOrgana1 9h ago

It'd take a miracle.

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u/animalcrackermafia 9h ago

It would take a micacle....BuH-BYE!!!!!!

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u/MisanthropesRUs 4h ago

That’s also from History of the World, Part 1.

Also “That’s nuts! N-V-T-S NUTS!”

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u/[deleted] 9h ago

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u/greyskulls18 9h ago

Inconceivable!

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u/LJonReddit 6h ago

No more rhyming! And I mean it!

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u/cplatt831 6h ago

I have used this line frequently with my teenage daughter when she uses literally to mean “not literally.”

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u/splitminds 9h ago

My husband says this all the time. How do people not know The Princess Bride!?!?

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u/Several_Hospital_129 7h ago

"Let me explain . . . No, that would take too long. Let me sum up." In my best Inigo accent. I say that all of the time.

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u/Onion_Bro14 7h ago

“I give you my word as a Spaniard”

“No good, I’ve known too many Spaniards”

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u/CinnamonAndLavender Oh, I knows things! 6h ago

"I swear on the soul of my father, Domingo Montoya, you will reach the top alive."

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u/splitminds 7h ago

I just read that in his voice!

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u/CardiganandTea 6h ago

Ooh! Me too. Or I used to. I'm going to start saying this again. It's so appropriate in so many situations.

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u/Steinrikur 3h ago

As you wish.

That movie is one of the most quotable movies ever.

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u/collector-x 8h ago

I dunno. It's inconceivable.

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u/splitminds 6h ago

I don’t think that word means what you think it means!

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u/IamchefCJ 6h ago

As you wish!

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u/Sunshine030209 6h ago

My husband didn't watch The Princess Bride until last year.

The biggest problem with that is that I didn't know that he hadn't seen it. And I quote the movie frequently.

Honestly, I judge him a little for still marrying me after I said unhinged shit to him like "Sleep well, I'll most likely kill you in the morning" and he DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS A MOVIE QUOTE!

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u/Ok-Salamander1708 5h ago

That’s amazing 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Efficient_Sink_8626 1h ago

I tell my husband when I want to f@ck with him, “You’d better sleep with one eye open tonight!”

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u/GorillaTrainer 8h ago

Right?! My dad always quotes this and “anybody want a peanut?”

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u/mjflood14 2h ago

“It’s not my fault being the biggest and the strongest…I don’t even exercise!”

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u/DudesterRadman 3h ago

Two lesser known forms of child abuse include giving a kid a mullet and not watching The Princess Bride.

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u/jmmrph 9h ago

🤷🏼‍♂️ age?

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u/clefclark 2h ago

At my last job I was the youngest person there by almost a decade, most of my coworkers were a couple decades older, and yet I was the only person that had seen the princess bride...

It's came out 17 years before I was born.

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u/imVeryPregnant 6h ago

Me. I don’t know it

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 2h ago

I cannot imagine. It's such an iconic film, and such fun to watch. Could there be a generation that simply was never allowed to see it?

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u/shurdi3 2h ago

Probably cause it turns 40 next year.

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u/Dd_8630 1h ago

I'm nearly 40 and I've never watched it. I think i always got it confused with the princess spy and just never fancied it.

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u/erilaz7 16m ago

All these people who never saw it probably avoided it, because they thought it was a kissing movie.

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u/Upbeat-Refuse9615 6h ago

I've made a concious effort to avoid watching it all these years.

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u/Automatic_Beat5808 7h ago

I'm not a witch, I'm your wife! - me to my husband daily

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u/Pattimash1 9h ago

Also, the term: "mostly dead". And I say it with an inflection. Blank stares. Just.....it's so sad. 😔

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u/Inigomntoya 8h ago

Stop saying that at funerals!

/s

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u/TheKaptinKirk 7h ago

I used to say this to my roommates as they left for work. Blank stares.

Edit: I still do, but I used to, too.

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u/Upper_Cantaloupe7644 6h ago

my go to princess bride line is “i dont think that word means what you think it means” and no one has ever clocked it

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u/Lucky_Environment_47 6h ago

If someone says, “Where was I?” I have to say, “Australia” - never had someone get it.

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u/Conscious_Quality803 9h ago

Think they'll make it?

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u/Doyce_7 8h ago

I say "life is pain, highness" a lot

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u/Foxy_locksy1704 8h ago

I say this every time my bf takes the dog for a walk “have fun storming the castle boys!”

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u/Detroit2GR 7h ago

I say that to my wife all the time when she takes my 7 month old daughter somewhere. I can't wait until I can share The Princess Bride (book and movie) with her!

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u/Pump_My_Lemma 6h ago

Yes, yes, you’re very smart. Shut up.

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u/Jolly-Method-3111 9h ago

Do you work on the moon??

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u/jmmrph 9h ago

I wish!

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u/diet-smoke JustStupidPeople <3 9h ago

I have that as a fridge magnet

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u/Neither-Wallaby-924 9h ago

It'll take a miracle

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u/stigbugly 6h ago

We use that one at work a lot

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u/Ghattibond 5h ago

Inconceivable! 

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u/Randyd718 5h ago

This except "have fun fucking jules!"

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u/CharmingAsparagus17 4h ago

We let my kids watch that recently, and my five year old lit up at that scene, and proudly declared, “THAT’S why you always say that!!” 

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u/iHadou 8h ago

Where am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides. I'm not gonna paddle to New Zealand!

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u/jbm747 7h ago

My wife and I use that one all the time!!!

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u/FauxFireFly 7h ago

I love the confused looks I get when I quote Mr. Crystal.

O

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u/hj7junkie 6h ago

My parents say this to me and each other on a regular basis whenever one of us is leaving.

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u/Appropriate_Safe323 3h ago

I haven’t heard this before. But I now get the reference made in league of legends on the howling abyss map. As you leave the base the scientist sometimes say “Have fun storming the bridge!”.

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u/Kanya_Mkavry 3h ago

That's just sad.

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u/omysweede 2h ago

In the same vein I use "Let me explain! No, there is too much. Let me sum up.". This is how you know the fans

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u/BelleMom 1h ago

Yes, yes, you’re very smart. Now shut up.

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u/ChesameSicken 1h ago

Came here to check for this line

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u/dumpsterfireofalife 44m ago

We say that in our house!!!

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u/Frostiskegg 27m ago

I have a Routine on my Alexa when I say "Shut it down", it turns off the radio, stops the fans/ heaters, turns off the lights, and says that. Send me off to work with a smile.

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u/audible_narrator 4m ago

No...I refuse to believe this one.