Essential Movies and TV for Cultural References

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

I’m going for the wheel.

Anchorman

It was ‘really’ a radio show.

**** I’d forgotten that. I’ll play the “before my time” card and beg for your forgiveness. 🙁

Pulp Fiction here – every time one of the kids does something clever it’s ‘check out the big brain on xxxx’

Same with ‘Mmmmhhhmmmm, this is a tasty burger!

And ‘Pretty please with sugar on top…. do your effin homework/clean your effin room/ get to effin bed.

A few Withnail ones too – eg: any creature in the house (spider, moth, whatever) gets a ‘F**kers alive!’

This one time, at band camp…

I quote The Big Lebowski faaar too much.

From the classics, Casablanca is stuffed with quotable lines

“Asps, very dangerous. You go first”

“Punish him for me, Errol”

Anyone anyone

The Fast Show still gets quoted without folk realising it, it was massively influential.

That’s a really good shout.

This one time, at band camp…

I do wonder whether that entered the zeitgeist mostly via people with a poopscoop for Willow.

Catherine Tate? “Does my face look bovvered?”

Red Dwarf? “So, what is it?” (and many, many more.)

Zoolander: blue steel, so hot right now etc.

Boys from the blackstuff “gis us a job, I can do that”
Friday night dinner
They live

They live

One of my favourite films, but I don’t often use the bubblegum quote IRL.

I did quote Repo Man incessantly for years, but I wonder if that was just me and a few pals?

Fawlty Towers
Snatch
Lock Stock
Young Ones
If we stop the list there you’ve got virtually every Scape Family quote imaginable.

To expand more cultural references
Pulp Fiction
Casablanca
Alien and Aliens
Dark Star
Despicable Me
Any 1970s canned beer or cigar adverts

Young Ones

A few years ago, I was in a presentation at work and they were having trouble with Powerpoint / the projector, trying to get a video to play. The head of HR was sat next to me, an older lady and very straight-laced. She quipped complete with Viv’s accent, “oh, have we got a video?” I corpsed, it was so unexpected and beautifully timed.

Anyone else can’t help but say the word “STEWDENTs” in the style of Paul Calf? Wasn’t that Friday Night Live? Plus “Bag o shite!”
Downhill all the way for Coogan since then 😀

Downhill all the way for Coogan since then

Did we go all this way with nobody mentioning Partridge?

Something of an oversight.

Wayne’s World

Scorchio

Introduced Sandwich Jr to this in Spain one year. A heavy dose of YouTube later and we spent the rest of the trip looking for Cumulo Nimbus, plus laughing uproariously.

That’s a really good shout.

Surely that should be Nice?

My contribution, The League of Gentlemen “are you local?”

This thread explains why I’m socially inadequate.

Team America

A younger friend once asked me: What you talkin’ ’bout Willis?

I responded with: I thought you were too young to have watched Different Strokes!

He was. He got the reference from Family Guy. Which was the only reason he was aware of The Fonz.

Friday night dinner

‘S*** on it!’ has to be one of my favourites. I was very disappointed when he (RIP Paul Ritter) didn’t shout it out in his role in Chernobyl.

Napoleon dynamite

Excuse the grammatical errors in the vid title and there are probably better quality clips out there, but it’s a classic.

I lived about 500yds from this scene in the late ’70’s

Thanks everyone – useful stuff here.

Princess Bride –
Brilliant – yes!

For Scotland I will also add Gregory’s Girl, Still Game, and Chewing the Fat.

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This is important as yesterday I was chatting to our lovely local Ukrainian refugees (mother and teenage daughter).
Drank tea, shared a Tunnock’s teacake and discussed things to see and do near Stirling. A clip from Monty Python and The Holy Grail completely bamboozled them but Doune Castle is now on the must-see list.

I was very disappointed when he (RIP Paul Ritter) didn’t shout it out in his role in Chernobyl.

But his performance did birth an entirely different meme:

Also, anything Superhans from Peep Show