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Favorite lines/scenes from the film?

posted 20 years ago by nightcrawler71
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Mine are (some quotes may not be word-for-word perfect):

"He's so nervous he wears a seatbelt at a drive-in movie"!

Or, worried that Felix may have overdosed on tablets, Oscar says...

"They may have been vitamin pills. He could be the healthiest one in the room"!

When Oscar is trying to relax a very tense Felix...

"You're the only man in the world with clenched hair"!

Or...

FELIX: "In other words you want me to move out?"

OSCAR: "No not in *other* words...those are the perfect words"!!

Brilliant script to a brilliant film.

[–] Ghetto_Defendant 9 years ago

I know this thread has been going for some time, but my favorite scene is when Oscar is at the stadium and Felix calls during a triple play. All Oscar wanted to see was a triple play (and Roberto Clémente almost screws this up!)

And yes, I FU notes scene was hysterical, too.

[–] jbartelone 9 years ago

Oscar to the Poker Players:

"Who want's food?" One asks, "What do you got?"

Oscar, "I've got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches!" Which do you want?

Player, "What's the green?"

Oscar, "It's either very new cheese or very old meat!" Hahahaha!

Joe

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[–] bogeybob1 8 years ago

"What do you say to a man who's crying in your bathroom?"

[–] snelling 8 years ago

Felix in the restaurant: "Fmmmuhhhh! Fmahhhhhh!"

Oscar: "You make the same sounds for pain or happiness!"

"'Extremely High Voltage.' Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer SimpSSSSSS--" - Frank Grimes

[–] pjpurple-1 8 years ago

These are all such funny lines! I love them all. No one has mentioned the one that Murray the cop said ( I think it was Murray).

He was reminding them of the time when " Felix was locked in the john overnight and he wrote out his will on a roll of toilet paper."

[–] daughterofolaf 8 years ago

Like every line and every scene.  But seriously, a few are:

"Is this how you left that night with Francis? No wonder she wanted to have your room painted. I'm gonna have yours dipped in bronze!"

"He was driving us all crazy with his napkins and his ashtrays and his bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches."

I don't recall the exact quote but when Felix is grilling Oscar with questions and is super angry over Oscar getting home late without calling and Oscar says something like "wait, we need to record this because no one will ever believe it." 

"Why SHOULD I worry about him? He's not worried about ME! He's out there on the street somewhere crying and sulking and having a wonderful time..."

"Your petty vengeance fetish will have to do withOUT Mr. Groin!"

[–] daughterofolaf 8 years ago

"Don't worry, yours is very pretty."  When Felix asks Oscar which one of the Pidgeon sisters he is getting on the blind date, what they are like, etc. LOL

"Your petty vengeance fetish will have to do withOUT Mr. Groin!"