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Best throwaway lines?

posted 12 years ago by aluminum_foil
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After seeing a comment on one of the other threads, I got to thinking. What are your favorite throwaway lines in the movie?

Mine has got to be:
"Did you get my Cheez Whiz, boy?"

[–] Littlebitsofgaming 12 years ago

"Hey Jake, there's got to be at least seven dollars' worth of change here."

Then I love the way Jake reaches over.

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[–] csteve67 12 years ago

well what are ya' gonna do about it..Whitey!

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[–] billymac72 11 years ago

I always crack up when the boys are talking about bad prison food with Matt Guitar Murphy.

Matt: How was Joliet?

Jake: Oh, it was bad. On Thursday night they served a wicked pepper steak.

Matt: It can't be as bad as the cabbage rolls at the Terre Haute Federal pen.

Elwood: Or that oatmeal in the Cook County slammer.

Matt: They're ALL pretty bad!

[–] aluminum_foil 11 years ago

I love that exchange!

[–] jkl65 10 years ago

Can't drive past a Pier 1 Imports without deadpanning "Pier 1 Imports."

[–] Lawdog1527 11 years ago

I don't know if it's a throwaway line but:

"How much for the little girl? The women! How much do you want for the women?"

[–] billymac72 11 years ago

"We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline."

[–] faried-1 9 years ago

The lines about buying the girls/women are probably from the SNL parody of "The Beverly Hillbillies". I can't find the skit online anywhere, but it aired in 1979. Google for "snl bel arabs".

[–] doowopfan 11 years ago

I like how both Elwood and Mercer say hi to Sim (?) on the stoop.

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[–] laslopaniflex 11 years ago

Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips!

"What are you, some kind of doomsday machine, boy?"

[–] speccyboy 11 years ago

The exchange in the phone booth, culminating with Elwood asking Jake: "Who are you going to call?"

Foreshadowing, anyone? :)

[–] kyle-style95 10 years ago

As soon as Elwood asked that, I shouted out "Ghostbusters!" haha.

[–] blankwillow 11 years ago

You want I should wash the dead bugs off the windshield?

One soiled.

Chicken wire?

You can't lie to a nun.

Fix the cigarette lighter.

[–] jekporkins (1972) 4 years ago

Fix the cigarette lighter. Definitely.

[–] aluminum_foil 11 years ago

Another favorite:

"I knew a hooker once name Minnie Mazola."

[–] Ditto-head 11 years ago

"How often does the train go by?"

"So often you won't even notice it."