What movie, TV show, anime, or videogame is the most over-quoted?

[Platituder]

Title says it all. Monty Python and the Holy Grail takes the cake for me, as the movie may be hysterical, but listening to people spout off the lines from it over and over again with varying levels of annoying, crappy British accents just feels like pressing your face into a cheese grater. Plus, it isn't even the best Python film.

 

[Tom_green_day]

I haven't seen it so it may be understandable but Pulp Fiction.
People don't seem to quote from TV or film where I'm from so that's it really.

 

[Zontar]

I think anything that is quoted so much people who know the quotes don't even know what it's from falls into this.

 

[Shocksplicer]

Scarface.
Sorry douchebags, but quoting a movie about a man whose drug-dealing gangster ways ruined his life and got him killed doesn't make you sound "gangsta ".
It makes you sound like a complete idiot who's clearly never seen the movie, or at the very least misunderstood it.

 

[SmallHatLogan]

The Simpsons is definitely up there. And I'm guilty as hell when it comes to annoying Simpsons quoters.

 

[sanquin]

All catchphrases come and go, imo. When they're new they get quoted millions of times, then usually become annoying within a month or two. And then it just becomes another one of the 'have been' quotes, having lost it's 'edge'. So I don't think I can really point to a single show or anything that is the 'most' overquoted.

 

[Flatfrog]

By me? I tend to use particular lines a lot rather than quoting lots of lines from the same show (although as a Python fan I am one of those people who *could* quote the whole of Grail or Brian at you).

An example: within my family, we have a phrase "I'm very impressed" which we use as a catch-all for any moment where movies dub slightly obviously fake 'background chatter' into scenes. It comes from a scene in the last episode of My So-Called Life which was a particularly heinous example.

Similarly, we use the phrase "Bargains Galore!" as a generic exclamation (from Terry Pratchett's book Truckers). "Hi, I'm Troy McClure" pops up from time to time. Lots of other examples, although none that spring to mind immediately.

 

[jademunky]

Dunno if it the MOST over-quoted but Dragonball anyone?

say it with me "His power level is over 9-thousand!!!"

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Once a movie spawns at least one meme, it becomes a candidate for Most Quoted.
I think the movie that is the Most Quoted - textually, visually, aurally - would be Star Wars. Not just by people, but by movies as well. How many "I've got a bad feeling about this" have you heard?

 

[lacktheknack]

Yeah, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is by far and away the winner. Ever gone to a party where half the chatter was Monty Python quotes? I thought the Monty Python was funny because it was unexpected and surreal.

In a distant second is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Even worse, it's usually quoted by people who straight up don't get it. ;__;

Seriously, one person began talking about something being as unlikely as a giant vat of custard upending itself (obvious Hitchhiker reference), and I asked him if he'd fly in a ship powered by the improbability drive, and he says "I actually never figured out how the improbability drive factored into it."

HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

 

[duwenbasden]

Holy Grail - many, many.
Hitchhiker's Guide - many, many.
Skyrim - a certain projectile to bodypart joke.
Simpsons - many, many.
Anything with Arnie/Bruce Willis

 

[Atomic Spy Crab]

Skyrim- Arrow to the knee and sweetrolls
Star Wars- I have a bad feeling about this
Dark Souls- Sure praise the sun and I can't take this are funny at first but it becomes too much when they become every 2nd message. Also try jumping and amazing chest ahead

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

Well this is pretty localised but I'm Irish. We get fined by the government if we don't quote Father Ted at least every 48 hours.

 

[Quazimofo]

Skyrim- Arrow to the knee and sweetrolls
Star Wars- I have a bad feeling about this
Dark Souls- Sure praise the sun and I can't take this are funny at first but it becomes too much when they become every 2nd message. Also try jumping and amazing chest ahead

That one you can probably chalk up to the limited message system making it a bit hard to convey humor/trick people outside of inside jokes/obviously bad advice.

As for over-quoted? I couldn't say really, I don't exactly socialize much (I'm a high-school student who doesn't like other teenagers, so my options are kinda limited) so I don't hear a lot of quotes anymore. I think what exactly would constitute "over quoting" or what source is the one most over-quoted depends on the people in question. On 4chan's /tg/ board for example, approximately 35% of the non-quest-thread related chatter is 40k quotes. Of course, most on the board don't seem to mind because it's usually pretty funny.

 

[Seishisha]

Some contenders i dont think anyone has mentioned yet.

Movie: The 300 "this is SPARTA!!"
i can't even recall how many times ive seen that copied wholesale or parodied since the movie came out.

Tv Show: Mission Impossible "this message will self destruct"
likewise this one has been done so many times in so many ways.

Anime: Dragonball z "it's over NINE THOUSAND!!!"
do i even need to mention it?

Game: Portal "the cake is a lie"
ahh portal i remember a time before the game was out and the internet wasnt such an fetid place.

 

[VanQ]

Skyrim produced the first ever meme that was crashed into the ground by Reddit in less than 24 hours. By the end of the first day the game was out nearly every thread on Reddit, YouTube and many other sites had an "arrow to the knee" post somewhere in it.

 

[Ubiquitous Duck]

Title says it all. Monty Python and the Holy Grail takes the cake for me, as the movie may be hysterical, but listening to people spout off the lines from it over and over again with varying levels of annoying, crappy British accents just feels like pressing your face into a cheese grater. Plus, it isn't even the best Python film.

Woahhh Woaaaah Woaaaaaahhhh there! Let's not start a life of brian vs. Holy Grail debate. That is not something you want to open up!

To be honest, the worst culprit for me is the Simpsons. I am a massive fan of the Simpsons and watched it for many years, but there are some people who just seem to quote it ad nauseum (I guess because the content is so extensive that it is applicable in so many situations), but it really is the dumbing down of conversations, more often than not, to just put in a quote.

 

[marioandsonic]

The Simpsons is definitely up there. And I'm guilty as hell when it comes to annoying Simpsons quoters.

I was extremely guilty of this when I was a kid, because I was trying way too hard to be funny.

I don't quote them as much anymore, but I will do so if the situation is right.

 

[Liquidprid3]

Definitely the cake is a lie, I love Portal, but fuck that quote. It's annoying. And it isn't even a lie, you get cake at the end. I understand it's from the Rat Man and stuff, but the a internet ran that quote into the ground. I've heard people quote it that haven't even played Portal. Just no. It's annoying. It's not even funny, it's supposed to be saying that GLaDOS is lying.