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

[AustinN]

Star Wars. "Search your feelings, you know it to be true" is not a good line. It works if you don't think about it, but people constantly quoting it forces me to think about it.

Honorary mention to Scarface. "I always tell the truth, even when I lie". Scarface fans, stop quoting that line. It's not a good line. It makes no sense. It's like saying "I never kill people, even when I kill people." They're mutally exclusive.

 

[shadyh8er]

By sheer accident, Casablanca. That movie's quotes are so ingrained in our everyday vernacular people don't even realize they're quoting it.

 

[DrStrangelove]

The one movie that annoys me the most with its quotes is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but my dislike of that is more personal than just the quotes being annoying. I watched that movie too many times as I grew up.

People tend to quote The Simpsons but I usually appreciate those.

I tend to over quote from Trainspotting and The Godfather, just so many damned good quotes from those movies.

 

[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.

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.

Sorry. I didn't know that this was a big thing. Has it happened before? My bad.

 

[Platituder]

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?

Lots, usually coming from me. I didn't mention Star Wars due to me looking like as hypocrite, as I've said "Your Tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker!" At least 20 times this winter whenever someone has wanted to go outside and play in the snow.

 

[TheRiddler]

Here goes:

[b/]Movies[/b]
Ghostbusters
Die Hard
Back to the Future
Star Wars
The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction

[b/]TV[/b]
Breaking Bad
Archer
The Wire
The Simpsons
Arrested Development
Firefly

[b/]Video Games[/b]
Portal
Portal 2
Bioshock
Star Fox 64
Psychonauts
Team Fortress 2

 

[Andy Shandy]

From me, personally?

Definitely Community or Arrested Development. Scrubs too.

 

[Supercereal]

A lot of people may fight me on this or disagree but i find Mean Girls to be quoted into oblivion in my social circles. Which is weird because my social circles have a high male demographic.

 

[Gatx]

Gurren Lagann, or at least it was a while back, for me personally.

Also Super Smash Bros. if only for people saying "Falcon Punch" all the time.

 

[TheRiddler]

From me, personally?

Definitely Community or Arrested Development. Scrubs too.

Really? Wow. I've never really run into anyone who quotes Community. Out of curiosity, what lines? I mean, off the top of my head, all I can think of is "six seasons and a movie".

 

[putowtin]

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.

hahahahahaha..... DRINK!

OT Python, everytime Python

 

[Thaluikhain]

Yeah, Monty Python.

The whole point of the humour was that it was new and weird and different, not something recited endlessly for decades.

Because of this, this is one of the funniest things they ever did:

Spoiler

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

Oh, thank god...a place where I can vent about one of my Python-related pet peeves. You all know the scene, of course, from Holy Grail where the mob has captured a suspected witch and one of them says that she turned him into a newt. Sir Bedevere asks "She turned you into a newt?". There's an uncomfortable pause, and the peasant says "...I got better".

I've had to endure legions of not-as-funny-as-they-think-they-are geeks quoting that scene and leaving out the utterly fucking crucial pause. Without that pause, it's nowhere near as funny, and hearing it that way over and over is like pouring salt into my eyes.

 

[Foolery]

The Dark Knight. Good movie, but damn, seeing people post quotes from it over and over is fucking cringe-worthy.

 

[Battenberg]

Breaking Bad, and I say that as a massive fan of the series.

The quotes often get mistreated too, "I am the one who knocks" was meant to symbolize Walt's complete metamorphosis from a school teacher to a hardcore drug manufacturer, it is not some ultimate badass quote.

Because as we all know hardcore drug manufacturers tend to be pretty meek and only say dull things. The quote itself is badass, the acting in that scene is badass, the character who says it is (by this point a fairly twisted) badass, it sounds like an ultimate badass quote to me. Just because people don't feel the need to follow it up with an artistic evaluation of just what those words express doesn't mean they don't understand. That said by the time I finally watches Breaking Bad I did know a hell of a lot of the script from the sheer number of people quoting it.

Outside of that I would have to go with a couple of big sitcoms at the moment- HIMYM and TBBT. I suppose just about any popular sitcom gets over quoted but it bugs with these two shows because the quotes aren't all that great in the first place (seriously - how did legen-waitforit-dary get so popular).

 

[AustinN]

Breaking Bad, and I say that as a massive fan of the series.

The quotes often get mistreated too, "I am the one who knocks" was meant to symbolize Walt's complete metamorphosis from a school teacher to a hardcore drug manufacturer, it is not some ultimate badass quote.

Because as we all know hardcore drug manufacturers tend to be pretty meek and only say dull things. The quote itself is badass, the acting in that scene is badass, the character who says it is (by this point a fairly twisted) badass, it sounds like an ultimate badass quote to me. Just because people don't feel the need to follow it up with an artistic evaluation of just what those words express doesn't mean they don't understand. That said by the time I finally watches Breaking Bad I did know a hell of a lot of the script from the sheer number of people quoting it.

Outside of that I would have to go with a couple of big sitcoms at the moment- HIMYM and TBBT. I suppose just about any popular sitcom gets over quoted but it bugs with these two shows because the quotes aren't all that great in the first place (seriously - how did legen-waitforit-dary get so popular).

Also, I think part of the reason people like to quote that moment is because it makes no sense without context. The preceeding dialogue makes it terrifying, but taken on it's own it's pretty much impossible to figure out what the hell it refers to.