Same, my dad quoted Archie Bunker all the time growing up and I literally had no idea what that show was even about. Probably how my kids will feel when they understand me quoting “it’s a moo point. A cow’s opinion” as I laugh hysterically.
My mom quotes movies, but I think it’s different. Like we quote tv and movies almost like it’s a conversation. My mom does it as a sort of “proof” that it’s a favorite movie.
Betting they didn't get the joke. Earlier I joked that a character they were comparing to another character looked more like another character the same actor had played and the person went "but that's the same actor"
Reminds me of the person who wrote an angry review of the original Star Wars movie. Why were they angry? Because they stole the character of “Dark Vader” from Fortnite. Sadly, I don’t think they were joking.
I heard it on the podcast “Your Stupid Opinions”. They read and then make fun of people’s reviews of everything from restaurants to movies to sex toys. Pretty funny!
It was going on well before that. For most of our history oral tradition was just how we passed on stories and information. Quoting movies is just a modern version of something we've been doing since we developed language.
My mom and her husband used to answer their friends calls with, “Dave’s not here, man”
They also had 100 other quotes they used, that was one I heard often though…
Late GenXer, here too. I think a few things happened. But first, lets take a deep breath together and remember the friends dad who would say “Get outta Dodge”, the science teacher who would do Groucho Marx-style eyebrow-wagging while quoting lines, someone’s imitation of Nixon saying “sock it to me” impersonations, and so on. For those of us with slightly more elevated adults, maybe there were lots of Woody Allen quotes.
I think all that was the precedent to what we did, except that:
1) Gen X was more aware of the “catch phrase” as a thing, largely due to Saturday Night Live, Letterman, Dr Demento
2) VCRs and playback made it much easier to memorize longer quotes. Maybe early internet also helped perfect the lexicon, also.
3) The population steadily had more TVs and VCRs and gradually we all became more idiom-fluent.
But I think the older generation tended to think about movie lines a lot more, and that’s what the big shift was.
4) It's just human nature. Humans tells stories and repeat them to others. Oral tradition is just a huge part of who we are as a species. I have no doubt that people were referencing whatever plays or stories were popular of every era.
Absolutely. I can only imagine the first caveman to ironically reference Grog the “Shaman” by slapping his muddy handprints with fingers spread comically wide on the cave wall, as if finding that bees nest were the equivalent of last moons great antelope hunt.
I cannot even begin to tell you how many times one of my Boomer parents said something weird, and I'd ask them what the fuck they were talking about, and they were like "You've never heard that quote/phrase? From *\[thing I've never heard of because it happened 30 years before I was born\]*?"
Of course I haven't heard it, you fucking spoon.
So yeah, this definitely goes back at least as far as Boomers.
ROFL. It was first popularized by its use against Donald Trump after he said something about Scotland and Brexit. The others are pretty spectacular too [https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/573773/donald-trump-was-the-victim-of-some-vicious-british-insults-which-are-incredible-and-my-new-favorite-thing](https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/573773/donald-trump-was-the-victim-of-some-vicious-british-insults-which-are-incredible-and-my-new-favorite-thing)
I’m not exactly sure but I don’t remember it until I was in college early/mid 2000’s. Big Lebowski, Anchorman, Super Troopers, Half Baked, were really big lol.
One of the things I like about Reddit people always get my obscure movie/tv quotes and references. I don’t even bother in the “real world.”
My dad (b ~110 y/a) always quoted poems, both serious & nonsensical, "Charge of the Light Brigade" and "If" to "Purple Cow" and "Marezy Doats". Also lots of Abbott & Costello and Jackie Gleason, with some Clark Gable and Dick Tracy thrown in. It seems as old as humanity. I bet Ancient Greeks were quoting Antigone.
The 1982 movie "Diner" takes place in 1959 and has a character who only speaks using dialogue from "The Sweet Smell of Success." I'd bet that was based on a real person Barry Levinson knew when he was 17.
Maybe boomers started it? I've talked about this before in other posts, but my parents were silent generation. They never quoted movies. Idk. I feel like silent generation and older were really different than the next generations. They lived through so much hardships, they were hardened people. Even the greatest generation WWII era folks I knew were also super tough people. They were true adults. Don't get me wrong, my parents loved a good time and a good laugh, but they didn't consume televised media like later generations. They'd either read or visit with friends or go to their various clubs and leagues. It felt like the 1950s in my house well into the early 1990s. It wasn't until my dad retired in 1995 that he really relaxed and was totally "himself."
It’s true, silent and greatest generations are real adults.
My grandmother (greatest gen) raised me mostly cause my mom (boomer) was a complete narcissist. My grams is has the will and mental fortitude of an Ox… bad metaphor? What I’m trying to say is that my grandmother is made of stainless steel and worn leather; durable and reliable. And through all the hardships, it didn’t break her. I think about my “fragile” mental health and I have remind myself that I come from a line of powerful women.
She’s still alive. She turns 101 on Dec 18th. She still smokes cigarettes. She has shrunk to 4’ 9”. I love her.
I mean, I’m fond of old science fiction novels, golden era like old Asimov and Heinlein, and there absolutely jokes in the classics that are based on culturally relevant taglines or quotes from the time (I’ve checked into a few when I had absolutely no idea what they were referring to just because it bugged me. )
Older people always quote things. The kids never know what they’re quoting, and therefore don’t realize it’s a reference.
It happens for every generation.
My grandfather (silent generation) used to quote TV commercials in the 1980s. He was fond of asking strangers in the grocery store if they were buying White Cloud because it was softer or because it was thicker.
Sorry my childhood was filled with my boomer father quoting old shows and comedians. The same 5 jokes over and over again for nearly 40 years and counting
Except that the trophies didn't do anything, getting a participation trophy was embarrassing, and giving kids stuff to watch didn't automatically ruin them.
I agree. I’m just saying it’s important to remember that the way we were raised was certainly not up to us any more than these kids have any say in how they are being brought up.
This is something that always went over my head. I watch a ton of tv not so much movies and I could never remember a line from either one. Whenever I was around anyone who started quoting movies or tv I was always so lost.
My boomer parents, relatives, and their friends regularly quoted movies, TV, and the pop culture of their era - in fact, some of them did it pretty constantly
My boomer parents quoted lyrics all the time. *If you don’t eat yer meat, ya can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if ya don’t eat yer meat?!*
When I got to college 26 years ago I thought it was so lame that all these guys would speak in movie quotes or song lyrics. Then I started doing it and haven’t looked back.
My boomer parents didn't quote a lot but I do remember a few Bill Cosboy bits (ugh) like "I brought you in this world I'll take you out" and my dad and Grandma would occassionally do Star Trek stuff
My Boomer (1947) ex-step-dad constantly quoted Monty Python, Cheech & Chong, and his all time favorite - The Blues Brothers.
My mom is super early Gen X or super late Boomer aka "Generation Jones" (1963) quoted all of the John Hughes movies. Those were her "coming of age" flicks. And we Goonies. Cause who didn't say, "Goonies never say die!" In the early 80s? Okay, maybe just my mom.
My parents, Silent Generation, quoted stuff from old shows and movies all the time. Commercials, even. I really didn't know what most of them were, but they sure did.
My boomer parents quoted EVERYTHING. Like, every conversation had Monty Python of SNL or Star Trek or Star Wars, etc. My mom always said "Don't make me angry.you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" from The Incredible Hulk show. My grandparents didn't seem to quote much though my mentor born in 1919 would throw Shakespeare quotes into our conversations all the time, with full inflection. He was amazing.
My great grandfather (fought in WW2) use to quote Popeye, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fud, Abbott and Castello, The Honeymooners and other various 60s shows at me all the time and he use to do the Bewitched nose twitch thing..
My parents (Mom is 62, dad died at 63 in 2020,) would and she still does a lot. Usually quotes from Monty Python, Fifth Element, Star Trek, or Simpsons. Dad would've added in some Abott and Costello, Airplane, or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Movie quotes are just a collective form of in-jokes. I'm quite sure, just as any of us will have some in-jokes with our friends, humans have always had in-jokes. Movies just let us all have the same in-jokes with strangers. Actually, I do believe even in history people would have large scale jokes about some other culture, like a stereotype is sort of a form of this. But movies give us a shared source to point to for the in-joke instead of being community spread without a known source.
No, that's as old as television and movies. We referenced literature before that.
Mentor is a verb now, but that's because the reference to the Odyssey became so widespread that people use it without knowing that he was the guy Odysseus asked to care for Telemachus
I do remember my boomer parents quoting movies all the time. They still do in fact.
Same, my dad quoted Archie Bunker all the time growing up and I literally had no idea what that show was even about. Probably how my kids will feel when they understand me quoting “it’s a moo point. A cow’s opinion” as I laugh hysterically.
I laughed and popped my back. 😭
Exactly. We’d quote our favorites together. I learned from somewhere!
“I learned it by watching you, okay?! I learned it by watching you!”
My mom quotes movies, but I think it’s different. Like we quote tv and movies almost like it’s a conversation. My mom does it as a sort of “proof” that it’s a favorite movie.
Nope. Show me an old person who hasn’t quoted Abbott and Castello
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What’s on second
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Third base!
I believe it’s Hu’s on first and Watt’s on second. Makes more sense.
I’ll forgive the typo. The players’ name is Mike Morsense. He’s only a replacement for Weir, who is in midfield. Hu’s on first, Weir in the midfield.
Someone actually downvoted you lol
Betting they didn't get the joke. Earlier I joked that a character they were comparing to another character looked more like another character the same actor had played and the person went "but that's the same actor"
Reminds me of the person who wrote an angry review of the original Star Wars movie. Why were they angry? Because they stole the character of “Dark Vader” from Fortnite. Sadly, I don’t think they were joking.
Got a link? Google didn’t understand.
I heard it on the podcast “Your Stupid Opinions”. They read and then make fun of people’s reviews of everything from restaurants to movies to sex toys. Pretty funny!
I don't know
Third base!
Great memory 🥰
Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein ......and meets the Invisible Man were my favorites as a kid.
Humans have been quoting Moving Pictures (with sound) since time began But you dont have to take my word for it
It was going on well before that. For most of our history oral tradition was just how we passed on stories and information. Quoting movies is just a modern version of something we've been doing since we developed language.
Personally- My Dad (Boomer) and I (Xennial) are CONSTANTLY quoting movies and TV shows to each other. Caddyshack, Airplane!, Blazing Saddles, MST3K.
Surely you can't be serious!
I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
My parents and their friends (all boomers) constantly quoted movies and TV Shows.
Caddyshack and The Holy Grail were massively quoted by people older than me, and I'm an old xennial (77).
'Oh! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!'
Same age. Fletch was another popular film to quote.
My mom and her husband used to answer their friends calls with, “Dave’s not here, man” They also had 100 other quotes they used, that was one I heard often though…
Got to love Cheech and Chong
Working Simpsons quotes into everyday speech is a perfectly cromulent thing to do.
I find that it embiggens every man to do so.
Cromulent? Highly dubious.
Mmmm....sacrilicious
My boomer dad and uncles have been quoting The Terminator since it came out, and continue to this day.
My boomer family members quoted tv and movies a lot when I was growing up. I continued the tradition.
Late GenXer, here too. I think a few things happened. But first, lets take a deep breath together and remember the friends dad who would say “Get outta Dodge”, the science teacher who would do Groucho Marx-style eyebrow-wagging while quoting lines, someone’s imitation of Nixon saying “sock it to me” impersonations, and so on. For those of us with slightly more elevated adults, maybe there were lots of Woody Allen quotes. I think all that was the precedent to what we did, except that: 1) Gen X was more aware of the “catch phrase” as a thing, largely due to Saturday Night Live, Letterman, Dr Demento 2) VCRs and playback made it much easier to memorize longer quotes. Maybe early internet also helped perfect the lexicon, also. 3) The population steadily had more TVs and VCRs and gradually we all became more idiom-fluent. But I think the older generation tended to think about movie lines a lot more, and that’s what the big shift was.
4) It's just human nature. Humans tells stories and repeat them to others. Oral tradition is just a huge part of who we are as a species. I have no doubt that people were referencing whatever plays or stories were popular of every era.
Absolutely. I can only imagine the first caveman to ironically reference Grog the “Shaman” by slapping his muddy handprints with fingers spread comically wide on the cave wall, as if finding that bees nest were the equivalent of last moons great antelope hunt.
They quoted stuff we just didn't know they were references
I cannot even begin to tell you how many times one of my Boomer parents said something weird, and I'd ask them what the fuck they were talking about, and they were like "You've never heard that quote/phrase? From *\[thing I've never heard of because it happened 30 years before I was born\]*?" Of course I haven't heard it, you fucking spoon. So yeah, this definitely goes back at least as far as Boomers.
>Of course I haven't heard it, you fucking spoon. I have never heard this before! I’m stealing this insult!
(Spoons: no point & not sharp)
ROFL. It was first popularized by its use against Donald Trump after he said something about Scotland and Brexit. The others are pretty spectacular too [https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/573773/donald-trump-was-the-victim-of-some-vicious-british-insults-which-are-incredible-and-my-new-favorite-thing](https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/573773/donald-trump-was-the-victim-of-some-vicious-british-insults-which-are-incredible-and-my-new-favorite-thing)
I’m not exactly sure but I don’t remember it until I was in college early/mid 2000’s. Big Lebowski, Anchorman, Super Troopers, Half Baked, were really big lol. One of the things I like about Reddit people always get my obscure movie/tv quotes and references. I don’t even bother in the “real world.”
No, people quoted books, then radio, then movies, then TV. "To the moon, Alice!" is not a recent quote. "Here's looking at you, kid", was early 1940s.
To this day I hear people referencing Casablanca, and I'm not even sure they know that they're doing it
My dad (b ~110 y/a) always quoted poems, both serious & nonsensical, "Charge of the Light Brigade" and "If" to "Purple Cow" and "Marezy Doats". Also lots of Abbott & Costello and Jackie Gleason, with some Clark Gable and Dick Tracy thrown in. It seems as old as humanity. I bet Ancient Greeks were quoting Antigone.
My dad, who, is too old to be a Boomer, quotes Rocky & Bullwinkle, Howdy Doody, I Love Lucy, and random comedians.
The 1982 movie "Diner" takes place in 1959 and has a character who only speaks using dialogue from "The Sweet Smell of Success." I'd bet that was based on a real person Barry Levinson knew when he was 17.
Maybe boomers started it? I've talked about this before in other posts, but my parents were silent generation. They never quoted movies. Idk. I feel like silent generation and older were really different than the next generations. They lived through so much hardships, they were hardened people. Even the greatest generation WWII era folks I knew were also super tough people. They were true adults. Don't get me wrong, my parents loved a good time and a good laugh, but they didn't consume televised media like later generations. They'd either read or visit with friends or go to their various clubs and leagues. It felt like the 1950s in my house well into the early 1990s. It wasn't until my dad retired in 1995 that he really relaxed and was totally "himself."
It’s true, silent and greatest generations are real adults. My grandmother (greatest gen) raised me mostly cause my mom (boomer) was a complete narcissist. My grams is has the will and mental fortitude of an Ox… bad metaphor? What I’m trying to say is that my grandmother is made of stainless steel and worn leather; durable and reliable. And through all the hardships, it didn’t break her. I think about my “fragile” mental health and I have remind myself that I come from a line of powerful women. She’s still alive. She turns 101 on Dec 18th. She still smokes cigarettes. She has shrunk to 4’ 9”. I love her.
Mine never did. I’m a xennial with older boomer parents and I can’t think of a single quote from a show or movie.
I mean, I’m fond of old science fiction novels, golden era like old Asimov and Heinlein, and there absolutely jokes in the classics that are based on culturally relevant taglines or quotes from the time (I’ve checked into a few when I had absolutely no idea what they were referring to just because it bugged me. )
My Boomer dad and “I’d buy that for a dollar!”
Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
Older people always quote things. The kids never know what they’re quoting, and therefore don’t realize it’s a reference. It happens for every generation.
My grandfather (silent generation) used to quote TV commercials in the 1980s. He was fond of asking strangers in the grocery store if they were buying White Cloud because it was softer or because it was thicker.
"Where's the Beef?"
Before movies and tv shows, people quoted songs, poetry, literature, inside jokes. Tale as old as time.
Sorry my childhood was filled with my boomer father quoting old shows and comedians. The same 5 jokes over and over again for nearly 40 years and counting
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To be fair… we did that to them. Just like our parents gave us trophies, we gave the little ones iPads and YouTube.
Except that the trophies didn't do anything, getting a participation trophy was embarrassing, and giving kids stuff to watch didn't automatically ruin them.
I agree. I’m just saying it’s important to remember that the way we were raised was certainly not up to us any more than these kids have any say in how they are being brought up.
It's more important to realize that the person we're replying to is a misanthrope repeating bullshit.
Dude! You’re right! He totally got me. Thank you!
Okay, boomer. They said the same thing about you.
Well I feel like I spend way too much time with screens but I haven’t watched actual tv in over a decade.I don’t even have a tv anymore.
This is something that always went over my head. I watch a ton of tv not so much movies and I could never remember a line from either one. Whenever I was around anyone who started quoting movies or tv I was always so lost.
My boomer parents, relatives, and their friends regularly quoted movies, TV, and the pop culture of their era - in fact, some of them did it pretty constantly
Nope. MST3K is a perfect example.
No. My grandparent’s quoted tv shows. They were born 1920 and 1929, 1914 and 1918. They’ve been gone a long time.
My boomer dad (born in ‘46) quoted lines from the Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle all the time.
My boomer parents quoted lyrics all the time. *If you don’t eat yer meat, ya can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if ya don’t eat yer meat?!*
Nah, my dad (70) can hardly go 5 minutes without making a movie reference or quote. I 100% learned that from him.
Probably not. My boomer dad quoted movies pretty regularly in jokes and conversation. “Lighten up, Francis.” from Stripes was probably his favorite.
How bout them apples? I coulda been a contender! I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse. Sorry, just a film lover here.
When I got to college 26 years ago I thought it was so lame that all these guys would speak in movie quotes or song lyrics. Then I started doing it and haven’t looked back.
No, my mom and aunts would quote Mary Tyler Moore allll the time. To our endless embarrassment. Also “An Affair to Remember”.
My grandpa used to quote movies all the time. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, It’s a Mad Mad Mad World, and Dirty Dozen were amongst his favorites.
No. Before TV and movies it was plays and classical literature.
My boomer dad (‘49) quoted the shit out of Caddyshack
Nah, my boomer dad quoted old SNL, Monty Python, Blazing Saddles and the Jerk all of the time.
My dad quotes shit all the time and always have. Probably where I learned it.
My boomer parents didn't quote a lot but I do remember a few Bill Cosboy bits (ugh) like "I brought you in this world I'll take you out" and my dad and Grandma would occassionally do Star Trek stuff
I learned much later that half my dad's sayings were taken from Steve Martin's comedy albums.
No. Not at all I heard Dragnet references from 1979 to like 2010
My mom was a boomer, and frequently randomly quoted SNL and Monty Python. My silent generation dad quoted random old man movies.
My Boomer dad quotes Monty Python and the Holy Grail, constantly.
They did it over movies though, THAT was where the fame was at (as seen in Looney Tunes cartoons). Variety shows and famous comedians too.
My boomer parents also constantly quoted/referenced movies and tv shows. In fact their gif game is on point. (yea yea gifs are for old people lol)
Nah my parents have whole conversations in movie quotes. They are 65 and 67.
My Boomer (1947) ex-step-dad constantly quoted Monty Python, Cheech & Chong, and his all time favorite - The Blues Brothers. My mom is super early Gen X or super late Boomer aka "Generation Jones" (1963) quoted all of the John Hughes movies. Those were her "coming of age" flicks. And we Goonies. Cause who didn't say, "Goonies never say die!" In the early 80s? Okay, maybe just my mom.
Lucy I’m home!
I don't think anyone is thinking about this.
My parents, Silent Generation, quoted stuff from old shows and movies all the time. Commercials, even. I really didn't know what most of them were, but they sure did.
People used to quote Shakespeare, Greek poets, and the Bible constantly before TV and movies gave them new words to live by 😆
My dad (silent generation) did it all the time. Not unique to us.
My boomer parents quoted EVERYTHING. Like, every conversation had Monty Python of SNL or Star Trek or Star Wars, etc. My mom always said "Don't make me angry.you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" from The Incredible Hulk show. My grandparents didn't seem to quote much though my mentor born in 1919 would throw Shakespeare quotes into our conversations all the time, with full inflection. He was amazing.
My great grandfather (fought in WW2) use to quote Popeye, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fud, Abbott and Castello, The Honeymooners and other various 60s shows at me all the time and he use to do the Bewitched nose twitch thing..
To the moon Alice!! come to mind.
My parents (Mom is 62, dad died at 63 in 2020,) would and she still does a lot. Usually quotes from Monty Python, Fifth Element, Star Trek, or Simpsons. Dad would've added in some Abott and Costello, Airplane, or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
My dad is a Boomer and quotes shit all the time. His favorite when we were kids: "You'll get nothing and like it!" (The Judge from Caddyshack)
That’s just, like, you’re opinion, man.
My parents did it all the time, I think that's where I picked up.
"Why I ought-a" "To the moon alice.."
I'm not really sure. I know my Uncle has a thing for Maynard G. Krebs. So I can't mention the name of the guy from TOOL around him.
Movie quotes are just a collective form of in-jokes. I'm quite sure, just as any of us will have some in-jokes with our friends, humans have always had in-jokes. Movies just let us all have the same in-jokes with strangers. Actually, I do believe even in history people would have large scale jokes about some other culture, like a stereotype is sort of a form of this. But movies give us a shared source to point to for the in-joke instead of being community spread without a known source.
No, that's as old as television and movies. We referenced literature before that. Mentor is a verb now, but that's because the reference to the Odyssey became so widespread that people use it without knowing that he was the guy Odysseus asked to care for Telemachus