The Humour Club discussion

Post a quote from a beloved holiday film or TV special!

Let's start with an easy one:

"Why weren't you at elf practice?"

Rudolph the red nose reindeer. And no, thats not easy, unless you're old enough.

Another easy one

I'm a master of fright, and a demon of light, and I'll scare you right out of your pants. To a guy in Kentucky I'm Mister Unlucky and I'm know throughout England and France. And since I am dead, I can take off my head to recite Shakespearean quotations. No animal or man can SCREAM like I can With the fury of my recitations

From the wonderful, wonderful 'Nightmare Before Christmas'. Great choice!

"It's a major award."

A Christmas Story,

And for added fun, halloween costume:



"Oh, yeah, well know this: time travels with you. The night of the world is a passage of endless night for you, until your mission is done."

Santa Claus, the Movie.

"Nobody goes to the euphemism on a night like this."

"Halloween is Grinch Night"

Oh hee hee, it wouldn't be the Christmas shopping season if the stores were any less hooter than they - HOTTER than they are.

Uh, Melki? Not sure if you are in the wrong movie or just making jokes. Just the classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

I have no idea about your quote :D

I just checked on Google. That line is from the Grinch Halloween special.

You can watch it here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygSEkw...

melki's quote is National Lampoons Christmas Vacation


"Boy, that's scary stuff! Should we be worried about the kids in the audience?"
"Nah, it's all right. This is culture!"

Never saw any Halloween version. That line was in the original Grinch I saw as a child. At Xmas. Are you going to force me to take it out of the library and confirm it?

I bet they liked the joke so much they recycled it.

Maybe we should take this outside to the debate area. I have both on VHS, but no time to watch right now. As I recall, 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' is told in rhyme and is basically just a reading of the book, with a bit added about the Whos playing noisy instruments with funny names, and an extended trip down Mt. Crumpit. I don't remember anyone needing to use the euphemism.

Hazel - "The Muppet Christmas Carol"

Santy don't visit the funeral homes, little buddy.

Thats Home Alone, which now gets shown in summer as well at xmas. Piece of crap film.

I'm annoyed because I can't find translations for the film I want to quote. hey ho

"Whoa, Dad! You're flying!"
"It's okay, I'm used to it. I lived through the '60s."

Melki, I am going totally by memory, so gods know I could be miles off. I just don't even remember a Grinch Halloween show, so. . . Of course, I don't remember half the appointments I make, so clearly my memory is useless for this exercise!

Oh, Rebecca...you need to take a day off work and bone up on those holiday classics! You can probably borrow them from the library. I think our local library has more DVDs than books. (Yes - it is heartbreaking.)

I'm getting to the age where I can't remember appointments and "things-to-do" without a list, yet I can remember old tv shows and ancient conversations like they took place yesterday.

It's pretty scary.

Hazel - "The Santa Clause" - I'm guessing it's from the first one; I've never seen the sequels.

"Hey look, mister. We serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint "atmosphere".

11/29
Okay - hint time!
This is a b&w classic that is usually aired at least once a day on American television during the month of December.

We'll try one more quote from the same movie:

All right, George, you've got your wish; you've never been born.

sorry only just looked

its "Its a Wonderful Life"

"Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom."

'The Hogfather' - watched it over the summer and I can't wait til we get to the book.

"If you're really Santa Claus, you can get it for me. And if you can't, you're only a nice man with a white beard like mother says."

Miracle on 34th Street, which I watched yesterday.

I'm reading the Hogfather already, but thats because its become a bit of a tradition for me at this time of year.

"I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love."

Melki, I finally watched the Grinch, and am forced to admit the line isn't in there. That means that one of my favorite movie lines comes from a movie I don't even remember existing, let alone remember anything about.

Getting old sucks! :p

Yep. Getting old does suck, but I prefer it to the alternative.

Hazel's line is from 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' which is almost as old as I am.

"SANTA! OH MY GOD! SANTA'S COMING! I KNOW HIM! I KNOW HIM!

ELF

Love ELF.

"♪GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEEE GIMEEE♪"

'nuther quote from this annual classic that my children love...

Whoever invented Christmas trees, should be drug out into the street and SHOT!"

I gotta admit, the first clue had me a-stumped. I thought maybe some sort of ABBA Christmas special I knew nothing about, but now I see that it's Garfield.

-"You throw quite a party. I didn't realize they celebrated Christmas in Japan."
-"Hey, we're flexible. Pearl Harbor didn't work out so we got you with tape decks."

Die Hard

And from a film that I watched last night

"There's a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."

That would be 'Die Hard 3', though that one doesn't actually take place at Christmas, does it? I seem to remember everyone in t-shirts and drenched with sweat.

"There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?"

no, it isn't, but its always on at xmas, thus I count it as an xmas movie, like back to the future

Melki wrote: "That would be 'Die Hard 3', though that one doesn't actually take place at Christmas, does it? I seem to remember everyone in t-shirts and drenched with sweat.

"There was more than one lobster pr..."

LOVE ACTUALLY

I have a strange attraction to all Hugh Grant movies - I think he is the funniest guy! Strange eh?


I should have bought a Blue Spruce, they're lighter

Nutter clue, please.

I'll give you two,

1) Look on the bright side. He has more room in his jockey shorts

2) I've had a really lousy Christmas. You have just managed to kill my New Year's! If you come back on Easter you can burn down my apartment

Nothing?

Sandra Bullock is in it? Isn't she great?

Hmmm....I'm not sure I've ever seen a Sandra Bullock movie. Maybe that bus driving one where Dennis Hopper played the psycho.

Bookworm wrote: "I'll give you two,

1) Look on the bright side. He has more room in his jockey shorts

2) I've had a really lousy Christmas. You have just managed to kill my New Year's! If you come back on Easter ..."

The first one is definitely While You Were Sleeping (I'm kind of ashamed that I know that) so I'm going to assume both are.

And on a dark cold night, under full moonlight, he flies into the fog like a vulture in the sky!

Ya right, like everyone doesn't secretly own all the Sandra Bullock movies, especially the yaya sisterhood.

And yes Melki, SPEEED was awesome.

Sam wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "I'll give you two,

1) Look on the bright side. He has more room in his jockey shorts

2) I've had a really lousy Christmas. You have just managed to kill my New Year's! If you com..."

The Nightmare before Christmas

"Well, I'm sure Charles Dickens would have wanted to see her nipples"

Oops! So, a year and five days later, the answer is Scrooged

This is from an American TV special of many, many moons ago:

"Magic Johnson! What are you doing here?"

"Magic Screen and I are cousins."