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re: What's Your Favorite Throwaway Line?

Posted on 2/9/25 at 8:22 am to
Posted by Legba007
Franklin, Tn
Member since Jul 2013
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Posted on 2/9/25 at 8:22 am to
"I don't like sand."

Attack of the Clones
Posted by St Augustine
The Pauper of the Surf
Member since Mar 2006
71032 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 8:28 am to
“Grizzly Adams DID have a beard.”

Is the first thing that came to mind.

Posted by HueyLongJr
Member since Oct 2007
963 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 9:02 am to
“Well, I was mauled by a cougar, learned nothing about driving, and my Crystal Gayle shirt was ruined. But other than that, it went fine.“

“Laugh while you can monkey boy”
Posted by JackDempsey
Lake Charles
Member since May 2023
665 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 9:42 am to
Pleasantville

"We'll be safe for now... thank goodness we're in a bowling alley"
Posted by geauxjo
Gonzales, LA
Member since Sep 2004
15286 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 10:48 am to
From O Brother Where Art Thou:

“Thank God your mammy died givin' birth. If she'd have seen you, she'd have died o' shame.”
Posted by JW
Los Angeles
Member since Jul 2004
5173 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 10:59 am to
"You ate sand?" - Raising AZ
" ... knock back a few coca-colas" - Raising AZ
"Did you ever have a touch to lose?" - Bottle Rocket
Posted by Tigris
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Member since Jul 2005
13078 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 11:49 am to
“Laugh while you can monkey boy”

Better than anything else I can think of. Lithgow was outstanding in that one.

Posted by Slinger16
Not Louisiana
Member since Jun 2007
21900 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 11:55 am to
"Your mom goes to college."

Napoleon Dynamite
Posted by Gusoline
Jacksonville, NC
Member since Dec 2013
10524 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 2:36 pm to
Rounders.


Kid's got alligator blood. Can't get rid of him.
This post was edited on 2/9/25 at 2:48 pm
Posted by ellunchboxo
G-Town
Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 2/9/25 at 3:02 pm to
Posted by 88Wildcat
Topeka, Ks
Member since Jul 2017
16586 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 5:01 pm to
Two from Raising Arizona

Son, you've got a panty on your head.


Do any of these blow up into funny shapes?
No, unless round is funny.
Posted by FearlessFreep
Baja Alabama
Member since Nov 2009
19568 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 6:09 pm to
methinks there’s too broad of a definition of “throwaway line” at issue here

i contend that to be truly a throwaway it has to be an aside, maybe even under one’s breath, not meant to be heard

for example, in His Girl Friday, when Earl Williams surrenders to Hildy in the press room, as she’s frantically trying to close the shades to prevent him from being seen, he whines “I couldn’t take another day like today”, to which Hildy mutters “You’d think I could”

to me, that is a true throwaway line
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
154424 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 6:58 pm to
quote:

methinks there’s too broad of a definition of “throwaway line” at issue here

i contend that to be truly a throwaway it has to be an aside, maybe even under one’s breath, not meant to be heard
A decent try at a definition, though I might also add it should not be the focus of the conversation/scene.

SCTV had a regular bit called "Fishin' Musician", w/John Candy as an outdoor TV show host who filmed segments w/the bands who did the show.



They did this bit for awhile, with various bands catching various fish. Then some act -- IIRC, The Tubes -- did the show. While the usual outdoor show film played we heard the voiceovers of Candy & the band in typical Bill Dance style.

Then Fee Waybill or somebody said, "I bet you really eat your fill with all these fish you catch."

And Candy replied, "No. Actually I don't eat fish."

"Whaa?"

"No, just can't stand the taste of the stuff."

And then they moved back to narrating the film.

This always seemed like a kind of throwaway to me. After all the time they took establishing this guy with fish, they just casually threw out that he didn't eat it.
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
155568 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 7:13 pm to
My answer in these threads every time they pop up is the same: in 40 Year Old Virgin when they meet that bachelorette party at the bar and they have that blue polka dot dildo. And Seth Rohan’s character goes “Dr. Seuss’s penis….i really mean this.”

I lose my shite every time for whatever reason. It just cracks me the frick up. Every single time.



Posted by lsusa
Doing Missionary work for LSU
Member since Oct 2005
6212 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 7:18 pm to
We’ain’t got no time for that crap!
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
13536 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 7:35 pm to
Posted by beachdude
FL
Member since Nov 2008
6311 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 8:49 pm to
Episode of M*A*S*H. Hawkeye and Trapper are trying to rid the compound of an artillery piece that symbolizes death and mutilation. Somehow they remove the firing pin and spike the gun.

Hawkeye: “What did you do with the firing pin?”

Trapper: “I threw it in the cesspool.”

Hawkeye: “Good. No one will ever be able to find it there.”

Trapper: “Except maybe the cook.”

Posted by SCTmo
Des Moines
Member since Aug 2007
3011 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 9:04 pm to
Kingpin


Big Ern to Roy

"You're on a gravy train with biscuit wheels! "
Posted by MDB
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2019
3658 posts
Posted on 2/9/25 at 11:12 pm to
Spaceballs — two black guys combing the desert with a rat-tail comb.

“We ain’t found shite.”

Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 2/10/25 at 12:32 am to
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