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“I’m Kind of a Big Deal”

[ 38 ] April 29, 2010 | Robert Farley

Is Anchorman really the most quoted comedy of the last decade? Seems plausible; alternative candidates?

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  1. Andre says:

    Billy Madison should surely be up for consideration as well, particularly the infamous game show host speech:

    Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said… is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

  2. UberMitch says:

    Old School left quite the quote-fest in its wake.

  3. Greg says:

    Napoleon Dynamite would have to be a contender.

  4. aparets says:

    Wedding Crashers would also have to be up there. Second the vote for Old School.

    • witless chum says:

      I’ve seen “Wedding Crashers,” “Old School” and “Napoleon Dynamite” and I can’t think of a quote from any of them off the top of my head.

      In my house, it’s “Dude Where’s My Car” (“I said brown”) and “Idiocracy” (“I like money”).

  5. FMguru says:

    It falls just outside the “decade” criterion, but Big Lebowski (1998) deserves strong consideration for Most Quotable.

    • strategichamlet says:

      Yes, if you reach back 12 years you’d hit the twin juggernauts of The Big Lebowski and Office Space whose quotability crush anything that has come since.

      • strategichamlet says:

        For this decade I’d say Idiocracy is the winner with Supertroopers a distant second.

      • skippy says:

        wow, i’d nominate the big lebowski for the most quoted movie of the last three decades, and i believe that would include caddyshack, but i’m too lazy to look up the imdb page to find the exact date.

  6. larryb33 says:

    What’s that line from The White Ribbon

  7. Ginger Yellow says:

    Assuming we’re ignoring Lebowski, I still don’t think Anchorman is the most quoted, at least in the UK. If I had to guess it would be Napoleon Dynamite, but other contenders are Shaun of the Dead and, recently, In The Loop.

  8. mark f says:

    Anchorman, like Wedding Crashers and The Hangover, was one of those recent “funniest movie ever!”s that I didn’t enjoy at all.

    I do agree, however, that “I’m kind of a big deal” was probably the most quoted single line of the last ten years (f’reelz; go to all your cheesy associates’ MySpace pages and look at their “About Me” sections). “I’m rich, bitch!” and “I’m Rick James, bitch!” are probably what I heard second most, and goddamn was I sick of bad Borat impressions before the fucking movie even came out.

  9. stogoe says:

    I love…Lamp.

    Office Space and Lebowski definitely won the 90s. I’m comfortable with Anchorman in the top 3 for the Zeroes.

  10. Ben Natkin says:

    Those of you arguing against Wedding Crashers were obviously far too old to catch the college age male demographic, by far the biggest movie quoters.

    “MA! THE MEATLOAF!”
    “Rule 76, no excuses, play like a champion.”
    “Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.”
    “You motorboating son of a bitch! You old sailor you.”
    “The painting was a gift, Todd, I’m taking it with me.”
    “You shut your mouth when you’re talking to me.”

    Just another example of you ivory tower liberals out of touch with the common people

  11. norbizness says:

    Motherfuckers are ALWAYS quoting Persepolis.

  12. Anonymous says:

    I haven’t seen most of these movies and would be curious as to how often people are quoting stuff I don’t recognize.

    BTW, Austin Powers was huge in the 90s.

    This decade, I’m trying to build up “Difficult Difficult Lemon Difficult” but it doesn’t seem to be working.

  13. Halloween Jack says:

    Hard to say, because I haven’t seen Anchorman. In general, though, I wouldn’t trust AICN if they told me that water was wet.

  14. nitpicker says:

    I have to admit that a week doesn’t go by without someone in my house saying “milk was a bad choice.”

    And it still cracks me up every time.

  15. Fighting Words says:

    I guess there is no love for .

  16. Frank says:

    Maybe I’m old but then so is my entire office judging by this. I still hear more “Office Space” than all the ’00s put together.

  17. Stooleo says:

    Well, it falls out of the decade old requirement, but in my day we quoted Caddyshack a lot. But hell what do I know, we also used tie an onion to our belts cause it was the fashion at the time.

  18. Sophist says:

    Sixty percent of the time, people quote Anchorman every time.

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