Best line of the movie?
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elephantinepile — 20 years ago(December 05, 2005 03:41 PM)
The funniest line to me is when he's upstairs talking to a clearly charmed Michele and goes into "Thirty days have September" and completely botches it. Great piece of writing and Sellers delivers it perfectly, of course.
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boileau — 20 years ago(December 08, 2005 05:37 AM)
YESSSS !
except my brother that got six months !
Thirty days hath September
April, June and November
February has twenty eight alone
All the rest have thirty-one
Except in Leap Year, that's the time
When February's Days are twenty-nine
I just found it on an English site (I had no idea that it could exist)where it is called 'aide-memoire' which is, of course, an English word.
I France, we count with our fingers other than the thumb (finger = january = 31 days, interval = february, finger = mars, etc).
So I completely missed this part. -
trewheeler3 — 20 years ago(December 15, 2005 08:45 AM)
"When would you be available for me to pick up my hat?" (final scene)
"It's like an Indian person painting a moustache and a beard on your ladybirds" (Jumbo the elephant)
"Does that include television sir?" (filming "Extravaganza")
"I shall have to remember that one!" (Hrundi mistakenly thinking the Congressman's description of a robbery was a joke)
"Speak Hindustani?" (to Mrs. Dumphey outside bathroom)
"I would have been dissapointed if you hadn't crushed my hand" (To Wyoming Bill Kelso") -
habibv — 19 years ago(September 25, 2006 04:42 PM)
When Bakshi is waiting with this lady by the bathroom door waiting to go to the restroom. Lady is watching him somehow staring at him and both have nothing to say to each other Then Bakshi asks the lady:
- Do you speak Hindostani?
- No
That was the funniest part for me. Poor Bakshi wanted to say something to break the ice, but since there was nothing in common between these 2, he did not know what to ask! So he asked "Do you speak Hindostani?" and lady without emotion or changing her face just said "NO".
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WDformerWB — 19 years ago(September 26, 2006 06:28 PM)
My personal favorite:
Drunk Blonde "What's in there?" (swirling her drink)
Hrundi "What, in here?"
DB nods
Hrundi motioning "No, there is nothing in here"
DB "Yes there is"
Hrundi, "I don't know - I don't think so" (donning reading glasses, looking) "no, there is definitely nothing in there. If there were something it's gone away now anyway."
DB, a little louder "But I can SEE it!"
Hrundi (backing up ever so slightly) "What is it?"
DB "I don't know but I don't LIKE it!"
Other favorites:
Divot motions to drunk waiter "Hey waiter, come over here"
(drunk waiter responds)
Divot "See that guitar? Go get it."
Drunk waiter "Get the guitar." (goes staggering off)
Hrundi "In fact there are certain man-eating animals that will eat only the feet, will leave everything else, will not touch one other thing"
Director (after pointing out to Hrundi he's wearing an underwater watch), "Got the time?"
Hrundi looks, then covers watch "Oh my god"
Director "All right, lunch everybody"
General Clutterbuck on phone, after Hrundi pushes button to retract bar and has the prolonged drink/phone exchange with him: "The picture? Yeah, it was going fine until some idiot blew up the set"
Hrundi "I am merely spectating"
Divot "You're meshugah!"
Hrundi "I am not your sugar." -
Deusvolt — 19 years ago(January 31, 2007 01:59 PM)
I vaguely remember when Bakshi was saving Michele from a pawing sex opportunist (probably a producer or director), the maniac said: "Who do you think you are?"
To which Bakshi replied: "In India, we do not think who we are. We know!" -
smacherz — 19 years ago(February 01, 2007 12:27 PM)
haha I just watched this movie last night (not for the first time) and there are so many good lines!
one that I didnt notice before though was one the nanny yells at the dog "COOKIE!!" and then dog runs and hides under the bed lol
birdie num num haha thats probably my favorite line
"what do you call this game with the multi-colored balls?"
"pool"
"poo?"
"POOL"
"oh POO-EL"
haha I love peter sellers indian accent.
Congratulations, Mr. Simms. You are the fattest boy in camp. -
MissBender24 — 15 years ago(December 16, 2010 04:45 PM)
I watched this as a teenager in the 80s with a lot of friends, by the time we got to birdie num nums, we had all slid off the couch in hysterics clutching our stomachs, it was a such a great movie.
My favourite part is when Wyoming Bill Kelso accidently shoves his cue into Hrundi's backside - Hrundi prays.. and exclaims "Hari ram ram!"
also :
As the kitchen door swings open Hrundi and the ditzy blonde spy the head waiter strangling the drunk waiter, the blonde comments :
"it's very hard to find good help these days."to which Hrundi relpies :
"it certainly is", as he absentmindedly butters his hand instead of his roll!
and
Mr Divot is pawing the young lady in the bedroom and someone shoots the dart at him and his toupe flies over from the back of his head to the frontLOLOL, the girl laughs and he gets pissed off..:)
lastly, the sozzled waiter, serving the wine has the cork in his mouth and has the kitchen door slammed in his face at which point he half swallows the cork, chokes for a bit (with the flapping hand) then gives a bit of a wiggle to get it down. so funny. -
peteredawson-22274 — 9 years ago(December 01, 2016 02:35 AM)
Me too. I can't even start making the clucking noises before he says "Birdie Num Num", without cracking up. The wife looks at me like I'm an idiot.
Apart from this, I also love "Mr. Clutterbuck, your wife's fallen in the pool. What'll we do". He replies "Get her jewellery!".