Best line of the movie?
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r_s335 — 20 years ago(August 21, 2005 08:17 PM)
this movie has an incredible amount of funny lines - each one cracking me up. "Birdie num num" is a classic -loved the throwing birdseed at the dam bird. "Howdy Partner" is another line with Wild Bill. The opening scenes are a gut buster. Gavin McLoed with his arm up as the million $$ set is detonated before cameras rolling is great. I needed a rol of toilet paper with the caviar scene. "Eeeuw stinks!" It's a classic - I tellya - classic!!!
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inoldhollywood — 20 years ago(August 29, 2005 01:31 PM)
Good gosh, there are so many very funny lines and a lot of are funny because of the way they are delivered. here are some that come to mind right away. (I hope I remember them as accurately as possible).
In the beginning of the film, the producer is asked who "the foreigner" was who just walked in he says
"Oh someone my crazy mixed up wife probably invited!"
I also like the conversation Bakshi has with Wyoming Bill Kelso at the pool table while the cowboy is snuggling with the Italian actress over a cue stick .
Bakshi: "What is this game you call to get the brightly colored balls in the hole?"
Kelso: "Pool"
Bakshi: "POO?"
Kelso: "Not poo! POOL!"
Bakshi: "Oh, POOO-EL"
Kelso: "That's right!"
Bakshi: "How many people can play this poo-el?"
Kelso: "Oh one or two or whole bunch of people!"
My favorite line in the film is the big producers line as the servants are rescuing the paintings from the chaos he spots a portrait of his wife in the arms of a butler and exclaims.
"NOT THAT ONE, YOU IDIOT just the GOOD stuff!" -
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!"