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SUBMIT YOUR FAVORITE LINES from Student Bodies!

posted 20 years ago by TequilaMockingbird63
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What are some of the most memorable lines you LOVED from Student Bodies?
My friends and I saw this when it came out in 1981 at a DRIVE IN MOVIE THEATER!! Still quote (and love) film after all these years!

(as blind student loses handycap parking space)
Beauty Queen: "Great physical beauty can be a handicap too".

(as students run off to go have sex)
Hardy: "Maybe he had to go to the Bathroom or something"?

VanDyke: "It sounded like you were speaking through a rubber chicken".

Breather: "I'd like to kill the kid with the GUM!"

[–] valentine_the_unlucky 19 years ago

There was a scene when someone (was it Toby??) doing a crossword puzzle...

Toby(?): "What's a 5 letter word for 'crawl'?"

Melvert: "Creep!"

Toby(?): "Thanks, Melvert!"

The "click" "did you hang up on me?" part always gets me... My family and I regularly quote it, like twice a week LOL What a great movie!!!

[–] Erich-13 19 years ago

Actually, it was Malvert doing the crossword puzzle and Toby who called him a creep, to which he replied "Malvert thanks!" (referring to himself in the third person as usual).

Another one of my favorite lines, just because of the delivery, was at the end when Toby woke up and we learned the whole thing had been a dream. When she told Principal Malvert that he'd been the janitor in her dream, Malvert responds in a posh, sophisticated accent: "AB-surd!"

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"Little do they know how little I know about the little there is to know." - Neddy Seagoon

[–] valentine_the_unlucky 19 years ago

Thanks for correcting me! I haven't seen this movie in years, and it was a horrible VHS copy. I wonder how much I missed because the sound and picture was so bad :-(

[–] missmazie 19 years ago

"Help, Malvert. Malvert have big problem. 5 letter word for stealth like."

"Creep!"

"Malvert thanks!"

and another that has become a legend in my family:

"Who was Hamlet?"

"His dog."

"His dog??"

"Wasn't he a Great Dane?"

[–] JamesEGuidry 18 years ago

"What's going on in my house at .75 cents an hour?"

Later at the funeral...

"Your daughter was at our house when she got it...now I want you to have the money we owed her...it's all there-
5 hours, .65 cents an hour.I also included her cab fare...one way,of course."

BRILLIANT!!!
(other notables...)

"I thought you hated eggplant?"

"Homosexuality is the up-and-coming thing."

[–] JamesEGuidry 18 years ago

Another favorite is the conversation between Dr. Sigmund and Toby

Toby- "Dr. Sigmund?"
Dr.- "Don't be so formal...call me daddy."
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Dr.- "How do you feel about sex?"
Toby- "Sex?"
Dr.- "Did I pronounce it right?"
Toby- "You mean between a man and a woman?"
Dr.- "Yes...or the species of your choice."
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Toby-(referring to sex) "Yuck.My father..."
Dr.- "Your father's name was Yuck?Tell me about your father...did you like Yuck?"
Toby- "He used to lock me in the closet...with him in it."
Dr.- "Don't call me daddy anymore."
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[–] TequilaMockingbird63 18 years ago

Later at the funeral...
"Your daughter was at our house when she got it...now I want you to have the money we owed her...it's all there- 5 hours, .65 cents an hour. I also included her cab fare...one way, of course."
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"one way of course".

OMG THAT ONE WAS HYSTERICAL! GREAT MEMORY! IM LAUGHING OUT LOUD.
the overall deadpan delivery of all actors involved. god i love this movie.

It's cute how you think im listening.

[–] openingcredits 18 years ago

There's one from the principal that I thought was funny:

"Hasn't there been enough senseless killing? Let's have a murder that makes sense!"

[–] Xander007 18 years ago

Mr. Peters at the pep rally. You can hear him in the background faintly.

"For even the dead appriciate a parade."
"The big four square competition. The big parade. And now 6 big deaths."

"Would you like to see our trophy Tobie. It's our only trophy. Ah, the typing team was undefeated that year. We lost the typewriter, but we kept the trophy. I'll be back."

Also, when she calls the police.

"This is the police. We are closed. But look out behind you!"

[–] michaelallentodd 18 years ago

My favorite lines are:

Hmmm...Chicken...Broken....

Dead men tell no tales - but they do fart!

The Big Parade...the BIG panty raid!

I can't help it; funerals make me hot!

I thought it sounded like you were talking through a rubber chicken...

Ms Van Dyke and Nurse Crud....what's in a name? Everything.

Talking? During horsehead bookends?

....here's the money I owed her, it's all there at 65 cents an hour...and cab fare; one way of course...

The dog meowing. Classic.

The sound of Godzilla as she has the "nightmare sequence."

Too many! This movie has the best lines...

I call it the Airplane of horror spoofs.

[–] TequilaMockingbird63 11 years ago

....here's the money I owed her, it's all there at 65 cents an hour...and cab fare; one way of course...

HA HA HA I LOVE THAT LINE TOO!

It's Cute, How You Think I'm Listening

[–] Rubygirl214 18 years ago

At the funeral:
Principal Peters: (during the eulogy) "......And I'll bet it's no picnic for their parents either!"

Cheerleader: Someday you'll be old and ugly!
Patty: Oh, no I won't! I've got these saved up for the first sign of wrinkles!"
Cheerleader: What are they? Vitamin E?
Patty: No! Cyanide capsules! DEATH before disfigurement!
Cheerleader: YOU'RE SICK!!!!

So many others!!

I taped this movie back in the 80's, and my friends and I must have watched it 3 billion times! Scary Movie totally copies this!!!

It NEEDS to come out on DVD!!!!!

"You're such a pillow case!"-Heathers

[–] dispatcher484 18 years ago

Breather (In the "Who can the killer be?" segment: Ah, Ms. Mumsley... She eats 12 prunes a day, and nothing happens."

[–] dispatcher484 18 years ago

"Horsehead bookend, gotta make a horsehead bookend!"

Then he makes one...

"Was it good for you?"

[–] anyOneHomeMcFly 18 years ago

Off topic i know..but as u seem to be somting of an authority on the movie(and it isnt available at our local vid store) Do you happen to know the band that played at homecoming, and the name of the song?

Along with Young Doctors in love, one of the great parody bovies goin b4 it became money in the bank and fashionable to do so.

"If u had 3 wishes, what would they be. Would u change yourself or would u try and change me"

[–] TequilaMockingbird63 18 years ago

actually i DONT know that band and i somehow have lost my VHS copy so I can't go back and look. Why dont you start your own topic?
bet there is someone out there who knows. GREAT trivia question.
if someone has a copy maybe they can check the credits??

"...Other than that, life is a bowl of Palmolive and I'm soaking in it".

[–] shaneo6930 18 years ago

Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, in order to achieve an "R" rating today, a motion picture must contain full frontal nudity, graphic violence, or an explicit reference to the sex act. Since this film has none of those, and since research has proven that R-rated films are by far the most popular with the moviegoing public, the producers of this motion picture have asked me to take this opportunity to say *beep* you."
[the MPAA R-rating logo appears on the screen]

Looks like Grandpa got run over by a reindeer.--Santa's Slay

[–] Kip_Hackman 18 years ago

I just saw this movie for the first time in twenty years. As a kid I loved it when it was on HBO. Of course, being 11 or 12 I didn't realize it was really pretty crappy overall, but there were enough funny moments to make me laugh even now.

"I'd like to kill the kid with the gum" was my favorite bit.

As I was watching it I kept thinking how Woody Allen-esque a lot of the Breather's monologue was. Then I checked up on IMDB and noticed the writer/director was Woody's writing partner for many years. The writing was pretty clever at times, but I wonder if the film would have been more appreciated with a more experienced director at the helm.