Favorite Lines - City Slickers (1991) Discussion

[–] cartersvb 20 years ago

When they are all sitting around and Helen Slater says "I like baseball as much as anybody, I just don't care who played third base for the 60 Pittsburgh Pirates" and they all answer simultaneously "Don Hoak."
Felt kind of part of the movie because I said it out loud in the theatre and every one laughed.

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[–] Rockhound6165 20 years ago

A few more...

Arlene: I hate you!
Phil: I hate you more! If Hate were people, I'd be China!
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Phil: Not having sex for 12 years will do that to a man!
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Ed: That's easy, we win.
Bonnie: How do you figure?
Ed: Because if that stuff was so great they'd put it on cardboard and sell it with gum.
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"That woman deserves her revenge. And...we deserve to die."-Budd

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[–] J_Marstell 20 years ago

Phil : "You area sporting goods saleman!"

Ed: "Not today. I started this.....and I'm gonna' finish it"

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[–] CookieDragon 19 years ago

The bit that I like is when Mitch is trying to explain to Phil how to do the timer on the VCR and stuff and Ed gets angry with them, but what I especially like about it is that Mitch is still explaining it to him in the second film!

Mitch: "Hey, Phil! I'm 39 and I'm shouting 'Moo-cow' in a river!"

I like a line Mitch shouts in the second film when he's running from the stampede -

Mitch: "Run! Run! He's got friends!

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[–] charlotte_mackay04 19 years ago

Phil: "IF HATE WERE PEOPLE........I'D BE....CHINAAA!!!!!"

Mitch: "the older you get, the younger your girlfriends get...soon you'll be dating sperm".

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[–] ChampionOfTheSun 19 years ago

"Those were models. If it was really us, would you want to eat it?"

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[–] ctsquared 19 years ago

I can't believe no one mentioned..

"Your girlfriends keep getting younger, soon you'll be dating sperm!"

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[–] fonzdaman 19 years ago

mitch to ed

"you got a sexy underwear model who thinks the sun rises and sets in your pants"

and

mitch "hey curly...killed anyone today?"
curly "day aint over yet"

"God this stuff isn't getting to me - the shootings, the knifings, the beatings. Old ladies being bashed in the head for their social security checks. Nah that doesn't bother me. But you know what does bother me? You know what makes me really sick to my stomach? It's watching you stuff your face with those hotdogs! Nobody - I mean nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog!"

- Clint Eastwood

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[–] CaptainAmerica10 19 years ago

Funniest part of that movie following same vein was the "ice cream showdown" between Mitch and Barry as Mitch was trying to stump Barry on what ice cream went with which meal:

Mitch: "Sea bass..."
Barry: "Grilled?"
Mitch: "Sauteed..."
Barry: "Go on."
Mitch: "Potatoes au gratin...asparagus..."
Barry(sweating): "Rum raisin!"

Ha ha aww that's good times.

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[–] Rockhound6165 19 years ago

Phil: You guys are right. My life is a do-over. It's time to get started.
Mitch: I hope I can help.
Ed: When I get home, I'm gonna get Kim pregnant.
Mitch: I hope I can help.
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Barbara: You going to put a cow in the car?
Mitch: Yes, then I'm going to put him in the living room and later into a petting zoo so he can be close to your mother.
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Mitch: Excuse me, el doctor! Hello...? Don't sew anything up that's supposed to remain open, OK?
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Clay: Boy, I'm as happy as a puppy with two peters.(surprised this one wasn't mentioned yet.)
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Bonnie: That's really wonderful. You got him to drink from the bottle.
Mitch: Yeah, thank God, 'cause my nipples were killing me.
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Someone mentioned wanting the Mitch classroom speech. Here it is:

Mitch:
Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you're a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering "how come the kids don't call?" By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?

"If you can do it, it ain't braggin'"-Dizzy Dean

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[–] Chromium_5 19 years ago

"Lord, we give you Curly. Try not to piss him off."

Walker told me I have AIDS.

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[–] angelfxybaby 19 years ago

billy crystal: Helllllooooooooooo! (say's this to the cow)

billy crystal: I go to a museum and I look at a piccaiso.
bruno kirby: Oh, so she's a piccasio now!?
billy crystal: No she's not a piccaiso! If she was a piccaiso she'd have 3 tits.
billy crystal: What I'm trying to say is that if I look at a painting, I stare at it, I don't pull it off the wall.

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[–] lemonader 18 years ago

Does anyone know the exact quote that Phil makes about baseball? Something like "Yeah, but when I was x years old and my dad and I couldn't talk about anything, there was always baseball. That means something."

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[–] IntercitySwallow 18 years ago

*beep* the brains out of her. Thats right up there with the other one - Bang the *beep* out of her"

"If hate were people, Id be CHINA!"

Dont have sex, or you *will* get pregnant.....and die.

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[–] lobotomyboy63 18 years ago

"Let's review what we've buried on this trip..."

How did the quote about the horses go? "Well, we didn't really bury Skyrocket and Buttercup...the force of the fall sort of drove them into the ground."

While being dragged by the cow: "I'm on vacation!"

And of course, his nervous harmonica playing.

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[–] sparkalark-1 18 years ago

<norman moans while getting into car>
Mitch - see kids he's saying helloooooo
I LOVE NORMAN

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[–] ashleysturges 18 years ago

I love this movie! Billy, Bruno, and Daniel are sooooooooo funny in this so my fave. quotes from these guys are:

"I can't believe we buried horses."
"well, actually the impact really drove them into the ground we just covered them up with dirt." *Billy Crystal

"If hate were people I'd be China!!!!!!!!!!" (Daniel Stern)

"Hey Ed paper or plastic?" (Bruno Kirby)

"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."

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[–] mushroom_dancers 18 years ago

"Lord we give you Curly, try not to piss him off."

"Helloooo"

"I made a cow!"

Curly: Take the herd, I'll catch up
Mitch: You mean we'll catch up
Curly: C'mon

About the big river they have to cross
Phil: "Is this supposed to be here?"

If hate were people, I'd be China!

From the 2nd one:

Glen has just "died" from a gun shot wound
Duke: These are blanks
Mitch and Glen: What?

R.I.P Steve Irwin, I didn't know you but I felt like you were my best friend...I'll miss you.

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[–] ntsly1 18 years ago

I'm on VACATION!!!

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[–] meme-29 18 years ago

All the above were great, but the scenes I love don't have dialogue. The part where the construction worker guy mimes jerking off while Mitch is complaining about his life is so funny and my very fav is when they are riding down to the ranch after their ordeal and they starting doing the "Bonanza" theme. I LOVED Bonanza when I was a kid, esp the song, and hadn't thought about it in years till I heard that. It was GREAT! And a great movie.

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[–] gin_gin_27 18 years ago

I MADE A COW!

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[–] estcst-3 17 years ago

I know most of this is suppose to be the comedy lines but I always felt that there was something worthwhile going on beyond the comedy. For me the best part/lines of the film are both from Bruno Kirby.

The first was when he talked about his father leaving the family. For some reason this seems to be cut from every network TV version of the film that I've seen. Maybe people who make those decisions don't see the value in it but it's a great story and makes him much more understandable as a person. Great development.

The second is when Bruno says "Not today" when Billy tells him that he's just a sporting goods salesman. I think that the "Not today" attitude is what it takes to do something beyond what's expected of us. It's what makes the cut between people who lack passion and courage and those who step up to the challenges of life.

Sorry if my spiel has brought the thread down a bit but I think there are some really great things to this film that get overlooked. This is just two of them.

And just to bring things back on topic: the funniest thing about the film to me isn't a line but the look on Jack Palance's face when he tells Billy to shut it with the harmonica and Billy keeps playing. He holds up his knife and moves towards Billy with a semi-smirk/semi-psychotic look on his face. Priceless.

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