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27 Witty One-Liners In Christopher Guest Movies That Still Make Me Laugh

Hugh Scott

22 April 2024 at 0:45 pm

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever...

"We both love soup." - Best In Show

"Oh, no! That's the good card!" - Best In Show

"And to think that in some countries these dogs are eaten." - Best In Show

"You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater because then all you have is a wet, critically injured baby." - For Your Consideration

"Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported." - This Is Spinal Tap

"I'd hate to go on a date with Judge Edie Franklin and have her judge me, that'd be no fun." - Best In Show

"If there's an empty space, just fill it with a line, that's what I like to do. Even if it's from another show." - Waiting For Guffman

"I thought maybe they shrunk you down or something." - Mascots

"I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything." - This Is Spinal Tap

"Someone's killed their children and made them into cookies, and I want to go see that." - For Your Consideration

"You know, if they didn't have the model train, they wouldn't have gotten the idea for the big trains." - A Mighty Wind

"There was abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature." - A Mighty Wind

"Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town." - This is Spinal Tap

"It's such a fine line between stupid, and… clever" - This Is Spinal Tap

"Man, I tell you something, if you live in my neighborhood and you're dressed like that, you'd better be a hotel doorman." - Best In Show

"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black." - This Is Spinal Tap

"We could talk or not talk forever and still find things to not talk about." - Best In Show

"We consider ourselves bi-costal if you consider the Mississippi River one of the coasts." - Waiting For Guffman

"The numbers all go to eleven" - This Is Spinal Tap

"We're gonna be in Philadelphia for 48 hours, how many tea services can you do?" - Best In Show

"We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks but we saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other." - Best In Show

"I'll always have a place at the Dairy Queen." - Waiting For Guffman

"People say, 'You must have been the class clown.' And I say, No, I wasn't. But I sat next to the class clown, and I studied him." - Waiting For Guffman

"You can't really dust for vomit." - This Is Spinal Tap

"I used to be able to name every nut that there was." - Harlan Pepper

"He went for her like she's made outta ham." - Best In Show

"Kids don't like eating at school, but if they have a Remains of the Day lunchbox they're a lot happier." - Waiting For Guffman

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever...

Christopher Guest has been in charge of some of the funniest movies of the last 50 years, and a big part of what makes them so great is how quotable they are. Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, and Mascots all have lines that I bounce back and forth with my friends all the time, not to mention one movie he didn't direct that might have the most of all, This is Spinal Tap.

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Christopher Guest and his crew of genius actors have provided some of my most cherished one liners.

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