In response to this article, which is a valiant effort but clearly shows a bias towards extremely new movies and totally drops the ball by naming 300 as the most obnoxiously overquoted movie (seriously?), I'm making my own list.
Nearly all the movies on this list are movies I am (or at least was, at one point) a fan of, for the record. I'm also just as guilty as anyone else of contributing to this saturation. I've recently tried to steer away from this by quoting Tom Brokaw news broadcasts exclusively. So far, I've only been slapped four times.
10) High Fidelity
9) Airplane!
8) *Old School*
7) Swingers
6) *Anchorman*
5) Star Wars
4) Mean Girls
3) *Monty Python and the Holy Grail*
2) *Napoleon Dynamite*
1) The Big Lebowski
(tie) 1) Office Space
* Asterisk denotes overquoting to the point that I no longer even care for the movie.
Showing posts with label healthy resentment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy resentment. Show all posts
Friday, August 10, 2007
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Healthy Resentment
1) When you're excited because someone you know quotes a movie or tv show you love, but you know it so well that you get absolutely furious that they've slightly messed up the words or the delivery and therefore feel the need to angrily correct them.
2) When you're so perturbed by having to attend class on a saturday morning that you actually turn down the offer for a free mimosa from your classmates.
3) When, while recognizing the stress-relieving benefits of Parliament Lights, your monthly credit card statement lists 14 different $4.50 transactions from convenience stores.
4) When the accomplishment of a free ticket on a single lotto scratcher sparks remarkable enthusiasm, despite spending $10 on four different ones.
5) When running over an orange hampers the functionality of your lawn mower, but the refreshing smell of oranges helps you remember that you'd borrowed the lawnmower from your neighbor anyway.
6) When you just aren't quite satisfied with the look and feel of your myspace page.
7) When websudoku.com reports that you've done over 20 puzzles in one day, but for some reason you refuse to move from "easy" to "medium" on the skill ladder.
8) When your sister decides to move to Cleveland.
9) When others seem either skeptical or entirely unimpressed with the irony of your tale of being late to your best friend's wedding because you were in line purchasing "Time management for dummies."
10) When, after hosting a keg party, your house somehow seems cleaner than it did a week previous.
2) When you're so perturbed by having to attend class on a saturday morning that you actually turn down the offer for a free mimosa from your classmates.
3) When, while recognizing the stress-relieving benefits of Parliament Lights, your monthly credit card statement lists 14 different $4.50 transactions from convenience stores.
4) When the accomplishment of a free ticket on a single lotto scratcher sparks remarkable enthusiasm, despite spending $10 on four different ones.
5) When running over an orange hampers the functionality of your lawn mower, but the refreshing smell of oranges helps you remember that you'd borrowed the lawnmower from your neighbor anyway.
6) When you just aren't quite satisfied with the look and feel of your myspace page.
7) When websudoku.com reports that you've done over 20 puzzles in one day, but for some reason you refuse to move from "easy" to "medium" on the skill ladder.
8) When your sister decides to move to Cleveland.
9) When others seem either skeptical or entirely unimpressed with the irony of your tale of being late to your best friend's wedding because you were in line purchasing "Time management for dummies."
10) When, after hosting a keg party, your house somehow seems cleaner than it did a week previous.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Healthy Resentment
1. When you have to wake up early, and realize that you've gone to bed a bit too late, and therefore can't sleep at all becuase all you think about as you lay in bed is what time you need to wake up.
2. When you think of something that you think you resent in a healthy manner, then realize you basically just resent it altogether.
3. When you're so excited and pleased with your $4 frozen pizza purchase at Target that you end up rapidly consuming the entire thing.
4. When your full name is comprised of normally-accepted first names, and thus encounter people that call you by your last name thinking that it's your first name.
5. When said people fail to appreciate your response of "what do you think my last name is?"
6. When you watch a basketball game on TV, yelling incessantly at the players as if you could somehow perform better than they can.
7. When you sink the 9-ball on a break, then look around and remember that you're playing pool by yourself.
8. When you receive your monthly phone bill and realize that your bill has increased exponentionally due to your "early and often" philosophy to American Idol voting.
9. When you suddenly notice that you have an appropriate Simpsons quote for literally any situation you encounter in daily life.
10. When the clerk at Circus Liquor store ceases to adhere to the store's strict ID policy for your purchases because he knows you that well.
2. When you think of something that you think you resent in a healthy manner, then realize you basically just resent it altogether.
3. When you're so excited and pleased with your $4 frozen pizza purchase at Target that you end up rapidly consuming the entire thing.
4. When your full name is comprised of normally-accepted first names, and thus encounter people that call you by your last name thinking that it's your first name.
5. When said people fail to appreciate your response of "what do you think my last name is?"
6. When you watch a basketball game on TV, yelling incessantly at the players as if you could somehow perform better than they can.
7. When you sink the 9-ball on a break, then look around and remember that you're playing pool by yourself.
8. When you receive your monthly phone bill and realize that your bill has increased exponentionally due to your "early and often" philosophy to American Idol voting.
9. When you suddenly notice that you have an appropriate Simpsons quote for literally any situation you encounter in daily life.
10. When the clerk at Circus Liquor store ceases to adhere to the store's strict ID policy for your purchases because he knows you that well.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Healthy Resentment: Television (in general)
1. being addicted to the food network but not being able to eat any of it cuz you're a vegetarian
2. ER - how many seasons do they have now? How many times can people have heart attacks? Or... Does anyone really care about those rare diseases they come up with? For me.. being a hypocondriac the last thing i need to hear about are all of the various ways i can die. I think about those enough.
3. Will and Grace and Queer eye for the Straight Guy: haven't we evolved to the point where we don't need to deal with pathetic gay stereotypes?
4. The Celebrity shows that focus on Severly Anorexic or overweight people and documenting their patheticness - how is that celebrity? or entertainment?
5. watching animals slaughter their prey on the discovery channel... yet they take off fine entertainment like "when animals attack." at least that was good quality bad tv.
6. watching lyposuction... anything lyposuction
7. the True Hollywood Story of the Paparrazzi. That was a new low.
8. Deal or No Deal.
9. Cops is always depressing. Why not have people who're excited about getting on Tv? Looking forward to the warm meal in Jail?
10.Tucker Carlson - Someone should make him g-string with a bow tie over his balls. Oh.... that might be difficult.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Healthy Resentment Is...
1) When you finally get paid your rent money two weeks late, and it's in the form of Canadian quarters and already-played McDonald's Monopoly game pieces (actual cash value: one sixteenth of a cent).
2) When the Bigfoot Lounge fails to have an artist's rendition of Bigfoot, the Yeti, The Abominable Snowman, The Chupacabra, or even a standard black bear.
3) When upon completion of The Articulate Executive, you suddenly realize that your executive is not articulate.
4) When the $800 in parking tickets you've paid over the last two years finally come to fruition as the seemingly bottomless pothole outside your house finally gets paved over.
5) When the elation of a fixed road surface immediately dies as you realize that the department of transportation paved over your cat.
6) When after your 19th viewing of Syriana, you still don't totally get it.
7) When your boyfriend tells you that he likes you because you look like Ashlee Simpson, but specifies post-nose job.
8) When you make a run for the border, and the Border does not heed to your "no sour cream" warnings.
9) When earlier discussion of the Abominable Snowman leads to the epiphany that Barak Obama should really be referred to as the Obominable Candidate, and then your subsequent trademark requests get denied.
10) When insatiable desire to purchase $100 tickets to the Police reunion tour forces a carfully budgeted trip to Las Vegas to win ticket money, only to yield $20 less than intended due to poor budgeting and an unscheduled Del Taco stop, and then subsequent return trip leads to losses in excess of $6000.
2) When the Bigfoot Lounge fails to have an artist's rendition of Bigfoot, the Yeti, The Abominable Snowman, The Chupacabra, or even a standard black bear.
3) When upon completion of The Articulate Executive, you suddenly realize that your executive is not articulate.
4) When the $800 in parking tickets you've paid over the last two years finally come to fruition as the seemingly bottomless pothole outside your house finally gets paved over.
5) When the elation of a fixed road surface immediately dies as you realize that the department of transportation paved over your cat.
6) When after your 19th viewing of Syriana, you still don't totally get it.
7) When your boyfriend tells you that he likes you because you look like Ashlee Simpson, but specifies post-nose job.
8) When you make a run for the border, and the Border does not heed to your "no sour cream" warnings.
9) When earlier discussion of the Abominable Snowman leads to the epiphany that Barak Obama should really be referred to as the Obominable Candidate, and then your subsequent trademark requests get denied.
10) When insatiable desire to purchase $100 tickets to the Police reunion tour forces a carfully budgeted trip to Las Vegas to win ticket money, only to yield $20 less than intended due to poor budgeting and an unscheduled Del Taco stop, and then subsequent return trip leads to losses in excess of $6000.
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