#RPGaDAY Day 28: What film/series is the biggest source of quotes in your group?

It’s August and that means that the annual #RPGaDAY ‘question a day’ is here to celebrate “everything cool, memorable and amazing about our hobby.” This year we’ve decided to join in the fun and will be canvassing answers from the ENWorld crew, columnists and friends in the industry to bring you some of our answers. We hope you’ll join in, in the comments section, and share your thoughts with us too… So, without further ado, here’s Day 28 of #RPGaDAY 2017!

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#RPGaDAY Question 28: What film/series is the biggest source of quotes in your group?

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Darryl Mott: I have banned quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and from Princess Bride from my game tables. Because if you let even just one slip through, you’ve lost a good 15 minutes of game time to an amateur re-enactment of multiple scenes. Though I have used this to my advantage when the players have gone just COMPLETELY off the rails and I needed a few minutes to come up with something.

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Michael J Tresca: Monty Python and the Holy Grail of course.

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Angus Abranson: I think the series that possibly crops up most for me is from Blackadder. Beyond that we’ve had Red Dwarf, Discworld, Star Wars and of course various Monty Python moments. Comedy quotes certainly seem to be more common than others for us.

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Rich Lescouflair (Alligator Alley Entertainment; Esper Genesis 5E): It's a tie between Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Star Wars.

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Federico Sohns (Nibiru RPG): Probably Star Wars, as well as Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire and (particularly fun) Mad Max.

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Simon Brake (Stygian Fox): Possibly Monty Python, but I think everyone brings their own particular streak of TV geekdom to the table.

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Martin Greening (Azure Keep, Ruma: Dawn of Empire): Like many other groups I suspect, my group quotes Monty Python often.

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Emmanuel Gharbi (Exil, Hellywood): Kaamelott, a french TV show about King Arthur and his knights, a comedy. Very funny and well written by writer-actor-director Alexandre Astier. My plaquées used to quote Kaamelott extensively. Impossible to play Pendragon again !

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Garry Harper (Modiphius Entertainment; The Role Play Haven): Monty Python.

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David Donachie (Solipsist, Starblazer Adventures): The Princess Bride. Especially "I do not think it means what you think it means".

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Richard August (Conan, Codex Infernus): Not so much a source of quotes as of relentless mockery and personal aggravation, my gaming group uses the canonical dubiety of the fourth entry in a series based around a gung-ho archaeologist as a means of torturing me. It pains me to this day.

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Ed Jowett (Shades of Vengeance; Era: The Consortium): We're a pretty varied source of quotes, actually. The one that sticks in my mind is Firefly/Serenity... sort of. "It gets you right here" comes up relatively often, as does the phrase "Big Damn Heroes".

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Ken Spencer (Rocket Age; Why Not Games): My current group does not quote films much. Past groups tended to stick to the standbys, Star Wars, Monty Python, and Pulp Fiction. It might be the people I play with, but I think with the diversification of media in the past decade or so there are fewer 'must see' shows and people find it easier to watch the shows they want when they want to. This is a good thing, too much pop media referencing kills the mood.

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Marc Langworthy (Modiphius; Red Scar): It used to be Monty Python’s Holy Grail. Currently, I’d have to say Game of Thrones.

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Darren Pearce (EN Publishing; Savage Mojo): I don’t really think our group has one. But Brookyln 99 features a lot at the moment, thanks to Captain Holt and his infamous: Guarding Hades quote.

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[rknop]

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Probably the #1 quote.

I tend to bring out quotes from the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, but people don't seem to recognize them all that often.

(It's even worse in the classes I teach. Kids these days don't read the classics.)

 

[Yaztromo]

I think that The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Star Wars, Star Treck, Conan, Mad Max are the most quoted.

 

[Elf_flambe]

Monty Python, Star Trek, Babylon 5, and assorted anime.

 

[Lylandra]

For our current campaigns, I'd say Game of Thrones, the Avatar-verse, Downton Abbey, Futurama and that famous quote from Dr. Who ("It's bigger on the inside"). Plus the occasional holy handgrenade jokes from MP's Holy Grail. Oh and as we're Warcraft geeks, we also use WC/WoW quotes.

Also, one of my characters is totally going to have an Inigo Montoya moment when she finally finds her cousin's killer.

 

[der_kluge]

I recall having a big discussion about "I'd buy that for a dollar!" (Robocop).

Otherwise, it really varies. Bert and Ernie's "Here fishy, fishy, fishy!" occupied quite a bit of time one game. Yea, we're old.

Monty Python shows up from time to time.

But for us, it's song lyrics. SO MANY song lyrics. I was declared "obscure song reference" winner one game by pulling out a reference to leaving a "Cake in the rain" from Macarther Park by Donna Summer. Otherwise, pretty much any phrase gets twisted into some sort of song lyric. It's pretty crazy, actually.

 

[Yaztromo]

I almost forgot Frankenstein Junior!!! How could I do it!!!