Better Off Dead 1985 quotes

32 quotes · 4 characters
Better Off Dead (1985) poster
Characters
Lane Myer 14 quotes
Monique Junot Diane Franklin · 4 quotes
Al Myer 1 quote

Most scenes together: Lane Myer & Monique Junot (3)

Better Off Dead quotes

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Beth Truss

She doesn't date certain members of the basketball team: she dates the whole team!

Roy Stalin
[To Beth]

Is Oscar here your main weiner man?

Tree Trimmer
[After Lane falls into a dump truck off of a bridge]

Man, that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.

Barney Rubble
[on TV]

Hey there, Lane. I know this is a little awkward, me being a cartoon and all, I was just wondering how you'd feel if I took out Beth? [laughs]

Wait, wait a minute... [starts to snort snow off his top hat] Oh. Oh! Ugh! Outrageous! I think I just froze the left half of my brain! Look! I can't move my right arm!

This isn't funny, Charles! If I don't have a dream, I have nothing!

Ah, come on! It's Christmas Eve! I could be home right now, drinking this monster eggnog my brother makes with lighter fluid.

Jenny Myer
[ladling an unidentifiable gelatinous substance onto dinner plates]

I got the recipe from a magazine. The mail got wet in the rain, so some of the pages ran together, but what I couldn't read I just... improvised with my own little... creative ideas. It's got raisins in it. You like raisins.

Jenny Myer

How was your day?

Beth just dumped me.

Jenny Myer

That's nice dear.

I have a great fear of tools. I once made a birdhouse in woodshop and the fair housing committee condemned it. I can't.

"I cannot do it" is your middle name.

Johnny...

Johnny

Four weeks, twenty papers, that's two dollars. Plus tip.

Gee Johnny, I don't have a dime.

Johnny

Didn't ask for a dime. Two dollars.

Well... it's funny see... my mom, had to leave early to take my brother to school and my dad to work cuz...

Johnny

Two dollars... cash.

See... the problem here is that... my little brother, this morning, got his arm caught in the microwave, and uh... my grandmother dropped acid and she freaked out, and hijacked a school bus full of... penguins, so it's kind of a family crisis... so come back later? Great.