Blast from the Past 1999 quotes

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Blast from the Past quotes

Eve

I made some champagne cocktails, like you requested. Funny, I only thought hookers drank these things.

Adam

I know Mom sure likes them.

Adam Webber
[Adam brings his parents to a place out in the country, to a house that exactly looks like their old house in LA, to help them acclimatize with the outside world. He also introduced Eve to them]

Dad, I don't know how to tell you this and I was gonna wait for a while to do it, but... Dad, there was no bomb. A plane crashed in our backyard. I looked it up in old newspapers.

Calvin Webber

You sure?

Adam

Positive. The Soviet Union collapsed without a shot being fired. The Cold War's over.

Calvin

That's what everybody believes?

Adam

Yes, sir. It's true.

Calvin

What, the Politburo one day say "we give up"?

Adam

Yes. That's kind of how it was.

Calvin

Uh-huh. [finally realizes that World War III didn't come to pass] My gosh, those Commies are brilliant! You've got to hand it to 'em! "No, we didn't drop any bombs! Oh yes, our evil empire has collapsed! Poor, poor us!" I bet they've even asked the West for aid! Right?

Adam

Um, I think they did.

Troy
[after Eve has Adam committed to the asylum, Eve and Troy police his hotel room - and discovers a huge load of personal effects from the 1960s.]

Eve, look what I found in the suitcase. It's stock certificates. I mean, it's got, like-- [Eve leaves the bedroom] It's got, like, IBM and AT&T and Polaroid and... "Ipana"? I remember this brand. I didn't know they still made this. Oh. Look at this. [shows Eve something] It says "Trademark 1961."

Stockbroker
[Troy calls up a stockbroker]

Purchased in 1958 and '59... ten thousand shares of each? They'd be worth millions. Hell, I don't know. Millions upon millions...

Troy

Upon millions. The stocks, the baseball cards... the clothes... the toothpaste. The guy's on the level. [has Eve faces him] Eve, a man walks into your life, who's the kindest, most polite, most incredibly rich guy you've ever met.

Eve

And I have him committed.

Troy

Yes, you did.

Eve

Well at least I fell for him before I found out he was rich.

Calvin
[Calvin returns to the shelter and reports to his family]

Son, stay out of the adult bookstore.

Adam

How come?

Calvin

Poison gas is in there.

Calvin
[Child Adam is being homeschooled]

These are stock certificates. They denote ownership in a company.

Adam

Those look pretty. May I see them?

Calvin

Sure. They are yours. Your mother and I bought these for you before you were born to give you some money to help you out in your adult years. Unfortunately, they are all worthless now.

Transvestite hooker
[In 1997, Calvin explores the world outside the fallout shelter, anticipating either a world of radioactive waste or a Soviet conquest. Even that attitude has not prepared him for 1997 Los Angeles, as there are drive-by shootings]

Got a light, honey?

Calvin

Were you a victim of the blast?

Transvestite hooker

Honey, I have been a victim of the blast, the clap, you name it. As the song goes, a country boy can survive.

Calvin

Did you say you were a country boy?

Transvestite hooker

Cute little old man, if you want a boy I can be a boy. If you want a girl I can be a girl.

Calvin
[horrified to what he thinks is a mutant]

No thank you, good day. [gets inside adult bookstore; scream heard offscreen] AAAUGH!

Archbishop Melcher
[in 1997, the Mom's Malt Shop has fallen into disrepair]

All of these things, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Heroin Anonymous..

Drunk

There is a Heroin Anonymous?

Melcher

Will you please...shut up?

Drunk

Sorry.

Melcher

All of these things ask you to believe in something greater than yourself. Well, I have turned my eyes skyward a time or two, and I have seen nothing, except an airplane or two, which I cannot afford to get on!

Drunk
[Ground rumbles]

Earthquake!

Melcher

Let it be. [Drunk runs for cover. Floor breaks and Calvin, wearing a radiation suit rises]

Calvin Webber

Welcome! [shines flashlight at Archbishop Melcher, who just hid nearby] Leave my elevator alone.

Adam Webber
[calling Eve but is left to leave a message on her answering machine]

This is Adam. Look, I just wanted to thank you for everything you did for me. And... I wanted to tell you that I, that, uh... that I--that I wish so many good things for you. I wish so hard that all of your dreams come true. And... and that- and that's all I... And that's all.

Calvin Webber

A duck goes into a pharmacy wanting some lip balm. The druggist asks if that will be cash or credit, and the duck replies "Put it on my bill!"