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00:00 "Get in loser, we're going shopping!"
00:03 Welcome to MissMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the teen movie dialogue
00:07 that we've memorized in memes or adopted into everyday conversation.
00:11 "Why am I even listening to you to begin with?"
00:15 "You're a virgin who can't drive."
00:17 10.
00:18 Your Mom Goes to College - Napoleon Dynamite
00:23 2004 was a weird time.
00:26 No movie captured super-random 2000s humor like Napoleon Dynamite.
00:30 "What's a liger?"
00:31 "It's pretty much my favorite animal.
00:34 It's like a lion and a tiger mixed, bred for its skills in magic."
00:38 While "Tina, you fat lard, come and get some dinner" had some mileage, it's this weird
00:43 non-insult from the title character's brother Kip that probably showed up the most in casual
00:49 conversation.
00:50 When a girl named Deb comes to their door trying to raise money for college, this was
00:53 Kip's smug response from the comfort of his couch.
00:57 "Is anyone else here trying to earn money for college?"
01:00 "Your mom goes to college."
01:02 Does it make sense to use it out of context?
01:05 Well, to be fair, it barely makes sense in context.
01:08 But it gave the classic adolescent insult "your mom" an upgrade for the new millennium.
01:14 "Now get off, Napoleon.
01:15 Make yourself a dang quesadilla."
01:17 "Fine."
01:18 9.
01:19 I'll Be in My Bedroom - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
01:23 If you were a millennial anywhere near the internet over the past decade and a half,
01:27 you've probably seen this immortal Harry Potter line from the second movie.
01:31 "I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending that I don't exist."
01:36 "Too right you will."
01:37 The boy wizard is his muggle family's dirty little secret.
01:40 While his nasty uncle's business associates are over for dinner, he's instructed to say
01:44 out of sight.
01:45 "One more sound and you'll wish you'd never been born, boy.
01:50 And fix the door."
01:51 "Yes, sir."
01:53 He'll leave it to the internet denizens of the 2000s and 2010s to repurpose his pain
01:58 into an introvert's calling card.
02:00 Relatives you don't like are over?
02:02 The Super Bowl is on?
02:03 There's a burglar in the house?
02:05 You're gonna be in your bedroom, making no noise and pretending you don't exist.
02:10 "You're never going back to that school.
02:15 You're never gonna see those freaky friends of yours again."
02:18 8.
02:19 This One Time - At Band Camp - American Pie
02:22 Alison Hannigan plays the chatty band nerd, Michelle, who never stops talking about what
02:26 she and her nerdy band friends get up to at band camp.
02:30 "And one time, at band camp, we weren't supposed to have pillow fights, but we had a pillow
02:35 fight and it was so much fun."
02:37 Let's just say, this line prefaces increasingly risqué and bizarre tales as the movie goes
02:43 on.
02:44 For a certain generation, though, it became the classic setup for a nonsensical and often
02:48 crude non sequitur.
02:49 "Do you want to hear a nasty story of mine?
02:53 It's sort of sexual."
02:54 "Yeah, yeah, let's hear it."
02:59 "Ok, well, this one time, at band camp."
03:02 When you want to try to make your friends laugh, a simple "this one time, at band camp,"
03:06 followed by something grotesque is still a pretty reliable way to get some laughs.
03:11 More than two decades later, Hannigan says strangers still scream one of the more graphic
03:15 versions of the line at her on the street.
03:18 It's another reminder that great art lives forever.
03:21 "Hell, that's what half of band camp is.
03:23 Sex ed."
03:24 7.
03:25 Do I Stutter?
03:26 The Breakfast Club
03:27 "You don't believe me?"
03:28 "No."
03:29 "No?"
03:30 "Did I stutter?"
03:31 For a teen movie, John Hughes' story about five high schoolers in detention has more than
03:36 its fair share of tense moments.
03:38 Two young men, played by Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson, lock horns throughout the movie,
03:44 and crack off some pretty biting insults.
03:46 "Well, hey, sporto, what'd you do to get in here?
03:50 Forget to wash your jock?"
03:51 "Uh, excuse me, fellas, I think we should just write our papers."
03:53 "Look, just because you live in here doesn't give you the right to be a pain in the ass,
03:56 so knock it off!"
03:57 The phrase "do I stutter?" is asked twice.
04:00 "It's about the size of a cigar."
04:02 "Do I stutter?"
04:04 It was soon adopted into pop culture as a threatening or sarcastic retort to someone
04:08 who doesn't understand what was just said.
04:11 The phrase took such a hold with audiences that some disability activists have spoken
04:16 out against its usage as recently as 2022.
04:20 6.
04:21 "We accept the love we think we deserve.
04:23 The perks of being a wallflower."
04:25 Pop psychology and laptop stickers were forever changed when this absolute banger dropped.
04:31 "We accept the love we think we deserve."
04:33 "Can we make them know that they deserve more?"
04:37 "We can try."
04:38 This particular dose of young adult wisdom first appeared in Stephen Chbosky's novel
04:43 of the same name.
04:44 When it was spoken by the English teacher, played by Paul Rudd, it became the movie's
04:48 most memorable quote.
04:49 It's a fairly honest, uncomplicated, and perceptive take on relationships and self-esteem that
04:55 clearly resonated with people who've never even seen the movie.
04:59 "To Charlie."
05:00 "To Charlie."
05:01 "Welcome to the island of misfit toys."
05:07 There are entire essays devoted to explaining it, but like every earnest movie quote, we
05:13 repeat it and make fun of it in equal measure.
05:15 "We accept the love we think we deserve."
05:17 5.
05:18 "What's your damage, Heather?"
05:21 "Heathers."
05:22 Before Regina George, there was Heather.
05:25 "Do I look like Mother Teresa?
05:27 If I did, I probably wouldn't mind talking to the geek squad."
05:30 "Heathers, actually, considering there are three of them."
05:33 This 1989 dark comedy took on many social issues of the day, and didn't exactly treat
05:39 them with kid gloves.
05:40 Though it may not have as much mainstream appeal as other teen movies, its most iconic
05:45 line is pretty universal.
05:47 When you need a safer work alternative to "What's wrong with you?"
05:51 Rinona Ryder has the answer.
05:53 "God, come on, Veronica.
05:56 What is your damage, Heather?"
05:57 "What is your damage?" is so hilariously dismissive and indignant.
06:02 But also, like most of what Ryder's character says in the movie, it just sounds so cool.
06:07 "I got peed in puke!
06:10 Pick it up, baby.
06:11 Pick it up."
06:12 4.
06:13 "Alright, alright, alright."
06:14 Dazed and confused.
06:15 "Alright."
06:16 He may have played a 20-something burnout who chases high school girls around town,
06:30 but Matthew McConaughey forever cemented himself in pop culture with this one.
06:34 As David Wooderson, he uttered the now-immortal, very simple line that he describes as his
06:40 first words ever spoken on screen.
06:43 "Alright, alright, alright."
06:45 "Oh, Christ.
06:46 How you doing?"
06:48 Though it seems like filler dialogue, it instantly became his calling card.
06:53 Now it seems like McConaughey can't help but say it whenever he's in front of a crowd.
07:00 "Alright, alright, alright."
07:04 Anyone who does an impression of him just has to say, "Alright, alright, alright."
07:09 The rest takes care of itself.
07:11 3.
07:12 "Bueller, Bueller."
07:14 Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
07:16 "Anderson, Anderson."
07:18 "Here."
07:19 "Bueller."
07:20 John Hughes' Love Letter to Chicago features righteous dude Ferris Bueller as he skips
07:26 school with his friends for a day in the city.
07:29 One of its most memorable scenes occurs when his teacher takes attendance and finds him
07:34 truant.
07:35 "Bueller, Bueller, Bueller."
07:36 "Um, he's sick."
07:37 It could have just been a forgotten part of a fun movie, but the deadpan, Ben Stein's
07:48 unforgettable delivery activated something in our brains.
07:52 At some point in our lives, we've all had to fight the urge to say, "Bueller, Bueller,"
07:58 when we're being ignored or feel like we're shouting into the void.
08:02 "Bueller."
08:03 Some of us lose that battle every time.
08:10 2.
08:11 As If!
08:13 Clueless Yet another movie that generated great one-liners
08:16 faster than we could remember them.
08:18 "And in conclusion, may I please remind you that it does not say RSVP on the Statue of
08:24 Liberty."
08:26 This time, it's Alicia Silverstone's devastatingly stylish Cher.
08:31 She may be a virgin who can't drive, but she spouted one-liners with a quirkiness that
08:35 seems like a lost art.
08:38 This iconic reply to a Hansey High School boy, who doesn't even get to speak on screen,
08:43 by the way, penetrated pop culture and became actual 90s teen speech.
08:48 "Ew, get off of me!
08:51 Ugh, as if!"
08:53 Writer-director Amy Heckerling said she had heard it in the gay community and thought
08:57 it would fit perfectly in the world of Clueless.
09:01 Silver came for 90s teens what "Dream On" was for 70s teens.
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09:26 1.
09:28 She Doesn't Even Go Here!
09:30 Mean Girls "I just wish we could all get along like
09:32 we used to in middle school."
09:34 Raise your hand if you've ever felt personally victimized by Miss Mojo.
09:39 Whether you're a Glenn Coco partisan, or you're still trying to make fetch happen, there's
09:43 something for everybody in Mean Girls.
09:46 "So, fetch.
09:47 What is fetch?"
09:48 "Oh, it's like slang.
09:49 From England."
09:50 Damien's outburst during the all-girls assembly is too good to pass up.
09:56 Someone on the internet isn't staying in their lane?
09:58 Just bust out this gif and congratulations, you've contributed to the discourse.
10:03 "She doesn't even go here!"
10:06 You just like saying it for no reason?
10:08 That works too.
10:09 You could even make a case for the lines directly before and after it.
10:13 The problem with Tina Fey's screenplay is that there are hundreds of lines that you
10:17 could put here.
10:18 But one thing's for sure, Mean Girls belongs in the top spot.
10:22 What teen movie dialogue has a chokehold on your personal vocabulary?
10:27 Tell us in the comments.
10:28 "You can't sit with us!"
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