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Department of Redundancy Department/Film

Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications?
Applicant: Rape, murder, arson, and rape.
Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice.
Applicant: I like rape.

Saddam: Now I will kill you until you die from it, you imperialist yankee doodle dork of a pig!

Nick: There are lots of things worse than movies: politicians, wars, forest fires, famine, plague, sickness, pain, warts, politicians...
Jack Slater: You already mentioned them.
Nick: I know I did. They are twice as bad as anything else.

"Janet!"
"Dr. Scott!"
"Janet!"
"Brad!"
"Rocky!"
[grunt]
"Janet!"
"Dr. Scott!"
"Janet!"
"Brad!"
"Rocky!"
[grunt]
etc.

Malcolm: Now eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, RIGHT ?

Rocky: You see, flying takes three things: hard work, perseverance and... hard work.
Fowler: You said "hard work" twice!
Rocky: That's because it takes twice as much work as perseverance.

Don Canneloni: In the past, the Canneloni family was the most powerful of the families. We controlled drugs, prostitution, extortion, prostitution, gambling...
Slim: Uh, you said "prostitution" twice.
Don Canneloni: Well, I like it.

  • Used twice in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story. First with the ADAA, the American Dodgeball Association of America, and then with Patches O'Houlihan's Five D's of Dodgeball: Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and... Dodge.

White Goodman: Get off of me, don't you touch me! It is over between us, Kate. Nobody makes me bleed my own blood - nobody!

"You know what I did today? I looked at furniture. Bedroom sets, kitchen sets, bedroom sets, living room sets, bedroom sets."

Lt. Stone: Boys, listen up, because you know how I hate to repeat myself. I HATE to repeat myself.
Bulk: You just did, sir!

  • John Cusack's character in High Fidelity says his favorite book is "Johnny Cash's autobiography 'Cash' by Johnny Cash".
  • It seems Lampy seems to do this sometimes:

Lampy: And exactly how do you propose we do that, uh, exactly?

Dory: I shall call him Squishy, and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy.

Indy: Their treasure wasn't gold; it was knowledge. Knowledge was their treasure.

Future events such as these will affect you in the future.

Prince John: I sentence you to sudden, instant, and even immediate death!

    • And then again not a minute later when he stops the execution (because Little John has a knife at his back)

Prince John: Stop! Executioner stop! Hold your axe!

  • A Night at the Opera: "The party of the first part shall hereafter be known in this contract as the party of the first part..."
    • Also, from Horse Feathers: "Members of the faculty and faculty members, students of Huxley and Huxley students. That about covers everyone."
  • Dug from Up does this a lot:

Dug: My master made me this collar. He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may speak-SQUIRREL!

[looks to distance for a few seconds]

Dug: My master is good and smart.

Carl Fredricksen: It's not possible!

Dug: Oh it is because my master is smart!

  • The url of Fear Dot Com's titular website is feardotcom.com. It so happened that fear.com was already owned.
  • Austin Powers: "Allow myself to introduce... [awkward pause] myself."
    • "What do you know about... my father's where... about... s?"
  • Little-known movie My Life's In Turnaround has a scene where the two main characters (roommates) are fighting, and one tells the other:

"Go ahead and leave! Just leave me here. Then I'll die alone and, and, and dead and ... alone."

Yue: This time we show the fire nation that we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs.

    • Also, "There is a spiritual place. The city was built around this place." And, "We have to find teachers, teachers to teach you bending!" Although it has been pointed out that the latter actually sounds like a line that Sokka from the original series would say, being such a Deadpan Snarker. In the movie, though, Sokka says the line completely seriously.
  • The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra when The Skeleton explains it's plan.

The Skeleton: Once I am bought back to life, together you and I will rule the World together.

  • The advertising tagline that appears on the movie poster for the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World film: "An epic of epic epicness."
    • Also, about halfway through the movie, the evil ex-girlfriend ninja delivers this gem: "Next time, I'll be deadly serious next time."
    • Let's not forget Scott introducing his teenage girlfriend to his roommate: "Hey, Knives, this is Wallace Wells, my cool, gay roommate. He's gay."
  • From What Happens in Vegas: "She is a wily temptress [...] and what do wily temptresses do, Jack? They tempt, in a wily fashion."
  • Cranked Up to Eleven from Zoolander:

Derek: Maybe you don't understand that the world doesn't revolve around you and your 'Do whatever it takes, ruin as many people's lives, just so long as you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose, or people you leave dead and bloodied along the way, just so long as you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose, or people you leave dead and bloodied and dying along the way?'

Chekov: I don't understand. If there was another ship, surely the assassins beamed aboard from that vessel, not Enterprise.
Spock: You're forgetting something, Mr. Chekov. According to our databanks, this ship fired those torpedoes. If we did, the killers are here. If we did not, whoever altered the databanks is here. In either case, what we are looking for is here.

Prince John: Send word to one and all, and all and one... it's a little redundant, isn't it?
Announcer: WOOOOT?!
Prince John: SHUT UP!!

  • From Mean Girls, after Regina has gotten back together with Aaron despite knowing that Cady likes him:

Cady: Why would she do that?
Janis: Because she's a life ruiner. She ruins peoples' lives.

Charlie: And THIS is the LUMBERYARD!

  • The Evil Dead movies lift Lovecraft's Necronomicon as a major plotpoint, adding the Latin suffix "ex mortis." Since "Necronomicon" is already derived from the Greek "book of the dead," the full name is basically "The Book of the Dead of the Dead."
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides:

There is a girl. A female. Of the opposite sex.

"You can explain it tomorrow to the principal and the superintendent at the meeting you have with the principal and the superintendent tomorrow at the meeting. Tomorrow!"

Leo: You are supposed to keep healing me!
Gary: Which brings me to my lack of powers which I didn't have after I lost them! Did I mention losing my powers?"

The Mole: It's over, Max. I'll be taking that briefcase now.
Max: If you want it, you'll have to take it.
The Mole: That's... what I just said.
Max: I know; I was just trying to annoy you.

  • In The Lion in Winter, Prince John was eavesdropping when he was ratted out about something. He burst in and snarled, "You're a stinker, and you stink!" (This is the third time he's come up in this list.)
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