Monkey Island

"“I am Guybrush Threepwood, mighty .”"

":– Introduction of the main character, Guybrush Threepwood. Most often identifies himself as a mighty pirate."

"Insult: “You fight like a dairy farmer.”"

":Comeback: “How appropriate. You fight like a cow.”"

":– Sword fight insult, written by Orson Scott Card."

"“Look behind you, a Three-Headed Monkey!”"

":Used by many characters (especially Guybrush) to distract someone long enough to escape. In the first game, a three-headed monkey actually appeared behind said characters, but they did not notice"

"“I’m selling these fine leather jackets.”"

":– Guybrush (a recurring phrase in almost every LucasArts adventure game since first spoken by Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)"

"“That’s the second biggest I’ve ever seen!”"

":– Guybrush, when seeing something big (commonly said in Get Smart)"

"“I must have left it in my other pants.”"

":– Guybrush, when asked about an item he doesn't have."

"“I wanna be a pirate!”"

": – oft-repeated and unexplained aspiration of the protagonist, Guybrush Threepwood"

"“So you want to be a pirate, eh? You look more like a flooring inspector.”"

":– Blind Lookout to Guybrush Threepwood"

"“Please? Pretty please? Please pretty please with sugar on top?”"

": – Guybrush Threepwood, when wanting something badly."

"“That’s the second biggest monkey head I’ve ever seen!”"

": – Guybrush, about the giant stone monkey head on Monkey Island"

"I can’t help but feel I’ve been ripped off. [Towards the fourth wall.] I’m sure you're feeling something similar."

":– Guybrush Threepwood to Sword Teacher"

"Swordfighting is a little like making love. It's not always what you do, but what you say."

"“Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see us?”"

":– The Cannibals to Guybrush"

"“I’m a mighty pirate!”"

":– oft-repeated phrase of the protagonist, Guybrush Threepwood"

"“I can’t make the one thing this island could really use… a voodoo doll of Largo LaGrande!”"

": – said by several citizens of Scabb Island about the local bully, shortly before Guybrush commissions a voodoo doll of Largo LaGrande"

"“I'm sensing a disturbance in the Force…as if a tiny voice just called out...and hastily scratched a message in a table.”"

":– The Voodoo Lady, when Wally is kidnapped"

":Paraphrasing Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"

"I can’t, I’m washing my hair tonight"

": – Elaine Marley, reply to LeChuck asking her to be his undead wife"

"“I’m not bald! I just have a really high widow's peak.”"

":– Murray, the demonic talking skull"

"Mine is the name pirates fear the most: Edward “Snugglecakes” Van Helgen!"

": – Edward Van Helgen"

"“It looks like a ship's skipper, first mate, a professor, and the rest.”"

": – Guybrush, when looking at a pile of skulls, in reference to Gilligan's Island"

"“I think I broke my skull. I’m *all* skull.”"

": – Murray the demonic talking skull, having fallen from a great height"

"“Join me, Rosencrantz! I am your FATHER!”"

":– Slappy Cromwell, reciting lines from his play, re-written from Hamlet by way of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back."

"“It was no mere nightmare, Guybrush! Search your feelings! You know it to be true!”"

":– LeChuck, quoting Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back"

"I got so much money, It's embarassing!"

":- Guybrush in the smugglers' cave"

"“We don't serve yer kind here!”"

":– Haggis MacMutton, when Guybrush enters the barbershop tarred-and-feathered (another line from Star Wars)"

"“I feel like I could, TAKE ON THE WORLD!”"

":– Wally (a line from Day of the Tentacle)"

"“Ask me about Grim Fandango.”"

":– A badge worn by the silent patron in the chicken restaurant."

":Grim Fandango is another adventure game by LucasArts. Also a reference to The Secret Of Monkey Island, where a character from Loom wearing an "Ask me about Loom" badge was to be seen."

"“It's the stuff that really boring dreams are made of.”"

":– Guybrush, looking at a stuffed raven"

":Very famous altered quotation from The Maltese Falcon."

"“But- at- what- cost?”"

":– Guybrush, imitating Captain Kirk"

"“Life is like pillaging a trading vessel bound for Jamestown... Ya never know what you're gonna get.”"

": – Guybrush sitting on a bench on Lucre Island, in reference to Forrest Gump"

"“Ahh, the middle finger, the most communicative of fingers.”"

": – Guybrush, when looking at the middle finger of the giant hand in the Voodoo Lady's shop"

"“I may be a dunce, but at least I'm a mighty pirate dunce!”"

":– Guybrush, after getting himself kicked out of the pirate re-training school on Knuttin Atoll"

"“Are you sure we can't kill him? I’ve let him alive before, and it’s always been a big mistake.”"

": – LeChuck, about Guybrush Threepwood"

"“Well… you fight like a cow!”"

": – Guybrush, when LeChuck exits the Governor’s Mansion"

"“Get that thing away from me, you twisted freak!”"

": – Murray, when Guybrush shows him the “Abomination of Nature”"

"“SEE souvenirs of Guybrush Threepwood’s most famous escapades! TASTE culinary delights approved by genuine pirates! HEAR beautiful pirate folk music! FEEL your souls being gently ripped from your bodies by this restaurant of uncompromising EEEEEVIL!!! MWAH-HAH-HAH-HAAA!!!”"

": – Murray"

"“Oh, the temperature’s a-rising while my sweat’s a-vapourising and I can not feel my legs below my knees anymore.”"

": – Guybrush, waiting for the ride in the First Church of LeChuck to begin"

"Iron Maiden! Excellent! ...Uh, I have no idea why I said that."

": – Guybrush, examining an iron maiden. Reference to the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"."

"“Okay... Goodbye cruel adventure game!!.... .. naah forget it""

": – Guybrush at his mansion while standing at the cliff and hitting enter to jump off the cliff in the beginning of the game."

"That's the second largest... No... No, that IS the largest conch shell I've ever seen!"

"Is this thing sloshing? Four words you don't want to hear when picking up a coffin."

": - Guybrush, when picking up a monkey coffin."

"So we're going to die... again... wonderful!"

": - Elaine, when Guybrush drops the Voodoo root beer"

"Those socks need a good darning... Darn you, socks!"

": - Guybrush, when examining a pair of socks"

"Nipperkin: "You know, Threepwood, you've got spunk. Pirate spunk.""

"Guybrush: "Ew""

"LeChuck: Do ya mind? I'm in the middle of an unholy ceremony!"

"Guybrush: Unholy this [Stabs LeChuck]"

"Elaine: "Unholy this?""

"Guybrush: Yeah, well he didn't give me a lot to work with"

"You have to kill me! And I'm already dead"

"The testers - sitting in a dark room with a lava lamp and thinking they're in heaven"

"Animations? I don't need animations! I live!"

"Is it over? ...Hello? ...Did we win?"