The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
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Lord John Whorfin: Shut up, Big-booty, you coward. You are the weakest individual I ever know.

Overhead announcement at psychiatric hospital: Lithium is no longer available on credit.

New Jersey: Why is there a watermelon there?
Reno: I'll tell you later.

John Ganty: John Valuk is dead, he fell on his head. But perhaps John Parker will get through with our message to Buckaroo Banzai.

Scooter Lindley: Dad. Dad. Buckaroo's in trouble.
Casper Lindley: Say what?

Lord John Whorfin: May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.

SOD McKinley: I'll try to be quick. In case you haven't noticed, we have a motorcycle convention moving in and let's face it, you didn't come here to listen to me talk.
Perfect Tommy: You're right.

John Bigboote: John O'Connor, break the window.
John O'Connor: Why me, John Bigboote?
John Bigboote: It might be booby-trapped.
John O'Connor: Oh.

Buckaroo Banzai: It flies like a truck.
John Parker: Good, what is a truck?

John Bigboote: Put the snot on the track, John O'Connor.

Jon Gomez: Lest we let this place become a zoo, not to mention a haven for gawkers.

Plot hole: When Buckaroo is speaking with the president via video call (with John Parker by Buckaroo's side), New Jersey is explaining the reason humans can't see the aliens from planet 10, is a result of bacteria produced by the aliens which is then absorbed by humans via their olfactory senses, affecting their cerebral cortex. If this is the case, why doesn't the president see John Parker in his true alien persona. He can't smell him through the television. (01:04:50 - 01:05:40)

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