Overboard

Overboard (1987)

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Annie: Oh, and give my regards to Schwartzman and Heineken.

Annie: You... and the closet.
Dean Proffitt: That's right. This is me and I'm standing in front of the closet.
Annie: Something's familiar.
Dean Proffitt: Yeah, well... that's 'cause we used to do it in the closet.
Annie: Oh stop with the sex stories.

Capt. Karl: What're you doing?
Annie: I'm turning the boat around.
Capt. Karl: Why?
Annie: I'm going home.
Capt. Karl: You're turning that wheel around too fast.

Joanna: What's my name?
Dean Proffitt: Mrs. Annie Proffitt.
Joanna: Well what's my maiden name?
Dean Proffitt: Annie Goolaheey.
Joanna: Annie goolahey... Where in God's name did I grow up, Dogpatch?
Dean Proffitt: No, not there honey over in Goober, Idaho but it's a nuclear waste dump.

Grant Stayton: We're at sea, and I'm a GOD at sea.

Travis Proffitt: Are we gonna trade her in for a new mom?
Dean Proffitt: Not if we don't blow it.

Joanna: You know forks were invented so that man could at least make a pretense of separating himself from the apes.
Dean Proffitt: So were thumbs.
Joanna: What did you say?
Dean Proffitt: Nothing. It was... my stomach.
Joanna: Well try to control your bodily noises so I can hear myself think.

Travis Proffitt: It's not us, Dad, it's Roy.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: I'm not a bitch. andrew. Are you going to bring me my lemon or do I have to squeeze it from my hat?

Grant Stayton: Mrs. Stayton has decided to leave me. Let's celebrate!

Joanna: Captain Karl?
Capt. Karl: Yes madam?
Joanna: We've never really had time to talk.
Capt. Karl: No, we haven't.
Joanna: Well, there's no time now.

Dr. Norman Korman: Joanna, what motivated you to rise and get the serving tray?
Annie: I thought you might be hungry.
Dr. Norman Korman: That's excellent, excellent.
Grant Stayton: What's excellent about it?
Dr. Norman Korman: I was hungry.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Try to understand, Grant, I don't love you anymore.
Grant Stayton: What's love got to do with marriage?

Grant Stayton: Do we have a straight jacket on board?
Dr. Norman Korman: I always carry one, yes.

Joanna: Thank you Dean! Thank you for bringing me here and making a wife, and a mother and WHY DID you DO that?

Dean Proffitt: You jumped my bones the first night we met.
Annie: We did it on the first date?
Dean Proffitt: Couldn't call it a date really, we just did it in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven.
Annie: I'm a slut.
Dean Proffitt: What did you say?
Annie: Nothing.

Dr. Norman Korman: You're overwrought, Grant. I want you to take a Valium. Here, take one of mine.

Doctor at Hospital: Look, if it were up to us, we would be glad to give her to you, but she's right we are gonna need some verification.

Annie: Hey mister, what was I doing out in the ocean?
Dean Proffitt: That's something you like to do, go fishing for oysters at night.
Annie: Oysters in a cold ocean at night, doesn't sound like me.

Billy Pratt: Back in the day he was known as Mean Dean Proffitt and me I was Bad Billy Pratt.

Continuity mistake: After Dean discovers Joanna on the couch, her face covered in calamine lotion, he picks her up and carries her into the bedroom. As he sets her on the bed the viewer can see her face is free from any "spots" and/or lotion.

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Trivia: Director Garry Marshall appears in the film as the drummer in the band that's playing at the Fish Bowl, when Annie is looking for Dean.

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Question: I know one of the dogs is named Jackson, but what is the other's name?

Answer: The other dog is called Buster.

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She calls him "Rover."

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