Can You Identify the Taglines?


Published on October 27, 2005 at 8:18 PM EST
Last updated on October 8, 2006 at 4:01 PM EST
In the Discussions category.

Would you like a little entertainment while you’re dining?

If you’ve visited the front page of this site, you’ve seen the taglines. They’re all plays on quotes from movies and TV. Do you know what they’re from? There are a few that should jump right out to almost everybody, and a few are more obscure. Can you identify them?

  • Who’s gonna turn down Movable Type? It’s chocolate, it’s peppermint, it’s delicious. It’s very refreshing!
  • Call me Type. Movable Type. I’ll have a martini. Shaken, not stirred.
  • The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of Movable Type.
  • Ray, when someone asks if you’re using Movable Type, you say “Yes”!
  • I love the smell of Movable Type in the morning.
  • You’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I run Movable Type?” Well, do ya, punk?
  • Movable Type, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?
  • Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Movable Type.
  • I can’t believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We’re looking up “Movable Type” in the dictionary.
  • There are two types of people in this world: those who like Movable Type and those who don’t.

Do you have any suggestions for other quotes that would make good taglines?

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By jyoseph , written on October 28, 2005 at 3:39 PM.

Wow, you got the best one out first!

That’s from Seinfeld! The same episode where Jerry and Kramer go to view a surgery. Kramer keeps offering Jerry a junior mint. Finally Jerry slaps it out of his hand and it ends up in the patients stomach.

Later when they discuss it Kramer asks him “Who’s gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It’s chocolate, it’s peppermint, it’s delicious. It’s very refreshing!”

(hope I got that all right, heheh)

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By Dan Wolfgang [TypeKey Profile Page], written on October 30, 2005 at 6:18 PM.

Jyoseph— you’re right!

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By Michael G. Schneider , written on October 31, 2005 at 7:32 AM.

I like movies, but English is not my native language. So it is not that easy for me. Let me try…

I love the smell…

That is Robert Duvall in “Apocalypse Now”, standing at the beach, napalm bombs have been thrown, the smell of napalm is in the air.

you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?

This is Dustin Hoffmann talking to Anne Bancroft in “The Graduate”.

There are two types of people…

This is Clint Eastwood saying to Eli Wallach in “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly”. He says something like “one type has a gun, the other type has to dig a hole”.

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By Dan Wolfgang [TypeKey Profile Page], written on October 31, 2005 at 8:05 PM.

Michael, you did well—“I love the smell of napalm in the morning” is from Apocalypse Now, and “Mrs Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?” is from The Graduate.

I suppose “there are two types of people…” is a pretty popular phrase, so it’s tough to nail where this comes from. But I took it from What about Bob?, with Bill Murray, who actually says “There are two types of people in this world: those who like Neil Diamond and those who don’t.”

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By Min , written on November 23, 2005 at 12:33 PM.

The phrase “Hell hath no fury…” is a popular proverb, adapted from an English play called The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve. The original quote from the play is No one is angrier than a woman who has been rejected in love. From the Cultural Dictionary. :)

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