RIP Rodney, you have my respect

If you haven’t heard, Rodney Dangerfield passed away. Caddyshack was probably my favorite movie of all time, and I was living in Madison, WI, when they filmed parts of “Back to School” there, I can still remember him walking up Bascom Hill wearing a bathrobe. Anyway, a few good one liners:

  1. I was so poor growing up. If I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with.

  2. A girl phoned me the other day and said, “Come on over; nobody’s home.” I went over. Nobody was home.

  3. During sex, my wife always wants to talk to me. Just the other night she called me from a hotel.

  4. It’s been a rough day. I got up this morning put a shirt on and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase, and the handle came off. I’m afraid to go to the bathroom.

  5. I was such an ugly kid. When I played in the sandbox; the cat kept covering me up.

  6. I’m so ugly. My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

  7. When I was born, the doctor came into the waiting room and said to my father, “I’m sorry. We did everything we could, but he pulled through.”

  8. Once when I was lost, I saw a policeman, and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, “Do you think we’ll ever find them?” He said, “I don’t know kid. There’s so many places they can hide.”

  9. I’m so ugly. I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I’d get.

  10. I went to see my doctor. “Doctor, every morning when I get up and I look in the mirror. I feel like throwing up; what’s wrong with me?” He said “I don’t know but your eyesight is perfect.”

  11. With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, “How can I get my kite in the air?” He told me to run off a cliff.

  12. My uncle’s dying wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric chair.

He was a funny guy and definitely had a style all his own.

Thanks for the post.

My favorite is from Caddyshack – “This is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. I bet you buy a hat like this and you get a free bowl of soup! Oh, it looks good on you, though.”

“Oof. Did someone step on a duck?”

Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must’ve been something before electricity.

Your a lot of woman, you know that? Yeah, wanna make 14 dollars the hard way?

I should have yelled “two”.

“You scratched my anchor!” (after dropping his anchor through Ted Knight’s boat).

OK, just a few more I found online…

“My mother never breast-fed me. She told people she only liked me as a friend.”

“I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”

“My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.”

(about his girlfriend…) “Her nickname is Federal Express. That’s because when she goes to a guy’s apartment, she absolutely, positively HAS to be there overnight.”

…and from Back to School…“Oh, you’re a poetry major. Maybe you could help me straighten out my Longfellow.”

Rodney is a classic. Great lines in this entire thread. I love Caddyshack, a buddy and I throw lines back and forth all the time.

One of my favorite Rodney lines (not Caddyshack): When I was born, I was so ugly that the doctor slapped my mother.