Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

John Bigboote:
Let's go back up to my office and talk about this like two reasonable beings.

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.

Rawhide:
Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize a pineal tumor without damaging the parthogenital plate. A subcutaneous microphone will allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain.

Rawhide:
Or "throw the harpoon." People are gonna come from all over. This boy's an Eskimo.

Buckaroo Banzai:
You can check your anatomy all you want, and even though there may be normal variation, when it comes right down to it, this far inside the head it all looks the same. No, no, no, don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to.

Lord John Whorfin:
Lord John Worfin. If there's one thing I hate, it's to be mistaken for somebody else.

Buckaroo Banzai:
Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Perfect Tommy:
Pictures don't lie.

Reno:
The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way.

Perfect Tommy:
Emilio Lizardo. Wasn't he on TV once?

Buckaroo Banzai:
You're thinking of Mr. Wizard.

Reno:
Emilio Lizardo is a top scientist, dummkopf.

Perfect Tommy:
So was Mr. Wizard.

Scooter Lindley:
Dad. Dad. Buckaroo's in trouble.

Casper Lindley:
Say what?

Lord John Whorfin:
Where are we going?

Red Lectroids:
Planet Ten.

Lord John Whorfin:
When?

Red Lectroids:
Real soon.

Lord John Whorfin:
Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.

John Bigboote:
Damn John Whorfin and the horse he rode in on.

John O'Connor:
They're only monkey-boys. We can crush them here on earth, Lord Whorfin.

Buckaroo Banzai:
I've been ionized, but I'm okay now.

General Catburd:
The man's been through solid matter, for crying out loud. Who knows what's happened to his brain? Maybe it's scrambled his molecules. All I'm saying is, Mr. President, let's not panic.

Artie:
I don't care if you drove through a mountain in Texas. This is New Jersey, and when you play my, when you play my joint, you're just another act. I want some music outta you characters.

Reno:
You want it, Artie? You got it.

Penny Priddy:
Buckaroo, you forgot your thruster.

Buckaroo Banzai:
Why don't you hold onto it for a while?

Penny Priddy:
Any time.

Buckaroo Banzai:
There they are.

Perfect Tommy:
There who are?

Buckaroo Banzai:
Don't you see them?

New Jersey:
See who?

Buckaroo Banzai:
There! Evil PURE AND SIMPLE by way of the Eighth Dimension!

Duck Hunter Burt:
Hand me that flashlight.

Duck Hunter Bubba:
I can't! I'm holding two guns!

Duck Hunter Burt:
Then put one of them down.

Duck Hunter Bubba:
I'm not putting one of them down!

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.

Buckaroo Banzai:
Is anybody out there not having a good time?

New Jersey:
Why is there a watermelon there?

Reno:
I'll tell you later.

Lord John Whorfin:
Laugh while you can, monkey-boy.

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

Penny Priddy:
You're like Jerry Lewis, you give me hope to carry on, then you leave me in the lurch while you strap on your six-guns...

John Bigboote:
It's not my goddamn planet. Understand, monkey boy?

President Widmark:
Buckaroo, I don't know what to say. Lectroids? Planet 10? Nuclear extortion? A girl named "John"?

Lord John Whorfin:
History is-a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

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.

John Bigboote:
BigbooTAY!

SOD McKinley:
I don't give a flying handshake what your name is.

SOD McKinley:
You are... John YaYa. And you... John Smallberries.

Perfect Tommy:
Be cool. She'll hold.

Mission Control:
Buckaroo, The White House wants to know is everything ok with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?

Buckaroo Banzai:
Tell him yes on one and no on two.

Mission Control:
Which one was yes, go ahead and destroy Russia... or number 2?

Buckaroo Banzai:
Have you ever thought about joining me full time?

New Jersey:
Do you have an opening?

Buckaroo Banzai:
Uh huh. Can you sing?

New Jersey:
No... No. I can dance.

Lord John Whorfin:
Barney, I'm going home... with my overthruster.

Lord John Whorfin:
Home... home is where you wear your hat... I feel so breakup, I wanna go home.

Casper Lindley:
She can't be serious, can she? Vaporize the whole damn planet?

Buckaroo Banzai:
You wanna roll all those dice, Casper?

Casper Lindley:
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not me, man, not me.

Buckaroo Banzai:
Let her out.

Perfect Tommy:
Let her out?

Buckaroo Banzai:
That's right, let her out. I'll be responsible.

Perfect Tommy:
But she's a killer.

Buckaroo Banzai:
No, she's not. Now, let her out and give her your coat.

Perfect Tommy:
Why me?

Buckaroo Banzai:
Because you're perfect.

Perfect Tommy:
You have a point there.

Jack the Orderly:
I've come for your tv. You've been using too much juice. Another 10,000 kilowatts again this month. Beats me how an old, homicidal loony can use that much power.

Buckaroo Banzai:
It flies like a truck.

John Parker:
Good, what is a truck?

John Emball):
If you fail, we will be forced to help you destroy yourselves.

"The missing circuit's in your head, Whorfin" - Was

Buckaroo's (Peter Weller) answer to Lord John Whorfin while strapped to the "lie-detector" machine. The demand was made for Buckaroo to provide the missing circuit to allow Whorfin to complete his version of the "Oscillation Over-Thruster" device and allow his "Truncheon Bomber" to successfully cross-over into the 8th Dimension, assuring his domination of both the earth and Planet 10. Due to our past knowledge of Whorfin's corrupted attempt to inhabit Professor Emilio Lazardo's body/mind and his inability to focus both minds to the task of completing the device, Buckaroo's answer is literally true... The Missing Circuit was in his head. Some "lie-detector".

This film was pregnant with stuff like this, and was completely underrated at the time of release.

Buckaroo Banzai

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once."

Buckaroo Banzai

"I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."

Black Lectroid commander who gets the final line,

“So what? Big deal,”