Overboard

Overboard (1987)

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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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

Annie: Oh, a washing machine! But Dean its so expensive.
Dean Proffitt: No, shit.

Travis Proffitt: Are you sure this is gonna work?
Charlie: My ideas always work. I'm gifted.
Travis Proffitt: I loved it when you glued Joey to the toilet seat.

Annie: I don't belong here, I feel it, don't you think I feel it. I can't do any of these vile things and I wouldn't want to. Oh, my life is like death. My children are the spawn of hell, and you're the devil. Oh God.
Dean Proffitt: But baby, we like you.

Dean Proffitt: This one's flat, give me another one Billy.
Billy Pratt: I only got six.
Dean Proffitt: Well, I guess we better send the ol' ball and chain out to buy us more.

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.

Other mistake: During the opening of the mini golf course you see in one shot that the ball comes out of Lincoln's mouth. Ever notice that there is no where for the ball to go? No artificial putting green is there, just a wooden platform and natural grass.

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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: When Dean and Annie are at the restaurant/bar, they go outside and with plastic wine type glasses Dean pours some champagne in their glasses. When Annie picks up her glass, the bottom comes off. She says, Oh I lost my bottom! Was that in the script or was it a blooper? I've always felt it was a blooper and if it was Annie covered it so well. Thanks.

Answer: Goldie Hawn mentioned in an interview that it was a blooper. She explained that she and Kurt Russell are so comfortable with one another that it wasn't really like acting, and she reacted naturally.

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