Easy Way to Remember to Be or Not to Be Soliloquy Billy Madison to Be or Not to Be
Today, Adam Sandler is one of the most recognized comedians in Hollywood. His career really began to take off after he appeared on Saturday Night Live in the '90s, but he quickly rose to be a leading man in dozens of comedies. Sandler has had his fair share of flops like 2011's Jack and Jill, but there are also several comedies that are still hilarious today.
Sandler has many memorable films like The Waterboy, Big Daddy, and Happy Gilmore. One of his earlier movies was called Billy Madison, which saw Billy repeating grades 1-12 so that he could inherit his family's hotel empire. Like most of Sandler's movies, Billy Madison has a lot of memorable quotes that still make fans crack up when they rewatch the movie.
Updated by Christopher Fiduccia on January 4, 2021: While not all of his comedies have been critically acclaimed, Adam Sandler continues to have a huge influence on the genre. While classics like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore continue to be fan favorites, the comedian also has a lucrative deal with Netflix that guarantees fans will be getting more of Sandler's work over the next few years. With fans watching over 2 billion hours of Sandler's Netflix content since The Ridiculous 6 hit the streaming service in 2015, the demand for Sandler's style of comedy is clear. Needless to say, there are several quotes from Billy Madison specifically that still tickle a nerve in people's funny bones.
15 "YOU BLEW IT"
Even though Billy and Veronica Vaughn despise each other at first, Billy quickly grows affection for his teacher. When trying to get Veronica to go out with him, Billy decides to make his classmate Ernie call their teacher. Thinking that Ernie is trying to ask her out on a date, she explains that grown-ups like to go out with other grown-ups.
Veronica insults Billy by saying Ernie is more of a grown-up than him, which causes Billy to retaliate and impersonate his buddy over the phone. The scene ends with Billy hilariously screaming, "You blew it!" even though it was clearly his own fault.
14 "SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE AN IDIOT. BUT I AM AN IDIOT SO IT KINDA WORKS OUT"
With the whole story of Billy Madison revolving around him going back to school at the age of 27, it makes sense that Billy is kind of, in his own words, "an idiot." During one of his several graduation parties, Billy and Veronica began to bond a bit.
As they are walking through Billy's yard, Billy explains, "Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot so it kinda works out." Billy Madison would have been a very short film had Billy actually been intelligent, but at least he recognizes that he maybe should be in school.
13 "IF PEEING IN YOUR PANTS IS COOL, CONSIDER ME MILES DAVIS"
Billy Madison is a comedy through and through, but there are some scenes that do have some heart to them. One of these scenes is when Ernie pees his pants, and Billy sticks up for his young friend. After telling everyone that peeing their pants is cool, the old farm lady says, "If peeing in your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis."
The kids probably don't even know who the famous jazz trumpeter is, but the audience does, making the line one of the funniest in the entire movie.
12 "WHAT DOES A HORSESHOE DO? ARE THERE ANY HORSE SOCKS? IS ANYBODY LISTENING TO ME?"
Around the time Billy is slowly starting to earn Veronica's respect, the third-grade class takes a field trip. This part of the movie is most known for the scene where Ernie pees his pants and Billy stands up for him, but the old farm lady has another gem of a line.
As the class is walking along, the woman is talking to the class and asks, "What is a horseshoe? What does a horseshoe do? Are there any horse socks? Is anybody listening to me?"
11 "I AM THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE"
It goes without saying that Billy is not as smart as the typical 27-year-old, but he does complete what he plans to do- finish first through twelfth grade. Billy is always super proud of himself whenever he gets the littlest thing correct, which is fueled by his father always throwing him graduation parties for each grade he completes.
In order to pass second grade, Billy has to win the spelling bee by spelling the word "couch." Billy almost fails by spelling it "corch," but saves it by asking his teacher, "Are you going to the mall later?" before declaring, "I am the smartest man alive!"
10 "MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL"
One of the most memorable moments in Billy Madison is when Billy is going up against Eric in the final phase of the academic decathlon. The principal asks Billy a question about the Industrial Revolution, to which Billy responds with a long and drawn out answer, bringing in the story of The Puppy Who Lost His Way.
The principal clearly didn't like Billy's answer since he says, "Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." Sandler then finishes the punchline by saying, "Okay, a simple 'wrong' would've done just fine."
9 "WELL 'SORRY' DOESN'T PUT THE TRISCUIT CRACKERS IN MY STOMACH, NOW DOES IT, CARL?"
While Adam Sandler obviously gets most of the funny lines in Billy Madison, Bradley Whitford gets a few memorable lines as well. One of his funnier lines comes when they are waiting for Billy to show up to dinner.
Eric Gordon is complaining about how hungry he is when Carl Alphonse (Larry Hankin) says that he should have eaten some of the Triscuit crackers that he had in the car. After Carl apologizes for not telling Eric he had the crackers, Eric responds, "Well 'sorry' doesn't put the Triscuit crackers in my stomach now does it, Carl?" The line wasn't just funny, but it also showed that Eric could sometimes be just as childish as Billy.
8 "CHLOROPHYLL? MORE LIKE BOROPHYLL"
After Billy passes the easier grades, he moves on to high school, which he finds is a bit tougher than drawing blue ducks. In one scene, Billy is in science class learning about Chlorophyll, when he blurts out the joke, "Chlorophyll? More like Borophyll!" The other students in his class don't find the joke to be funny, especially the girl sitting next to Billy.
She calls Billy a loser and tells him not to talk to her, so Billy embarrasses her by saying, "No, I will not make out with you!" The entire scene is a big joke, but it all started out with Billy's childish joke about chlorophyll.
7 "STOP LOOKING AT ME, SWAN"
In one of the earlier scenes in the film, Brian Madison's guests and business associates are waiting for Billy so that they can sit down and begin eating. Meanwhile, Billy is upstairs taking a bath. Billy is intoxicated, like usual, and is playing with a bottle of shampoo and conditioner as if they were bath toys.
He is making them argue about which product is better, before throwing both bottles in the tub. Then Billy turns to the faucet, which is a golden swan, and says, "Stop looking at me, Swan!". The line is even iconic enough that it was parodied on a recent episode of SNL when Sandler was hosting.
6 "DON'T TELL ME MY BUSINESS, DEVIL WOMAN"
Another one of the funniest lines comes from a minor character by the name of Old Man Clemens. Mr. Clemens is at the butt end of one of Billy's pranks, which just so happens to be setting dog poop on fire. Billy and his friends put dog poop in a paper bag and set it on fire on Mr. Clemens's doorstep.
When Clemens comes to the door, he exclaims, "It's another one of those flaming bags again!" His wife tells him to not put it out with his boots, to which Clemens yells back, "Don't tell me my business, devil woman!" The line was almost as hysterical as Billy thought it was when Clemens said poop instead of a harsher word.
5 "YOU AIN'T COOL UNLESS YOU PEE YOUR PANTS"
One of the more touching moments of Billy Madison is when Billy pretends to pee his pants so that his young friend Ernie wasn't embarrassed. To save Ernie from having the kids laugh at him, Billy splashes water on his jeans. As the kids start to make fun of him, Billy explains, "You ain't cool unless you pee your pants."
Since Billy is so much older than them, the young kids think he is right, which means that Ernie is cool too. Not only did this help his friendship with Ernie, but it gets him one step closer to winning over Veronica Vaughn.
4 "O'DOYLE RULES!"
Billy meets a new group of kids in each grade level he visits, but one name that sticks around throughout his schooling is O'Doyle. The O'Doyle family had a lot of kids that were bullies, who loved to say, "O'Doyle rules!" which was probably said more than any other line throughout the movie.
In one scene, Billy even says, "O'Doyle, I got a feeling your whole family is goin' down," which of course turned out to be the case. In the family's final scene, the father slips on a banana peel while driving, which causes the car to swerve off a cliff. Of course, the family chants their catchphrase all the way to their deaths.
3 "T-T-T-TODAY JR!"
While Billy's character definitely developed over the course of the movie, he started off as a pretty big bully. When Billy reaches third grade he is introduced to Veronica Vaughn, who wants nothing to do with him.
On one of the first days of third grade, Billy is listening to a kid trying to read a passage from a book. The boy is having some trouble and is stuttering his words, so Billy makes fun of him by saying, "T-T-T-Today JR!" However, Veronica quickly put an end to Billy's mean joke by dragging him out of the classroom by his ear.
2 "STAY HERE. STAY AS LONG AS YOU CAN!"
It's fair to say that life is much simpler for kids in grade school versus adults. Billy acted like a kid all his life, but he was still aware of the responsibilities that being an adult brings (even if he didn't have responsibilities). After Billy graduates from middle school and goes to high school, he comes back to third grade to visit Veronica and some of his friends.
One of the boys says that he is excited for high school, to which Billy replies, "Don't you say that. Don't you ever say that. Stay here. Stay as long as you can. For the love of God! Cherish it!" Needless to say, a lot of kids in high school and college can relate.
1 "I'LL TURN THIS D*** BUS AROUND"
One of Adam Sandler's best friends was fellow comedian and SNL alum Chris Farley. Farley passed away in 1997, but he was still able to make people laugh in several movies and TV shows before he died. In Billy Madison, Farley plays the angry bus driver who takes the third graders on their field trip.
Farley got laughs when he was talking about how attractive Veronica Vaughn was, but his funniest line comes on the way to the field trip when a kid throws a sandwich at him. The driver immediately yells and says, "I'll turn this d*** bus around. That'll end your precious little field trip pretty d*** quick, eh."
Source: https://screenrant.com/funny-quotes-adam-sandler-billy-madison/
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