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Real Genius Quotes

"When he gets mad, he doesn't get even… he gets creative."

PG 1985 · 1h 46m
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Naming a Child with Humor
Chris Knight Do you mind if I name my first child after you? "Dipshit Knight" has a nice ring to it.
Power Struggle in Academic Pressure
Jerry Hathaway I want five megawatts by mid-May. Look, I don't care if you're arrogant. I don't care if you're disrespectful. But your attitude's distracting Mitch, and that I won't have. The rules have changed. I want it by mid-May.
Chris Knight I think that you're just forgetting about one little detail, and that's that I am out of here. I'm gone, I'm history, I'm Casper, I'm graduating.
Jerry Hathaway To graduate, you need my course, dear boy. So it seems I have something to say about what you do and where you go. So from now on you and Mitch are going to spend every waking moment in the lab. You will solve my power problem, and you will solve it by my deadline.
Chris Knight OK, if you think that by threatening me, you can get me to be your slave, well... that's where you're right, but - and I'm only saying this because I care - there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Jerry Hathaway I'm not kidding, Chris.
Chris Knight Neither am I, Jerry.
Frustration with Academic Focus and Lack of Fun
Chris Knight Moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work. We never see the light of day. We plan this thing for weeks and all they want to do is study. I'm disgusted. I'm sorry but it's not like me, I'm depressed. There was what, no one at the mutant hamster races, we only had one entry into the Madame Curie look-alike contest and he was disqualified later. Why do I bother?
Avoiding Responsibility Through Diversions
Taglines It's yet another in a long series of diversions in an attempt to avoid responsibility.
Contemplating the Effects of Gravity Change
Chris Knight Would you be prepared if gravity reversed itself? The only thing I can't figure out is how to keep the change in my pockets. I've got it. Nudity.
[to Mitch, as he is hanging upside down]
Dreams and Uncommon Experiences Among Friends
Mitch You know, um, something strange happened to me this morning...
Chris Knight Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
Mitch No...
Chris Knight Why am I the only one who has that dream?
Mitch Did you know there's a guy living in our closet?
Chris Knight You've seen him too?
Mitch Who is he?
Chris Knight Hollyfeld.
Mitch Why does he keep going into our closet?
Chris Knight Why do you keep going into our closet?
Mitch To get my clothes - but that's not why he goes in there.
Chris Knight Of course not, he's twice your size - your clothes would never fit him.
Mitch Yeah...
Chris Knight Think before you ask these questions, Mitch. Twenty points higher than me? Thinks a big guy like that can wear his clothes?
The Genius of Chris Knight in the 80s
Taglines MEET CHRIS KNIGHT, THE EINSTEIN OF THE 80'S. He can turn the simple into the simply amazing, and now he turns revenge into high comedy.
Standards in Unconventional Requests
Chris Knight No seriously, listen...if there's ever anything I can do for you, or more to the point, to you, you let me know, okay?
Susan Decker Can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your penis?
Chris Knight Not right now.
Susan Decker A girl's got to have her standards.
Questions About Hair and Adoption
Mrs. Taylor Dr. Hathaway, I saw your program on radioactive isotopes last night, and I've got a question.
Jerry Hathaway Yes?
Mrs. Taylor Is that your real hair?
Jerry Hathaway Tell me something. Is Mitch by any chance adopted?
Mrs. Taylor Why, no!
Jerry Hathaway Amazing.
Mrs. Taylor Isn't it?
Intimidation and Friendship in Youth
Jerry Hathaway Mitch, will you miss your friends?
Mitch Well, no. I think I intimidate other kids.
Jerry Hathaway Good boy.
Creativity as a Response to Anger
Taglines When he gets mad, he doesn't get even... he gets creative.
Conversations on Confidence and Shock Treatments
Bodie He said he didn't feel like it. And I said, "You'd better!" And he said, "Or what?" And I said, "Or you're gonna be in trouble." And he said, "Jam it.
Jerry Hathaway That's a wonderful story, Bodie. I noticed you've stopped stuttering.
Bodie I've been giving myself shock treatments.
Jerry Hathaway Up the voltage.
Satellite Debris and a Funny Hat
Recruiter Chris, this is my assistant, Sherry Nugil, and this is Mike Dodd, designer of our new Telcom satellite.
Chris Knight Doctor Dodd! Telcom...Isn't that the satellite that's raining debris all over Europe?
[as if honored; Casually]
Dr. Dodd Why is that toy on your head?
[sharply]
Chris Knight Because, if I wear it anywhere else, it chafes.
[matter-of-factly]
Chris Knight I'm sorry. It's just that I didn't want you guys to think I was stuffy. You know, no fun. All brain, no penis. I'm sorry, it was just an infantile response to authority.
[Looking at Sherry Nugil; Sherry laughs, Dodd and the recruiter look uncomfortable]
Recruiter Yes. You are Chris Knight, aren't you?
[examines Chris' "visitor" tag]
Chris Knight I hope so...I'm wearing his underwear.
[reflectively]
Warning About Unintended Consequences of Eating
Chris Knight Don't eat that. Don't you know that eating that can give you very large breasts? Oh my God, I'm too late!
[to a girl at a party; looks down at her chest]
Unexpected Family Revelations
Chris Knight I'm sorry, but have you ever seen a body like this before in your life?
[about Susan]
David Decker She happens to be my daughter.
Chris Knight Oh. Then I guess you have.
Alphabetical Order of Chaos
Chris Knight You didn't touch anything, did you?
Mitch No.
Chris Knight Good. Because all of my filth is arranged in alphabetical order. This, for instance, is under H for "toy.
Mitch What is that?
Chris Knight It's a penis stretcher. Do you want to try it?
Mitch No!
Chris Knight I'm kidding. It's yet another in a long series of diversions in an attempt to avoid responsibility.
Self-Realization and Quoting the Immortal Words
Mitch What are you doing?
Chris Knight Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of ], who said, "... I drank what?
[[Socrates]