From memory, having last seen it in the '80s:
"Why do you wear that toy on your head?" "Because if I wear it anywhere else, it...chafes"
"What's that?" "A laser beam, bozo!" "What are we supposed to do?" "Follow it!"
"Your stutter has improved" "I've been giving myself shock treatment" "...Up the voltage"
"You're laborers, you're supposed to be laboring. That's what you get for not having an education!"
"It's a coherent beam of light" "So that means it talks?"
Of course, the non-quote where one of the kids at the study table stands up, screams repeatedly, and leaves, and with no reaction one of the kids at the periphery of the room moves to sit in his place.
And of course: "If there's ever anything I can do for you, or, more to the point, to you..." "Can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your penis?" "Well, not right now..."
Real Genius had a significant impact on me...
"I think I'm getting brain fry!"
"OK Mitch, I'm gonna make it up to you. Let's just pause...take a step back. No, I was wrong, I'm sorry: take a step forward. Now, take a step back...and now we're cha cha-ing!"
I still use this when pair debugging.
>where one of the kids at the study table stands up, screams repeatedly, and leaves, and with no reaction one of the kids
Also the part where they are gassing Kent in his dorm room, and another student passes them by with just a "hey" and keeps walking while they are wearing gas masks and clearly Up To No Good.
A classic "show, don't tell" example as you have all the information you need to know about the sort of place this school is from that scene.
“I never sleep I had a roommate once but I drove her nuts I mean really nuts they had to take her away in an ambulance I knitted you a sweater.” that’s from memory so probably not 100% but was my sister’s favorite line.
Heh when Mitch goes to her dorm in the middle of the night and she’s using one of those giant floor sanders to refinish her dorm room floor is pretty effing funny.
I think it was a floor planer. Jordan was awesome.
Mitch: "..um, I can't start." Jordan: "Weird."
Literally every line from that movie is so quotable.
"Would you classify that as a launch problem, or a design problem?"
"They're beauticians?!" "Not yet"
"These military types are so untrusting"
I still use the "I'm only saying this because I care: there are lots of decaffinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing" retort in work meetings that get too heated. That entire scene[1] is one of my favorites.
I never watched Real Genius, so when I read Andre Lamothe's game programming books I didn't get any of the jokes.