Charles De Mar Quotes in Better Off Dead... (1985)

Charles De Mar: I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy. I know high school girls.

Charles De Mar: [giving skiing instructions] Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Charles De Mar: This is pure snow! It's everywhere! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

Charles De Mar: And dying when you're not really sick is really sick, you know. Really!

Charles De Mar: The K-12 dude. You make a gnarly run like that and girls will get sterile just looking at you.

Lane Myer: [talking about skiing the K-12] Look Charles, I gotta do this. If I don't, I'll be nothing. I'll end up like my neighbor Ricky Smith. He just sits around crocheting all day and snorting nasal spray.

Charles De Mar: He snorts nasal spray? Know where I can score some?

Lane Myer: ARE YOU GONNA HELP ME OR NOT?

Charles De Mar: [about Lane] Man, you're the hottest thing since sunburns!

Charles De Mar: Wait, wait a minute...

[starts to snort snow off his top hat]

Charles De Mar: [sniff] Oh.

[shouts]

Charles De Mar: Oh! Ugh! Outrageous!

[raises right hand]

Charles De Mar: [shouts] I think I just froze the left half of my brain!

[waves arm in circles]

Charles De Mar: [shouts] Look! I can't move my right arm!

Lane Myer: This isn't funny, Charles! If I don't have a dream, I have nothing!

Charles De Mar: Ah, come on! It's Christmas Eve! I could be home right now, drinking this *monster* eggnog my brother makes with lighter fluid.

Charles De Mar: Greendale is a bodaciously small town, Lane. A fly speck on the map - a rest stop on the way to the ski slope. I can't even get real drugs here!

[holds up a bottle of whipped cream]

Charles De Mar: Suicide is never the answer, little trooper.

Roy Stalin: You'd make a fine little helper. What's your name?

Charles De Mar: Charles De Mar.

Roy Stalin: Shut up, geek.

Charles De Mar: Buck up little camper, we'll beat that slope together.

Roy Stalin: Alright, who wants to hold my clipboard?

[Beth raises her hand]

Roy Stalin: Well you'll make a fine little helper. What's your name?

Charles De Mar: [Thinking Roy has referenced him] Charles De Mar!

Roy Stalin: Shut up, geek.

[to Beth]

Roy Stalin: What's YOUR name?