Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are most known for creating one of the most memorable and quotable comedy films of all time, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Yet, four years later, they released another movie that is as quotable – if not more – than Anchorman, and while Step Brothers weren’t as big as Anchorman, it has garnered a massive cult following in the decade or so since its release. There has frequently been discussion of a continuation, but nothing definite has emerged, so it remains a mere possibility.
Step Brothers Quotes You Should Know
Since the film’s debut in 2008, these Step Brothers quips have had us falling from our dinosaurs with laughter. Adam McKay and Will Farrell’s classic comedy portrays two immature adults (Will Farrell and John C. Reilly) who still live at home and are forced to live together after their parents marry.
Despite initially loathing one other, the couple later became closest friends due to their shared characteristics. The Step Brothers, like another McKay/Farrell film, Anchorman, is a contemporary comedic cult classic. Check out the best 20 funny Step Brothers movie quotes below if you’re looking for a good chuckle.
20. “For what reason are you so sweaty?” “I was watching Cops.”
Right before Dale finds a chip in one of his drumsticks and launches into a tirade against Brennan, he finds him lying on the couch, drenched in sweat, watching TV. He’s sweaty from playing Dale’s drums. However, he’s forbidden from touching them, so he has to make up a lie.
When Dale asks Brennan why he’s sweating so much, he lets him know he’s been watching the reality series Cops, which is evidently extreme to the point that it made him break into a sweat (although Dale’s onto the lie because he knows that Cops doesn’t start ’til four). It’s inspired by watching a cop episode.
19. “Today I saw my own son utilize a bicycle as a weapon. You shouted ‘rape’ as loud as possible.” – Nancy Huff
Nancy talks about her son using a bicycle as a weapon and shouts rape, to which Brenan replies and says Mom, I honestly thought I was going to be raped briefly. He had the craziest search in his eyes, and at one point, he said, “How about we get it on”.
18. “Listen, I know that we started out as adversaries. In any case, after that courageous act that you showed me against the one they call Derek, maybe someday we could become friends. Friends who ride majestic, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.” “I would follow you into the mists of Avalon, if that’s what you mean.”
At the beginning of Step Brothers, Dale and Brennan hate each other. However, at that point, they find a common enemy in Derek, Brennan’s brother, who wants to sell their parents’ house and kick them out. As soon as Dale punches Derek in the face, they’re best friends.
17. “Brennan, I thought you were incredibly brave. And I mean that in strictly the most potential clinical and professional sense, with no emotional, intimate, sexual, or any different undertones that you could possibly infer.” “God, you’re gonna make me cry. What sonnet is that from? Is that James Joyce?”
When Brennan’s therapist comes to the Catalina Wine Mixer, simply because he threatened to kill himself if she didn’t, he mistakenly takes it as a romantic signal. Even though she explains her intentions in extremely clear terms, he simply thinks she’s quoting a famous writer.
16. “They broke! The bunk beds were such a terrible idea for what reason did you make us make it happen? There’s blood all over the place!” – Dale Doback
The statement follows Dale talking about the bunk bed being a terrible idea to make us make it happen.
15. “Escape my face, or I’m gonna roundhouse your ass.” — Brennan Huff
I know you touched my drumset, and I wanna hear that dirty little mouth admit it. Brennan Huff: Get out of my face, or I’m gonna roundhouse your ass! Dale Doback: You swear on your mother’s life that you didn’t touch it then!
14. “Dad, what are you doing? It’s Shark Week!”
Step Brothers was conceived after director Adam McKay saw the hilarious chemistry between Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in his previous movie, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Thus, he came up with a weird, little, absurdist comedy about a pair of 40-year-elderly people men who still live with their parents and have to live with each other when their parents get married.
While Ferrell is predominantly a comedy fellow and Reilly is otherwise called a dramatic actor, the latter holds his own comedically and has similarly as many memorable lines and scenes as Ferrell.
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13. “Hey Derek, you know what’s always really great for shoulder pain? If you lick my butthole.” – Brennan
The statement was taken from a conversation happening between Derek and Brennan.
12. “I work at a college as a janitor even though I feel like I’m smarter than a large portion of individuals who go there. Sometimes, I see an equation written on a blackboard like half an equation and… I simply figure it out.” — Dale Doback
This statement is a conversation between Male Therapist and Dale Doback. To which, Male Therapist replies It does sound weird within the plot of Good Will Hunting.
11. “When I was a kid…I wanted to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex more than anything on the planet. I made my arms short and I roamed the backyard, I chased the neighborhood cats, I snarled and I roared. Everyone knew me and was afraid of me. And one day, my dad said, ‘Bobby, you’re 17. It’s time to throw childish things aside,’ and I said, ‘Okay, Pop.’ But he didn’t really say that, he said, ‘Quit being a f**king dinosaur and find a new line of work.'”
Richard Jenkins doesn’t get many best and funny lines in Step Brothers. Rather, the humor of Robert’s character comes from his reactions to Dale and Brennan’s antics. In any case, this monologue is hysterical.
10. “You and your mother are hillbillies. This is a house of learned doctors.” “You’re not a doctor. You’re a big, fat, curly-headed f**k!”
The whole room scene on Brennan’s first night in the new house is loaded with memorable quotes. As it declines, they start talking about what they’re going to do when the other one fall asleep (“I’m gonna fill a pillowcase brimming with bars of soap and beat the s**t out of you!”). Yet, it’s Dale’s delusional declaration that he’s a “learned doctor” and Brennan is a “hillbilly” that takes the prize for the most memorable statement in the scene.
09. “Boats n hoes, boats n hoes/I gotta have me my boats and hoes.”
When Brennan and Dale fail to get hired at any of their joint prospective employee meetings, they decide to give up on their pursuit of employment and go out on their own to start a multinational entertainment company called Prestige Worldwide. Their first clients are Huff ‘n’ Doback, their own hip bounce pair, whose presentation track is “Boats ‘n’ Hoes.”
08. “You and your mother are hillbillies. This is a house of learned doctors.” “You’re not a doctor. You’re a big, fat, curly-headed f**k!”
The whole room scene on Brennan’s first night in the new house is brimming with memorable quotes. As it degenerates, they start talking about what they’re going to do when the other one falls asleep (“I’m gonna fill a pillowcase loaded with bars of soap and beat the s**t out of you!”). Yet, it’s Dale’s delusional declaration that he’s a “learned doctor” and Brennan is a “hillbilly” that takes the prize for the most memorable statement in the scene.
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07. “I’ve been called the songbird of my generation.”
Will Ferrell sings in a lot of his movies? In The Other Guys, he sings a depressing song about children getting pinkeye and having their Harry Potter books burned with those folks at the bar. In Elf, he sang a two-part harmony with Zooey Deschanel while she was in the shower (and didn’t know he was there).
And in Step Brothers, he sings “Por Ti Volaré” like a genuine opera singer, with backing drums performed by John C. Reilly. His voice seems like a combination of Fergie and Jesus, to be fair.
06. “Dad, what are you doing? It’s Shark Week!”
Step Brothers was conceived after director Adam McKay saw the hilarious chemistry between Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in his previous movie, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Thus, he came up with a weird, little, absurdist comedy about a pair of 40-year-elderly people men who still live with their parents and have to live with each other when their parents get married.
While Ferrell is predominantly a comedy fellow and Reilly is otherwise called a dramatic actor, the latter holds his own comedically and has similarly as many memorable lines and scenes as Ferrell.
05. “I’m fucking miserable. I had to get up at 10 o’clock this morning.” — Dale Doback
The statement is taken from the voicing of Dale Dobakc, who was saying that it’s quite miserable to wake up at 10’0 clock in the morning.
04. “Don’t lose your dinosaur.” — Robert Doback
The statement was inspired by the voice of Robert Doback.
03. “I got a tummy brimming with white dog crap in me, and now you lay this sh** on me?!” – Brennan
The statement follows Brennan talking about how Brennan got a tummy brimming with white dog crap. The statement is inspired by the Step Brothers series.
02. “Oprah, Barbara Walters, your wife. You gotta fuck one, marry one, kill one. Go!” — Dale Doback
The statement is taken from the conversation of Dale Doback, which is about Barbara Walters getting married and becoming a wife now.
01. “You’re embarrassing yourself, you geriatric f**k! Two things: You keep your liver-spotted hands off my beautiful mother. She’s a saint! And then you sit down and you write Dale and Brennan a check for $10,000. Or on the other hand, I’m gonna push one of those fake hearing devices such a long way up to your a**, you can hear the sound of your small intestine as it produces s**t!”
Brennan and Dale expect to premiere their “Boats ‘n’ Hoes” video to glowing reviews from everyone at Derek’s birthday dinner, followed by everyone getting out their checkbooks to invest. When that doesn’t happen, Brennan gets a little irritable with Robert.
Other Quotes inspired by Step Brothers
1. “Father, we’re men. That implies a couple of things – we like to poo with the door open, we discuss pussy, we go on riverboat gambling trips, and we make our own beef jerky. That is the very thing we do, and now that is totally destroyed.” — Dale Doback
2. “Level. It’s so level, I can’t even…I don’t even have any idea. You don’t for even a moment look great while you’re singing. The most obviously awful thing I’ve ever heard. This is twelve hundred bucks every week for voice lessons, and this is the very thing that I get? Alright, I’m gonna save it with the solo…”
3. “Brennan, that is the voice of a heavenly messenger. I couldn’t visually engage with you at the present time. Your voice resembles a mix of Fergie and Jesus.” – Dale
4. “That is so entertaining, the last time I heard that, I dismissed so hard I fell my dinosaur.”
5. “Guess what? I actually disdain you, yet you got a pretty awesome collection of nudie mags.” — Brennan Huff
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More Quotes
6. “On the count of three, name your favorite dinosaur. That would be a very bad idea. Simply name it. Are you game? One, two, three.” — Dale Doback
7. “You realize what gets my dick hard? Assisting my companions.” — Derek
8. “Father, we’re men. That implies a couple of things – we like to crap with the door open, we discuss pussy, we go on riverboat gambling trips, and we make our own beef jerky. That is the thing we do, and now that is totally destroyed.” — Dale Doback
9. “Once I wrestled a giraffe to the ground with my bare hands.” — Dale Doback
10. “Brennan, Denise called, and she said she can’t enjoy New Year’s Eve with you since she’s not your better half, she’s your advisor.” — Nancy huff
Plot Details for Step Brothers movie
Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are both in their forties when their mothers and fathers marry. Because the children reside with their guardians, they should now share a room. Beginning animosity disrupts the family’s peace and the guardians’ bond. Father establishes firm guidelines: the two loafers have a month to find new employment.
The quest for a job and their love of music leads to a settlement that inspires kinship and even more homegrown uncertainty, which is exacerbated by the young men’s sleepwalking.
Brennan’s effective sibling and his forlorn bride are drifting nearby: the sibling wants help selling his stepfather’s property, the woman needs Dale’s compassion, and the love birds need to resign and sail the seven seas.
