Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are most famous for giving u.s. one of the most iconic and quotable comedy movies ever made, Anchorman: The Fable of Ron Burgundy. Merely four years later on, they made another motion-picture show that is just as quotable – if non more than – and while Step Brothers wasn't ostensibly as successful every bit Anchorman, it has gained a huge cult post-obit in the decade or so since its release.

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There'south often been talk of a sequel, but nix concrete has come up through and it remains a mere possibility. So, in the meantime, hither are the 10 Funniest Quotes From Step Brothers.

Updated on May 1st, 2020: E'er since Step Brothers hit theaters, there have been rumors about a sequel. Adam McKay and Will Ferrell patently take a story for the sequel that they're happy with, but information technology'due south taking a while to come up together. With McKay shifting into dramatic piece of work and the duo breaking up their production partnership, a Footstep Brothers sequel seems less probable than ever. But the original is withal a timeless archetype, then we've updated this listing with a few more entries.

fifteen On James Joyce

"Brennan, I thought you were incredibly brave. And I hateful that in strictly the nearly clinical and professional sense possible, with no emotional, intimate, sexual, or any other undertones that y'all could possibly infer." "God, y'all're gonna brand me cry. What poem is that from? Is that James Joyce?"

When Brennan'southward therapist comes to the Catalina Vino Mixer, purely because he threatened to kill himself if she didn't, he mistakenly takes information technology equally a romantic gesture. Even though she explains her intentions in very clear terms, he but thinks she'south quoting a famous poet.

14 On Humor

"That'south and then funny, the terminal time I heard that I laughed so hard I fell off my dinosaur."

When Brennan and Dale first meet, they're instantly contentious with one another. Brennan barbs Dale for singing well-nigh his junk, suggesting he just drank his first beer, then Dale snaps back with a line nearly how old his joke is.

xiii On Watching Cops

"Why are you so sweaty?" "I was watching Cops."

Right earlier 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 set. He's sweaty from playing Dale's drums, but he's forbidden from touching them, so he has to make up a prevarication.

When Dale asks Brennan why he's sweating then much, he tells him he'south been watching the reality serial Cops, which is supposedly so intense that it fabricated him break into a sweat (although Dale'southward onto the lie, because he knows that Cops doesn't showtime 'til four).

12 On Alice's Singing Abilities

"Flat. It's so flat, I can't even...I don't even know. You don't even look adept while you lot're singing. The worst thing I've always heard. This is twelve hundred dollars a week for voice lessons, and this is what I get? Okay, I'chiliad gonna save information technology with the solo..."

The introduction of Derek and his family unit in Pace Brothers is hilarious. Derek forces his wife and kids to sing Guns 'n' Roses' "Sweet Kid o' Mine" in the car, and while his kids are into it, his wife looks like she'd rather be anywhere else. And it doesn't help that when she'south singing, Derek is constantly criticizing her pitch.

11 On Ruining Stories...And Peradventure Evenings

"Heed, gang, don't exist mad at Dale for ruining the story...and maybe the evening."

Brennan doesn't even stay in the house when Derek comes over for dinner. Dale does, simply he learns soon enough what a jerk Brennan's biological brother is.

10 On introductions

"I'm Brennan." "I'k Dale, merely you have to call me Dragon." "You take to call me Nighthawk."

Y'all tin tell these guys like '80s cop shows and Jean-Claude Van Damme movies from the beginning based on their called monikers. They demand to be called these nicknames (which they're pretty much never called once more) right before the championship of the moving picture appears betwixt them on-screen.

This is an of import moment in the movie, because it's the kickoff meeting of the central duo. At start, they hate each other, but they'll eventually grow to love each other. That's sort of foreshadowed here past how much they accept in common.

nine On becoming friends

"Listen, I know that we started out as foe. But after that mettlesome act that you lot showed me against the i they call Derek, maybe someday nosotros could become friends. Friends who ride imperial, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale." "I would follow you into the mists of Avalon, if that's what yous mean."

At the beginning of Footstep Brothers, Dale and Brennan detest each other. Just and then they find a mutual enemy in Derek, Brennan'due south brother who wants to sell their parents' house and kick them out. As before long as Dale punches Derek in the face, they're the best of friends.

8 On stepfathers

"Robert better not go far my confront...'crusade I'll drop that motherf**ker!"

It's not easy to have to get to know a new stepparent. Information technology would be great if anybody could get along and it could be a seamless transition from the one-time state of affairs into the new situation, but information technology's tough.

Of course, it should be a little easier than Brennan makes it, since he's 40 years one-time, but his childish response to the situation is what makes the joke of the pic work and then well. He expects a series of fights to happen betwixt him and Robert to determine who's the alpha male.

7 On boats 'due north' hoes

"Boats 'north' hoes, boats 'n' hoes / I gotta have me my boats and hoes."

When Brennan and Dale fail to go hired at any of their articulation task interviews, they make up one's mind to surrender on their pursuit of employment and get out on their ain to beginning a multinational entertainment company chosen Prestige Worldwide. Their kickoff clients are Huff 'n' Doback, their own hip hop duo, whose debut runway is "Boats 'due north' Hoes."

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They shot the music video on Robert's boat ("Nachos and lemonheads on my dad's boat / You won't go down, 'crusade my d**k tin can float!") and ended upwardly crashing it into some rocks.

half-dozen On being a dinosaur

"When I was a kid...I wanted to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex more than anything in the world. I fabricated my arms short and I roamed the backyard, I chased the neighborhood cats, I growled and I roared. Everybody knew me and was agape of me. And i 24-hour interval, my dad said, 'Bobby, you're 17. It's time to throw childish things aside,' and I said, 'Okay, Pop.' Simply he didn't really say that, he said, 'Stop being a f**king dinosaur and go a task.'"

Richard Jenkins doesn't get many funny lines in Footstep Brothers. Rather, the humor of Robert'due south grapheme comes from his reactions to Dale and Brennan's antics. Just this monologue is hysterical.

5 On being a prisoner

"This house is a f**king prison!" "On Planet Bulls**t!" "In the galaxy of This Sucks Camel D**ks!"

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly play Brennan and Dale equally the near ungrateful pair of children who ever lived. They're 40 years onetime and withal become handed everything by their parents, and still they're nonetheless not happy.

They merits to be prisoners, merely because they were grounded and lost their TV privileges for a calendar week after destroying half the house in a "savage fight" that attracted the entire neighborhood's attention. What's great nigh this line is that it takes things a few steps farther, possibly with improvisation from the actors.

4 On reputations

"I've been called the songbird of my generation."

Volition Ferrell sings in a lot of his movies. In The Other Guys, he sings that depressing song nigh children getting pinkeye and having their Harry Potter books burned with those guys at the bar. In Elf, he sang a duet with Zooey Deschanel while she was in the shower (and didn't know he was there).

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And in Step Brothers, he sings "Por Ti Volaré" like a genuine opera singer, with backing drums performed by John C. Reilly. His vocalisation does audio similar a combination of Fergie and Jesus, to be fair.

iii On threats

"Y'all're embarrassing yourself, you lot geriatric f**k! Two things: You keep your liver-spotted hands off my cute mother. She'southward a saint! And then you lot sit down and you write Dale and Brennan a check for $10,000. Or I'g gonna shove one of those fake hearing devices and so far up your a**, you lot can hear the sound of your small intestine as it produces southward**t!"

Brennan and Dale expect to premiere their "Boats 'n' Hoes" video to glowing reviews from everyone at Derek'south altogether dinner, followed by anybody getting out their checkbooks to invest. When that doesn't happen, Brennan gets a little testy towards Robert.

2 On Shark Week

"Dad, what are you doing? It's Shark Calendar week!"

Footstep Brothers was conceived after director Adam McKay saw the hilarious chemical science between Volition Ferrell and John C. Reilly in his previous movie, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. So, he came upward with a weird, petty, absurdist comedy about a pair of xl-year-old men who nonetheless alive with their parents, and take to live with each other when their parents get married.

While Ferrell is predominantly a comedy guy and Reilly is amend known as a dramatic actor, the latter holds his own comedically and has merely as many memorable lines and scenes as Ferrell.

1 On living in a house of learned doctors

"You and your mom are hillbillies. This is a house of learned doctors." "You're not a medico. You're a large, fat, curly-headed f**thousand!"

The whole bedroom scene on Brennan's first dark in the new house is full of memorable quotes. Equally it devolves, they start talking most what they're going to exercise when the other one falls comatose ("I'm gonna fill a pillowcase full of bars of soap and beat the s**t out of y'all!"). Simply information technology'south Dale's delusional declaration that he'south a "learned medico" and Brennan is a "hillbilly" that takes the prize for nigh memorable quote in the scene.

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