Who Are You Calling Names?
Yet another Stock Phrase. One character gets insulted by another, which leads to the insulted character responding back with, "Who are you calling stupid!?!?!" Sometimes, it may also overlap with Insult Misfire.
Closely related to: Berserk Button, I Take Offense to That Last One.
Anime and Manga
- From the third episode of the Little Lulu anime, after Alvin and a couple of other younger kids are told that building the clubhouse isn't for little kids:
Alvin: Who are you calling a little kid!?!? |
Edward Elric: Who are you calling so short you want to squish like an ant? |
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. Occurs multiple times when the two run into each other:
Mamoru Chiba: Idiot! |
Jetfire: Hey, you're one of those escaped monster Decepticons? |
Yomi: Think again! Like hell I'm telling some knuckleheads like you! |
Film
- Possibly from Back to The Future:
Marty: Who are you calling chicken? |
- Toy Story: Sid is holding Woody as Woody speaks some of his standard phrases:
Sid Phillips: It's busted. |
Soundwave: Soundwave superior. Constructions inferior. |
- Pryde of the X-Men:
Wolverine: Get with it! The X-men don't have room for whiny brats! |
Parvus: Shut up, you Jewish turd! |
- The Room:
- Example 1
Mark: Who are you calling a kid? |
- Example 2
Lisa: You can come out now, Johnny. She's gone. |
Chris Hargenson: Watch it, you stupid sh*t, you're getting blood all over the place! |
Becky: Oh just try firing me, you old bucket of cheese. |
Dr. Dolittle: Alright, Archie, I'm not playing anymore. I want you to come out of there right now, you big coward! |
- Cinderella (1997)
Minerva: Did you ever see such a lazy girl in your life? |
- The Mod Squad (1999): Detective Trickey is sexually harassing Julie:
Pete: Hey hey, why do you have to be such a pussy huh, leave her alone alright. |
- A Midnight Clear:
Bud Miller: You trust these Nazis, Stan? |
- American Desi:
Jagjit: [dancing] Ho! Ho! Ho! |
- Maid to Order
Stella Winston: You're a spoiled, silly, boring, insignificant little twit. |
- Friends, Comrades:
Arno Jurmala: [to her wife] Who are you calling a whore? |
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back:
Han: Who's scruffy-looking? |
- In The Lion King, when Simba speaks with Zazu about the hyenas:
Simba: But I thought you said they're nothing but slobbering, mangy, stupid poachers. |
Live-Action TV
- Doctor Who:
- "Remembrance of the Daleks":
Dalek: Small human female sighted on level three. |
- "The Creature from the Pit: Part One":
Romana: Go ahead and kill me. Commit suicide. Listen to that hirsute moron. |
- House episode "Whatever It Takes":
House: You idiot. |
- The Soap Opera Days of Our Lives, Hattie has called into the Dr. Marlena Show:
Nancy: Look, we don't take calls from ignorant, abusive people on this show. |
- Knight Rider episode "Custom Made Killer":
Michael Knight: [to K.I.T.T.] Are sure you're not becoming a bit of a snob? |
- Benidorm episode "#2.2":
The Oracle: Who are you calling an idiot, you... d*ckhead? |
- Mind of Mencia:
Host: Hey, bro. You dropped your keys. [The person looks at him, turning out to be a woman] |
- Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Piece of the Action":
Boy: You going to hit Krako out here? You open up and you'll be scragged from every window in the street. I can fix it for ya. |
Elizabeth Delgado: Is he gonna make it? |
Video Games
Koume: You must have gone senile! |
Manuel Calavera: Aw, they look just like little Johnny Thunders. |
- Destroy All Humans!: Path of the Furon:
The Master: This is the way of things. The flower must die for the fruit to live. |
- Tales of Monkey Island:
- In Chapter 3, when Bugeye's voice says, "What say you, digested SCUMM™?", one of the topics the player can choose as a response is, "Hey, who you calling SCUMM™, Geppetto?"
- And in Chapter 4, when Guybrush tries breaking up a fight between Morgan and a Poxed Elaine:
Guybrush: Can't you two just work it out over a nice grogatini? |
Western Animation
- Also a case of Insult Misfire in an episode of Adventures of the Gummi Bears after the troll leader insults both Zummi and Tummi:
Tummi: Who are you calling old? |
- This exchange from the episode, "Tummi's Last Stand":
Duke Igthorn: Why you little liar! |
- Classic Disney Shorts, Tomorrow We Diet!
Goofy: Hello, handsome. |
- Family Guy episode "Fifteen Minutes of Shame":
Diane Simmons: Peter, do you think there may be any validity to what Meg is feeling? |
- The Simpsons episode "Wedding for Disaster":
Homer Simpson: Well, forget it, padre. We don't need a piece of paper to tell us we're happy. Me and the old lady have our own thing going on. |
- Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The King of Omashu":
Katara: So this crazy king is your old friend Bumi? |
- SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Dying for Pie/Imitation Krabs":
Mr. Krabs: Well, if I were a robot, which I'm not, at least I'm well put together, not some rusted-up, steam-driven pile of junk. |
- Jem:
Jerrica Benton: Wanna bet those earrings are a pair of duds? |
- Jackie Chan Adventures episode "Viva Las Jackies":
Dalong Wong: You cannot defeat me, old man! |
- American Dragon Jake Long episode "The Talented Mr. Long":
Professor Rotwood: Admirable attempt Mr. Long, but you can't beat my young piano protege with that mangy puppet. |
Prince Pyrus: Who are you calling a child, loser? Us children have beaten you so many times, it's getting boring. |