Summary
- "We're friends 'til the end!" is Chucky's iconic catchphrase with a sinister meaning.
- Chucky has a particular fixation on children and innocence and getting kids to help him with his schemes.
- Chucky's seemingly innocent phrases can take a creepy turn when they're accompanied by death.
The following contains discussions of graphic violence and death.
There are a lot of faces of slasher movies, but Chucky is one of the most famous characters of the genre and Chucky quotes make for some memorable horror lines. Chucky was first introduced in Tom Holland’s 1988 horror film called Child’s Play. Chucky is created after the fictional serial killer Charles Lee Ray is shot by pursuing police. As he dies, he transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll using forbidden magic.
Child’s Play sparked a franchise that has resulted in a total of eight movies to date, including the 2019 reboot of the same name. A television series set after the events of the movies has run for three seasons on SyFy. The series has helped to flesh out the background of some of the biggest characters in the franchise, like Chucky (Brad Douriff) himself and his long-time love Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly). The series has only helped to add to Chucky's iconic quotes in the franchise.
“We're Friends ‘Til The End!”
Repeated Line In The Franchise
With the Good Guys dolls being children's toys, they came with certain catchphrases built-in that would appeal to kids. Several of Chucky’s catchphrases are memorable, but one of the most iconic, present in almost all the movies, is “we’re friends ‘til the end”.
It's such a chilling Chucky quote because, while it can be taken as a heartfelt message to a child, it also takes on a much more sinister meaning. Everybody who has seen the movies knows that the end will probably come sooner rather than later.
“Don’t Worry, Andy. You’re Going To Thank Me When She’s Gone.”
Child’s Play
Though the later movies and the television series in the Child’s Play franchise make it clear that Chucky has a soft spot for kids, the original Child’s Play (and its sequel) does not make that idea clear. It seems like Chucky just wants Andy as a vessel for his soul. This is the only hint that Chucky sees something in Andy in the first movie.
Chucky tells Andy “You’re going to thank me when she’s gone,” because he’s ready to dispose of every authority figure in Andy’s life from babysitters to teachers to his mother. That’s initially a means to an end for Chucky, who wants access to Andy without any adults getting in his way. It’s also because he wants to be able to have the freedom to do whatever he wants and give Andy the illusion of that freedom as well.
“Peek-A-Boo!”
Child’s Play 2
This particular Chucky quote is an innocent enough phrase, usually said when playing a game with small children who don’t yet recognize that someone doesn’t just disappear when they hide their face. For Chucky, however, the phrase is suitably creepy.
He says it while hiding in the car of an executive who works for the same toy company that makes his particular line of dolls. The company has just decided to continue making the dolls, despite concerns from the public about the Chucky dolls being tampered with. He then kills the toy company executive after he has him drive him for a little while, because Chucky kills almost anyone he encounters.
“You Know What They Say. ‘You Just Can’t Keep A Good Guy Down.’”
Child’s Play 3
Chucky’s creepy quotes aren’t just one-liners or threats. Sometimes, they’re puns associated with the character being a doll. In this case, Chucky appropriates the old adage of not keeping a good guy down.
You just can't keep a Good Guy down.
The joke, of course, is that he’s a Good Guy doll, but also that Andy truly believed he and his foster sister Kyle killed him eight years earlier. Andy spent eight years believing he was safe from Chucky, only for Chucky to turn up at the military school where he was sent at 16.
“I Love You.”
Bride Of Chucky
Telling someone “I love you” shouldn’t be a creepy line, but here, it is. Bride Of Chucky really expands the franchise, bringing Chucky’s former girlfriend Tiffany into the mix. Though the two argue quite a bit, they also find kindred spirits in one another, and Chucky expresses his love for Tiffany after she creatively kills a pair of newlyweds.
In any other movie, reunited lovers reconnecting would be romantic. In Bride Of Chucky, it’s definitely creepy as their spirits are both in dolls, and they reconnect over dead bodies.
“I’m Not A Monster, Jake.”
Chucky: Season 1, Episode 2 “Give Me Something Good To Eat”
The Chucky television series acts as a follow-up to the movies, and it continues the tradition of Chucky, in doll form, latching onto a kid he can use. This time around, Chucky is in the company of Jake, a teenager and budding artist with an affinity for using vintage doll parts in his work. When he finds Chucky at a yard sale, however, Jake’s world changes drastically.
Chucky initially gets into Jake’s head because he understands Jake’s frustration with his father and his bullies at school. Jake, who is gay and unaccepted by his father, finds it strange that Chucky, a serial killing doll, is entirely accepting of his gender-fluid kid. For all the bad in Chucky, he’s able to do something the people in Jake’s life can’t.
“You Act Like You’ve Never Seen A Dead Body Before!”
Child’s Play 2
When Chucky finds Andy in the first movie sequel, no one around Andy believes that the doll is alive. The new foster family that Andy is staying with while his mother is hospitalized finds out the doll is alive the hard way: he kills them. After tripping Andy’s foster father on the basement stairs and then killing him, Andy freezes, upset, and waiting to see what Chucky will do next.
Chucky breaks the moment with this line. It’s meant to be a funny line in the movie that interrupts the violence, but it’s also a bit of a heartbreaking line because at that point, Andy has seen quite a few dead bodies - and no one has believed his stories about them.
“It’s A Hobby, Really. It Helps Us Relax.”
Seed Of Chucky
Glen is introduced in Seed of Chucky as the doll offspring of Chucky and Tiffany. Glen has led a hard life before getting to know his parents, and he doesn’t know much about them. When he discovers that they’re serial killers, he’s saddened because he’s a much gentler soul (at first).
When he tries to ask Chucky and Tiffany why they kill people, which is the same question many people have about those who kill, the duo doesn’t have an answer right away. Chucky finally its it relaxes him. It’s a disturbing thought, but one that certainly fits his character.
“Nothing Like A Strangulation To Get The Circulation Going.”
Child’s Play 3
Much like Child’s Play 2, Child’s Play 3 begins with Chucky targeting one of the executives at the toy company that makes the Good Guy dolls. This time, Chucky isn’t in a car with the executive, but in his office/apartment, using other toys to unnerve the man before finally going after the man himself.
Ultimately, Chucky strangles him with a yo-yo. It’s his first kill of the movie, and he’s clearly got a fondness for strangulation as it seems to make him feel alive again.
“You Of All People Should Know, Some People Deserve To Die.”
Chucky: Season 1, Episode 2 “Give Me Something Good To Eat”
In the first season of Chucky, Jake’s bully is the mayor’s daughter, Lexy. Lexy only bullies Jake because she’s unhappy and he’s an easy target as the cousin of her boyfriend. She doesn’t actually dislike Jake, but it’s easy for her to cover up her unhappiness with snark and be mean to others so that people don’t see how much she’s hurting.
Jake initially accepts Chucky as a friend and agrees to let Chucky help him kill Lexy, only to change his mind. Despite how much Lexy has hurt him, he doesn’t want to see her dead or suffer even more. He recognizes that she’s in pain, but Chucky throws this line at him when Jake changes his mind, set on going after Lexy himself.
