# Favorite Quote-Idiot Tube Division **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710 "2012-08-16T20:33:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710/41 "2012-08-18T00:59:24Z")
“Yes, let’s not jump to conclusions.” “I didn’t jump! I took a tiny little step, and there conclusions were.” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710/42 "2012-08-18T04:20:48Z")
The one TV moment for me was from back in the 70’s, from All in the Family. I’ll probably not get it exactly right, it’s been a long time. It was several seasons in, and we had had years of bickering about Viet Nam between Archie and Meathead. The war was officially over by the time of this episode. In this particular episode, an old friend of Archie’s was visiting; this friend had lost his only son in the war. Also, unexpectedly, an old friend of Mike’s was visiting; he was a draft dodger who had gone to Canada, and who was back in the States secretly. They’re all having dinner (it’s Christmas Eve, 1976), when the secret of the draft dodger comes out. Archie gets upset, and Mike starts yammering at him again about how wrong the war was. Archie explodes: “I ain’t talkin’ about that war! I don’t want to talk about that goddamn war no more! I’m talkin’ about somethin’ else! And what he done was wrong!” Hearing him swear on network TV, and the way this man who was always a buffoon suddenly became majestic in his anger, burned this in my memory. Although the comments say they made him overdub without the actual swearing, but I was sure I remembered it. Maybe I was only reading his lips. I found it on YouTube, of course; [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcalHLtewXo) it is, the fireworks start at about 18:00. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710/43 "2012-08-18T07:07:47Z")
My current favorite is from _The Big Bang Theory._ “Women. Can’t live with 'em, can’t successfully refute their hypotheses.” Out of respect for Czarcasm, I will refrain from posting a long list of quotes from _Fawlty Towers_. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710/44 "2012-08-18T07:23:06Z")
Also from “Life.” Charlie and Dani are on a stakeout (or at least they are in the car) and Charlie, like always, starts talking. This time, about reincarnation: “I’d like to come back as a giant Flemish rabbit. 15 pounds of pure bunny.” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710/45 "2012-08-18T09:56:46Z")
God don’t make no mistakes. That’s how he got to be God!" - Archie Bunker mmm ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710/46 "2012-08-18T15:13:52Z")
Another _Simpsons_ quoter here. Homer: “Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710/47 "2012-08-18T17:40:09Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > My current favorite is from _The Big Bang Theory._ > “Women. Can’t live with 'em, can’t successfully refute their hypotheses.” I prefer Norm Peterson’s line on “Cheers!”: “Women! Can’t live with 'em … pass the beer nuts, Woody!” An entire thread could be devoted to “Cheers!” quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710/48 "2012-08-18T18:23:18Z")
My all-time favorite is from the brilliant _Herman’s Head_, a short-lived FOX sitcom from the early 1990s: **Hedy** : Herman, do think this skirt is too tight? **Herman** : Not if you’ve been shot in the ass and you’re trying to stop the bleeding. > [@laina\_f](#): > > My current favorite is from _The Big Bang Theory._ > “Women. Can’t live with 'em, can’t successfully refute their hypotheses.” I liked Vork’s version in _The Guild_: (delivered in a wonderful deadpan) “Women. Can’t live with them … and they won’t go out with me.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710/49 "2012-08-18T19:28:46Z")
I came here to post my favorite TV quote, and it was right there in the damn OP! ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710/50 "2012-08-21T00:25:55Z")
Favorite Non-sequitur (Twin Peaks): “The Owls are not what they seem” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-quote-idiot-tube-division/631710.md?page=2)