# Favorite single line from television? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309 "2016-01-26T22:05:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/201 "2016-01-28T01:58:02Z")
[“They say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is…”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVBXb4XIqE) ---
**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:** [January 28, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/202 "2016-01-28T02:00:07Z")
**[In regard to men who are actually mice]:** Well, they can’t _help_ the way they are, can they? So I’d … kill 'em! ---
**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:** [January 28, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/203 "2016-01-28T02:01:31Z")
“Gosh, Batman! Why didn’t _I_ think of that?” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/204 "2016-01-28T02:02:42Z")
God wouldn’t like that, Davy. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/205 "2016-01-28T02:07:15Z")
“Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!” ---
**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:** [January 28, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/206 "2016-01-28T02:08:27Z")
“Should I scrooch him, Gidney?” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/207 "2016-01-28T02:10:37Z")
From the regrettably short-lived live version of **The Tick**. Arthur is at his accountant job, wearing his brand-new superhero suit. His boss, Mr. Fishladder, is attempting to talk him out of his planned future career. Read this in a Christopher Lloyd voice. “Remember the lesson of METCALF! Head of Shipping and Receiving, third floor! He lost all his game pieces just like you, cashed in his 401K, and bought a jet pack! Now the poor bastard needs a MACHINE…to POOP.” ---
**Author:** ![Goofus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Goofus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofus)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/208 "2016-01-28T02:25:15Z")
“Keep fucking that chicken.” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/209 "2016-01-28T02:36:29Z")
“I’m gonna need a hacksaw.” ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/210 "2016-01-28T02:44:23Z")
“Pam, get off the Pope.” ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/211 "2016-01-28T02:45:56Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > From the regrettably short-lived live version of **The Tick**. Arthur is at his accountant job, wearing his brand-new superhero suit. His boss, Mr. Fishladder, is attempting to talk him out of his planned future career. Read this in a Christopher Lloyd voice. > > “Remember the lesson of METCALF! Head of Shipping and Receiving, third floor! He lost all his game pieces just like you, cashed in his 401K, and bought a jet pack! Now the poor bastard needs a MACHINE…to POOP.” Tick in the background as Arthur tries to figure out how to smuggle Mr. Incredible to an upper hotel floor. “I can throw that high.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/212 "2016-01-28T02:54:26Z")
“Oh, boy!” “You’re part of a time travel experiment that went a little ca-ca.” ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/213 "2016-01-28T03:04:11Z")
I’m too sleepy to read the whole list right now. But in case it hasn’t been said yet: “I am the one who knocks.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FZ8OPlEQb3I/hqdefault.jpg ""I am the one who Knocks!" Breaking Bad") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ8OPlEQb3I) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/214 "2016-01-28T03:07:32Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I’m too sleepy to read the whole list right now. But in case it hasn’t been said yet: > > “I am the one who knocks.” Along with: “Yeah! Mr. White! Yeah! Science!” ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/215 "2016-01-28T03:23:01Z")
“How goes the rat race?” “The rats are winning.” “Joker. Joker! JOKER!” “Say the secret word and win $100.” “You forgot to phrase your response in the form of a question” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/216 "2016-01-28T03:58:25Z")
“Oh, Robbb!” “Aaayyyyy!” " _knock knock knock_ Penny? _knock knock knock_ Penny? _knock knock knock_ Penny?" ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/217 "2016-01-28T04:18:27Z")
You know, if “Most iconic” counts, then how about “In the Criminal Justice System the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups…” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/218 "2016-01-28T04:19:10Z")
“Great Caesar’s Ghost!” “Don’t call me Chief!” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/219 "2016-01-28T05:00:13Z")
“Caaandygram.” “Never mind.” “In that, while it has been government policy to regard policy as a responsibility of Ministers and administration as a responsibility of Officials, the questions of administrative policy can cause confusion between the policy of administration and the administration of policy, especially when responsibility for the administration of the policy of administration conflicts, or overlaps with, responsibility for the policy of the administration of policy.” ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/220 "2016-01-28T05:11:20Z")
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