# 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:** 12
**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, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/221 "2016-01-28T05:56:57Z")
“The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation.” ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/222 "2016-01-28T06:43:07Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Well, I think the thing is that your ability to summon a horde of celestial superbeings at will is making my BMX skills look a bit redundant. …That’s Numberwang! ---
**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, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/223 "2016-01-28T07:18:20Z")
“Land shark!” ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/224 "2016-01-28T10:48:09Z")
“I know what you’re thinking. And you’re right…” ---
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/225 "2016-01-28T12:03:29Z")
“Go ahead, throw your vote _away_!” “Have fun on the robot reservation, suckers! We’re not gonna honor those bogus treaties!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/226 "2016-01-28T12:25:31Z")
From the animated version of _The Tick_: Interviewer: well, what are your powers, Mr. Tick. Could you, for instance, destroy the world? Tick: Egad! I hope not! That’s were I keep all my _stuff!_ ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/227 "2016-01-28T13:05:04Z")
“You’ve got spunk. I \*hate \*spunk!” “Bazinga!” “Sit on it.” “Up your nose with a rubber hose” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/228 "2016-01-28T13:09:38Z")
Hawkeye from M_A_S_H_: “An edible complex is when a guy likes his mom’s cooking better than eating out.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/229 "2016-01-28T13:49:33Z")
From _Rocky and Bullwinkle_ Rocky: “Oh, all right, I’ll say it – That must be the Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam!” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/230 "2016-01-28T14:02:55Z")
“You get Hoynes.” ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/231 "2016-01-28T14:15:45Z")
I can’t find the exact line but on the Newhart show (the one in Vermont) somebody says “Sartre said that hell is other people.” Bob says “Well, he knew a lot of French people.” ---
**Author:** ![Moonshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Moonshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonshine)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/232 "2016-01-28T14:44:00Z")
“I happen to be the proud owner of a colour television. I’m not watching something that looks the same in black and white.” or “Lips moving - still talking!” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/233 "2016-01-28T14:58:44Z")
_Pivot_! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/234 "2016-01-28T15:11:38Z")
Uh, sir, I hate ta _bother_ ya, but, y’see, there’s Just One More Thing… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/235 "2016-01-28T16:35:20Z")
Well, one day I was sitting at home threatening the kids, and I looked out of the hole in the wall and sees this tank drive up and one of Dinsdale’s boys gets out and he comes up, all nice and friendly-like, and says Dinsdale wants to have a talk with me. So he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape 'round to Dinsdale’s. And Dinsdale’s there in the conversation pit with Doug and Charles Paisley, the baby crusher, and a couple of film producers and a man they called “Kierkegaard,” who just sat there biting the heads off whippets, and Dinsdale said, “I hear you’ve been a naughty boy, Clement,” and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out, and I said, “My name’s not Clement,” and then he loses his temper and nails me head to the floor. ---
**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, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/236 "2016-01-28T16:43:34Z")
Not favorite, but iconic: “Just the facts, ma’am.” “Hi-yo, Silver!” “It’s Howdy Doody time!” “Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/237 "2016-01-28T18:32:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Well, one day I was sitting at home threatening the kids, and I looked out of the hole in the wall and sees this tank drive up and one of Dinsdale’s boys gets out and he comes up, all nice and friendly-like, and says Dinsdale wants to have a talk with me. So he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape 'round to Dinsdale’s. And Dinsdale’s there in the conversation pit with Doug and Charles Paisley, the baby crusher, and a couple of film producers and a man they called “Kierkegaard,” who just sat there biting the heads off whippets, and Dinsdale said, “I hear you’ve been a naughty boy, Clement,” and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out, and I said, “My name’s not Clement,” and then he loses his temper and nails me head to the floor. I simply **must** see this! What’s the title? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/238 "2016-01-28T18:44:57Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I simply **must** see this! What’s the title? 😃 It’s not from television. It’s from one of the 1970s Monty Python albums. They did a sketch about the Piranha Brothers on _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_, but the wording as given here is, IIRC, the way it appears on _Another Monty Python Album_ (the one with the Pieter Brueghel painting and title crossed out in black crayon and the new title written in\* > **[Another Monty Python Record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Monty_Python_Record)** > > Another Monty Python Record is the second album produced by the Monty Python comedy group, released in 1971. Dissatisfied with their monaural BBC debut album released the previous year, the group took full control of the follow-up, which would be the first release of a six-album deal with Charisma Records in the UK. Most of the material is from the second BBC series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, with a few newly written pieces. One track, "Stake Your Claim", is an English-language version of... ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/239 "2016-01-28T18:51:48Z")
“Spongebob, I can give you ten good reasons to never let go of a dime.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/240 "2016-01-28T19:03:36Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s not from television. It’s from one of the 1970s Monty Python albums. > They did a sketch about the Piranha Brothers on _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_, but the wording as given here is, IIRC, the way it appears on _Another Monty Python Album_ (the one with the Pieter Brueghel painting and title crossed out in black crayon and the new title written in\* > > [Another Monty Python Record - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Monty_Python_Record) Many thanks! A new one on me. They were the tops in those days and I missed many of their things back then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309.md?page=13)