# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/261 "2016-01-29T18:07:06Z")
“Thank you, I saw it in the window and I just had to have it!” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/262 "2016-01-29T18:12:34Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > “What’s goin’ on, Mr. Peterson?” “I’d rather talk about what’s goin’ IN Mr. Peterson.” “Peterson’s a twerp.” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/263 "2016-01-29T18:16:23Z")
Zoidberg: "Now pick a mouth, open it, and say `Brrdfshjdshjfnbjsd!’ " Fry: “Uh… djsjdksnfdfd.” Zoidberg: “What? My mother was a saint! Get out!” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/264 "2016-01-29T18:22:21Z")
Actually, while I love that line, my favourite was from an early Family Guy. Death suggests to Peter that death is a necessity; after all, what would happen if Hitler were still alive? Cut to a fantasy scene of a promo for “Hitler!” the talk show, and a brief clip of Hitler interviewing Christian Slater. The interview cuts to a pan over of the happy studio audience and a voice over saying “If you are in ze Los Angeles area, und vould like tickets to see Hitler, dial vun, two-vun-three, DU WERDEST EINEN KRANKENSCHWESTER BRAUCHEN!!!”\* It’s just absolutely screamed out of the blue. Honest to God I fell to the floor laughing. - = I believes this more or less means “You’re going to need a nurse.” It really doesn’t matter what it means, as everything in German sounds angry and threatening. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/265 "2016-01-29T18:43:32Z")
From the BBC Top Gear, some iconic lines: “How hard can it be?” “Our tame racing driver.” “Some say…” “Well, that went well.” “Captain Slow, Hamster, and the Orangutan” ---
**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 29, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/266 "2016-01-29T18:49:01Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > “Thank you, I saw it in the window and I just had to have it!” From one of the best comedy routines _ever_ on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/267 "2016-01-29T19:02:17Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > It really doesn’t matter what it means, as everything in German sounds angry and threatening. Obligatory link: [Germans Who Say Nice Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6mndRtsS88) ---
**Author:** ![TheSeaOtter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@TheSeaOtter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSeaOtter)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/268 "2016-01-29T19:36:22Z")
General George Hammond: “Son, do you know what color this phone is?” ---
**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 30, 2016, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/269 "2016-01-30T09:35:22Z")
“There we were at the Alamo - me and Davey Crockett - shoulder to shoulder and backs to the wall - cannon fire to the left of us - cannon fire to the right!” “Janey, please! Not in front of the men.” ---
**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 30, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/270 "2016-01-30T11:07:38Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > “You’ve got spunk. I \*hate \*spunk!” +1 > [@cmkeller](#): > > “Spongebob, I can give you ten good reasons to never let go of a dime.” “I’m ready! I’m ready!” Also, I can’t believe I forgot this earlier: “Free javelins.” A little context: on _Law & Order_, Briscoe and Green come in to get gory details on one of their cases, and Rodgers mentions something about being behind because she spent a couple of hours removing a javelin from a guy’s chest cavity. Green says “Why do you do this job?” Her answer is the above. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/271 "2016-01-30T17:39:43Z")
Katherine Helmond from _Soap_. (After hearing a list of gay people including Plato.) Mickey Mouse’s dog is gay??? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/272 "2016-01-30T19:02:58Z")
Bob, Bob wake up. You’re having a nightmare. ---
**Author:** ![funky\_little\_lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@funky\_little\_lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funky_little_lee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/273 "2016-01-30T19:11:02Z")
From Cedric the Entertainer Presents: [The Law Offices of Mama N’ Nem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvzAgxMYD6M): “If I was to pour syrup on a _shoe,_ you wouldn’t call it a _pancake,_ would you?” ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/274 "2016-01-30T19:40:33Z")
“It’s clear that the Committee has agreed that your new policy is really an excellent plan. But in view of some of the doubts being expressed, may I propose that I recall that after careful consideration, the considered view of the Committee was that, while they considered that the proposal met with broad approval in principle, that some of the principles were sufficiently fundamental in principle, and some of the considerations so complex and finely balanced in practice that in principle it was proposed that the sensible and prudent practice would be to submit the proposal for more detailed consideration, laying stress on the essential continuity of the new proposal with existing principles, the principle of the principal arguments which the proposal proposes and propounds for their approval. In principle.” ---
**Author:** ![UCBearcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/77aa72/32.png) [@UCBearcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UCBearcats)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/275 "2016-01-30T21:15:25Z")
Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver. 😃 ---
**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 31, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/276 "2016-01-31T00:51:54Z")
“I like TITS!” ---
**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 31, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/277 "2016-01-31T00:52:59Z")
“‘Tit’ is tinny!” ---
**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 31, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/278 "2016-01-31T00:55:10Z")
“Oh, Vicar, CONTROL yourself!” ---
**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 31, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/279 "2016-01-31T00:56:38Z")
“Caribou. Gone. Loose woman.” “It’s got a good woody sound. Gives me confidence!” ---
**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 31, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/280 "2016-01-31T01:05:22Z")
“Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how’s your father! Hairy blighter dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper’s, and caught his can in the Bertie!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309.md?page=15)