# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/21 "2016-01-26T23:00:52Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > …and ornithology? Has to be that. Can’t believe it wasn’t the first response. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/22 "2016-01-26T23:04:04Z")
“If this had been a Pop-Tart, we’d be _dead_ now.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/23 "2016-01-26T23:14:46Z")
“Heeeeeere’s Johnny!” ---
**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 26, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/24 "2016-01-26T23:15:54Z")
**PROFESSOR:** Mrs Howell, money cannot buy happiness. **MR HOWELL:** Well, it’s certainly kept me smiling for years! \*\*MRS HOWELL: \*\* Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness doesn’t know where to shop. _ **When told they’re about to die:** _ **MR HOWELL:** Quick, Lovey! Let’s see if we can’t think of a way we can take it with us! ---
**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 26, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/25 "2016-01-26T23:18:41Z")
**[VOICE OF AMY FARRAH FOWLER]:** I made him cry like a disgraced televangelist! **[VOICE OF SHELDON COOPER]:** What’s life without whimsy? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/26 "2016-01-26T23:28:01Z")
> [@Pither](#): > > “As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly…” This would be my choice! ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/27 "2016-01-26T23:30:54Z")
“Hey, Ivan. Did you see the sun rise?” Magnum, P.I. “Want to see my impression of Gandhi?” Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ---
**Author:** ![jsquire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jsquire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsquire)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/28 "2016-01-26T23:36:19Z")
“Her lips said ‘no’, but her eyes said ‘read my lips’.” ---
**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 26, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/29 "2016-01-26T23:38:42Z")
“You are, technically, correct: _the best kind of correct!_” ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/30 "2016-01-26T23:48:11Z")
> [@Pither](#): > > “As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly…” Same show, different line: “And the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.” ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/31 "2016-01-26T23:52:37Z")
“Good men don’t need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/32 "2016-01-26T23:54:55Z")
\*“Condoms, Rose! Condoms, condoms, condoms!” \* ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/33 "2016-01-27T00:00:25Z")
“I’m seeing double here, four Krustys!” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/34 "2016-01-27T00:01:03Z")
_“There are a million things in this universe you can have and a million things you can’t have. It’s no fun facing that, but that’s the way things are.”_ ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/35 "2016-01-27T00:02:47Z")
I could be making this up but it is a phase a friend and I repeated a lot in high school. From M A S H Colonel Potter “Sonja Hennies tutu they know about the trio” If I am way off please someone tell me where the hell I know this phrase from. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/36 "2016-01-27T00:17:22Z")
I’ll build my own theme park! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the theme park! You see, Vergon 6 was once filled with a super-dense substance known as dark matter, each pound of which weighs over ten thousand pounds. [Darn.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziz4bdBkYR8) Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. My God. You’re like a trained ape. Without the training. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/37 "2016-01-27T00:20:53Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > “Hey, Ivan. Did you see the sun rise?” Magnum, P.I. curse you!!! guess I’ll have to use my second favorite. “Everyone was in favor of saving Hitler’s brain. But when you put it in the body of a great white shark. Ooo, suddenly you go too far!” ---
**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 27, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/38 "2016-01-27T00:27:57Z")
“What. . .does. . .a. . .yellow. . .light. . .mean?” - Jim Ignatowski And from cable: “Cocksucker!” - Calamity Jane, upon being awakened while passed out in the saddle. ---
**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 27, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/39 "2016-01-27T00:28:22Z")
“My **father’s** name was Hymie!” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/40 "2016-01-27T00:33:27Z")
> [@flaming\_yawn](#): > > Colonel Potter “Sonja Hennies tutu they know about the trio” If I am way off please someone tell me where the hell I know this phrase from. I don’t remember it from MASH, though it may have been used there too, but “Sonja Henie’s tutu!” was a frequent exclamation on Car Talk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309.md?page=3)