# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/141 "2016-01-27T19:10:02Z")
Can’t believe we got this far without this: “I’ll be in my bunk.” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/142 "2016-01-27T19:20:59Z")
> [@Pither](#): > > “As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly…” Yep, this is my favorite line from TV, closely followed by “whaaaaaaaaaat… dooooooessss…a… yellllllowwwwwwwwww… liiiiiiiiiiight… mean?” ---
**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 27, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/143 "2016-01-27T19:37:48Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Yep, this is my favorite line from TV, closely followed by “whaaaaaaaaaat… dooooooessss…a… yellllllowwwwwwwwww… liiiiiiiiiiight… mean?” I thought your favorite line would be, “We should hang out by the quarry and throw things down there.” 😃 ---
**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 27, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/144 "2016-01-27T19:43:37Z")
“Oh, Sir Reginald! My nipples explode with delight!” ---
**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 27, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/145 "2016-01-27T19:50:06Z")
“Troi! You’re my _friend_, and you _tricked_ me!” :eek: ---
**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 27, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/146 "2016-01-27T19:59:09Z")
So many to choose from! Yikes. So I’ll go with five: “You’re like Santa Claus… on Prozac… at Disneyland… getting laid!” “Well, what do you know? I finally got the last word.” “No soup for you!” “That’s the short definition of ‘Captain.’” "I don’t know how many more of your disastrous love stories I can hear. I’ll say “‘when.’” ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/147 "2016-01-27T20:05:27Z")
“Women! Can’t live with 'em… Pass the beer nuts, Woody!” ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/148 "2016-01-27T20:06:51Z")
“Whoops! The cat ate it!” ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/149 "2016-01-27T20:10:56Z")
From Hancock’s Half Hour. Magna Carta; did she die in vain? ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/150 "2016-01-27T20:12:30Z")
“How’s it going, Norm?” “It’s a dog eat dog world, Sam, and I’m wearing Milk Bone underwear.” “How’s life treating you, Norm?” “Like it caught me sleeping with its wife.” ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/151 "2016-01-27T20:12:49Z")
“This just in: General Francisco Franco is still dead.” ---
**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, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/152 "2016-01-27T20:13:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Oy, vey! More Jewish than this, you cannot get! “Mel Brooks is \*Jewish?” \*- Homer Simpson (And as I learned growing up with Mad magazine, anything Jewish is automatically funny.) ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/153 "2016-01-27T20:14:19Z")
“I’m Chevy Chase and you’re not.” ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/154 "2016-01-27T20:15:32Z")
“How’s life treating you, Norm?” “Like I just ran over its dog.” * * * “What’s shakin’, Mr Peterson?” “All four cheeks and a couple of chins.” * * * “What would you say to a beer, Norm?” “Hello, beer!” ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/155 "2016-01-27T20:16:38Z")
“This is an ex-parrot!” ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/156 "2016-01-27T20:18:54Z")
Dammit jim, I’m a… But she was naked and articulate! ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/157 "2016-01-27T20:23:57Z")
“Mind if I join you [in the shower], Marge? **[PAUSE]** I’ll take your silence for consent!” * * * _“We’ll be killing all the humans when we come! We’ll be killing all the humans when we come! We will kill them and we’ll eat them, 'Cause that’s the way to treat them! We’ll be killing all the humans when we come!”_ * * * “I, for one, welcome our new ant overlords!” ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/158 "2016-01-27T20:29:33Z")
**FLANDERS [At marriage retreat]:** Sometimes Maude, God bless her, underlines passages in _my_ Bible instead of _hers_! **HOMER [_Sotto voce_]:** Hmpf! Good thing you don’t keep guns in the house! ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/159 "2016-01-27T20:32:16Z")
“The Volvo proved even safer than advertised.” ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-single-line-from-television/744309/160 "2016-01-27T20:40:48Z")
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