# Lines from TV movies everybody remembers. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799 "2012-11-12T17:49:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/41 "2012-11-13T19:05:38Z")
I was going to post something from Duel, but I’m already 3rd! How about: _You know, this is, excuse me, a damn fine cup of coffee._ It was sort of a real long movie. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/42 "2012-11-13T19:06:29Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” Anybody not recognize this line? Great line, but not from a TV movie. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/43 "2012-11-13T19:22:17Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > “We ALL float down here!” Damn. Beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/44 "2012-11-13T19:44:24Z")
Dudes, I have seen almost no quotes from actual \*made for TV movies \*(which I would say includes a mini-series). This means that by and large, made for TV movies are not that memorable. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/45 "2012-11-13T20:03:03Z")
“I think it was the trousers.” ---
**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:** [November 13, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/46 "2012-11-13T21:58:27Z")
:smack: TV _movies_, \*not \*TV or movies. Duuuuuuuuuuuh. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/47 "2012-11-13T23:05:35Z")
“Throw away your cross, face the master. Your faith against his faith…” ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/48 "2012-11-13T23:17:44Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I was 10 years old when I watched _The Day After,_ and it scared the shit out of me. I was fifteen and it scared me also. > [@Spoke](#): > > “Throw away your cross, face the master. Your faith against his faith…” “Open the window Mark! I’m so hungry.” More nightmare fuel. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/49 "2012-11-13T23:24:04Z")
Sorry about that, Chief! Missed it by _that_ much! That’s the _second_-biggest [noun] I’ve ever seen! ---
**Author:** ![chargerrich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chargerrich/32/5399_2.png) [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/50 "2012-11-14T19:12:21Z")
Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/51 "2012-11-14T19:31:33Z")
OK, one more that is actually from a TV movie: [I’m invincible!!!](http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl) ---
**Author:** ![Lottie\_D\_Urberville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lottie\_D\_Urberville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lottie_D_Urberville)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/52 "2012-11-14T23:33:53Z")
“Don’t touch the figs” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/53 "2012-11-15T00:52:21Z")
So has it been established that it’s “TV or movies” and not “TV movies”? ---
**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:** [November 15, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/54 "2012-11-15T02:38:42Z")
“Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/55 "2012-11-15T06:07:02Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > So has it been established that it’s “TV or movies” and not “TV movies”? No, it was TV movies. Which is why the picking are so slim. BUT a very interesting OP. Who’d have thought it that made for tV movies and mini-series would have produced so few memorable lines? ---
**Author:** ![piepiepie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@piepiepie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/piepiepie)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/56 "2012-11-15T13:38:00Z")
“Hey, slut! I oughta call your mother and tell her you’re a whore!” -Cybill Shepherd as Martha Stewart ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/57 "2012-11-15T15:03:22Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Dudes, I have seen almost no quotes from actual \*made for TV movies \*(which I would say includes a mini-series). This means that by and large, made for TV movies are not that memorable. Well, with that stipulation, here’s a couple from the same miniseries: “As of this moment, we are at war.” “So say we all!” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/58 "2012-11-15T15:45:29Z")
**A dingow ite moi byebye!** ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/59 "2012-11-15T16:07:33Z")
I’d like to nominate this thread for an award for the worst following of instructions in the OP ever. As for TV Movie quotes, here are a couple of my faves: “Gargoyles are a scientific fact. And they’re no more dangerous than a high school drop-out on a motorcycle.” “This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799/60 "2012-11-25T08:42:48Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > **A dingow ite moi byebye!** For the record, that line crossed my mind, being sure that was a made for TV movie, but as it turns out, it was a feature film, _A Cry in the Dark_ (1988) with Meryl Streep, and also misquoted. Apparently the actual line is, “A dingo got my baby!” Another line I thought for sure came from a late-night TV babysitter horror flick was “…the call’s coming from inside the house!” But, it seems the origin is a bit convoluted, and often parodied, most notably by the movie _Scream._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-tv-movies-everybody-remembers/640799.md?page=4)