# Media references that NOBODY ever gets. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498 "2003-12-17T07:55:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Psalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Psalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psalex)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/201 "2003-12-20T22:41:07Z")
“Well, I’m with you fellas.“ “Well ain’t this place a geographical oddity: two weeks from everywhere.” “We’ve gone plaid” “You are soooo good lookin’” “I hate when that happens” (response to any too outlandish to be believed story) ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/202 "2003-12-20T23:40:12Z")
Heh, that reminds me, one of the techs at work was working on a particularly troublesome 15" iMac Flat Panel, the display would randomly display a patchwork display that looked quite “plaid” depending on the neck’s position and angle Jon (the tech) remarked that the display had “gone to plaid” to which i responded "just check to make sure they didn’t overclock the processor to “Ludicrous Speed” " 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/203 "2003-12-20T23:56:00Z")
I found one I like in King’s Dark Tower books. Nineteen. “The whole thing’s gone nineteen.” ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/204 "2003-12-21T00:12:57Z")
“Brace yourself!” I picked that one up from, of all things, _Bean_. Nobody gets that one, because I doubt that many people remember the movie. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/205 "2003-12-21T00:17:14Z")
'You got an Ology? You’re a scientist!" (From 1980’s BT ads). ‘Good afternoon good evening and goodnight.’ ‘I’m melting, I’m melting! What a world, what a world.’ (Originally from Wizard of Oz, but I think of the version in Spaceballs). I often quote Hitchhiker’s, Red Dwarf, Labyrinth, Princess Bride, Monty Python and Shakespeare, but none of them are really obscure, at least not among my friends. Most of my friends aren’t nerdy at all, but I’ve corrupted them. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/206 "2003-12-21T00:21:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RobuSensei \* > “Is that the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_?” > “No, it’s just _a_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ – haven’t you heard, they come in six-packs now?” > –from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, slightly edited. Insert Zaphod Beeblebrox into the blanks Nitpick; the first like should be “Are you _the_ Zaphod Beeblebrox?” I like to use the gag, too, since my middle initial is “A”, and it fits the six-pack line perfectly. > [@](#): > > “Water go down the hoooooole… I want to flush it again!” – from some baby duck in Tiny Toon Adventures. I have no idea why I use this one Baby Plucky. I don’t know why the line is so popular as well, but I’ve seen it used quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/207 "2003-12-21T00:37:34Z")
Not so much a media quote, but I’m fond of quoting Rasputin on the night of his grisly demise: “Felix, Felix! I’m going to tell the Empress, Felix!” ---
**Author:** ![Azure\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Azure\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azure_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/208 "2003-12-21T05:04:38Z")
“Grog me, barkeep!” From the Monkey Island series, I think the last one. I only know of a couple of people who get it, and we were playing the game together. “That’s the second biggest \_\_\_\_\_ I’ve ever seen!” is also a good one. I have a few MST3K favorites, but unfortunately the only people I know who have seen any have seen the old ones with Joel, so I don’t say them because I know no one will get them. “I used to have such a pretty _mind_!” and “Rowsdower bowsdower, bippety boppety bowsdower” are good ones. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/209 "2003-12-21T05:37:06Z")
“…and they couldn’t even get it out with Bon Amie.” – The Ghost and Mr. Chicken “No fighting in the War Room!” – Dr. Strangelove “Deeeeeeeeep Hurting!” – MST3K ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/210 "2003-12-21T05:43:41Z")
I used a quote from MST3K in a thread about One liners that say it all: “Never, under any cirumstances, drive with your buttcheeks.” ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/211 "2003-12-21T09:04:58Z")
**RobuSensei** ’s Plucky Duck line reminded me of another. Any time Mrs. Skeezix and I are on an elevator, without fail one of us will utter the lines, “I wanna push da button, _you_ can’t push da button,” and, “Ellelator go up, ellelator go _down_.” It’s like a sickness. And we haven’t actually watched the show since the first or second season, when we saw that episode. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/212 "2003-12-21T12:08:59Z")
“Multipass!” \ and “Bzzzt!” \ from _The Fifth Element_. Some new ones which are probably going to stick with me from the _Little Britain_ series on the BBC: “Yeahbutnobutyeahbut…” “If you’d ask me on a Monday, I would say YAYUZZzzz…” “I want a Whippy.” Matt Lucas and David Walliams are geniuses, pure and simple. ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/213 "2003-12-21T12:29:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > **Nitpick; the first like should be "Are you _the_ Zaphod Beeblebrox?"** Yes, I know, which is why I added the “slightly edited” bit. It’s very seldom that someone provides me the exact set-up line. “Is that the bus stop?” “No, it’s just _a_…” I just remembered a couple more, both from Robin Williams movies: “Yes, he CAN be taught!” “This is NOT going to look good on my RESUME!” One that I used to use when I was in elementary school, thus cementing my lifelong reputation as a geek: “HARRY SULLIVAN IS AN IMBECILE!” And, finally, one I’ve started using in the past few months, and I’m again not sure why: [You’re spending the night with Fred Garvin. . . male prostitute.](http://www.wavrunner.com/sounds/user/user2450.wav) (.wav file) ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/214 "2003-12-21T13:01:51Z")
I’m so PROUD of everyone whose been posting on this Thread! It’s now on the 5th page and no one has been lame enough to say “We’re going to need a bigger boat.” My posts on the first page all came from the last 25 years or so. Now I’ll hit you with my fav’s pre-70’s: (I actually do get to use [this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/) whenever anyone asks for a bottle opener!) **I used to have a cousin who could open up bottle caps with his teeth. That’s all he ever was was a human bottle opener. Until one day at a wedding party he broke his two front teeth right off. after that he was so embarrassed he would leave the house whenever company come over.** **[I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/)** **[Miss Go-rite-ree! Next time I call Pol-EECE!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054698/)** **[How extravagant of you throwing away women like that. Some day they may be scarce.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/)** ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/215 "2003-12-21T16:41:04Z")
We’ve picked up a new one from _Spongebob_. “Just use your i-mag-i-naaaaaaaation” (or variations thereof) and move your hands like you’re making a rainbow. God, I love _Spongebob_. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/216 "2003-12-21T16:51:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RobuSensei \* > \*\* > “HARRY SULLIVAN IS AN IMBECILE!” > > \*\* Tom Baker as the Doctor in the _Doctor Who_ episode _The Ark In Space_. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/217 "2003-12-21T18:47:13Z")
Orange whip? ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/218 "2003-12-21T22:32:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Tom Baker as the Doctor in the _Doctor Who_ episode _The Ark In Space_. \*\* Really? I always thought it was from “Revenge of the Cybermen.” Either way, shouting it out in the middle of the lunchroom didn’t impress a lot of people. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/219 "2003-12-21T22:40:55Z")
_Revenge_ came right after _Ark_. So, it’s easy to lump things together. In _Ark_, The Doctor was berating Harry for touching the controls on what was going to be a quick jaunt around the far side of the moon. It was in the first few minutes of the episode. Then, based on what they found out on the space station, they went down to Earth where they ran afoul of the Cybermen. Harry pretty much redeemed himself in this episode. Not really a nit, tho, because it IS an obscure quote. Even for a Whovian. 🙂 Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![aramis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aramis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aramis)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/220 "2003-12-22T02:05:33Z")
“We are the pros from Dover.” (from MASH) “Ahh, the giants!” (fm Star Trek: The Voyage Home) “Move it! Move it! Move it!”, in the style Sergeant Vince Carter from Gomer Pyle, USMC. “Damn fine coffee!” from Twin Peaks and since nobody’s taken up the challenge, I think “Wee-na” is from The TIme Machine, probably the Rod Taylor version. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498.md?page=12)