# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/221 "2003-12-22T08:36:04Z")
Now I remember! It was when the Doctor and some others were forced by the Cybermen to carry Cyberbombs (strapped to them with explosive buckles) to the center of what was left of Vogos. The whole scene involved Harry causing a rockslide in the tunnel that the Doctor was in, followed by Harry trying to remove the bomb backpacks. There’s a [.wav file](http://www.kasterborus.com/tardis/4/imbecile.wav) here. If I recall correctly, it was a Sontaran that they ran into on Earth after “The Ark in Space” – my gawd, I am _such_ a geek! ---
**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 22, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/222 "2003-12-22T14:16:44Z")
And I was SO incredibly wrong! You win. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/223 "2003-12-22T14:56:26Z")
hello sailor! ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/224 "2003-12-22T18:34:38Z")
**aramis:** I always use, “Damn fine coffee…and HOT!” and “I’m going to write an epic poem about this pie!” Actually, I have lots of Lynch in my vocabulary. Anytime someone mentions Budweiser beer I am compelled to intone, “It’s the king of beers.” And of course, “Heineken?! Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!” Ewwww, Pabst Blue Ribbon. ---
**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 22, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/225 "2003-12-22T19:39:43Z")
What hump? ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/226 "2003-12-22T21:07:34Z")
When asked what I’m going to do, answer “I will kill them”. (From _Soldier_ At random times: “I get older, they stay the same age.” From \*Dazed & Confused{/I] When getting ready to go somewhere: “Yo, she-bitch - let’s go.” _Army of Darkness_ ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/227 "2003-12-22T21:28:28Z")
From the live-action version of _The Tick_: (in a booming voice) “I have no money!” and this exchange: “No offense intended.” “None comprehended!” _The Tick_ completely rules. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/228 "2003-12-22T22:33:40Z")
“Hit the button, Frank.” ---
**Author:** ![aramis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aramis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aramis)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/229 "2003-12-23T01:54:38Z")
Ooh, I remembered another of my favorites. On the Bob Newhart show, one of the members of a therapy group was late for the nth time and Bob polled the other members on an appropriate response. Mr Peterson (John Fiedler – about as un-prepossessing as they come) said “I think he should be killed.” Always useful when discussing some trivial offense. ---
**Author:** ![HeidiKay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9fc348/32.png) [@HeidiKay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeidiKay)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/230 "2003-12-23T11:13:07Z")
I was so bummed when I asked my boss for my 30th birthday off so that I could go to Carousel and Renew, all I got was a blank stare (and my birthday off, I think I scared him). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/231 "2003-12-23T14:06:37Z")
When bowling and someone throws a magnificent ball that misses two pins and goes in the hole, I shout, \*\* " It’s in the hole."\*\* like Carl, from Caddyshack. A very obscure one from a Marx Brother’s Film: \*Have you heard 'Montreal." “No” “I’m a dreamer, Montreal.” \* ( I’m a dreamer, aren’t we all." No one has ever gotten it and it will not stop me from using it. And the ever popular \*\* 42 \*\* usually followed by, " \*So long and thanks for the fish. \* I pretty much believe that my life is cliches, quotes and pop culture references. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/232 "2003-12-23T14:10:15Z")
Ooooh, **aramis** I’ve used, "\* We’re the pros from Dover \*\* for a long time. Sadly, no one, it seems has read the book or seen the Original MASH. Points for **aramis** and **Shirley** 🙂 These points have no monetary value in the real world. ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/233 "2003-12-23T14:11:57Z")
“I want to decide who lives and who dies.” Another for “Ever hear of origami? It’s a pterodactyl!” “Maybe we can all move to Pennsylvania.” “Goooooood Yogi.” “What, behind the rabbit?” “Allo.” “Did you say 'Hello”?" “No, I said ‘Allo’” Come inside, have some tea." There are many more, but to list them would be a might bit humiliating. It’s a sickness. ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/234 "2003-12-23T14:30:11Z")
**NoClueBoy:** No worries, this isn’t a contest…and if it is, I’m not so sure I’d brag about winning… One more that I’ve found myself using lately: Some of my female friends have a habit of making some kind of annoying comment, then seeing my reaction and saying, “We still love you, Robu.” My response: “Yes, but in a depressingly platonic way.” (mis)quoted from “Notting Hill,” if I recall correctly. They never get it. Even after having been told several times. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/235 "2003-12-23T15:52:17Z")
Mr. singular and I do this constantly. One of our favorite sources is _Rustler’s Rhapsody_: “Ostrich!” “Got yerself a little Greek friend, do ya?” "You sure that’s a _confident_ heterosexual? Corky Sinclair in _Waiting For Guffman_: “I hate you…and I hate your _ass face!_” Stoned mumbling Brad Pitt in _True Romance_ “Condescend to _me_, motherfucker…” But lately, the pathetic farewell speech of Rupert on _Survivor_ has taken a stellar role - there’s almost no situation that can’t be enriched by a bitter sigh of “So much for my dreams.” :wally So many more - I’ll have to think about this and get back to you. ---
**Author:** ![epolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@epolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epolo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/236 "2003-12-23T15:56:21Z")
Chewing on a madeline from a plate of such at a recent holiday party, I was heard to remark “Now that really makes me think back.” I frequently ask people “Where you at, man?” but almost never get the reply “Stratosphere, baby, stratosphere. I’m stacked up over La Guardia and I ain’t comin’ down for _no_body, not even you.” But when asked where I heard something, I will reply “The Drum. You know, vibrations.” When asked if I mean something one way or another way, I will respond “Take it in what sense thou wilt,” to which I expect to hear, “They must take it in the sense they feel it.” Which naturally would prompt me to say “Aye, and they will feel me while I yet stand, for 'tis known that I am a pretty piece of flesh.” Actually, that dialogue is good in many situations. Occasionally, with a properly versed interlocutor, I can get through quite a bit of it. Should I ever have occasion to engage in fisticuffs, I will be hard pressed to decide between the equally compelling battlecries of “It’s clobberin’ time” and “Spoooooon!!” When my siblings complain about my treatment of them as children, I remind them of when I used to tie them up and shove needles under their fingernails. My favorite statistic shows how lazy my “cow-orkers” are. Fully 40% of sickdays are taken on Mondays and Fridays. When others complain to me about malfunctioning technology, I often ask if the user has “set thip-crinkle-spoit to off”. Sometimes I feel I have to remind people that “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law,” or that “Love is the law, love under will.” I’ve also been known to crave “French Canadian Bean Soup” and remark on the number 23, but I would never condecend to point out the fnords. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/237 "2003-12-23T17:28:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Chewing on a madeline from a plate of such at a recent holiday party, I was heard to remark "Now that really makes me think back. Tee hee. As for the other… Oh, mamma, mamma, please don’t tear; don’t rip; that is something that shouldn’t be spoke about; that is right. I know what I speak of. ---
**Author:** ![cedric45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@cedric45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cedric45)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/238 "2003-12-23T20:15:14Z")
From “The Man From Snowy River”. The character Spur has prepared some wallabie (sp?) stew for the character Clancy. When asked if it was good, Clancy says, “In a toxic, festering sort of way.” ---
**Author:** ![cedric45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@cedric45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cedric45)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/239 "2003-12-23T20:19:55Z")
From “Return To Snowy River” Jim Craig to Allister Patton “I believe you’d call that a live prisoner.” ---
**Author:** ![Starrman10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Starrman10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starrman10)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/240 "2003-12-23T20:39:56Z")
Any time I need a generic name, it’s 'John Cocktossun" from ‘Fletch’. I also say ‘a buck two eighty’ all the time for how much things cost, but I don’t remember where it is from. From ‘The Simpsons’, whenever a clear grammatical mistake is made I say ‘oooh, he card read good.’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498.md?page=13)