# Memorable tv lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 2, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004 "2020-10-02T01:56:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/1 "2020-10-02T01:56:42Z")
Here are some of mine. How many can you identify? Bonus points if you can name the speaker and the situation, in addition to the show. Feel free to add your own: “How did you find out about the guy in the park?” “Four _thousand_ throats may be cut in one night by a running man.” “And miss the expression on your face?” “Some people thought he was the sexiest man alive.” “The word is _awry_, with an accent on the second syllable.” “Is everything to scale?” “It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and I’m wearing Milk-Bone shorts.” “No Sherman tank is built like _that_ !” “Stop this criminal act!” “She makes you look like a dog.” “I’ll stand at the bar. I shouldn’t wish to attract attention.” “It ain’t her shoulders that have been poppin’ these buttons.” “He’s dead, Jim.” (NOT the one you probably think.) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/2 "2020-10-02T02:18:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “He’s dead, Jim.” (NOT the one you probably think.) Okay, this one I got. Paris (played by – wait for it – Leonard Nimoy), on Mission Impossible, speaking to Phelps. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/3 "2020-10-02T02:22:25Z")
**BINGO!!!** _Ding, ding, ding ding!_😃 Here’s a few more: “Oh, it’s a button! And it says ‘us.’” “Why do you want to irritate your corn?” “No, no! Not ‘cow.’ ‘BULL!’” “We wuz FRAMED!” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/4 "2020-10-02T02:34:41Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Okay, this one I got. The story: I never watched Star Trek nor Mission Impossible as kid during their initial runs, but several years later in college. They were in umpteenth syndicated reruns, shown five days a week, with M.I. coming on immediately after S.T. We (I and some other hard-core trekkies) watched in the TV room at the dorm. When that scene happened, just picture everyone in the room ROTFLOAO. So, I wonder how many takes they had to film that scene until the actors could play the whole scene with a straight face. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/5 "2020-10-02T04:12:44Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and I’m wearing Milk-Bone shorts.” Norm! From _Cheers._ ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/6 "2020-10-02T04:24:36Z")
Kee-rect! 👍 A few more: “Hmph. Good thing you don’t keep guns in the house.” “Eurethra!” “Boy, leave it to you to take a beautiful thing like drunken sex and make it sound dirty.” “It might explain why the two of you have created an ersatz homosexual marriage to satisfy your need for intimacy.” “I need a hacksaw.” “Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness doesn’t know where to shop.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/7 "2020-10-02T04:25:39Z")
_As God is My Witness, I thought turkeys could fly_ ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/8 "2020-10-02T05:18:44Z")
“Number Six is uncooperative!” ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/9 "2020-10-02T11:43:42Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “It might explain why the two of you have created an ersatz homosexual marriage to satisfy your need for intimacy.” Raj’s father on _The Big Bang Theory_? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/10 "2020-10-02T11:44:01Z")
_The Prisoner_! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/11 "2020-10-02T11:45:31Z")
Of coure that’s “The Big Guy” from _WKRP in Cincinatti_, the episode where they chucked live turkeys out of a helicopter. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/12 "2020-10-02T12:05:37Z")
Right show, wrong character. 🤔 ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/13 "2020-10-02T12:06:07Z")
Yes! 👍 ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/14 "2020-10-02T12:26:13Z")
“Shielded by the power of my complete indifference.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/15 "2020-10-02T13:41:52Z")
“Eurethra!” is Kelly Bundy. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/16 "2020-10-02T13:49:09Z")
Yes!!! 👍 ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/17 "2020-10-02T13:50:00Z")
“You can’t kill him! He died 150 years ago!” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/18 "2020-10-02T14:21:50Z")
After some discussion, this feels like a better fit for Thread Games. So I moved it over. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/19 "2020-10-02T14:22:39Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “Four _thousand_ throats may be cut in one night by a running man.” Star Trek (TOS): Day of the Dove (I’ve been transported to an alien thread!) ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/20 "2020-10-02T15:15:25Z")
Correct! 👍 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004.md?page=2)