# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**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 4, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/41 "2020-10-04T05:02:27Z")
Very good! I’m impressed! 👌 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/42 "2020-10-04T06:00:05Z")
Sounds like Walter Cronkite. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/43 "2020-10-04T06:40:23Z")
“He’s the guy!” “He must’ve really hurt a helicopter in his previous life.” ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/44 "2020-10-04T06:45:18Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Sounds like Walter Cronkite. It is. That was his sign-off when he was THE anchorman that everyone else aspired to be. \*_ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 6, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/45 "2020-10-06T20:33:37Z")
Here are the answers to the ones I’ve posted. Some have already been identified: “How did you find out about the guy in the park?” Kramer, after being interrogated by the LAPD for murder on _ **Seinfeld** _ . (It had been suggested that he was traumatized by an incident involving candy when he was a child.) “Four _thousand_ throats may be cut in one night by a running man.” One of Kang’s Klingons in _ **ST: TOS** _ ’s “Day of the Dove.” “And miss the expression on your face?” Greg Morris to Dick van Dyke when they finally meet in the _ **DvD** _ episode “That’s My Boy?” (Rob hadn’t known he was black.) “Some people thought he was the sexiest man alive.” _ **St Elsewhere** _ ’s Dr Wayne Fiscus commenting on the late Dr Bobby Caldwell, played by Mark Harmon, after Harmon had been named TSMA by _ **People** _ magazine. “The word is _awry_, with an accent on the second syllable.” Lew Marie, Ann’s father, after looking up the word in the dictionary on _ **That Girl** _ . (Don Hollinger had laughed at his earlier incorrect pronunciation while they were having breakfast together.) “Is everything to scale?” Emma Peel to John Steed after he had been shrunk by an eccentric inventor’s machine in _ **The Avengers** _ episode “Mission: HIGHLY Improbable.” “It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and I’m wearing Milk-Bone shorts.” Norm, taking his seat on _ **Cheers!** _ “No Sherman tank is built like _that_ !” _ **McHale’s Navy** _ , when a Soviet liaison officer (played by Sue Ane Langdon) shed her uniform for a sarong. “Stop this criminal act!” Caped crimefighter “Captain Freedom,” just before being shot to death on _ **Hill Street Blues** _ . “She makes you look like a dog.” Ted Baxter to Mary Richards, talking about the woman (“Whitney”) who was coming on to him on _ **MTM** _ . “I’ll stand at the bar. I shouldn’t wish to attract attention.” Adam West in _ **Batman** _ , upon entering a discotheque in costume in the series’ pilot episode “Hi Diddle Riddle.” “It ain’t her shoulders that have been poppin’ these buttons.” Granny commenting on teenaged Elly May Clampett in the pilot episode of _ **The Beverly Hillbillies** _ . “He’s dead, Jim!” (NOT the one you probably think.) Paris (Leonard Nimoy) to Phelps on _ **Mission: Impossible** _ after one of their contacts was whacked. “No, no! Not ‘cow.’ ‘BULL.’” Officer Bull Shannon attempting to communicate with “Miss Sweden” by drawing pictures on _ **Night Court** _ . “Oh, it’s a button! And it says ‘us.’” Sgt Schultz, examining a piece of evidence (a “U.S.” button) found by the Gestapo on _ **Hogan’s Heroes** _ . “Why do you want to irritate your corn?” Lisa Douglas, talking to husband Oliver about irrigation on _ **Green Acres** _ . “We wuz FRAMED!” Angel Martin, commenting on his and Jim’s criminal conviction on _ **The Rockford Files** _ _._ “Hmph. Good thing you don’t keep guns in the house.” Homer Simpson, commenting on the Flanderses at a marriage retreat on _ **The Simpsons** _ . (Maude would sometimes underline passages in Ned’s Bible instead of hers.) “Urethra!” Kelly Bundy’s way of saying “Eureka!” on _ **Married … with Children** _ . “Boy, leave it to you to take a beautiful thing like drunken sex and make it sound dirty.” Charlie Harper to brother Alan on _ **Two and a Half Men** _ . “It might explain why the two of you have created an ersatz homosexual marriage to satisfy your need for intimacy.” Psychiatrist Beverly Hofstader, analyzing Raj and Howard’s relationship on _ **The Big Bang Theory** _ . “I need a hacksaw.” Jack Bauer, preparing to decapitate a child molester/murderer after shooting him dead on _ **24** _ . (He needed the head to convince a terrorist he wasn’t just kidding around.) “Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness doesn’t know where to shop.” Mrs Howell reacting to a statement by the Professor on _ **Gilligan’s Island** _ . “Number Six is uncooperative.” One of the charges brought at the trial in the finale of _ **The Prisoner** _ . “Shielded by the power of my complete indifference.” Brent Leroy to Wanda Dollard on _ **Corner Gas** _, in reference to some trivial matter. “You can’t kill him! He died 150 years ago!” Gen Heywood Kirk to Complex security guards, in reference to buccaneer Victor Jory in _ **The Time Tunnel** _’s “Pirates of Deadman’s Island.” “That’s right, punk. I care more about the skin on a sausage.” Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) while interrogating a hood (Barry Russo) on _ **The Untouchables** _ (1959). “He looked like Ilya Kuryakin.” Leroy Jethro Gibbs, when asked what Dr Donald “Ducky” Mallard looked like when he was younger on _ **NCIS** _ . (David McCallum played Ilya on _ **The Man from UNCLE** _ in the ‘60s.) “When you were little, did your mother ever make you cream of tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches?” Roxanne Melman (Susan Ruttan) coming on to Arnie Becker (Corbin Bernsen) on _ **LA Law** _ . “Isn’t it enough that she’s eternally sipping from the font of your perpetual adoration?” Lilith making fun of Niles and Maris’s wedding vows on _ **Frasier** _ . “Yes, you did! You invaded Poland!” Basil Fawlty berating his hotel guests in the _ **Fawlty Towers** _ episode “The Germans.” “Sorry, old man. We don’t understand your banter.” _ **Monty Python’s Flying Circus** _ , the RAF sketch. “’’Shoot if you must this old grey head, but spare my union suit,” she said!’” Bullwinkle the Moose, reciting the poem “Barbara Frietchie” in the _Bullwinkle’s Corner_ segment of _ **Rocky and Bullwinkle.** _ “Massa say yo’ name is _Toby_ !” Lou “Fiddler” Gossett to LeVar “Kunta Kinte” Burton in _ **Roots** _ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/46 "2020-10-06T22:44:57Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > “He must’ve really hurt a helicopter in his previous life.” That’s from _E.R._ but I don’t remember the character who said it. “Just one more thing…” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/47 "2020-10-06T22:57:45Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > “He must’ve really hurt a helicopter in his previous life.” > > That’s from _E.R._ but I don’t remember the character who said it. Right! I can’t remember who said it, either. I found a script online, but there were no names attached to the lines. I was surprised at how hard it was to find, since it seemed not very obscure. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/48 "2020-10-06T22:58:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > “Just one more thing…” Columbo’s tag phrase ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/49 "2020-10-06T22:59:25Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > “He’s the guy!” Should I give the answer for this one? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/50 "2020-10-06T23:46:52Z")
I think so. I don’t know it, and it’s been a few days. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/51 "2020-10-07T00:14:41Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > “He’s the guy!” > > Should I give the answer for this one? It’s the line Monk used in every episode when he figured out the culprit. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/52 "2020-10-07T13:38:29Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > “Just one more thing…” > > Columbo’s tag phrase Correct. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/53 "2020-10-07T14:56:27Z")
“But I’m feeling much better now” ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/54 "2020-10-07T15:58:04Z")
_Night Court_, the father of Harry Anderson’s judge character, an eccentric recurring character with mental health issues. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-tv-lines/922004/55 "2020-10-08T01:59:14Z")
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