# Speak to me in...TV quotes!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [November 17, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107 "2022-11-17T22:21:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2101 "2024-11-28T16:58:39Z")

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Hey! Hey, guys! Great Idea. Why don’t we, right, decide whose going to answer the door, right?  
And then that person can go and answer it, right?  
And then, and then find out who it is and who they want to see, right?  
And then, like, come back in here and tell whoever it is that there’s somebody who wants to see them, yeah?

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2102 "2024-11-30T00:20:48Z")

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How can you stand there in the middle of all this mess and utter those four horrible words, “I’ve got an idea”?

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2103 "2024-12-02T22:06:56Z")

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I hate mess and I hate disorder.

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2104 "2024-12-03T02:47:29Z")

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I can’t stand it when people leave toast crumbs on the butter.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2105 "2024-12-03T03:09:26Z")

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- “To whoever made the microwave mess: The microwave is a SHARED kitchen appliance. By not cleaning it up, you are basically telling whoever follows that their time is less valuable, as they will have to scrub out your disgusting splatter. Sincerely, Disappointed.” Well, that is just obnoxious.

- Yeah. Wait, the note or the microwave?

- The note. So holier than thou.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2106 "2024-12-03T21:48:40Z")

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You have to run the kitchen. You can’t let the kitchen run you.

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2107 "2024-12-03T23:10:55Z")

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- Gee, your kitchen always looks so clean.
- Why, thank you, Eddie
- My mother says it looks as though you never do any work in here.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2108 "2024-12-04T01:18:47Z")

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Then kill me now. Go, go on into the kitchen, and take the carving knife, and stab me here! Right here! Now! Please! It would hurt me less than what you just said!

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2109 "2024-12-04T23:28:47Z")

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So last night in the kitchen. You said you didn’t know where the paprika was, but you did know. So why were you lying about the paprika?

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2110 "2024-12-06T19:16:18Z")

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“Frank, you lied ; that’s worse than stealing!”

“Well I think stealing is worse than lying.”

“And you did both!”

“So I should know.”

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2111 "2024-12-09T17:07:03Z")

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But I didn’t steal the check or forge it. I just found it.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2112 "2024-12-10T15:46:21Z")

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- Sheldon, why do you have all these unopened paychecks in your desk?
- Because most of the things I’m planning to buy haven’t been invented yet.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2113 "2024-12-11T14:29:04Z")

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Impossible. Why I’ve spent every minute of the last 58 years of my life on this invention.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2114 "2024-12-13T22:12:33Z")

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Young man, I’ve been studying insects since I was eight years old. You know what they used to call me in school? “Creepy Crawley”!

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2115 "2024-12-13T22:25:15Z")

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Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can!

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2116 "2024-12-14T17:48:17Z")

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Spider-Man, where are you coming from?  
Spider-Man, nobody knows who you are!

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2117 "2024-12-14T22:22:41Z")

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[_Nick wants to find out who Heath is_] Who are you?.. I said WHO ARE YOU?

I’m your father’s bastard son!

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2118 "2024-12-15T14:09:55Z")

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My son is a teenager. He thinks with his hormones. I was just trying to get him to not make a terrible mistake.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2119 "2024-12-15T19:00:15Z")

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According to Miss Jensen, you said that she was a slave to her biological urges and called her ‘an egg salad sandwich.’

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2120 "2024-12-15T22:02:31Z")

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Alexis goes through men like they were cheeses with an expiration date.

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