# Speak to me in...TV quotes! **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 112
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2221 "2025-02-27T15:18:56Z")
You may go down in history as the first man to ever lead a loaded goat out of town. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2222 "2025-02-27T16:11:28Z")
I’ll be Mother of the Year. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2223 "2025-02-27T20:03:03Z")
[beep] me sideways. I have raised some thoughtful children. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2224 "2025-02-28T01:09:44Z")
We are not here, so leave your message after the beeeeeep! ---
**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:** [February 28, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2225 "2025-02-28T16:10:49Z")
I have a message and a question. The message is from the Doctor, and the question is from me. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2226 "2025-02-28T22:11:19Z")
Please state the nature of the medical - oh, it’s you. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2227 "2025-03-01T16:32:03Z")
I gave him his medical options, and he decided on what was best for him. Don’t put this on me. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2228 "2025-03-01T17:02:39Z")
Well, a lot of people don’t look at it like you were sick, Hawkeye. A lot of people look up to you here. They admire you and they kinda feel they want to be like you. And… Gee, when you walk out on an operation, they kind of feel like you’ve let them down. If they can’t depend on you, well, they figure, well, maybe there’s no point in depending on anything. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2229 "2025-03-02T14:25:08Z")
One thing I’ve learned is to never play Operation against a surgeon for money. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2230 "2025-03-02T21:05:12Z")
Congratulations, you’ve won the first game of “Research Lab.” Here’s your celebratory sno-cone. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2231 "2025-03-03T16:13:31Z")
You don’t wanna give up your research. It’s cozy, the comfort of obsession. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2232 "2025-03-04T20:51:01Z")
- It’s a family curse, this obsession with women. The men in our family are weak. Why couldn’t they all be more like Cousin Antony? - Oh, Ma, Cousin Antony had an obsession with men in cowboy hats who hung around Times Square. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2233 "2025-03-04T21:36:07Z")
“Cousin Itt? From, eh, who’s side of the family?” “He’s from both sides of the family. He hasn’t quite found himself.” ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2234 "2025-03-06T06:03:40Z")
“Mr. Terwilliger, come quick! There’s trouble down to the cement mixer! Cousin Merle and me was playing fetch with Geech, that’s our old smellhound, and…” “Geech gone to Heaven, Mister Terwilliger.” “Oh, Cousin Merl, really!” ---
**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:** [March 6, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2235 "2025-03-06T14:35:56Z")
Trust me. I know cement and it’s not that hard. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2236 "2025-03-06T16:29:04Z")
Jethro, you can take that pink chicken back out to the cement pond. We’re goin’ out and shoot us a nice, big, fluffy soufflé. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2237 "2025-03-06T20:14:52Z")
I’ve heard that before, but then, the next thing you know I’m hiding in my bedroom, blaring a Richard Feynman lecture while my mom is shouting that Jesus would forgive her if she put ground glass in my dad’s meatloaf, and my dad’s on the roof skeet-shooting her Franklin Mint collectible plates. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2238 "2025-03-06T22:28:01Z")
Feynman delighted in making music. I never percuss for pleasure. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2239 "2025-03-09T16:04:36Z")
I’m just gonna go home, lie down and listen to country music. The music of pain. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2240 "2025-03-09T18:54:09Z")
It is incorrect to say that that song was wrote. It is incorrect to say that that song was written. It is VERY correct to say that that song was ROTTEN. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=111) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=113)