# 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:** 113
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2241 "2025-03-09T20:34:37Z")
It’s a little wrong to say a tomato is a vegetable. It’s very wrong to say it’s a suspension bridge. ---
**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 10, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2242 "2025-03-10T14:30:01Z")
Anyone can see us on the bridge, but cross by water and the current could take us, or I could escape down the river. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2243 "2025-03-10T17:43:23Z")
I took Howard to the beach once. He almost burst into flames like a vampire. ---
**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 11, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2244 "2025-03-11T13:52:59Z")
I am a vampire, madam. But I am also a Collins, and I swear by all I hold sacred I will not harm anyone under this roof. ---
**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 13, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2245 "2025-03-13T17:17:50Z")
No matter the hardship or the loss, this family does not stand down, ever. ---
**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 13, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2246 "2025-03-13T20:44:16Z")
Raising a family isn’t a dead end, it’s a staircase. It goes on and on higher than the eye can see. And when you kids are on that staircase, somehow, magically, you take us with you every step of the way. ---
**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 15, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2247 "2025-03-15T21:59:19Z")
Look, Gino, we may be a bunch of dirt-poor hicks, but we got something a lot of other people miss. My mother and father happen to really love each other, and they happen to love their children. I’ve done an awful lot of thinking about what makes this family work and I think it’s because there’s love enough to go around and some to spare. ---
**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 15, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2248 "2025-03-15T22:39:36Z")
You know, Kelly and I want to have a family and all, but we figured we’d wait until after that raise you promised. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2249 "2025-03-16T02:26:44Z")
Our babies will be smart and beautiful. ---
**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 16, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2250 "2025-03-16T13:44:06Z")
Rob, listen, all newborn babies look like Ralph Martoni. I mean, the hospital could give you any kid and you wouldn’t know the difference. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2251 "2025-03-19T03:37:18Z")
Is it me, or is that the ugliest baby you’ve ever seen? ---
**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 19, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2252 "2025-03-19T18:39:10Z")
Oh, yeah? Well, this baby is different. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2253 "2025-03-19T22:07:12Z")
- Hello, I’d like the department of missing babies. - Please hold… - (piped in music) 🎶 _Baby come back…_ 🎶 ---
**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 20, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2254 "2025-03-20T13:59:13Z")
Lillian said Emma was wearing a ring that night. A gold swan with a diamond eye. But it was\*missing from the body. ---
**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 21, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2255 "2025-03-21T23:05:45Z")
Missing items, one pair ear clips, diamond cluster, value 485 dollars. One pink Marquis diamond dinner ring, eight hundred dollars. One brooch, one ladies watch, one diamond studded poodle collar. For a dog? ---
**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 22, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2256 "2025-03-22T13:42:46Z")
While, from a pink factory with a green intruder, we go to brick-colored stately Wayne Manor and a red Batphone. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2257 "2025-03-22T13:53:23Z")
Holy atomic pile, Batman! ---
**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 22, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2258 "2025-03-22T17:13:55Z")
Huh. A cape. What was a man with a cape doing with my father? What was my father doing with a man in a cape? Why a cape? ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2259 "2025-03-23T14:03:41Z")
Anyone not in a red cape, consider them armed and extremely dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2260 "2025-03-23T16:21:27Z")
Listen here, Ernest T. Bass! This is Deputy Fife! I’m armed and if you don’t go home, I might just take a shot at you! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=112) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=114)