# 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:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2321 "2025-04-14T15:02:25Z")

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That’s the Commando 450. I don’t sell that.

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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:** [April 14, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2322 "2025-04-14T22:32:41Z")

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Why don’t you pick out something else? On the house.

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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:** [April 14, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2323 "2025-04-14T23:15:07Z")

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(never mind–I got mixed up between movies and TV)

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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:** [April 15, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2324 "2025-04-15T02:01:19Z")

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There are a lot more rich old ladies out there and Daddy needs a new linear accelerator.

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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:** [April 15, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2325 "2025-04-15T17:20:50Z")

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Steven, you don’t get rich if you don’t take chances. When are you going to grow up and become somebody in this business?

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2326 "2025-04-15T17:27:55Z")

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Don’t ever ask me about my business.

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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:** [April 16, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2327 "2025-04-16T13:34:53Z")

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This is… eating eating. It’s not the same as business eating.

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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:** [April 17, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2328 "2025-04-17T19:16:58Z")

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- Pigs, glutton
- Customers!
- How could people eat this much?
- Well, this is not all from one person,
- It’s disgusting. It’s making me sick to my stomach.

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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:** [April 17, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2329 "2025-04-17T23:27:43Z")

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His stomach must be made of scrap iron.

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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:** [April 18, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2330 "2025-04-18T13:14:11Z")

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To wash and iron everything in the laundry chute?

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**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:** [April 18, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2331 "2025-04-18T17:46:28Z")

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[Cleaning the lint trap on the laundry room drier] Yech! It’s like cleaning the building’s belly button.

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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:** [April 18, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2332 "2025-04-18T18:59:15Z")

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- Laundry services?
- Your poor mother has to touch your underwear.

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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:** [April 18, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2333 "2025-04-18T19:25:10Z")

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Oh, la-di-da! Look what I found in my laundry bag. All of Felicity Kendal’s underwear, and it needs a good wash.

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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:** [April 19, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2334 "2025-04-19T14:47:06Z")

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I’m not a monster! Wash, turn the ship around.

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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:** [April 19, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2335 "2025-04-19T15:18:44Z")

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Count Floyd here. It’s Saturday night, time for another “Monster Chiller Horror Theater!” Owoooooo!

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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:** [April 20, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2336 "2025-04-20T19:10:45Z")

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The Loch Ness Monster’s so big no one’s ever lost it.

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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:** [April 21, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2337 "2025-04-21T00:20:02Z")

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A monster? I mean, she looks ill, but I think it’s a bit of a leap to say it’s the work of a monster. [monster screams] There’s a monster in there.

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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:** [April 21, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2338 "2025-04-21T13:43:33Z")

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Now that we know Ben is going somewhere - he’s leaping his way to get there - we have to treat this like a marathon and not a sprint.

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**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:** [April 21, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2339 "2025-04-21T15:58:04Z")

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Man… woman… birth… death… infinity.

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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:** [April 21, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2340 "2025-04-21T23:06:37Z")

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Me, doctor. You, nurse.

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