# 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:** ![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 29, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2361 "2025-04-29T22:06:33Z")

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The man is an absolute renegade. He used to be the captain of a tramp steamer down here before the war. He knew every hideout, every remittance man, every saloon keeper in these islands. So, what does Admiral Reynolds go & do? He commissions him. Why, the man is a disgrace.

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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 30, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2362 "2025-04-30T13:23:37Z")

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“Gato & Chat Fur Company. Gato means cat in Spanish and chat means cat in French! Only the Catwoman would choose a hideout with those names.”

“I’m glad you’re up on your foreign languages, Robin, they come in handy when fighting crime.”

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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:** [May 1, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2363 "2025-05-01T19:32:43Z")

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- There’s no need making fun of my English.
- That’s English?

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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:** [May 1, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2364 "2025-05-01T21:35:49Z")

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Me fail English? That’s unpossible.

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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:** [May 2, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2365 "2025-05-02T22:07:42Z")

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To the place where the possible and the impossible meet, to become… the possimpible.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2366 "2025-05-02T22:17:39Z")

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“Okay, so according to this, there’s only one Possible family in Middleton.”

“D’oy!”

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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:** [May 2, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2367 "2025-05-02T23:54:30Z")

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- D’oh!
- A deer!
- A female deer.

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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:** [May 3, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2368 "2025-05-03T16:05:34Z")

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Not bad at all. Made a ton of dough. Pizza dough. It’s a joke we say around the shop because dough is another word for money, but we also cook with it

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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:** [May 3, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2369 "2025-05-03T18:48:25Z")

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This is the thing from the pizza box that keeps the lid from touching the cheese.

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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:** [May 3, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2370 "2025-05-03T20:12:21Z")

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Skyler, can’t we just sit down, like adults, and have a slice of pizza together?

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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:** [May 4, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2371 "2025-05-04T03:31:33Z")

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The meal is the act of sitting down with him. It doesn’t matter what you get, as long as he’s sitting in that restaurant, its a meal.

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2372 "2025-05-04T15:19:37Z")

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You know, it’s not fair that people are seated first come, first served. It should be based on who’s hungriest!

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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:** [May 4, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2373 "2025-05-04T21:02:34Z")

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I know you’re hungry.

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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:** [May 4, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2374 "2025-05-04T23:41:16Z")

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Dinner is served. Dinner is served. A wop-boppa-looba balop-bam-boom.

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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:** [May 5, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2375 "2025-05-05T03:54:30Z")

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No soup for you!

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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:** [May 5, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2376 "2025-05-05T15:38:22Z")

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The soup’s good. Mmm. You cannot even tell it’s fake goat. My vegan son took one bite and accused me of using chicken stock.

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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:** [May 7, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2377 "2025-05-07T00:10:23Z")

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_to an obviously revolted Mr. Drysdale_ ] That’s the thing about salted down possum, it’s just as good the second day. I’m

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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:** [May 7, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2378 "2025-05-07T13:25:07Z")

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Now there ain’t nobody can say more about a possum than I can. After all, I lived six months with a possum and a raccoon too. Sure, that’s where I learned to wash my food afore I eat it.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2379 "2025-05-07T18:56:47Z")

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A human called me a possum! I am NOT a possum!

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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:** [May 7, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2380 "2025-05-07T23:03:41Z")

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What say you, Ferret Face?

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