# 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:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2481 "2025-06-29T19:01:14Z")

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Hold on. Just because the nice man is offering you candy, doesn’t mean you should jump into his windowless van.

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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:** [June 30, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2482 "2025-06-30T12:22:14Z")

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Come away with me, Lucille, in my great big automobile.

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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:** [June 30, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2483 "2025-06-30T15:44:25Z")

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My father was William Avery. He was killed yesterday in an automobile accident. You may have read about 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:** [June 30, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2484 "2025-06-30T17:20:36Z")

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- _angrily_ ] Why shouldn’t I yell at you? You lost your driver’s license, didn’t you?
- Well, gee, Dad, it wasn’t _all_ my fault.

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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:** [June 30, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2485 "2025-06-30T17:41:33Z")

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- YAAAAAAAAAA!
- What’s going on out there?
- I think Bart’s stupid again, mom.

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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:** [July 1, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2486 "2025-07-01T21:24:23Z")

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“I like ‘Bart’ better. Can we go with Bart?”

“Bart’s cool.”

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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:** [July 2, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2487 "2025-07-02T04:22:50Z")

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Bart. Bart, Bart, Bart, Bart, Bart, Bart, Bart.

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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:** [July 2, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2488 "2025-07-02T13:26:37Z")

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They’re not gone. Ollie, Bart, Dinah - They just vanished off the grid, but they’re…

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2489 "2025-07-02T23:45:04Z")

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We need more “Bort” license plates in the gift shop.

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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:** [July 3, 2025, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2490 "2025-07-03T05:31:45Z")

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That concludes our tour. The exit is this way, through the gift shop.

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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:** [July 3, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2491 "2025-07-03T13:16:38Z")

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Jason, this is Hell. Of course there’s a gift shop.

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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:** [July 3, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2492 "2025-07-03T15:26:47Z")

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Oh what fresh hell is this?

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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:** [July 3, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2493 "2025-07-03T15:41:21Z")

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Go to hell!  
You first.

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2494 "2025-07-03T15:53:55Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Go to hell!!  
> You first.

Wasn’t that from a movie? I seem to remember it in The Three Musketeers (1993) with Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, and Tim Curry.

in play …

🎶 You’ll pay for every crime  
Knee-deep in electric slime  
You’ll suffer till the end of time  
Enduring tortures, most of which rhyme  
Trapped forever here in Robot Hell! 🎶

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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:** [July 3, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2495 "2025-07-03T16:05:42Z")

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Get connected, Electric Company!

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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:** [July 3, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2496 "2025-07-03T17:53:59Z")

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> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#):
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> Wasn’t that from a movie?

Ah crap, yes; I do this all the time. It’s actually from “Tombstone”.

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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:** [July 3, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2497 "2025-07-03T20:58:02Z")

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[_after the power company man has shut off the Waltons’ electricity_] I’ve been so fearful that the day would finally come when we couldn’t pay our bills.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2498 "2025-07-03T21:02:48Z")

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Hey, we’re just like the Waltons. We’re praying for an end to the Depression, too.

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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:** [July 3, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2499 "2025-07-03T21:12:21Z")

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I feel your pain.

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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:** [July 4, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2500 "2025-07-04T04:49:32Z")

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Oh, the pain, the pain!

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