# 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:** 127
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2521 "2025-07-10T20:06:41Z")
Sorry to bother you ma’am. FBI. We’re looking for a Sheldon Lee Cooper. ---
**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 10, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2522 "2025-07-10T21:32:43Z")
- You mean, you mean some other kid gave the policeman _your_ name? - That’s what he did, all right. - Boy, I didn’t think any of your friends could think that fast. ---
**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 11, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2523 "2025-07-11T13:44:12Z")
I’m a police officer and you are busted! ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2524 "2025-07-11T15:33:57Z")
In a moment, the results of that trial. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2525 "2025-07-11T15:38:37Z")
You know what I’m talking about. Haley needs a real lawyer, like Perry Mason. ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2526 "2025-07-11T16:54:14Z")
I don’t want to go to jail, Mr. Grant. I’m afraid to go to jail. I’ve never been to jail, Mr. Grant. I never even had to stay after school! ---
**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 12, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2527 "2025-07-12T19:56:05Z")
Oh, uh, Mr. Case, whenever you make out your report, I surely would appreciate it if you didn’t mention the doilies in our jail. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2528 "2025-07-12T21:45:17Z")
The poor guy’s had a tough time. He had to spend the entire afternoon in jail wearing that suit. ---
**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 12, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2529 "2025-07-12T22:49:23Z")
Dear, I’m not defending it. I agree with you. But we made a bargain with him. Now, you said he could buy a suit and you wouldn’t criticize it. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2530 "2025-07-13T14:48:23Z")
- Do you think this hat looks bad? - Oh! I think it looks different. Like something you’d wear in Indiana… Jones, and the Temple of Bad Hats. ---
**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 13, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2531 "2025-07-13T16:49:02Z")
I’ll get that rotten brat, and those rotten hats, if it’s the last spell I do! ---
**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 13, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2532 "2025-07-13T23:43:01Z")
- I’ve never been more serious in my life. One Re, Or Re, Ickery Ann, Phillison, Follison, Nicholas John. Queevy quavy English Navy, Stickum, stackum Buck! B-U-C-K spells ‘Buck’ and out goes you! - Well, you naughty, naughty little witch! ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2533 "2025-07-14T15:23:01Z")
“Which is ridiculous 'cause witches they were persecuted women power love the Earth and I’ll be over here.” ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2534 "2025-07-14T15:39:14Z")
You got involved with a witch, and when you do that…weird stuff happens. ---
**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 15, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2535 "2025-07-15T17:25:03Z")
- **Beverly:** Oh, it’s happening. You’re gonna get on that tour bus, take it into the suburbs, and put on a private concert for Adam and Dana with all their favorite songs. - **Weird Al:** Such as? ---
**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 16, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2536 "2025-07-16T13:51:43Z")
He’s just nervous about the concert. ---
**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 16, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2537 "2025-07-16T18:17:25Z")
Well, sure. You got a big part in the play. All your friends are gonna be there. Expect you got some butterflies in your stomach, huh? ---
**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 17, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2538 "2025-07-17T13:38:33Z")
When I change into a butterfly, it will be forever. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2539 "2025-07-17T14:29:10Z")
I believe Sheldon is in a larval stage of his species, and someday will spin a cocoon and emerge with moth wings and an exoskeleton. ---
**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 17, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2540 "2025-07-17T16:44:42Z")
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