# 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:** ![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:** [October 6, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2721 "2025-10-06T15:32:32Z")

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Oh, you actually thought I meant coffee? That’s so sweet.

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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:** [October 7, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2722 "2025-10-07T16:52:37Z")

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And with the algebra lesson complete, George Michael pivoted back to his overtly sexual seduction.

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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:** [October 7, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2723 "2025-10-07T19:16:25Z")

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Each week, this man J-Light teaches his protégé Bishop a chess lesson. Now, David thinks a code is maybe being passed within the lesson.

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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:** [October 8, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2724 "2025-10-08T01:48:22Z")

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Kotter, these kids couldn’t pass a blood test without cheating.

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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:** [October 8, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2725 "2025-10-08T11:35:21Z")

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Keep your bleeding heart out of my courtroom.

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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:** [October 9, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2726 "2025-10-09T21:13:34Z")

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Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial!

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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:** [October 10, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2727 "2025-10-10T13:47:15Z")

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When I refer to you in my article, would you prefer imbecile or incompetent?

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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:** [October 10, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2728 "2025-10-10T17:12:14Z")

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How about this? You kiss ass at a drug company for fifteen years, you let one little strand of bacteria slip that causes a major disease, and suddenly, it’s good bye lab coat, hello mop.

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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:** [October 10, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2729 "2025-10-10T19:21:28Z")

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Here, I am janitor. In former Soviet Union, I am physicist.

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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:** [October 12, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2730 "2025-10-12T13:33:39Z")

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Since you’re a physicist, I wouldn’t mind if you stayed.

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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:** [October 12, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2731 "2025-10-12T18:24:00Z")

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Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, science!

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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:** [October 12, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2732 "2025-10-12T21:52:04Z")

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I just hope medical science can cure me.

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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:** [October 13, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2733 "2025-10-13T13:57:42Z")

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Let’s cure her with sunshine and puppies!

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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:** [October 13, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2734 "2025-10-13T22:31:22Z")

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It’s a scale. That’s what your head weighs. It’s not. Come on. Just laugh. A little laugh. Laughter is the best medicine. A priest and a rabbi are leg wrestling.

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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:** [October 14, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2735 "2025-10-14T13:45:36Z")

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You know what’s the matter with you guys? You laugh faster than the speed of sound.

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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:** [October 14, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2736 "2025-10-14T14:47:21Z")

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- What the hell is wrong with you?
- I’m the Flash. I just knocked 30,000 times.

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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:** [October 15, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2737 "2025-10-15T00:45:59Z")

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I want you to open that door right now. Our daughter’s in there, and she’s drunk.

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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:** [October 15, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2738 "2025-10-15T19:43:57Z")

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My daughter is on the phone with her boyfriend.

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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:** [October 15, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2739 "2025-10-15T20:46:06Z")

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Conversation leads to HPV!

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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:** [October 15, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2740 "2025-10-15T21:21:24Z")

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. But please, if you don’t mind, for the sake of your old dad, keep the door open three inches.

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