# 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:** 139
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2761 "2025-10-27T19:03:01Z")
(Answering phone) Hello, Daddy’s phone. […] No, you sound like a little girl. (Hangs up) ---
**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 28, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2762 "2025-10-28T20:55:57Z")
I can’t believe I missed your calls! It’s that incompetent girl at work. ---
**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 28, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2763 "2025-10-28T22:51:31Z")
Look, dear, I don’t know you that well, but you’re the new girl, and you’re not much, so you might as well enjoy it while it lasts. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2764 "2025-10-29T18:42:33Z")
Yeah, I get it. You got a lot of cats and you gave 'em cute Jewish names. ---
**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 29, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2765 "2025-10-29T18:49:28Z")
The cat won’t fit in the toaster. Never mind, I’ll make a peanut butter sandwich. ---
**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 29, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2766 "2025-10-29T21:15:08Z")
Yeah, and she’s one to talk about reputations, too. Between you and me, before she married my brother, she was easier to make than a peanut butter sandwich. ---
**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 30, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2767 "2025-10-30T14:03:39Z")
This is just a little Peyton Place and you’re all Harper Valley hypocrites! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2768 "2025-11-02T03:55:53Z")
I can’t believe it. I’m being shunned. Just like back in Hanover. Just like with the Amish. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2769 "2025-11-02T14:22:57Z")
Sometimes I don’t believe you or the counselor. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2770 "2025-11-02T20:37:48Z")
It’s odd. We rarely see this kind of gap between achievement and aptitude, except in families where at least one of the parents is in prison. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2771 "2025-11-03T15:10:58Z")
This woman is me, but with a temper. And what happens if she slips up and goes to prison again? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2772 "2025-11-03T19:14:53Z")
Then kill me now. Go on now, go into the ham, and take the carving knife and stab me here, here, now! It would hurt me less than what you just said! ---
**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:** [November 4, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2773 "2025-11-04T20:06:23Z")
“Why, that’s fish-catchin’ bait! That’s the idea, you know, to catch fish.” “That looks more like a piece of ham from our lunch.” ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2774 "2025-11-07T14:59:49Z")
Nine thousand dollars doesn’t buy the leisurely lunch it used to. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2775 "2025-11-07T17:36:29Z")
Hullo there, children. How are my little crackers today? ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2776 "2025-11-08T15:58:56Z")
Do be good boys and girls for your parents. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2777 "2025-11-08T17:31:19Z")
“We’ve played with our parents.” "Now we want to play with _yooooou."_ ---
**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:** [November 9, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2778 "2025-11-09T14:46:36Z")
Listen, either you let us play, or we quit. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2779 "2025-11-09T22:33:25Z")
- [_the Family is backstage, about to make their debut in Las Vegas. Shirley is having stage fright_] - [_Through clenched teeth_] - I’m having trouble moving my mouth. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2780 "2025-11-10T15:06:47Z")
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