# 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:** 141
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2801 "2025-11-23T05:52:27Z")
One-Adam 12, One-Adam 12, 2-11 in progress, Jones Jewelers, 2701 Cameron. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2802 "2025-11-23T14:48:58Z")
Oh ho, among his crimes were the Brinks armored car robbery in Massachusetts, the Getty kidnapping, the murder of Albert Anastasia, the sinking of the Andrea Doria. ---
**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 24, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2803 "2025-11-24T21:18:18Z")
I said convicted. I’m innocent. I’m… I’m a doctor, a pediatrician. I \*was\* a doctor. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2804 "2025-11-24T21:36:13Z")
I’m a doctor, not a brick layer. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2805 "2025-11-24T22:23:06Z")
I once captained my own starship. ---
**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 25, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2806 "2025-11-25T20:00:58Z")
Is it my imagination or is Captain Stubing in a rotten mood? ---
**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 25, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2807 "2025-11-25T23:11:41Z")
- I believe you. You say there’s no reason for the mood, there’s no reason for the mood. Simply nuts. - Or bipolar. That’s very big nowadays. ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2808 "2025-11-26T14:35:20Z")
What are you, nuts? It’s not even close to my birthday. ---
**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 26, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2809 "2025-11-26T18:52:31Z")
Forget it, Forman. You’re not a cheater. You know, a wise man once said, “Know thyself.” That man’s name was Tater Nuts. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2810 "2025-11-28T18:43:28Z")
Oh, wait! Fig Newtons were named after a town in Massachusetts, and not the scientist. ---
**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 28, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2811 "2025-11-28T21:44:56Z")
They’re just Fig Newtons, guys. Don’t get all freaky on us. ---
**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 28, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2812 "2025-11-28T22:00:57Z")
“I know him. He’s a good guy.” “He can’t kick.” “He’s a _really_ good guy.” “Can’t kick.” “He’ll get picked up by another team.” “No, he won’t.” “Why not?” “Because he CAN’T KICK!” ---
**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 28, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2813 "2025-11-28T23:41:04Z")
No one can take his place on this team and no one can take his place in our hearts. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2814 "2025-11-29T14:53:39Z")
And hey… Let’s be careful out there. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2815 "2025-11-29T18:49:17Z")
Let’s get dangerous! ---
**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:** [November 29, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2816 "2025-11-29T18:59:13Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, and especially little children, I’m glad you’re all here to witness what may very well be my grisly death. Tonight, my most dangerous stunt: I will death-defy both nature and gravity by leaping over this tank of water filled with man-eating great white sharks, deadly electric eels, ravenous piranha, bone-crushing alligators, and, perhaps most frightening of all, the king of the jungle: one ferocious lion! ---
**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 29, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2817 "2025-11-29T22:24:11Z")
He still brings that maverick spirit to everything he does, which is why he got to the top of his industry. Some people think it’s the greatest stunt he ever pulled off. ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2818 "2025-11-30T12:32:10Z")
“Spirit, they are gone! Spirit, they are vanished.” “Not quite all.” ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2819 "2025-11-30T16:27:46Z")
I’m not making this up just because it’s Halloween, but after Barney’s closed for good in 2020, it became, yes, a Spirit Halloween. ---
**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 30, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/2820 "2025-11-30T20:07:23Z")
[_at false seance, introducing Ethel in disguise_] This is Madam Ethel Mertzola. She’ll be our medium tonight. She’s psychopathic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=140) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=142)