# 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:** 16
**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:** [January 30, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/301 "2023-01-30T20:26:31Z")
Stretch was always one of the uppest guys you ever met, see. Always laughing, telling jokes himself. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/302 "2023-01-30T22:43:37Z")
Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters! ---
**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:** [January 30, 2023, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/303 "2023-01-30T22:51:07Z")
Not in the face! Not in the face! ---
**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:** [January 31, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/304 "2023-01-31T00:59:57Z")
Well, I figure, anyone who gets up an hour early to put on eyeliner, fake eyelashes, and plastic nails isn’t someone who wants to hear the truth. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/305 "2023-01-31T03:26:30Z")
I call you farmers 'cause who else would be up at this hour? ---
**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:** [January 31, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/306 "2023-01-31T14:18:14Z")
[Les Nessman](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761687/?ref_=tt_ch) : I’m here with hundreds of people who have gathered to witness what has been described as perhaps the greatest turkey event in Thanksgiving Day history. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/307 "2023-01-31T15:58:48Z")
Take a look around you, Ellen; we’re at the threshhold of hell! Oops: that’s a movie quote, sorry. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/308 "2023-01-31T19:25:01Z")
(Okay, playing off the Les Nessman quote) I can tell you when it’s happenin’, (Past, present, future tense) Ooh! Tell you more about what’s happenin’. (In honor of Schoolhouse Rock’s 50th anniversary) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/309 "2023-01-31T19:31:07Z")
(OK, I’ll play!) Well every person you can know _The Beatles and the Monkees, Chubby Checker_ And every place that you can go _Like a neighborhood or a store_ And anything that you can show _Like a dime or a record machine_ You know they’re nouns A noun’s a special kind of word It’s any name you ever heard I find it quite interesting A noun’s a person, place, or thing ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/310 "2023-02-01T14:08:54Z")
Harry, I am not a _thing_. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/311 "2023-02-01T15:57:37Z")
He’s been thing-napped! ---
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/312 "2023-02-01T16:22:49Z")
No soup for you! One year! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/313 "2023-02-01T17:45:35Z")
A lot could happen in one year. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/314 "2023-02-01T18:38:43Z")
One Day At A Time ---
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/315 "2023-02-01T20:11:03Z")
Tuesday has no feel. Monday has a feel. Friday has a feel. Sunday has a feel. I have always said Tuesday is my least favorite day of the week. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/316 "2023-02-01T20:48:59Z")
I’m eighty years old on Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/317 "2023-02-02T04:57:24Z")
You know, Mr. Bundy, I’ve worked at this library for 44 years. I was eligible for retirement 3 years ago. Do you know why I stayed? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/318 "2023-02-02T13:26:51Z")
I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: kindly, discreet, unattractive. We didn’t know anything about her private life. We didn’t WANT to know anything about her private life. She didn’t HAVE a private life. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/319 "2023-02-02T16:20:27Z")
We are The Library. It lives and breathes inside each and every one of us. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/320 "2023-02-02T17:04:40Z")
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