# 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:** 171
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3401 "2026-06-23T01:32:33Z")
I say boy, I say that’s a joke son! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3402 "2026-06-23T01:38:51Z")
You’re dethpicable. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3403 "2026-06-23T01:57:45Z")
What a maroon. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2026, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3404 "2026-06-23T13:30:33Z")
Again, bad students do not get good noodle stars. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3405 "2026-06-23T19:01:18Z")
Of course you realize, this means war. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3406 "2026-06-24T13:36:54Z")
“I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, ‘Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?’ I said, ‘No, but I served in the company of heroes.’” ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3407 "2026-06-24T14:30:42Z")
Well done, Leonard. The true hero doesn’t seek adulation, he fights for right and justice simply because it’s his nature. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3408 "2026-06-24T17:32:03Z")
Frank, you know what a hero is? Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, he’s somebody who’s tired enough and cold enough and hungry enough not to give a damn. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3409 "2026-06-24T19:38:28Z")
"I was a paratrooper, Lieutenant. We’re supposed to be surrounded. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3410 "2026-06-24T20:57:06Z")
We’re experimenting with a new rank: corporal captain. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3411 "2026-06-24T21:05:39Z")
Yoiks! And a-w-a-a-a-a-a-a-y-y-y-y! ---
**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:** [June 25, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3412 "2026-06-25T13:37:40Z")
And away we go! ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3413 "2026-06-25T13:54:26Z")
Welcome to the sun and fun capital of the world, Miami Beach! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3414 "2026-06-25T14:56:59Z")
Miami Beach! At last! Last one in the water’s a rotten egg! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3415 "2026-06-25T18:26:44Z")
You just got to learn to go with the heat, Rico. It’s just like life. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2026, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3416 "2026-06-26T13:34:01Z")
Thanks for not making me watch _Heat_. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2026, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3417 "2026-06-26T15:38:02Z")
Look, Eddie, we toldja before. Mom doesn’t want me takin’ Beaver to those kind of pictures. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3418 "2026-06-26T18:01:58Z")
You know, men can sit through the most pointless, boring movie if they think there’s even the slightest possibility that a woman will take her top off. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3419 "2026-06-26T18:51:54Z")
Look, don’t get sloppy on me. I might just slug you one ---
**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:** [June 27, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/3420 "2026-06-27T14:59:54Z")
Ah, Peg. You’re down here. Damn. Then I was dreaming you ran off with the dwarf down at the bookstore, and I was living in sin with a Playboy centerfold and her eight friends who could speak but chose not to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=170) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=172)