# 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\
**Page:** 37

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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:** [April 29, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/721 "2023-04-29T11:51:23Z")

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Barney, his wife has decided not to press charges, so I let him go after giving him that spiel you always give about “not losing one’s perspective.”

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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:** [April 29, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/722 "2023-04-29T15:29:05Z")

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Don’t exactly work that way, Big Rick, but if they try at the trial passing you off as the mastermind, you tell 'em what you just said.

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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:** [April 29, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/723 "2023-04-29T16:40:13Z")

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You chose to come here, you chose to talk, to belittle my vocation, just as you chose to become a pickle. You are the master of your universe and yet you are dripping with rat blood and feces, your enormous mind literally vegetating by your own hand.

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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:** [April 29, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/724 "2023-04-29T18:08:36Z")

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Let’s get to know each other. Let’s talk.

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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:** [April 29, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/725 "2023-04-29T18:12:58Z")

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Are we going to talk?  
We could talk. . .  
I’ll go if I don’t have to talk.

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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:** [April 29, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/726 "2023-04-29T18:13:06Z")

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I had to join one of those fancy-schmancy health clubs. You know, the ones where it’s real expensive to join but it’s worth it, ‘cause you get to see a lot o’ people that you don’t know naked!

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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:** [April 29, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/727 "2023-04-29T18:17:53Z")

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I’m not taking a soak in that human bacteria frappe you’ve got going there.

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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:** [April 30, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/728 "2023-04-30T20:32:55Z")

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I shower twice a day and wash my hands as often as I can.

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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:** [April 30, 2023, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/729 "2023-04-30T21:13:49Z")

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Trim that nose hair, soldier!

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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:** [May 1, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/730 "2023-05-01T18:21:17Z")

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The army ain’t asking, soldier.

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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:** [May 1, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/731 "2023-05-01T19:19:07Z")

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Commander, how would you and your men like two weeks with nothing to do but play gin rummy, go surfing, have luaus with steel drum bands, dancing girls, hmm?

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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:** [May 1, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/732 "2023-05-01T20:43:55Z")

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Helping these kids is very important to us. I want to stop every one of them from growing up to be a crummy, shaggy, no-good bum.

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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:** [May 2, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/733 "2023-05-02T00:38:10Z")

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I would have succeeded, if it weren’t for those meddling kids!

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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:** [May 2, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/734 "2023-05-02T15:14:44Z")

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Wouldn’t you like to be a big brother to someone like me?

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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:** [May 2, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/735 "2023-05-02T18:12:59Z")

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They signed a pact: love of brother for brother.

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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:** [May 2, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/736 "2023-05-02T18:14:50Z")

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Take me to my brother or I’ll do something Alfred Hitchcock never dreamed of.

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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:** [May 3, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/737 "2023-05-03T15:37:11Z")

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Colonel Potter, Sir! Corporal Klinger. I’m section 8, head to toe. I’m wearing a Warner bra. I play with dolls. My last wish is to be buried in my mother’s wedding gown. I’m nuts. I should be out.

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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:** [May 3, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/738 "2023-05-03T16:26:27Z")

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Oh, Frank, my lips are hot! Oh, kiss my hot lips!

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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:** [May 3, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/739 "2023-05-03T16:31:22Z")

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We dated two years before we held hands.

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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:** [May 3, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/740 "2023-05-03T19:17:29Z")

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Is that your hand on my ass?

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