# 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:** 46

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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:** [June 26, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/901 "2023-06-26T14:30:54Z")

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It takes a good marksman to shoot you at 50 feet from a moving car, but it takes a great marksman to miss… while making it look like they are trying to hit you… or markswoman as the case may be.

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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:** [June 26, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/902 "2023-06-26T15:46:41Z")

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Where’s Gibbs?

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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:** [June 26, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/903 "2023-06-26T16:45:27Z")

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Your one night as a bachelor and you go to the grocery store? That’s lame.

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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:** [June 27, 2023, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/904 "2023-06-27T17:27:54Z")

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My mother didn’t raise me to be a bachelor father, but that’s exactly what I am.

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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:** [June 27, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/905 "2023-06-27T22:20:10Z")

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Bachelor Chow. Now with flavor!

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**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 28, 2023, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/906 "2023-06-28T11:57:22Z")

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Fat gives things flavor.

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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:** [June 28, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/907 "2023-06-28T19:11:28Z")

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Me, my single aim in life is to send the finest, best presented food through that door there. That’s it! And if it’s at the cost of a few human lives, well, that’s fine by me.

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**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:** [June 29, 2023, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/908 "2023-06-29T10:05:02Z")

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“What would we do without you?”  
“Perish in burning hot magma.”

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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:** [June 29, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/909 "2023-06-29T14:42:04Z")

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I have a cool dad.

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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:** [June 29, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/910 "2023-06-29T14:52:20Z")

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He may not be interesting to you or someone else, because he is not your father. Just mine.

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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:** [June 29, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/911 "2023-06-29T16:08:39Z")

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Father Knows Best

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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:** [June 29, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/912 "2023-06-29T18:44:09Z")

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Make Room for Daddy

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**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:** [June 30, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/913 "2023-06-30T13:35:39Z")

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I know this is from you, Sokka! Toph can’t write!

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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:** [June 30, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/914 "2023-06-30T14:59:29Z")

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This is a duel about honor. And when you lose, it’s going to be because I am a better writer, I’m a better competitor, and I’m a better man.

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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:** [June 30, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/915 "2023-06-30T15:11:42Z")

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But is he the best man? No, because I’m the Best Man.

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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:** [June 30, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/916 "2023-06-30T19:18:24Z")

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Are you always gonna be John-Boy? When are you gonna be John-Man?

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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:** [July 1, 2023, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/917 "2023-07-01T05:27:49Z")

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I think the word you’re looking for is “john.”

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**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:** [July 1, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/918 "2023-07-01T13:00:02Z")

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Nevertheless. I was wondering if you and your friends are “doing business” here at the Jiffy Park? You know, what do you people call it? Turning tricks? Anyway, see the thing is, I found a condom in my car.

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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:** [July 1, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/919 "2023-07-01T19:27:18Z")

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Twenty-two years of blind loyalty, pulling their dirty tricks, bribing foreign officials, toppling regimes… not so much a word of thanks.

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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:** [July 1, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/920 "2023-07-01T21:41:32Z")

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That’s what the money’s for!

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