# 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:** 50
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/981 "2023-07-14T21:14:17Z")
Jay, it sounds like you’re saying your son-in-law’s name is Phyllis. ---
**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 15, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/982 "2023-07-15T15:53:09Z")
Who lights the lamps of Chinatown just by walking in view? Who? Phyllis; Phyllis; Phyllis… It sure isn’t you! ---
**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 15, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/983 "2023-07-15T19:28:53Z")
You never went for a walk? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/984 "2023-07-15T20:00:27Z")
You’re not a race walker at all. You’re nothing but a common Jogger! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/985 "2023-07-15T21:13:18Z")
Since when did you take up jogging? ---
**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 16, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/986 "2023-07-16T18:04:20Z")
I’m planning on joining a gym near my house, okay? ---
**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 16, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/987 "2023-07-16T20:03:44Z")
[in gym\*] Just think, two months ago I didn’t know what dumb-bell meant. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/988 "2023-07-17T01:06:24Z")
Oh, yeah, I’m a gym member. I try to go four times a week, but I’ve missed the last… twelve hundred times. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/989 "2023-07-17T14:05:20Z")
I just run til I’m hungry, then I stop for a bearclaw. ---
**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 17, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/990 "2023-07-17T16:06:28Z")
Donut, you crazy, man. Yo, Donut. ---
**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 17, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/991 "2023-07-17T19:08:38Z")
It is not your loyalty that I am questioning, but your sanity. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/992 "2023-07-17T19:24:34Z")
I’m The Wiz, and nobody beats me! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/993 "2023-07-17T22:50:54Z")
They say don’t meet your heroes. Don’t peek behind that curtain of fame and celebrity. Because if you do, you’ll see them as they really are: degenerate carnival folk. ---
**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 18, 2023, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/994 "2023-07-18T00:12:03Z")
Yeah and there’s this guy that swallows all kinds of knives and all sorts of neat stuff like that. ---
**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 18, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/995 "2023-07-18T19:33:02Z")
“Bag of tricks?” “Bag of knives.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/996 "2023-07-19T02:08:02Z")
“Mr. Mainway, this is simply a bag of jagged, dangerous glass bits.” ---
**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 19, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/997 "2023-07-19T21:04:28Z")
It’d be dangerous. You’d be risking your life. You’d have to trust me implicitly. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/998 "2023-07-20T17:35:10Z")
You steer the ship the best way you know. Sometimes it’s smooth. Sometimes you hit the rocks. In the meantime, you find your pleasures where you can. ---
**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 20, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/999 "2023-07-20T22:56:40Z")
All the man had to do was paint a sailing ship. That was his whole job and he got the rigging wrong. ---
**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 21, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1000 "2023-07-21T15:13:49Z")
Uniform? You’ll wear dungarees and a rubber apron! You’ll live in the foc’sle. Your job will be to cut bait. You’ll go to bed smelling like fish, you’ll get up in the morning smelling like fish, you’ll eat fish, you’ll clean fish, and you’ll _hate_ fish. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=51)