# 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:** 51

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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 21, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1001 "2023-07-21T16:23:18Z")

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Holy fish hooks, Batman! We’re caught now!

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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 21, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1002 "2023-07-21T17:56:36Z")

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Batman to all points. I could use some air support. Since I can’t fly. At all… Now would be good.

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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:** [July 21, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1003 "2023-07-21T18:51:03Z")

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Look! Up in the sky!

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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 21, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1004 "2023-07-21T22:48:02Z")

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Today great passenger planes plow through those skies above the Virginia mountains. Last year, one of them brought my mother to see us in California where I now live. We’re expecting her again soon, and no doubt our thoughts and our memories will return to those early times when that era we called ‘depressed’ was so very, very good.

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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 22, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1005 "2023-07-22T14:18:11Z")

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You’re the world’s best marriage counselor! You could save every marriage in California.

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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 22, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1006 "2023-07-22T16:10:06Z")

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When he says wife, he means possession.

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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 22, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1007 "2023-07-22T16:32:29Z")

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I swear, I’ve never seen a woman so deranged! She was possessed! I sure hope no woman ever goes so crazy about me.

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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 23, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1008 "2023-07-23T20:35:48Z")

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A father doesn’t have to be possessed to terrorize his children.

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**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 23, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1009 "2023-07-23T20:52:47Z")

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I’m glad I’m not cold, cruel ogre that mommy and daughter think I am; I appreciate all the _faith_ you have in me!

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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 23, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1010 "2023-07-23T21:32:51Z")

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Kid: _But why can’t we just make a law against flag-burning?_

Amendment: _Because that law would be unconstitutional. But if we changed the Constitution…_

Kid: _Then we could make all sorts of crazy laws!_

Amendment: _Now you’re catching on!_

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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:** [July 23, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1011 "2023-07-23T21:46:18Z")

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“Biden’s open border policies are a deadly betrayal of our nation. When I am president, it will be the policy of the U.S. to take down the cartels.”

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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 24, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1012 "2023-07-24T13:54:45Z")

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No, sugarcubes. I’ll bet you he’s been dropping that acid we’ve been hearing about. All right son, you’re under arrest

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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 24, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1013 "2023-07-24T15:51:11Z")

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Book 'em, Danno.

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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:** [July 24, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1014 "2023-07-24T16:09:19Z")

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In a moment, the results of that trial.

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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 24, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1015 "2023-07-24T17:14:23Z")

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You are _not_ #the father.

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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 24, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1016 "2023-07-24T22:43:52Z")

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Dad’s been tricking us into reliving Father’s Day every day for the past six months!

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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:** [July 26, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1017 "2023-07-26T23:13:50Z")

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Father Knows Best

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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 27, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1018 "2023-07-27T04:14:17Z")

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Inside the envelope was a picture of your dad holding you the day you were born. On the back he wrote: Howard, my son, my greatest gift.

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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 27, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1019 "2023-07-27T14:26:56Z")

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To Erin Hunnicutt, I leave a list of all the young men your daddy took care of while he was in Korea. Many of them have him to thank for being alive today. I want you to understand why he had to be away from you those first years of your life. I hope I have the chance to give you this list in person, but around here you never know.

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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 27, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1020 "2023-07-27T17:37:35Z")

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“I’m sorry about your cat.”

“Thank you.”

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