# 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\
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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:** [August 20, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1101 "2023-08-20T19:12:06Z")

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Steve, this is the age of diplomacy. Try using some.

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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:** [August 21, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1102 "2023-08-21T17:43:33Z")

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He left his manners back at the fraternity house.

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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:** [August 21, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1103 "2023-08-21T17:45:55Z")

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Don’t you go down to the Delta House,  
‘Cause the things they’re saying and the things they do  
They’re only going to scandalize a girl like you.

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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:** [August 21, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1104 "2023-08-21T18:02:20Z")

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Oh, back off, Blanche! Not all of us are classified by the Navy as a friendly port.

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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:** [August 21, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1105 "2023-08-21T18:17:33Z")

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**Burt Reynolds** : Which one’s the slut?

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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:** [August 21, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1106 "2023-08-21T21:47:43Z")

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And you’re gonna love Mary Ellen. She’s really smart and cute and funny, and I can’t tell you how I know this, but she’s not opposed to threesomes.

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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:** [August 21, 2023, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1107 "2023-08-21T21:48:45Z")

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Goodnight, John-Boy!

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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:** [August 22, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1108 "2023-08-22T22:29:30Z")

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Tomorrow, just like today  
The moon, the bear, and [the Big Blue House  
Will be waiting for you to come and play.

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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:** [August 23, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1109 "2023-08-23T01:04:18Z")

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Blue Moon Detective Agency. Have things gone awry? Is it solutions you seek? / We’re eager to help, but we’re closed a few weeks. / So if you’re despondent, and your life’s out of whack, / We hope you’re still troubled when we all get back.

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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:** [August 23, 2023, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1110 "2023-08-23T22:50:00Z")

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The great detective, Remington Steele? He doesn’t exist. I invented him.

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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:** [August 23, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1111 "2023-08-23T23:50:15Z")

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Nobody sees Charlie except me. He’s a very private person.

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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:** [August 24, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1112 "2023-08-24T14:25:41Z")

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Charlie always orders too much Chinese food anyway.

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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:** [August 24, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1113 "2023-08-24T14:30:42Z")

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You got me blacklisted at Hop Sing’s?!

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**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:** [August 24, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1114 "2023-08-24T18:11:05Z")

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Next time you bling baby home, you bling diaper boy. Hop Sing got no time for changing diaper.

_(yeah, I know it’s pidgin English and borderline racist, and we’re supposed to be better than that now… to the point that TVLand even puts up a disclaimer before showing reruns of shows like Bonanza and Gunsmoke. But this is the way the line was delivered, so I’ll be damned if I’m gonna change it.)_

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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:** [August 24, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1115 "2023-08-24T20:34:28Z")

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Don’t believe your mother, you believe me. Many is the time I changed you, little girl, and it wasn’t always wee-wee. Sometimes it was this here. [Holds up two fingers]

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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:** [August 24, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1116 "2023-08-24T21:53:13Z")

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For the first few years of your life, your mom worked while I was a stay-at-home dad.

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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:** [August 25, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1117 "2023-08-25T02:15:01Z")

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Say good-bye to your mom, she belongs to the people now.

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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:** [August 25, 2023, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1118 "2023-08-25T10:22:37Z")

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_Went back to my palace fast  
Now I’m the fool walking 'round with the phallus cast  
Like Wolverine, I try to be a loner  
But they think a [brother] got an adamantium boner_

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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:** [August 25, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1119 "2023-08-25T18:12:01Z")

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Oh, Hell to the no! Look, I’m not down with all this background singing nonsense. I’m Beyoncé, I ain’t no Kelly Rowland!

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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:** [August 25, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1120 "2023-08-25T18:54:58Z")

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Hey baby I hear the blues a-callin’,  
Tossed salad and scrambled eggs!

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