# 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:** 59
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1161 "2023-09-04T13:03:28Z")
What’s all this fuss I keep hearing about violins on television? ---
**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:** [September 4, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1162 "2023-09-04T15:04:39Z")
Yay, violence! ---
**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:** [September 4, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1163 "2023-09-04T15:09:22Z")
You never win with violence. You only win when you maintain your dignity. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1164 "2023-09-04T21:43:34Z")
Well, there’s _nothing_ more sophisticated than diddling the maid and then chewing some gum. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1165 "2023-09-04T23:37:07Z")
You can’t be serious? My daughter is marrying a gigolo who’s mother is a criminally insane drug trafficker. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1166 "2023-09-05T00:25:34Z")
I have one son who’s about to become my daughter, another son whom people are trying to kill, I have a lunatic stepson and a dummy living in my home and a husband who won’t make love to me. That’s not life, that’s something by Tennessee Williams! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1167 "2023-09-05T15:29:09Z")
No, NOT adorable. Appalachian. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1168 "2023-09-05T19:24:46Z")
You subscribe to the Appalachian Journal? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1169 "2023-09-05T20:57:19Z")
Haven’t you read the papers? ---
**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:** [September 6, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1170 "2023-09-06T20:47:52Z")
Do you have any conceivable reason for even getting up in the morning? I like to get the Daily News! ---
**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:** [September 6, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1171 "2023-09-06T21:10:49Z")
Hey gorgeous, you see my byline this morning? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1172 "2023-09-07T02:21:34Z")
Hey good-looking! We’ll be by to pick you up later! ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1173 "2023-09-07T20:59:26Z")
No interest in me at all, hombre. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1174 "2023-09-08T00:45:12Z")
Oh yeah? Do you know what Mary Ellen Rogers did? She used The Beaver in order to get Wally to take her to the dance tonight. And don’t look so shocked, because it’s exactly what you predicted she’d do. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1175 "2023-09-08T04:09:27Z")
Shall I pass her a note in study hall? ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1176 "2023-09-08T14:47:05Z")
He’s so romantic. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1177 "2023-09-08T21:11:50Z")
Alexis goes through men like they were cheeses with an expiration date. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1178 "2023-09-09T02:08:35Z")
In summary, Linda, the year listed on the bottle is not an expiration date. So that wine from 1997 should be perfectly safe to drink. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1179 "2023-09-09T16:34:04Z")
Now you’ll hear her drunk voice. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1180 "2023-09-09T17:00:59Z")
You were a disgrace this morning; I can still smell the liquor on your breath. I don’t know how many of those men knew you were hung over, but I certainly did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=58) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=60)