# 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:** 65

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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:** [October 14, 2023, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1281 "2023-10-14T04:06:35Z")

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I was expecting Mulder. Glad to see I got Scully, ha ha.

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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:** [October 14, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1282 "2023-10-14T14:57:33Z")

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Blanche, you’re always laughing at George and, believe me, if he was your husband you’d find nothing to laugh about!

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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:** [October 14, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1283 "2023-10-14T15:38:27Z")

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George, your nose is so high you need a 10 foot pole to pick it!

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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:** [October 15, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1284 "2023-10-15T18:21:54Z")

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“My Partner. My Wife. My Life”. My God.

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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:** [October 15, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1285 "2023-10-15T18:46:04Z")

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Willis, I’d like you to meet my new partner, David Starsky.

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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:** [October 17, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1286 "2023-10-17T22:26:30Z")

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You just have to know how to arrest them and still make them like you. We call it technique.

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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:** [October 17, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1287 "2023-10-17T22:42:58Z")

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Hey, can you sign this arrest report for Augustine and the buyer?

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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:** [October 22, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1288 "2023-10-22T18:06:34Z")

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If you want real police brutality, wait until I tell you what they served me for lunch.

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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:** [October 22, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1289 "2023-10-22T18:08:47Z")

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Maris flew to Vienna for a new beauty treatment. She wanted to get it done before the doctor is extradited.

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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:** [October 22, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1290 "2023-10-22T20:14:10Z")

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Oh, screw beautiful! I’m brilliant! If you want to appease me, compliment my brain.

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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:** [October 23, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1291 "2023-10-23T02:25:31Z")

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One slip of the hand and suddenly I’m sitting in the Engineering Department, building doodads with Wolowitz.

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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:** [October 23, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1292 "2023-10-23T14:41:18Z")

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You can make all the laws you want. He’s still gonna bother people.

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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:** [October 23, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1293 "2023-10-23T14:54:27Z")

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I’d better go. I’m late for my daily spanking at One Police Plaza.

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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:** [October 23, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1294 "2023-10-23T15:54:14Z")

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I’m the Police Commissioner. I hear things.

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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1295 "2023-10-23T21:40:32Z")

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In Plymouth, everybody knows everything.

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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:** [October 23, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1296 "2023-10-23T22:43:52Z")

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_Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name…_

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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:** [October 24, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1297 "2023-10-24T21:09:50Z")

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“Name?”

“Arthur P. Dietrich.”

“And the P stands for?”

“I was never told.”

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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:** [October 25, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1298 "2023-10-25T16:20:08Z")

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Unfortunately, Dietrich, we’re not all blessed with your certainty. So if you don’t mind, I’m afraid we’re all just going to have to muddle through it with all our questions and our doubts.

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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:** [October 25, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1299 "2023-10-25T19:34:02Z")

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You are, without a doubt, the most repulsive individual that I have ever met. I would shake your hand but I fear it would come off.

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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:** [October 26, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1300 "2023-10-26T00:50:15Z")

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Linda Dennison, you’re a smelly old ape.

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