# 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:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1301 "2023-10-26T15:21:50Z")

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Smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you?

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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 26, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1302 "2023-10-26T18:21:23Z")

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Remember who it was who feeds you.

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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 27, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1303 "2023-10-27T02:15:06Z")

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Whenever the wind whistles through the leaves, I’ll think: Lowenstein.

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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 27, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1304 "2023-10-27T15:44:02Z")

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Yeah, and I’m Jerry Cougar Mellencamp.

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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 27, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1305 "2023-10-27T18:59:37Z")

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Hello, Jerry.

Hello… Newman.

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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 27, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1306 "2023-10-27T21:17:13Z")

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“Hello, Colonel Bottle, this is Major Bellows, do you have the Nelson there?”

“Major, have you been drinking?”

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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 27, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1307 "2023-10-27T23:51:23Z")

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I swear, if you start clocking my alcohol intake, I will start taking shots.

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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 28, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1308 "2023-10-28T16:57:33Z")

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Ah, yes, the hangover. The free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle.

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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 28, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1309 "2023-10-28T18:20:48Z")

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That’s not excitement. That’s a hangover.

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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 28, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1310 "2023-10-28T23:47:05Z")

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I once mixed [tequila](https://www.supercall.com/spirits/tequila/tequila-101), absinthe and red wine. Came out pink. I’d never puked my favorite color before.

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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 29, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1311 "2023-10-29T19:21:51Z")

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Oh, look, it’s the cholermus.

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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 29, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1312 "2023-10-29T20:45:32Z")

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You’re looking very thoughtful, Truly. You look like a man who’s thinking about life and death and what it’s all about.

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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 29, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1313 "2023-10-29T22:19:34Z")

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I hate to break it to you but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.

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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 30, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1314 "2023-10-30T20:37:32Z")

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What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany’s at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier.

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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 31, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1315 "2023-10-31T04:51:05Z")

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A bed, even a temporary bed, is always oriented with the headboard away from the door. It serves the ancient imperative of protecting oneself against marauders.

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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 31, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1316 "2023-10-31T15:30:27Z")

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This seat is the sovereign soil of my bottom.

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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 31, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1317 "2023-10-31T20:02:41Z")

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I want the chair I was sitting in the night you called me to tell me I had a grandson. I want the chair I was in all those nights, when your mother used to wake me up with a kiss after I’d fallen asleep in front of the television.

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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:** [October 31, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1318 "2023-10-31T23:42:45Z")

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So come on and get out of my chair, Meathead.

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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:** [November 1, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1319 "2023-11-01T02:13:46Z")

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The cushion is merely symbolic. I’m giving you my spot on the couch

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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:** [November 1, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1320 "2023-11-01T16:51:28Z")

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It’s another miracle of Saturnalia.

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