# 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:** 68
**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:** [November 9, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1341 "2023-11-09T19:33:50Z")
It"s a good source of crude oil for that new refinery of ours. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1342 "2023-11-10T00:22:58Z")
Now to switch on our oil pump for the very first time, here’s our top student: Lisa Simpson! ---
**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:** [November 10, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1343 "2023-11-10T19:34:00Z")
Behold! The power of gravity! ---
**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:** [November 10, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1344 "2023-11-10T19:37:17Z")
So what we need is a bigger gravity magnet than the Earth to suck all the radioactivity out of you. We could use the sun. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1345 "2023-11-12T01:40:05Z")
Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1346 "2023-11-12T21:40:24Z")
Don’t you want the sun to rise tomorrow morning? ---
**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:** [November 13, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1347 "2023-11-13T00:50:45Z")
You mean you guys took the sleeping bags and slept out in a tent last night? ---
**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:** [November 13, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1348 "2023-11-13T01:45:23Z")
**Murray:** And one time… my whole platoon had to drink their own urine. **Bret:** Oh, were you lost? **Murray:** No, we were drunk. It was a party game. I didn’t really like that part of the army. More tea, Jemaine? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1349 "2023-11-13T04:04:59Z")
Leonard, social protocol states when a friend is upset, you offer them a hot beverage, such as tea. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1350 "2023-11-13T15:03:49Z")
There is no pleasure so great as to sit quietly with a cup of tea and possess full knowledge of that which has not yet occurred. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1351 "2023-11-13T15:22:10Z")
Be honest with me. It’s a prank, right? The tea? Like when us tourist folks aren’t around, y’all know it tastes like garbage? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1352 "2023-11-13T16:39:40Z")
Are you kidding? This is just the warm-up prank. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1353 "2023-11-13T21:44:11Z")
I remember one time we had wash hung out to dry, but Trapper stole Colonel Blake’s underwear, strung his shorts from a kite and flew them into enemy territory. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1354 "2023-11-13T22:27:48Z")
I’ll make tea! I’m British: it’s the only thing we know how to do in an emergency! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1355 "2023-11-14T01:41:36Z")
You put them in your coffee and they get all mooshy. Mooshy-mooshy. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1356 "2023-11-14T20:57:19Z")
Attention deadbeat diners. You can’t just sit here all night and only order coffee. This is not a Starbucks. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1357 "2023-11-14T20:58:11Z")
No soup for you! One year! ---
**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:** [November 14, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1358 "2023-11-14T21:24:04Z")
I hate to say this, Gertrude, but I think that somewhere in between the soup and the coffee, you’re gonna get murdered! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1359 "2023-11-15T03:46:12Z")
Well, welcome to Chowder Cottage. I’m sure we’re all gonna be as happy as… clams. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1360 "2023-11-15T23:41:21Z")
If my cottage is this X and we’re this circle, then just put an X here and and an X here and then tic-tac-toe, I win. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107.md?page=69)