# 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:** ![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:** [December 10, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1421 "2023-12-10T21:39:49Z")

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Overture, curtain lights! This is it, we’ll hit the heights. And oh what heights we’ll hit! On with the show, this is it!"

You know, it is so sad. All your knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons.

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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:** [December 11, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1422 "2023-12-11T00:47:02Z")

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I knew I should’ve taken that left turn at Albuquerque!

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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:** [December 11, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1423 "2023-12-11T15:43:58Z")

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-Ethel Mae’s very big here in Albuquerque.

-She’s big everywhere.

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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:** [December 11, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1424 "2023-12-11T16:48:45Z")

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That’s extremely bad. How long has he been in Albuquerque?

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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:** [December 11, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1425 "2023-12-11T17:22:48Z")

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I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque!

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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:** [December 11, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1426 "2023-12-11T19:26:42Z")

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You made a U-turn in the Holland Tunnel? Oh, brother, that must-a been somethin’.

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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:** [December 11, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1427 "2023-12-11T21:15:34Z")

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Did _I_ do that?

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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:** [December 11, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1428 "2023-12-11T21:36:27Z")

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If I dood it, I’ll get a whippin’ … I dood it!

_(originated on radio, but Red Skelton also used it on TV in his ‘Mean Little Kid’ sketches)_

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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:** [December 11, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1429 "2023-12-11T22:04:43Z")

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Well, if there’s one thing Jethro’d like better than fightin’ it, it’d be eatin’ it!

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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:** [December 12, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1430 "2023-12-12T20:05:25Z")

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So please go away… and please re-arrange the contents of this plate so that someone in the latest stages of malnutrition will at least take a passing interest in 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:** [December 12, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1431 "2023-12-12T22:15:32Z")

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Roast beef, mozzarella cheese, corn and raisins. Luckily, it had only been in the stomach a few hours, so it was only partially digested.

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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:** [December 13, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1432 "2023-12-13T20:53:44Z")

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My guy loves corn puddin’,  
I’ve got the recipe;  
So if he wants my puddin’,  
He’ll have to marry me.

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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:** [December 14, 2023, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1433 "2023-12-14T04:44:21Z")

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I couldn’t have imagined  
How good my life would get  
From the moment that I met you  
Bernadette

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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:** [December 14, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1434 "2023-12-14T21:32:20Z")

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We can, Ted. We’ve had the blood test. We have the license and it’s still valid. We can call and get a minister over here. We can call our friends and tell them to come over here. What else do we need? So what do you say, buster, you still wanna get married?

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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:** [December 14, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1435 "2023-12-14T22:07:43Z")

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Being a Slayer doesn’t give me a license to kill.

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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:** [December 16, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1436 "2023-12-16T01:49:05Z")

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So? So now _you’re_ a cop killer, Ricky. Yeah. You’ve become the thing that even your old man knew had to be wiped out.

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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:** [December 16, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1437 "2023-12-16T16:13:35Z")

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Ricky, my birthday isn’t for eight months yet.

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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:** [December 16, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1438 "2023-12-16T19:18:41Z")

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Happy birthday to me… happy birthday to… me…

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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:** [December 16, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1439 "2023-12-16T20:31:14Z")

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[_to Erica,freaking out about Adam’s birthday party_] Where’s the phone? I’m calling the f\*\*\*\*\*\* clown.

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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:** [December 17, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-tv-quotes/975107/1440 "2023-12-17T20:55:21Z")

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Some people have been known to sleepwalk, or sleep-drive while on that medication. Cam’s reaction has been much worse.

(Sigh) I sleep clown.

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