# The Dr. Gene Scott appreciation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186 "2003-07-31T18:15:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/1 "2003-07-31T18:15:02Z")
I’ll start off with just five words. Five wonderful words. “Get on the damn telephone!” ---
**Author:** ![rmbnxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rmbnxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rmbnxs)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/2 "2003-07-31T18:30:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elmwood \* > \*\*I’ll start off with just five words. > > Five wonderful words. > > “Get on the damn telephone!” \*\* “I’m not doing a damn thing until you people start sending in some damn money; so if you want to see me decline another Greek verb on the big board, you damn well better pick up the phone and send me some green. Praise the Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![rmbnxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rmbnxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rmbnxs)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/3 "2003-07-31T18:34:47Z")
Uh oh–Gene’s gonna be pissed at me: _nouns_ are declined; _verbs_ are conjugated. And now, more video-tape of horses prancing about… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/4 "2003-07-31T18:59:10Z")
I can decline a verb: OTHER: “Would you like a _to run_?” ME: “No thank you, I decline.” (BTW, is “appreciation” really the right term to use for Gene Scott?) ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/5 "2003-07-31T19:08:09Z")
My ex-GF and I used to sit around laughing hysterically at this guy. You had to like him compared to other TV preachers - he minced no words about wanting as much money as he could get. My favorite part was when he would wear two pairs of glasses at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/6 "2003-07-31T19:11:08Z")
Gassendi, I thought I was the only person who remembered that! What the heck was up with that?? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/7 "2003-07-31T19:39:40Z")
He’s on C Band satellite. I see him in passing as the dish swings by. How do you watch him? ---
**Author:** ![rmbnxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rmbnxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rmbnxs)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/8 "2003-07-31T19:48:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gassendi \* > \*\*…My favorite part was when he would wear two pairs of glasses at the same time. \*\* Actually, he’d wear sunglasses on top of reading glasses (not that that is any less strange)–while smoking a cigar and cussing. He should have his own stamp. ---
**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/9 "2003-07-31T19:52:11Z")
He’s been on for at least 20 years, getting more impossibly cantankerous and grizzled each year. “I will now compare for you the power of Jesus and the powers of Spider-Man”. ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/10 "2003-07-31T20:23:29Z")
My husband is more familiar with him than I am, he has this bizarre memory of Scott reading a poem on some Jewish theme and interrupting every few lines to look soulfully into the camera and ask “Why a duck?” ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/11 "2003-07-31T20:56:34Z")
**IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII…** I want to know _I want to know if he will welcome me there_ I do not want _I do not want to be denied_ I want to live _I want to live in that city so fair_ That’s enough for me to know. I do not know the day my saviour will come I must be at the door Completely unintelligable line that according to Gene “Nobody knows what he’s saying there, not even God!” Only call me, oh Lord Cut to Gene sitting in chair Gene: (Long pause) (a few cigar puffs) Play it again. **IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII…** repeat until enough money has rolled in. Forgive me if I messed up, this is based on 18-20 year old memories. My friend and I were fascinated with him from about 1983 (when he would beat the crap out of wind up monkeys for half an hour at a time) to about 1986, when he got kinda boring and was just raising money to buy the “Jesus Saves” building in downtown LA. Checking his website, it looks like he might have gone crazy again. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/12 "2003-08-01T00:30:44Z")
Man, I used to watch that guy for hours, just laughing hystarically. Here’s his [site](http://www.drgenescott.com/home.htm), btw. ---
**Author:** ![Merseybeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Merseybeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merseybeat)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/13 "2003-08-01T02:28:47Z")
**Bill H.** , I’ve never seen this guy before over here - he’s brilliant! Now you’ve posted the link, I’m gonna waste a lot of time on watching him! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/14 "2003-08-01T02:55:57Z")
So what’s his deal? He’s completely insane, right? I’d darkly compare him to a certain popular preacher who became quite famous in 1978, except I’m kind of afraid of him. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/15 "2003-08-01T04:41:34Z")
I was sitting in the bathtub, tuning around the shortwave bands on a pocket radio, when his grizzled voice came over the speaker, like that of an old friend. “An Indian corporation … you have two cows, and you worship them!” Yup. He was telling the entire series of “you’re a nationality and you have two cows” jokes. Aftr he finished, he yelled “GET ON THE TELEPHONE!” Way better than Benny Hinn and the like. He’s got character. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/16 "2003-08-01T06:15:39Z")
Oh, I just remembered another of his phrases: “first fruits”. He wanted returns on any kind of income. Oh, and remember his horses? And he was always cursing every other televangelist out there. I remember once he was cursing and complaining because someone had given Jerry Falwell a gold rolex and noone had given him one. I’ve gotta say though, even though I’m an athiest and found him silly, I also found him kinda bright and I also liked that he didn’t have a problem with profanity, drinking, abortion, homosexuality, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/17 "2003-08-01T06:19:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elmwood \* > \*\*I was sitting in the bathtub, tuning around the shortwave bands on a pocket radio, when his grizzled voice came over the speaker, like that of an old friend. > > “An Indian corporation … you have two cows, and you worship them!” > > Yup. He was telling the entire series of “you’re a nationality and you have two cows” jokes. Aftr he finished, he yelled “GET ON THE TELEPHONE!” > > Way better than Benny Hinn and the like. He’s got character. \*\* So… he’s like an insane homeless person with his own cable access show? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/18 "2003-08-01T22:35:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spurious George \* > \*\*“I will now compare for you the power of Jesus and the powers of Spider-Man”. \*\* And I missed this? Darn. Now I’ll never know if Jesus had web shooters. ---
**Author:** ![moodtobestewed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@moodtobestewed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moodtobestewed)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/19 "2003-08-02T03:00:56Z")
My favorite Dr. Gene moment was when he stormed off the set and they continued to show nothing but his chair and the 1-800 number _for thirty minutes!_ No music. No announcer. No nothing. Just the chair and the number. Possibly the greatest moment in televangilism history. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186/20 "2003-08-02T03:23:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mockingbird \* > \*\*So… he’s like an insane homeless person with his own cable access show? \*\* More like what your alcoholic and senile uncle would be like with his cable access show, except he’s successful enough to buy airtime all over the country and has his own shortwave station. Gene Scott is simply the greatest televangelist of all time, and I watched Oral Roberts when he was in his prime. He’s even better than insane homeless preachers because you don’t have to smell him. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dr-gene-scott-appreciation-thread/192186.md?page=2)