# The TV Show Quote Challenge Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481 "2005-06-02T01:32:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/61 "2005-06-03T16:07:30Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. “If I had a dollar for every brain you didn’t have, I’d have one dollar.” I’m gonna have to guess Bender from Futurama ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/62 "2005-06-03T16:18:44Z")
“I hate fondue - I’m always losing my bread.” --\> My So Called Life “You know, we’re not the only ones destroying trees. What about beavers? You call yourself an environmentalist, why don’t you go club a few beavers?” – The OC ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/63 "2005-06-03T16:19:53Z")
Now to add my own quote: **"I would say I am actually pretty good at avoiding duels"** ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/64 "2005-06-03T16:36:55Z")
1. “Anna, if you tell me to bend like a willow I’m gonna throw up.” > [@Steve Wright](#): > > Then I’ll try a slightly less WA guess (it suddenly came to me last night): Pal Kenzy to Anna Shoun in _Star Cops_? Yes! I really didn’t think anyone was going to get that one. Nice job. That’s such a fantastic line, absolutely right for both characters and the situation. I probably gave it away by typing it in an Australian accent. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/65 "2005-06-03T17:40:01Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > 1. “Snot! Snot! Snot!” Is this Major Frank Burns, on _M_A_S_H\*\*? ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/66 "2005-06-03T17:40:11Z")
#30 Snot! Snot! Snot! - I am 99% sure this was Frank Burns to Hawkeye, on **MASH**. ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/67 "2005-06-03T17:41:26Z")
ahhh, missed it by that much ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/68 "2005-06-03T17:55:32Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > 1. “Anna, if you tell me to bend like a willow I’m gonna throw up.” > Yes! I really didn’t think anyone was going to get that one. Nice job. > > That’s such a fantastic line, absolutely right for both characters and the situation. I probably gave it away by typing it in an Australian accent. I’m mortified that it took me two guesses - I’m supposed to know about these things (heck, I even tackled _Star Cops_ in my over-long reviews thread over on **Una** ’s board … ) Apropos of nothing, I keep getting the feeling that “Spare me your pork-scented lies!” is a Dick Solomon line from _Third Rock From the Sun_, but I’m darned if I can remember the context, if it is … ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/69 "2005-06-03T20:42:13Z")
Since nobody has guessed or attempted, number 34 (“Oh thank God! He’s white!”) is a line from _SOAP_. (The character Mary Campbell says it upon seeing her baby for the first time [in the presence of a black nurse]- until that moment she was afraid he was the child of the space alien who took the form of her husband Burt and had sex with her and would be born silver.) ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@shadowfax33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shadowfax33)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/70 "2005-06-03T20:49:35Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > 1. “BOOGER!” (To make up for the shortness of this line, I’ll add the clue that it’s from a show already named in this thread.) Johnny Fever said it on _WKRP in Cincinnati._ 1. “If I had a dollar for every brain you didn’t have, I’d have one dollar.” _Spongebob Squarepants._ Not sure who said it. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@shadowfax33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shadowfax33)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/71 "2005-06-03T20:50:42Z")
Forgot to post my own: “Meat? Goooooooooooooooooood.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/72 "2005-06-03T20:56:58Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Since nobody has guessed or attempted, number 34 (“Oh thank God! He’s white!”) is a line from _SOAP_. Damn, damn, damn; I should have gotten that one. You couldn’t have used “You want me to get that?” ---
**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/73 "2005-06-03T21:24:43Z")
“Two thousand dollars? For a watch? For two thousand dollars you could get a piano…and a watch” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/74 "2005-06-03T22:07:34Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > Is this Major Frank Burns, on _M_A_S_H\*\*? > [@Gilligan](#): > > #30 Snot! Snot! Snot! - I am 99% sure this was Frank Burns to Hawkeye, on MASH. **Sauron** answered first, but if you want to get anal (and who doesn’t?), **Gilligan** could arguably have it - I’ve been told that **M_A_S\*H** was the movie title, **MASH** was the television series, but that could be mistaken. So I’ll defer to our Canadian judge. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/75 "2005-06-03T22:52:16Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > 1. “I hate fondue - I’m always losing my bread.” I could swear this was George Costanza on “Seinfeld.” It sounds just like something he would say. I’ll throw out a few: “When they weren’t looking, I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.” “Mother, you’re going to wear _clothes_ at your wedding??” “Er now, 'ow’d a penguin git on our tellie?” “Blindfolded, gagged and with both hands tied behind my back!” “Leave it to you to put the ‘pig’ back in pygmalion.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/76 "2005-06-03T23:00:19Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > “Mother, you’re going to wear _clothes_ at your wedding??” Deanna Troy to Lwoxana Troy, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Not 100% on the episode, but I’m pretty sure she was engaged to an entirely too uptight alien, who was positively scandalised by Lwoxana wanting a traditional Betazoid wedding. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/77 "2005-06-03T23:03:26Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > “Er now, 'ow’d a penguin git on our tellie?” Oh…I missed this one. Monty Python’s Flying circus. Two women (Palin and Idle, IIRC…no, wait…maybe Jones and Idle. I’m 99% sure one of them - the one who said that line, in fact - was Idle.), who…have a penguin on the tele. The penguin would them proceed to explode after the news announcer (Gilliam, IIRC) said it was going to. ‘Now it’s about ding-dong-diddly time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode.’ ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/78 "2005-06-03T23:07:22Z")
I thought Chapman and Cleese were the Pepperpots in the penguin-on-the-television bit. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/79 "2005-06-03T23:21:11Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Oh…I missed this one. Monty Python’s Flying circus. Two women (Palin and Idle, IIRC…no, wait…maybe Jones and Idle. I’m 99% sure one of them - the one who said that line, in fact - was Idle.), who…have a penguin on the tele. The penguin would them proceed to explode after the news announcer (Gilliam, IIRC) said it was going to. ‘Now it’s about ding-dong-diddly time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode.’ Both of your answers are correct. And IIRC, it was Jones & Idle in that skit. (the same skit featured the “Death of Mary Queen of Scots” radio programme.) ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481/80 "2005-06-04T02:07:08Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. “I hate fondue - I’m always losing my bread.” **ronincyberpunk** is correct in identifying this quote as _My So Called Life._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-show-quote-challenge-thread/306481.md?page=5)