# TV insults **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389 "2012-01-04T16:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/21 "2012-01-04T19:42:10Z")
“What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?” Londo Mollari, Babylon 5 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/22 "2012-01-04T19:51:49Z")
That 70’s Show: “Dillhole”, or worse yet, the dreaded “Double Dillhole”. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/23 "2012-01-04T20:10:31Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > That boy’s about as sharp as a bowling ball. > > He’s got a mouth like a cannon, always shooting it off. > > And about a bazillion more from Foghorn Leghorn. My favourite is “about as sharp as a sack of wet mice”. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/24 "2012-01-04T20:24:55Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > “Up your nose with a rubber hose” (Mister Kotter) Which was a sanitized version of the line from Gabriel Kaplan’s stand-up routine about his own high school days (which inspired the _Kotter_ series): “Up your hole with a mello-roll!” ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/25 "2012-01-04T20:24:55Z")
Hello, Newman. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/26 "2012-01-04T20:40:50Z")
Huh huh…shut up, Dillweed, huh huh. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/27 "2012-01-04T20:47:05Z")
Stifle it, Meathead! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/28 "2012-01-04T21:04:32Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > That 70’s Show: “Dillhole”, or worse yet, the dreaded “Double Dillhole”. MST3K liked to call someone a “Dickweed.” The cops on The Chicago Code liked using the term “Jag Hole.” I thought both had nice rings to them. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/29 "2012-01-04T21:19:10Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > That boy’s about as sharp as a bowling ball. > > He’s got a mouth like a cannon, always shooting it off. > > And about a bazillion more from Foghorn Leghorn. Minor nitpick: Those old Warner Brothers cartoons were actually made for movie theaters, not TV. So these are really “movie insults”. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/30 "2012-01-04T21:27:27Z")
Baldrick, you wouldn’t see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing “Subtle plans are here again!” ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/31 "2012-01-05T00:29:31Z")
Every episode of Deadwood. “hooplehead” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/32 "2012-01-05T00:57:51Z")
“God’ll get you for that, Walter!” “Dingbat!” “I hate spunk!” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/33 "2012-01-05T01:24:57Z")
Chef Gordon Ramsay: “You _bleep_! _Bleep_ing _bleep_!” When he’s not quite so unhappy: “You donkey!” ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/34 "2012-01-05T12:52:26Z")
Ren, to Stimpy: “You _ **EEE** _diot!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/35 "2012-01-05T14:33:34Z")
Jane, you ignorant slut. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/36 "2012-01-05T14:40:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Jane, you ignorant slut. One of the classics! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/37 "2012-01-05T15:26:11Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > That boy’s about as sharp as a bowling ball. > > He’s got a mouth like a cannon, always shooting it off. > > And about a bazillion more from Foghorn Leghorn. I wonder how many of those originated with [Senator Claghorn?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn) ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/38 "2012-01-05T18:13:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I wonder how many of those originated with [Senator Claghorn?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn) We could always [watch](http://youtu.be/fQ35Ajus7MU) and find out. It’s pretty long; I never bothered with viewing more than a few short clips. And I know they were in movie theaters originally, but not in my lifetime. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/39 "2012-01-09T17:04:44Z")
Dr. Smith to Robot: “Bubble-headed booby!” “Pusillanimous pipsqueak!” ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389/40 "2012-01-09T20:27:38Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > Dr. Smith to Robot: “Bubble-headed booby!” “Pusillanimous pipsqueak!” LOL! Thanks for that little stroll down memory lane! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-insults/608389.md?page=3)