# TV show lines that have stuck with you for a very long time. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739 "2010-02-20T05:05:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/1 "2010-02-20T05:05:16Z")
**Don Rickles on _Get Smart_: 'I didn’t vote for him, but I use his baby powder!'** Johnson wasn’t President when I heard that line; but still, I must have heard it in the '70s. **From _Gilligan’s Island_: GILLIGAN: ‘You’re thinking of Rockery Hudpeck.’ SKIPPER: 'Rockery Hudpeck? :dubious: ’ GINGER: 'Why, he’s right. I was thinking of Rock Hudson and Gregory Peck but I couldn’t make up my mind!'** **Hawkeye on _M_A_S_H\*: '… his ill-gotten booty. Or his ill-booten gotty.'** ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/2 "2010-02-20T14:10:35Z")
From _Magnum, P.I_.: “Hey, Ivan. Did you see the sunrise?” From _All In The Family_: Archie and the daughter are arguing about gun control. She cites some statistic about how many people are murdered by handguns each year. Archie replies, “Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?” ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/3 "2010-02-20T14:31:59Z")
From Cheers: “Whatchya up to, Mr. Peterson?” “My ideal weight if I were 11 feet tall.” “It’s a dog eat dog world, and I’m wearing Milk Bones underwear.” From Buffy: Cordelia to Willow: “Well look who’s discovered the softer side of Sears.” From Sopranos: Anthony Jr.: “What? No fucking ziti now?” Livia: “I wish the Lord would take me now.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/4 "2010-02-20T15:48:59Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > From _Magnum, P.I_.: “Hey, Ivan. Did you see the sunrise?” I remember that one. > [@mbh](#): > > From _All In The Family_: I don’t remember the situation exactly, but Archie was arguing with someone when he used Truman Capote as a positive example. Only he pronounced the surname ‘ka-pote’. Michael corrected him, ‘E.’ Archie: ‘That’s right. Just like Truman E. Kap-pote!’ I can’t hear Truman Capote’s name without remembering that line. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/5 "2010-02-20T15:55:41Z")
Another from Cheers- Diane: If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound? Coach Ernie Pantuso: If there’s nobody there, how do you know it fell? Maybe some beavers set it down there. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/6 "2010-02-20T15:57:10Z")
Paulie, on the phone, telling Tony that a Columbian drug dealer has been killed: “Juan Valdez has been seperated from his donkey” ---
**Author:** ![halfliquid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@halfliquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/halfliquid)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/7 "2010-02-20T15:58:58Z")
Captain Janeway, “Now go back to your station before the efficiency monitor catches us fraternizing.” Buffy, “Vapid whore.” ---
**Author:** ![koufax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/8 "2010-02-20T17:03:40Z")
“Nip It! Nip it in the bud!” Bernard Fife ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/9 "2010-02-20T17:17:21Z")
I’ve been searching for proof my memory is accurate on this one, but somebody now much more famous and star quality than they were when they had the bit part on “Cheyenne” (and I would bet it was Clint Eastwood in his pre-Rawhide days) said something very much like, “Bodie, I accuse you of cowardice.” And it was the emphasis on “dice” that made it stick in my mind. There aren’t many occasions to use the line, but there you go. Richard Boone on “Have Gun, Will Travel” was the first (that I ever heard) to use the expression “you pencil-necked geek” to and about another character. I use that from time to time. And although it wasn’t said as such on TV, there was a parody of Gunsmoke on record where the Chester character says, “Mister Dillon, it’s Doc. He’s a-layin’ in the street with a arrow in his heart. That’s what he’s a-doin’.” Whoever said it had Dennis Weaver down pat and I must have used that line hundreds of times out of the clear blue in totally inappropriate situations. The Sopranos rule, though. Upwards of 80% of the lines on that show have stuck, especially the one Paulie utters about somebody being a “malignant cunt.” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/10 "2010-02-20T17:36:51Z")
Hawkeye, from M_A_S\*H: “Never let it be said that I didn’t do the least I could have done.” From Cheers: Diane: “Methinks you doth protest too much.” Woody: “Shouldn’t that be _I_ think?” Diane: “Not in your case, Woody.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/11 "2010-02-20T17:51:25Z")
Of all the Sopranos lines these are indeed: [The Sopranos - Words Of Wisdom](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pxyVgnwMsY) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/12 "2010-02-20T17:54:24Z")
_Sopranos_, _Buffy_ lines a ‘very long time’ ago? I must be getting old. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Renton\_lvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Renton\_lvr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renton_lvr)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/13 "2010-02-20T17:55:01Z")
Cheers After Rebecca inexplicably freaks out on him, and tells him he makes her sick (she’s been dreaming about him) Sam-“That’s the last time I buy aftershave at a gas station.” ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/14 "2010-02-20T18:08:46Z")
From MASH: Ah, Bach. Me, too…neither. This is me! Horse hockey! Here’s looking up your old address. Ferret face! Ladies and gentleman, take my advice: pull down your pants and slide on the ice. …and loads of others! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/15 "2010-02-20T18:17:18Z")
From **I Claudius** : “By the way. Don’t touch the figs.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/16 "2010-02-20T18:19:10Z")
_M_A_S_H\*: It’s nice to be nice to the nice. _I, Clavdivs_: That cough bothers me. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/17 "2010-02-20T18:29:58Z")
Waaay too many to list all but ones I’ve always liked: **[Taxi](http://www.ugoto.com/video_taxi__what_does_a_yellow_light_mean.html)** Jim: What does a yellow light mean? Bobby: Slow down. Jim: Okay. Whaaaaaaaaaaat doooooooooooes a yellllllloooooow liiiiight mean? In fact watching that just now, I almost fell out of my chair laughing, and now I can’t remember any others to list here. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/18 "2010-02-20T19:42:02Z")
From Roseanne: (Darline is dyeing her hair) Darline’s nosy friend “What are you doing?” (Darline lifts a leg) " interpretive dance" ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/19 "2010-02-20T20:28:25Z")
Well, there’s the classic “Frank Burns eats worms.” * * * I’ve got a few from Bob Newhart’s short-lived show _Bob_. It was critically panned, but Mr. S and I loved it. **(Bob’s daughter, Trisha, is soliciting pledges for a fund-raising jump-rope-a-thon.)** Grouchy old woman character: Sure, I’ll pledge a dime a jump to watch you break your neck! **(Same show: Trisha is reading names off the pledge sheet she posted.)** Trisha: Ida Ho . . . Jim Shoe . . . Sam and Janet Evening . . . I. P. Nightly?! Oh hardy har har! I can hear children hooked up to monitors laughing all over the city! **(Same show: Trisha makes a show of jumping badly, everyone laughs. She stops, declares oops, she’s using the wrong rope, and produces a new rope from a fancy wooden case.)** Trisha: Ahh, Cobra! There’s my baby. **(She caresses it, then proceeds to jump rope at warp speed.)** **(Trisha wakes up late on the day she was planning a surprise anniversary party for her parents.)** Trisha: Get up, get up, I can’t tell you why! Put on your wedding dress and meet me in the car in five minutes!! **(Same show: Chad enters, eating from a large white disk about two feet across.)** Albie: Where’d you get that? Chad: I sliced an inch off the bottom of the wedding cake. Come on, I’ll show you how. **(They start slicing another piece off the bottom of the cake.)** **(Same show: Bob and wife are cutting the wedding cake.)** Albie: Ooh, it’s gooood—I mean it LOOKS goood! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/20 "2010-02-20T20:29:47Z")
_Bewitched_; explaining a unicorn in the back yard. ‘It’s a unicorn. The Unicorn – The car with a unique horn!’ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739.md?page=2)