# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/81 "2010-02-22T14:01:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > _Barney Miller_. Wojo and Yemana are talking about dying. I don’t remember who said what. > > 'Don’t worry about it. It’s just like falling asleep. > ‘I’m an insomniac.’ Possibly from the same episode: The intellectual cop gives a long-winded speech about how Buddhism makes the Asians philosophical about, and accepting of, death. Yemana turns to Wojo and says, “I’m going kicking and screaming, myself.” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/82 "2010-02-22T17:05:01Z")
Not a TV _show_, exactly, but: “One … tu_wooo_ … a-thrrrree. A-thrrrree.” ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/83 "2010-02-22T17:59:03Z")
Star Trek Scotty: “I can’t get another warp out of her sir!” Bones: “Damn it Jim, I’m a doctor not a …!” Outer Limits Main character:“I won’t do any job that demeans me.” Alien: “Does the job demean the man or the man the job?” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/84 "2010-02-22T18:13:23Z")
[When you assume…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKlWGZHEO7Q) …you make an ASS of U and ME. Long scene, scroll to 4:30 for the key line. ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/85 "2010-02-22T18:15:26Z")
Three lines that always come to my mind when I think of Worf from Next Generation. Attempting to make small talk in someone’s home. “Nice house.” _pause_ “Good tea.” After having to pretend to be captain to trick some klingons who thought the war was still going on, someone (Geordi I think) asks him how it felt to be captain. _thinks for a moment_ “Comfortable chair.” He has to watch Data’s cat for some reason, and Data is giving him detailed instructions on what the cat does and doesn’t like. “I shall feed it.” ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/86 "2010-02-22T18:18:41Z")
Any line from the Frasier episode “Ham Radio”. I have watched a LOT of TV in my day this is, far and away, the funniest 22 minutes ever broadcast, and probably ever will be (I dare someone who has seen this Frasier ep (and there are YouTube clips of the whole episode) to name me something funnier. As I said, almost any line from the episode works, some of my faves: “Sound of people changing Wings to Wangs” “Chinese embassy on line 1!!” “Look out! He’s got a nug!” “Would you two mind standing back to back, I’m running out of bullets. [pop] Thank you!” “mupipow mururur” “Hello, it’s the ice cream man!” Being a comedian myself, I often have a pretty high threshhold for things that make me laugh (I can find something funny, but I usually don’t express it much - at least I blame it on my performing comedy). But every time I see this, I am always rolling on the floor laughing with tears streaming down my face. Comedy gold, people. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/87 "2010-02-22T18:41:05Z")
In Get Smart, Max drinks some formula that imprints a map to some secret location on his back and two Kaos agents are arguing about what’s on it. Agent 1: That looks like a mountain. Agent 2: No, that’s a mole. Agent 1: I’m telling you, that’s a mountain right there. Agent 2: And I’m telling you it’s not. Stop making a mountain out of a mole. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/88 "2010-02-22T18:47:35Z")
There was an episode of _Barney Miller_ where some of the regulars ate brownies that someone had brought into the stationhouse, not realizing that they contained pot (or hashish), and had interestingly stoned reactions. Yemana: “What do you say we guys go down to the beach, and shoot some clams?” Mrs. J. and I still occasionally greet each other at Xmas time with the classic jaded Kojak response when a fellow officer wishes him a Merry Xmas: “Jingle bells, Frank.” ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/89 "2010-02-22T20:03:18Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > WKRP > Johnny Fever,“Oh, I almost forgot… BOOGER!” Tiny nitpick: I believe it was, “I almost forgot, fellow babies–Booger!” > [@Jackmannii](#): > > There was an episode of _Barney Miller_ where some of the regulars ate brownies that someone had brought into the stationhouse, not realizing that they contained pot (or hashish), and had interestingly stoned reactions. > > Yemana: “What do you say we guys go down to the beach, and shoot some clams?” From the same episode, Yamana describing the brownies when dunked in his coffee: “Moooshy, moooshy.” ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/90 "2010-02-22T20:04:24Z")
OK, not a line I particularly find “funny” (although “amusing” could cover it, if it wasn’t overused in the series to the point of “catchphrase”) but I find myself using it so often that it should be shared. “I’m so happy, I could do the dance of joy!” Bonus points if you can identify speaker and sitcom. Balki Bartokomous in Perfect Strangers More bonus points if you can sing the song and do the “dance” that accompanies it. You win if you do the song and dance when you use the phrase in real life. (I do.) ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/91 "2010-02-22T20:09:49Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > There was an episode of _Barney Miller_ where some of the regulars ate brownies that someone had brought into the stationhouse, not realizing that they contained pot (or hashish), and had interestingly stoned reactions. > > Yemana: “What do you say we guys go down to the beach, and shoot some clams?” > [@Saltire](#): > > From the same episode, Yamana describing the brownies when dunked in his coffee: “Moooshy, moooshy.” And also “sang” to Captain Miller, “Barney, Barney, is your mother from Killarney?” ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/92 "2010-02-22T20:37:39Z")
> [@Crawlspace](#): > > I think I was only 4 or 5 when it first aired, but a line from and episode of **The Cosby Show** has stuck with me ever since. > > It’s the episode where Rudy tries to make jelly with Cliff’s new juicer so she and her friend Peter can have a PB&J. The plan fails and the juicer winds up spraying grape juice all over them and the kitchen. Peter, who is pure flight no fight, makes a B-line out the front door and is forgotten about as the plot resolves itself. > > Then at the end of the episode Peter’s mom calls. She had found him standing in the clothes hamper and when she looked at him he said, "All I did was hold the bread."Which I think is a fantastic way to say, I was there, I saw it happen, I didn’t try to stop it, but I didn’t do it. I love _The Cosby Show_. And just reading that made me laugh and laugh. > [@dhkendall](#): > > OK, not a line I particularly find “funny” (although “amusing” could cover it, if it wasn’t overused in the series to the point of “catchphrase”) but I find myself using it so often that it should be shared. > > “I’m so happy, I could do the dance of joy!” > > Bonus points if you can identify speaker and sitcom. > > Balki Bartokomous in Perfect Strangers > > More bonus points if you can sing the song and do the “dance” that accompanies it. > > You win if you do the song and dance when you use the phrase in real life. (I do.) I always think of him and ‘don’t be ree-dick-u-lous.’ My favorite lines include: BtVS Buffy: “beer foamy.” Bad Willow: “bored now.” Anya: “Thank you. Please Go.” Spike: (told to reply in 5 words or less.) “Out. for. a. walk. (pause) _bitch_.” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/93 "2010-02-22T20:51:07Z")
Lots of _Cheers_ and _M_A_S_H\* on here, so: “What’s shakin’, Mr. Peterson?” “All four cheeks and a couple of chins.” “Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake’s plane was shot down over the sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors.” ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/94 "2010-02-22T21:05:28Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Professor Hugo J. Farnsworth: Good news, everybody! {followed by some horribly dangerous or disgusting new job for the crew} > > Comic Book Guy: Worst. Episode. Ever. One from Futurama which I still like to use: Prof Farnsworth: We’ll have the answer soon enough Fry: That’s not soon enough! ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/95 "2010-02-22T21:07:17Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > And also “sang” to Captain Miller, “Barney, Barney, is your mother from Killarney?” Is my memory faulty, or didn’t Fish also run around chasing somebody across rooftops after eating his brownie? Speaking of which: “Maybe I’ll put it in her brownie.” - Arrested Development And the line from _The Sopranos_ that cracked me up was: “Fuck you, Santa!” (close second goes to Silvio, when they were having an intervention for Chris and he ended his description of Chris’s drunken behavior with “…fuckin’ disgusting.”) ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/96 "2010-02-22T21:20:36Z")
From WKRP: Les is reading a sports report and pronouces Chi Chi Rodriguez as CH-eye CH-eye Rod-u-geez. Johnny: Les, what is the name of those little mexican dogs? Les: You mean a Cha-who-ah-who-ah? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/97 "2010-02-22T21:25:35Z")
ST:TNG Worf: Ahhh, prune juice, the drink of warriors. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/98 "2010-02-22T21:27:16Z")
And from Seinfeld: 'Hello, NEWMAN." ‘Master of his domain.’ ‘Shrinkage.’ ‘No soup for you!’ ‘Is he sponge-worthy?’ ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/99 "2010-02-22T21:35:12Z")
ST: TNG Worf: Captain, I must protest. I am NOT a merry man! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/100 "2010-02-22T21:37:43Z")
_The Simpsons:_ Stupid sexy Flanders. _Frasier:_ Maris wanted to become a ballerina, but she couldn’t gain enough weight. _Star Trek TNG:_ (Riker) Nice suit. (Worf) Thank you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739.md?page=6)