# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/101 "2010-02-22T21:39:01Z")
One I try to use as often as possible from Futurama: Bender got shot out into space with no hope of returning to Earth so he is just floating through space. After some aliens land on him and consider him God and then they destroy themselves Bender is talking to a talking galaxy and he is telling the galaxy about how he was God once. The galaxy responds: “Yes, you were doing well until everyone died.” ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/102 "2010-02-22T21:59:12Z")
More Worf-y goodness: [“Sorry.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md32XWL3M-k) [“Death to the opposition!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYVSkOh3ZBM) [“FIND HIM AND KILL HIM!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94j1PvNzMwU) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/103 "2010-02-22T21:59:48Z")
(Twilight Zone): “YOU ARE…OBSOLETE.” “You’re a BAD man! You’re a VERY BAD MAN!” “It’s… it’s a **cookbook** ”! “My name is Talky Tina and I’m going to _kill_ you.” “From a fable you once heard in childhood.” (TOS - The Cage) “There was a _Kangaroo_…in my living room.” (Family Ties) I have on more than one occasion ordered a Screaming Viking. (And on more than one occasion gotten the proper response from the bartender). ---
**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, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/104 "2010-02-22T22:04:41Z")
The Tick: I don’t know the meaning of the word “surrender”. I mean, I know it, I’m not dumb… just not in this context. The Tick: Villains, I say to you now, knock off all that evil! El Seed: And what kind of corn soldiers are you? Arthur: We’re colonels! The Evil Midnight Bomber: Yeah, baby, yeah! I’m the Midnight Bomber what bombs at midnight! ---
**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, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/105 "2010-02-22T22:08:42Z")
“Up ya nose wit’ a rubber hose.” ---
**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 22, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/106 "2010-02-22T22:11:42Z")
More from Barney Miller - (Harris has lost his apartment and has been staying with Dietrich, who is (of course) getting on his nerves): Harris: “Barney, he has things growing all over the apartment!” Barney: “Well, lots of people grow plants and stuff.” Harris: “Barney…he grows _wheat!_” ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/107 "2010-02-22T22:19:21Z")
**ST:TNG** Picard [to Riker]: … if I find that that trust has been misplaced, I will have to re-evaluate the command structure of this ship. **Wings** The [Trivial Pursuit scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DzXaUC2_yc&feature=related) where Roy has promised to be nice. Lowell and Roy are teammates and Lowell insists on blurting out the answer “Ann Margaret” to each question because he knows “Ann Margaret is the answer to one of these questions.” Roy finally explodes in anger and switches teammates, but the answer to his next question is … Ann Margaret. ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/108 "2010-02-22T22:20:58Z")
From _Cosby Show:_ “Dr Huxtable, my name’s not Bud.” ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/109 "2010-02-22T22:24:58Z")
DS9, Major Kira Nerys: [“… and believe me, I _will_ have fun.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg8o__6bEEY) ---
**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, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/110 "2010-02-22T22:27:56Z")
Remington Steele, to Miss Holt: "Well, you certainly taught that road a lesson it won’t soon forget. " ---
**Author:** ![McGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@McGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/111 "2010-02-22T22:36:51Z")
A favorite in our family: Homer Simpson: “The dolphins just wanted it more…” And what is to me the classic for this category: “Be there, Aloha.” That one really impressed me because by 10 yrs after the show ended, when they showed it in re-runs, at least on my local stations, they never included Jack Lord’s preview of the following episode at the end, which he always ended with that line. Yet folks still remember the line. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/112 "2010-02-22T22:48:35Z")
Homer Simpson: “You can use statistics to prove anything. 41% of all people know that.” From Night Court: Harry Stone: Bull, how could you lose a dead Japanese industrialist? Bull (sheepishly): He outsmarted me, sir. Harry: Outsmarted?? Bull, a corpse is a corpse! Dan: Of course, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/113 "2010-02-22T23:00:15Z")
> [@McGeek](#): > > And what is to me the classic for this category: “Be there, Aloha.” > That one really impressed me because by 10 yrs after the show ended, when they showed it in re-runs, at least on my local stations, they never included Jack Lord’s preview of the following episode at the end, which he always ended with that line. Yet folks still remember the line. Hearing this in my mind’s ear from decades ago means that this one had to be stored nearby in my brain: Of all the spokespeople for various brands of cigarettes, Dale Robertson is most memorable. He strides into the scene beside a decent looking horse and declares to any and all: “That’s Jubilee. That’s MY horse. And this is Pall Mall, MY cigarette.” You could almost hear the corn popping. Okay, whose cigarette ads top this one? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/114 "2010-02-22T23:11:24Z")
From _Frasier_, when Niles was keeping a flour-sack “baby” to find out if he’s suitable for parenthood: “Last night I actually had a dream my flour sack was abducted and the kidnappers started sending me muffins in the mail.” From _The Tick_: “Laxative log? Four yaks and a dog? _Susan_?” “Now you’re doing it on _purpose_. How juvenile.” “The little bunny guy was chafing, so I let him go.” From _House_: One of House’s three underlings: “We’ve got anal bleeding!” House: “What, \*all \*of you?” From _Father Ted_: Dougal: “It had the body of a spider, and the mind of a baby.” Ted: “How do you know it’s a baby, and not just a spider?” Dougal: “They had it in a pram.” Ted: “Oh, Father Jack! Not Toilet Duck _again_!” ---
**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, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/115 "2010-02-22T23:14:56Z")
From _ER_: **Benton** _[noticing a hickey]_ “Carter, you have a hematoma on your neck.” From _Star Trek_. “This is Kang. Cease hostilities.” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/116 "2010-02-22T23:20:56Z")
Worf’s line here, and Q’s response. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x012BnKWi3g/hqdefault.jpg "Mortal Q (original facepalm)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x012BnKWi3g) ---
**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, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/117 "2010-02-22T23:48:40Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Homer Simpson: “You can use statistics to prove anything. 41% of all people know that.” > > From Night Court: > > Harry Stone: Bull, how could you lose a dead Japanese industrialist? > Bull (sheepishly): He outsmarted me, sir. > Harry: Outsmarted?? Bull, a corpse is a corpse! > Dan: Of course, of course. Another one from Night Court: Harry: I read that the Detroit Lions have a new stadium. They got a dome, Mac. Mac: Isn’t that a breath of fresh air, sir? Harry: Now you can have the Lions hosting the Chicago Bears at the new stadium. Then across town the Detroit baseball team could be playing. Then you know who’s all playing at once? Lions and Tigers and Bears. Mac: Oh my! From the Sopranos episode “From Where To Eternity.” Christopher is shot and is clinically dead for a minute. Upon waking, he asks to talk to Tony and Paulie: Christopher: I’m going to hell, T. Tony: You’re not going anywheres but home. Christopher: I crossed over to the other side. Tony: You what? Christopher: I saw the tunnel. And the white light. I saw my father in hell. Paulie: Get the fuck outta here! Christopher: And the bouncer said that I’d be there, too, when my time comes. Paulie: What bouncer? Christopher: The Emerald Piper. That’s our hell. It’s an Irish bar where it’s St. Patrick’s Day every day forever. ---
**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 23, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/118 "2010-02-23T00:03:19Z")
More M_A_S\*H: Major Houlihan is introducing Hawkeye and BJ to a visiting general: Houlihan: “These are Captains Pierce…” Hawkeye: “…and these are Captains Hunnicut.” ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/119 "2010-02-23T00:12:12Z")
Cheers, Diane to Sam, after a spat, “I hate you with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns!” ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/120 "2010-02-23T00:33:46Z")
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