In Season 3 of The IT Crowd, Moss and Roy play a joke on Jen, the clueless IT manager. They give her a small box with a flashing light and tell her it’s The Internet. They tell her she has been given special permission by the Elders of the Internet to show it off at a shareholder meeting after she wins Employee of the Month.
Jen: Wait a minute! The Elders of the Internet? (beat) The Elders of the Internet KNOW WHO I AM?!?
I say something similar all the time when I’m told something that is blatantly ridiculous.
Since other people mentioned Simpsons quotes: “I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s it seems weird and scary to me, and it’ll happen to you, too.”
That’s probably not the greatest l line in TV history, but it may be the wisest thing Abe Simpson ever said. And I can attest that now that I’m middle aged, it did happen to me.
There was an Australian series called The Games; it was a mockumentary about the organizing of the Sydney Olympics. In one scene, the the heads of the organizing committee are meeting with a creative consultant who is suggesting a few changes to the ceremonial aspects of the Games. Things like the shape of the medals (round medals being “cliche”), and the order that the teams enter the stadium during the opening ceremony.
Jasmine (looking at her notes): “…there’s this one, yes, this one. The traditional release of the doves on their flight of peace. Frankly, I was hoping for something a bit more Australian.”
The whole scene is great. The part about the 100 meters track is brilliant, but doesn’t really reduce to a single line. “A long-necked waddle for peace” makes me laugh every time I watch it.
Makes for an interesting trivia question, although the answer will be obvious now.
Steven Zirnkilton has been on prime time, network TV every week for 36 years. What role does he play? (He does the voiceovers at the beginning of Law & Order, and its various spinoffs.)
Context (bear in mind, this is a London British accent):
Susan is in labor. It is not going so well. Steve comes flung out of her hospital room and explains to the nurse that he is supposed to ask her two more times if she really wants an epidural.
Nurse: She said you can’t.
