Who is Christopher Lloyd to you?

Christopher Lloyd is extremely talented and I find this question impossible to answer when put to me in the form of a poll.

I would just like to say that I love his work and admire his genius writing talent and I’m sorry that I just don’t feel able to adequately answer this question by placing a checkmark in a box (or a dot in a radiobutton box).

For me, it would be similar to using a poll to attempt to answer the question, “Who is Marlon Brando to you?” IMHO, he is just so much more than a checkmark in a box could ever convey and I sincerely hope you are not offended by this reply.

I’ve never seen Taxi, so Doc Brown it is.

Has anybody else seen Twenty Bucks?

“Life lesson number three:…”
::BANG!::
“Quit while you’re ahead.”

I think of that as CL’s best role, or at any rate the show-stealing scene from that movie, Melora Walters’s impressive strip act notwithstanding.

Pollak’s bit had Christopher Lloyd as Spock, Robin Williams as Chekov, Jack Nicholson as McCoy, and Dudley Moore as Scotty. And of course, Shatner as Kirk.

Notwithstanding the obvious Doc Brown and Judge Doom, I’d say the Pagemaster. How is that not a poll option?

Tay! TAY!

Hash (pot) brownies, weren’t they?

Thank you; I knew I’d heard that name.

Did you know that he and Pinkie called it quits?

No. IIRC, what the drug was was never specified, but after eating the cookies - and they were cookies, I remember that much - Alex went home and wrote an opera. The next day he was bouncing around like a human gas molecule. Latka got all weird and manic, and had to be talked down. The implication was that Latka’s grandmother’s “secret ingredient” was coca leaves.

My favorite moment is when Elaine needs a date to some function, and, out of desperation, asks Jim, who shows up at her door properly attired in a suit and looking, as Elaine puts it: “gorgeous!”

His response? “I never get tired of hearing that!

Yeah, I loved him through the Taxi years and beyond, but when I hear his name I see him in Cuckoo’s Nest. His hair sticking out in every direction. Man, could he look crazy.

Seconded.

John Bigboote: John O’Connor, break the window!
John O’Connor: Why me, John Bigboote?
John Bigboote: It might be booby-trapped!
John O’Connor: Oh.

John Bigboote: We’ve had our chance! Your Overthruster’s for shit! We’re lost!
Lord John Whorfin: One more word out of you, Bigbooty…
John Bigboote: [screaming] BIG-BOO-TAY! TAY! TAY!
[Whorfin shoots him]

He always looked and sounded like an avatar of the god of hangovers.

Nitpick- his hair was far too short to stick out in any direction in Cuckoo’s Nest.
Scientific Proof:
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Brando, first and foremost to me is Don Corleone. I loved him in many other roles but Don Corleone or the Don Corleone like character in the Freshman are who I immediately think of when I think Brando.

That was his origin story with Tom Hanks of all actors in it.

The Cookies were the Famous Amos episode. Rev Jim gave detailed analysis of what the secret ingredient was and where and when it was grown I believe.

Perfect, I love it.

I’m so happy that there is someone else who can use that quote.

Oh yeah. I guess it was more his eyes going in just any direction. :stuck_out_tongue:

My favorite is from the same show, just a few seconds later:
Hey, Alex! You know the great thing about television?

If something really important happens…anywhere in the world… [indent]…night or day!…[/indent]

…you can always change the channel.

THE Hacker. My kids liked Cyberchase, and made the connection when we watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest many years later.

Geez, of course not everyone does. That show ended the week before my last day of kindergarten, and the reason I missed our kindergarten graduation is going to be turning 32 in June.

Ah, thanks. I must’ve misremembered.