# Your Favourite Christopher Lloyd role **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004 "2010-04-05T12:13:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/21 "2010-04-05T22:23:08Z")
Doc Brown, although Rev. Jim and Judge Doom are close behind. Interesting how all the characters listed here are commonly referred to with titles… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/22 "2010-04-05T22:26:29Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > For the win I submit: > “What does a yellow light mean?” > “Slower” > “W-h-a-t d-o-e-s a y-e-l-l-o-w l-i-g-h-t m-e-a-n?” > 😃 The best. Also: “Jim, where have you been? We were worried about you.” “I went away for the weekend.” “Jim, you’ve been gone for ten days!” “I thought we were on the metric system!” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/23 "2010-04-05T22:31:48Z")
Just wait until the new Willy Wonka movie comes out; [http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/06b666ae72/gobstopper-trailer](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/06b666ae72/gobstopper-trailer) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/24 "2010-04-05T22:31:56Z")
I went with Reverend Jim, but thought of adding his role as the very professional armed robber in [Twenty Bucks](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108410/)(one of his more straight man roles) or as Pellinore in _Camelot_ with Gabriel Byrne (available on youtube and google video). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/25 "2010-04-05T22:36:52Z")
Trivia about Christopher Lloyd: he’s from an extremely wealthy family- they were heirs to the Texaco fortune. How wealthy you ask? Well, [this is](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/WavenyParkNewCanaanCt07252007.JPG)his grandfather’s Connecticut “country house”. More trivia: Sam Lloyd, who plays [Ted Buckland on SCRUBS](http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Ted-scrubs-43488_469_626.jpg), is his nephew. He might be taking on more roles to pay to rebuild his house. It was on the news a couple of years ago when it burned to the ground. He was amazingly ‘zen’ about it, saying that he’d kept an archives since entering show business and wanted to file it but couldn’t decide how to organize it or who to donate it to; while touring the smouldering ruins of his home he said “I guess the good thing is this that problem is permanently resolved.” ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/26 "2010-04-05T23:02:34Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > This is my vote, as well. > > Kirk: Why didn’t you beam Spock up too? > Kruge: Because you wished it. Thirded. Or fourth-ded rather by this stage. Stolen from Wikiquote; ``` James T. Kirk: You fool, look around you! The planet's destroying itself! Kruge: Yes, exhilarating, isn't it? James T. Kirk: If we don't help each other, we'll die here. Kruge: Perfect. Then that's the way it shall be. ``` Played with a pretty straight face through and through too. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/27 "2010-04-05T23:47:09Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > For the win I submit: > “What does a yellow light mean?” > “Slower” > “W-h-a-t d-o-e-s a y-e-l-l-o-w l-i-g-h-t m-e-a-n?” > 😃 That’s a great scene, and the details really make it work. He looks down at the paper midway through; it’s like his memory only has a capacity of three words. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/28 "2010-04-05T23:51:55Z")
I chose Doc Brown, but I also wanted to mention it was really weird seeing him in Santa Buddies. That was practically a made-for-tv movie. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/29 "2010-04-05T23:54:20Z")
Actually, tho I voted for Doc Brown, in that episode of Amazing Stories where he is a very stern if not evil teacher, he really indulges in some very hilarious scenery-chewing: The two kids, merely trying to curse him with something like very bad itching, accidentally decapitate him when they tear his picture in two during the cursing ritual. He comes back to life and starts chasing them all over campus at night, with his body carrying his head around. The next day in class, right when the kids think it was “all just a dream”, we get a shot of his stitched-up neck as he promises them a very interesting afternoon detention. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/30 "2010-04-06T00:03:32Z")
Commander Krug. We are KLINGONS! We will capture his thread and add that choice to the poll! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/31 "2010-04-06T00:14:32Z")
He was great in _Dennis the Menace_! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/32 "2010-04-06T00:34:28Z")
At least Doc Brown is winning. “Let the Vulcan go!” “No!” “Why?” “Because you wish it!” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/33 "2010-04-06T00:48:39Z")
Of course, we also have the regrettable role in a most regrettable remake of _The Lone Ranger._ ---
**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:** [April 6, 2010, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/34 "2010-04-06T09:28:14Z")
Of course, the greatest role he didn’t do was Mister Spock, as interpreted by [Kevin Pollak](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_kZJJUc4mQ) ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/35 "2010-04-06T10:45:28Z")
I almost wrote in Hacker from Cyberchase. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/36 "2010-04-06T11:26:22Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > For the win I submit: > “What does a yellow light mean?” > “Slower” > “W-h-a-t d-o-e-s a y-e-l-l-o-w l-i-g-h-t m-e-a-n?” > 😃 This is my favorite - [reminiscing on his youth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACF4XDznGEs). ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/37 "2010-04-06T12:10:32Z")
> [@infinitii](#): > > I voted “Another one” – one of my favourite movies is **Twenty Bucks** , and his small role in that movie is nevertheless quite memorable. Without looking at the list my gut reaction was “Why, John Bigboote, of course!” so I’ll stick with that, but wanted to add that I also really love **Twenty Bucks**. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/38 "2010-04-06T16:17:44Z")
He was in one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. In _One Flew Over The Cukoo’s Nest_ when Chief finally breaks out in the middle of the night and Christopher Lloyd as Taber is cheering and howling about it echoing just how you feel inside at that moment. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/39 "2010-04-06T18:08:30Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > Thirded. Or fourth-ded rather by this stage. > > Stolen from Wikiquote; > > ``` > James T. Kirk: You fool, look around you! The planet's destroying itself! > Kruge: Yes, exhilarating, isn't it? > James T. Kirk: If we don't help each other, we'll die here. > Kruge: Perfect. Then that's the way it shall be. > > ``` > > Played with a pretty straight face through and through too. And as codified by the later series, this made Lloyd the perfect Klingon. A Klingon warrior’s greatest desire is to die in battle with his enemy, preferably taking the enemy into death with him and ensuring his entrance into Sto-Vo-Kor. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004/40 "2010-04-06T18:17:57Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > This is my favorite - [reminiscing on his youth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACF4XDznGEs). I understand the guy who played Gordon was in a few movies, too. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christopher-lloyd-role/535004.md?page=3)