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Post by MsCali on Feb 23, 2006 21:38:48 GMT -5
So, we've talked about our favorite movie quotes, but what are your favorite quotes from TV?
One of mine is actually from a promo - a couple years ago when Cartoon Network was doing their "Flying Shark v. Flying Crocodile" promos, they used the lines:
(must imagine in the voice of the "In a world..." guy from every movie trailer and read exactly as puncuated in a fast pace)
"They will battle in a battle where none can win...Who will win?!"
Mr. C and I still use this one all the time.
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Post by The Movie Mark on Feb 24, 2006 1:24:07 GMT -5
So, we've talked about our favorite movie quotes, but what are your favorite quotes from TV? I'm gonna start off with a string of quotes from The Young Riders. That way, people who never watched the show when it was originally on will be so wowed by all the cool quotes that they'll fun and buy the DVD. Some of these are so good because of their context or delivery, making it even more important that everybody get the Season 1 DVD set: "That won't matter to you, you'll be the first I drop." "Sorry, but apologizin' is something I only do on Sundays. Today's Tuesday." "You understand something, I make the law around here. And you take another step sideways and I'll show you how I back it up." "Real heroes learn from doin', not readin'." "That Hickok fella of yours looks like he could ride through Hell without so much as a singe." "It’s bad enough when somebody won’t talk to you, with him it’s downright spooky." “Oh golly, that’s what I’d expect coming from you, Kid.” "Amazing what a shotgun can do to a body's social calendar." "Every notch has got a reason and every reason a ghost."
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Post by Laslo Hollyfeld on Feb 24, 2006 10:52:56 GMT -5
Where, oh where to begin??
From The Office: "Dwight, what's your middle name?" "Danger."
From My Name is Earl: "BEES!?! Is that how we're gonna play now?!?! BEES!??"
"See, Earl, men are different from women...you remember how we talked about that."
From M*A*S*H: "Oh...go peddle your petunias!" (one of my favorite Frank Burns quotes)
From The Simpsons: Homer: "Don't hassle the dead, boy...they have eerie powers!"
Lisa: "Didn't you wonder why you were getting checks without having done anything?" Grampa: "I figured it was because the Democrats were in power again."
From Seinfeld: George: "Ya wanna get nuts??? Okay...Let's get nuts! We're goin' to the Hamptons!!!" (My wife and I use this one all the time)
Kramer: "Up here, I'm already gone."
And the list could go on and on...
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Post by MsCali on Feb 24, 2006 13:19:02 GMT -5
It's funny how many of mine (the ones used most anyway) come from commercials.
From the old Sprint PCS commercial (where the woman's husband thought she wanted him to bring home a soap opera star instead of soup from the store)
"I may not be soup, and I may not come from a store, but I love you Ashley. And if you would rather have soup from the store, than maybe all of this is just a big mistake."
It gets better when the husband and wife each say "Thank you," and the soap opera star says "Soup."
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Post by Rhiannon on Feb 25, 2006 14:31:30 GMT -5
I've been thinking long and hard about this (wha? I've been living in a hotel room for the past month and working 12 hours days - it's appropriate to spend spare time thinking on pointless subjects like this!) My initial reaction was to post my actual Favorite TV Quote at the moment - but in actuality, it's from Queer as Folk and not suitable for all audiences. And I tried to pick a few from The West Wing - but none came to mind and I was going to have to look them up. I tried to think of some from Dead Like Me, which is a fabulous show, but nothing really jumped to the front of my mind (though I think if I googled, I'd remember some great Mason Quotes worth sharing) Then it came to me, one of the greatest television quotes ever (but not nearly as great as my QAF Quote I can't share). "What we really need here, is more cowbell."
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Post by MsCali on Feb 25, 2006 22:37:59 GMT -5
Ooooh, yay! I love me some cowbell quotes!
"I've got a FEVAH! And the only prescription is more cowbell!"
Of course, that line just wouldn't work if it was anyone other than Christopher Walken delivering it.
Did you see the episode last season (the one before the finale I think) that Will Ferrell hosted? He got up with the band in his costume from that skit and played the cowbell (don't remember who the band was, but it was awesome).
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Post by The Movie Mark on Feb 28, 2006 1:05:20 GMT -5
From Fawlty Towers:
"Ah, yes Mr O'Reilly, well it's perfectly simple. When I asked you to build me a wall I was rather hoping that instead of just dumping the bricks in a pile you might have found time to cement them together... you know, one on top of another, in the traditional fashion."
"Oh, German. I'm sorry, I thought there was something wrong with you."
"You'll have to forgive him. He's from Barcelona."
"This is typical. Absolutely typical..." (I use this quite a bit. It has to be said exactly as John Cleese says it.)
*** Mrs. Heath: Ah, he's very clever... rather highly strung.
Basil Fawlty: [forcing himself to smile] Highly strung... Yes, he should be.
*** Basil Fawlty: Did you ever see that film "How To Murder Your Wife"?
Major Gowen: "How To Murder Your Wife"?
Basil Fawlty: Yes, awfully good. I saw it six times.
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Post by shaneo6930 on Sept 20, 2008 22:01:09 GMT -5
In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer became very large to get out of work. He inadvertantly caused a near meltdown at the nuclear power plant, but stopped it by blocking the gas hole with his butt. A little bit of radioactive gas got out and destroyed a field of corn while a farmer was working in the field. The farmer's response to the destruction of the crop?
"Not the corn! Paul Newman's gonna have my legs broke!"
This one came from an episode of Saturday Night Live from the early 90s. It was in a sketch called Theatre Stories featuring Steve Martin, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, and some woman (Couldn't recognize her.) speaking in bad Brittish accents. Halfway through the sketch, the woman said :
"My debut in the theatre was in 1931 when I was playing Lady Macbeth to Richard Bryan's Othello in a production of The Tempist. I looked out into the audience and who do I see taking notes, but none other than Mr. Potato Head! It was on closer inspection that I found that his facial features were completely interchangeable."
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Post by MsCali on Sept 21, 2008 21:26:35 GMT -5
I can't believe I never mentioned this one from Friends:
Chandler was in love with Joey's girlfriend, and got her a first edition of her favorite book, The Velveteen Rabbit, for her birthday. However, when Joey couldn't find a better gift (because the boyfriend must give the better gift of course), Chandler let Joey give it to her instead.
However, she told Chandler that she knew the gift was really from him because when Joey gave it to her, he said:
"This is because I know you like rabbits, and I know you like cheese."
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Post by shaneo6930 on Sept 22, 2008 13:23:34 GMT -5
You using Friends reminded me of my favorite quote from that one.
[Chandler and Joey messed up the apartment. Monica tries to come in the door.] Chandler: DON'T COME IN HERE. ROSS IS NAKED! Monica: Why is Ross naked? Ross: I had to show Chandler a guy problem I'm having. Monica: Is it the same thing that Chandler had? [Chandler is freaking out!] Chandler: Could you just go for a few minutes? Monica: If it's the same thing, CHandler still has some of his lotion under the sink! Chandler: Okay, bye! [closes the door on Monica.] Ross: Dude, what did you have?
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Post by tamzcam on Sept 24, 2008 15:57:40 GMT -5
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is one of my favorite TV shows and is loaded with great quotes:
1. Brisco County Jr.: Correct me if I'm wrong, Pete - weren't you killed in a gunfight? Pete Hutter: I was only gut shot. I'm stronger now with less appetite.
2. Pete Hutter: "That's the thing about your Chi-nese death stars... An hour later, you're alive again."
3. Here's one for you Johnny - Brisco County Jr.: If I was gonna kill you, I'd be stepping over your body right now on my way out the door.
4. Lord Bowler: Uh oh. You hit the sheriff Brisco County Jr.: Yeah, but I did not hit the deputy.
I just love this show and wish it had had more than one season.
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Post by shaneo6930 on Jan 1, 2009 14:36:23 GMT -5
Here's a funny one from Supernatural. The two brothers, Sam and Dean, are investigating a haunting at a hotel that's about to get closed down. They trace the source of the haunting to the owner's mother using hoodoo.
Dean [talking to Sam]: I'm going to check around the place. You go do some research and see if Granny's been wacking people with Hoodoo. And stay off the porn sites. That's not the kind of wacking I mean.
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