TV meme day 24
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redfiona99Day 24 - Best Quote
This is a difficult one, again. Because I don't want to choose. For me, it'd be up in the air between Babylon 5, Buffy and Firefly.
Buffy and Firefly tend to be the ones I use, but Babylon 5 has some crackers too.
Captain John Sheridan: Are you trying to cheer me up?
Susan Ivanova: No sir, wouldn't dream of it.
Captain John Sheridan: Good, I hate being cheered up.
Susan Ivanova: In that case we're all going to die slow, agonizing deaths.
Captain John Sheridan: Thank you, I feel so much better now.
(I hope I mentioned Ivanova in my favourite female characters answer)
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Ambassador Kosh: Understanding is a three-edged sword.
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Lt. Corwin: Do we trust no-one then?
Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: No, trust Ivanova, trust yourself, anybody else, shoot'em.
(No, really, she should be on that list)
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Susan Ivanova: If I live through this without completely losing my mind, it will be a miracle of Biblical proportions.
Lt. Corwin: [aside] Well, there goes my faith in the Almighty.
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Susan Ivanova: Vakar Ashok, our gun arrays are now fixed on your ship and will fire the instant you come into range. You will find their power quite impressive... for a few seconds.
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G'Kar: The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements. Energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest.
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Zathras: Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life... probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry.
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G'Kar: I believe that when we leave a place a part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in these halls, when it is quiet and just listen. After a while you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.
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Captain John Sheridan: I swear, the next person around here who acts irrationally, I'm going to shoot myself in the head.
Delenn: [Delenn enters fuming] Bastards!
Dr. Stephen Franklin: Did she just...
Captain John Sheridan: She did!
Dr. Stephen Franklin: I'll go get the gun.
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Delenn: We may be able to get the Pak'ma'ra on board to help, but they're going to need something in exchange.
Ambassador Londo Mollari: Oh, offer them my body. Another 10 minutes of this, I'll be dead anyway!
Citizen G'Kar: [Without looking up] I second the motion!
(Okay, so I have a great love of G'Kar as well.)
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Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair: Mr. Garibaldi was right. He said this was going to be trouble.
Susan Ivanova: There's nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right.
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Citizen G'Kar: [to Londo after they discover the Centauri are still building warships during peace time] Well, with everyone now on the same side, perhaps you're planning to invade yourselves for a change. I find the idea curiously appealing. Once you've finished killing each other, we can plow under all the buildings and plant rows of flowers that spell out the words, "Too annoying to live" in letters big enough to be seen from space.
~~~~
Ambassador Londo Mollari: Only an idiot would fight a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.
(Londo is also love)
~~~~
Captain John Sheridan: You know, I just had a thought. You've been back and forth to your world so many times since you got here. How do I know you're the same Vorlon? Inside that encounter suit you could be anyone.
Kosh: I have *always* been here.
Captain John Sheridan: Oh, yeah? You said that about me too.
Kosh: Yes.
[starts to walk away]
Captain John Sheridan: I really *hate* it when you do that.
Kosh: [turns around] Good!
(In the last house I lived in, this kind of answer is called a Vorlon answer for a reason)
That, by the by, is only a short selection.
Buffy Summers: What are you doing here? Five words or less.
Spike: [pause] Out. For. A. Walk... Bitch.
(really, the pause makes that one)
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Buffy Summers: I just get messed sometimes. I wish we were regular kids.
Angel: I'll never be a kid.
Buffy Summers: All right, a regular kid and her cradle-robbing, creature-of-the-night boyfriend.
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Xander: Why blood? Why Dawn's blood? I mean, why couldn't it be, like, a lymph ritual?
Spike: 'Cause it's always got to be blood.
Xander: We're not actually discussing dinner right now.
Spike: Blood is life, lack-brain. Why do you think we eat it? It's what keeps you going. Makes you warm. Makes you hard. Makes you other than dead. 'Course it's her blood.
Annoyingly, IMDB have cut down their quote section for Buffy, however Sunnydale Slayers still exists (http://www.neon-hummingbird.com/suns/quotes.html). Oh SunS, the hours I spent on your site as an adolescent.
I know it's valley-speak, I know it's not realistic. But I don't care because it sounds good, and I do occasionally use it.
However, pride of place has to go to my Mother's favourite Buffy quote (I have done many terrible things to my mother, getting her hooked on Buffy may have been the worst).
Buffy: Remember: The ritual starts, we all die; and I'll kill anyone who comes near Dawn.
Spike: Well, not exactly the St. Crispin's Day speech, was it?
Giles: We few, we happy few...
Spike: ...we band of buggered.
Every time I type one in, I think of three more, so I am stopping now.
Wash: "Everything looks good from here... (beat...playing with plastic dinosaurs over his console) Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive."
(as Stegosaurus) "We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land'."
(as T-Rex) "I think we should call it...your grave!"
(Stegosaurus) "Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
(T-Rex) "Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh...now die!"
[I use this too much]
~~~~
Book: "I brought you some supper but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped...sin and hellfire... one has lepers."
~~~~
Mal: "And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"
~~~~
Alliance Commander: "You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war?"
Zoe: "Fought with a lot of people in the war."
Alliance Commander: "And your husband?"
Zoe: "Fight with him sometimes, too."
(This is from my favourite scene in Firefly, where the Alliance Commander just gets more and more grumpy with each member of the crew)
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Alliance Commander: "Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of."
Mal: "May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
~~~~
Kaylee: (pointing to a pink frilly dress) "Say, look at the fluffy one!"
Zoe: "Too much foofaraw. If I'm going to wear a dress, I'd want something with some slink."
Wash: "You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress?"
Jayne: "I'll chip in."
Zoe: (to Jayne) "I can hurt you."
~~~~
Harrow: "You have to finish it, lad. You have to finish it. For a man to lay beaten... and yet breathing? It makes him a coward."
Inara: "It's humiliation."
Mal: "Sure. It would be humiliating. Having to lie there while the better man refuses to spill your blood. Mercy is the mark of a great man. (lightly stabs Atherton with the sword) Guess I'm just a good man. (stabs him again) Well, I'm all right."
[The fencers en-masse may use this]
~~~~
River: "The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems."
Mal: (to Simon) "See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like."
~~~~
Mal: "Now think real hard. You been bird-dogging this township a while now. They wouldn't mind a corpse of you. Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet: I will end you."
~~~~
Book: "If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."
~~~~
Zoe: "Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?
Book: "Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps."
~~~~
River: "Also? I can kill you with my brain."
~~~~
River: (trying to eat an 'ice-planet') "My food is problematic."
[My housemate is actually the one that uses this, normally when ketchup tries to escape]
~~~~
Wash: "Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."
Zoe: "We live in a space ship, dear."
~~~~
Zoe: (sliding gun barrel alongside security guard's face) "You know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later."
[Zoe should also be on my favourite female character list if she isn't]
~~~~
Mal: "You do that," (pulls out Serenity's pulse beacon) "you'd best make peace with your dear and fluffy Lord."
[Okay, so we use it for dear and fluffy landlord, but still)
The other quote I'd like to mention is "too much hair", which is normally how housemate P greeted me in a morning when my hair was in attack mode.
My mother hates Firefly, she doesn't take well to sci-fi and blames it entirely for the word 'shiny' becoming part of my vocabulary.
Day 1 - A show that shouldn't have been cancelled
Day 2 - A show that more people should watch
Day 3 - Your favourite new show
Day 4 - Your favourite TV show
Day 5 - Your least favourite TV show
Day 6 - My favourite episode of my favourite show(s)
Day 7 - My least favourite episode of my favourite show(s)
Day 8 - A show everyone ought to watch
Day 9 - Favourite scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A TV show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favourite Male Character
Day 15 - Favourite Female Character
Day 16 - Your Guilty Pleasure Show
Day 17 - Your favourite mini-series
Day 18 - Favourite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favourite kiss
Day 21 - Favourite ship
Day 22 - Favourite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
This is a difficult one, again. Because I don't want to choose. For me, it'd be up in the air between Babylon 5, Buffy and Firefly.
Buffy and Firefly tend to be the ones I use, but Babylon 5 has some crackers too.
Captain John Sheridan: Are you trying to cheer me up?
Susan Ivanova: No sir, wouldn't dream of it.
Captain John Sheridan: Good, I hate being cheered up.
Susan Ivanova: In that case we're all going to die slow, agonizing deaths.
Captain John Sheridan: Thank you, I feel so much better now.
(I hope I mentioned Ivanova in my favourite female characters answer)
~~~~
Ambassador Kosh: Understanding is a three-edged sword.
~~~~
Lt. Corwin: Do we trust no-one then?
Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: No, trust Ivanova, trust yourself, anybody else, shoot'em.
(No, really, she should be on that list)
~~~~
Susan Ivanova: If I live through this without completely losing my mind, it will be a miracle of Biblical proportions.
Lt. Corwin: [aside] Well, there goes my faith in the Almighty.
~~~~
Susan Ivanova: Vakar Ashok, our gun arrays are now fixed on your ship and will fire the instant you come into range. You will find their power quite impressive... for a few seconds.
~~~~
G'Kar: The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements. Energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest.
~~~~
Zathras: Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life... probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry.
~~~~
G'Kar: I believe that when we leave a place a part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in these halls, when it is quiet and just listen. After a while you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.
~~~~
Captain John Sheridan: I swear, the next person around here who acts irrationally, I'm going to shoot myself in the head.
Delenn: [Delenn enters fuming] Bastards!
Dr. Stephen Franklin: Did she just...
Captain John Sheridan: She did!
Dr. Stephen Franklin: I'll go get the gun.
~~~~
Delenn: We may be able to get the Pak'ma'ra on board to help, but they're going to need something in exchange.
Ambassador Londo Mollari: Oh, offer them my body. Another 10 minutes of this, I'll be dead anyway!
Citizen G'Kar: [Without looking up] I second the motion!
(Okay, so I have a great love of G'Kar as well.)
~~~~
Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair: Mr. Garibaldi was right. He said this was going to be trouble.
Susan Ivanova: There's nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right.
~~~~
Citizen G'Kar: [to Londo after they discover the Centauri are still building warships during peace time] Well, with everyone now on the same side, perhaps you're planning to invade yourselves for a change. I find the idea curiously appealing. Once you've finished killing each other, we can plow under all the buildings and plant rows of flowers that spell out the words, "Too annoying to live" in letters big enough to be seen from space.
~~~~
Ambassador Londo Mollari: Only an idiot would fight a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.
(Londo is also love)
~~~~
Captain John Sheridan: You know, I just had a thought. You've been back and forth to your world so many times since you got here. How do I know you're the same Vorlon? Inside that encounter suit you could be anyone.
Kosh: I have *always* been here.
Captain John Sheridan: Oh, yeah? You said that about me too.
Kosh: Yes.
[starts to walk away]
Captain John Sheridan: I really *hate* it when you do that.
Kosh: [turns around] Good!
(In the last house I lived in, this kind of answer is called a Vorlon answer for a reason)
That, by the by, is only a short selection.
Buffy Summers: What are you doing here? Five words or less.
Spike: [pause] Out. For. A. Walk... Bitch.
(really, the pause makes that one)
~~~~
Buffy Summers: I just get messed sometimes. I wish we were regular kids.
Angel: I'll never be a kid.
Buffy Summers: All right, a regular kid and her cradle-robbing, creature-of-the-night boyfriend.
~~~~
Xander: Why blood? Why Dawn's blood? I mean, why couldn't it be, like, a lymph ritual?
Spike: 'Cause it's always got to be blood.
Xander: We're not actually discussing dinner right now.
Spike: Blood is life, lack-brain. Why do you think we eat it? It's what keeps you going. Makes you warm. Makes you hard. Makes you other than dead. 'Course it's her blood.
Annoyingly, IMDB have cut down their quote section for Buffy, however Sunnydale Slayers still exists (http://www.neon-hummingbird.com/suns/quotes.html). Oh SunS, the hours I spent on your site as an adolescent.
I know it's valley-speak, I know it's not realistic. But I don't care because it sounds good, and I do occasionally use it.
However, pride of place has to go to my Mother's favourite Buffy quote (I have done many terrible things to my mother, getting her hooked on Buffy may have been the worst).
Buffy: Remember: The ritual starts, we all die; and I'll kill anyone who comes near Dawn.
Spike: Well, not exactly the St. Crispin's Day speech, was it?
Giles: We few, we happy few...
Spike: ...we band of buggered.
Every time I type one in, I think of three more, so I am stopping now.
Wash: "Everything looks good from here... (beat...playing with plastic dinosaurs over his console) Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive."
(as Stegosaurus) "We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land'."
(as T-Rex) "I think we should call it...your grave!"
(Stegosaurus) "Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
(T-Rex) "Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh...now die!"
[I use this too much]
~~~~
Book: "I brought you some supper but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped...sin and hellfire... one has lepers."
~~~~
Mal: "And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"
~~~~
Alliance Commander: "You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war?"
Zoe: "Fought with a lot of people in the war."
Alliance Commander: "And your husband?"
Zoe: "Fight with him sometimes, too."
(This is from my favourite scene in Firefly, where the Alliance Commander just gets more and more grumpy with each member of the crew)
~~~~
Alliance Commander: "Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of."
Mal: "May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
~~~~
Kaylee: (pointing to a pink frilly dress) "Say, look at the fluffy one!"
Zoe: "Too much foofaraw. If I'm going to wear a dress, I'd want something with some slink."
Wash: "You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress?"
Jayne: "I'll chip in."
Zoe: (to Jayne) "I can hurt you."
~~~~
Harrow: "You have to finish it, lad. You have to finish it. For a man to lay beaten... and yet breathing? It makes him a coward."
Inara: "It's humiliation."
Mal: "Sure. It would be humiliating. Having to lie there while the better man refuses to spill your blood. Mercy is the mark of a great man. (lightly stabs Atherton with the sword) Guess I'm just a good man. (stabs him again) Well, I'm all right."
[The fencers en-masse may use this]
~~~~
River: "The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems."
Mal: (to Simon) "See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like."
~~~~
Mal: "Now think real hard. You been bird-dogging this township a while now. They wouldn't mind a corpse of you. Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet: I will end you."
~~~~
Book: "If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."
~~~~
Zoe: "Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?
Book: "Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps."
~~~~
River: "Also? I can kill you with my brain."
~~~~
River: (trying to eat an 'ice-planet') "My food is problematic."
[My housemate is actually the one that uses this, normally when ketchup tries to escape]
~~~~
Wash: "Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."
Zoe: "We live in a space ship, dear."
~~~~
Zoe: (sliding gun barrel alongside security guard's face) "You know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later."
[Zoe should also be on my favourite female character list if she isn't]
~~~~
Mal: "You do that," (pulls out Serenity's pulse beacon) "you'd best make peace with your dear and fluffy Lord."
[Okay, so we use it for dear and fluffy landlord, but still)
The other quote I'd like to mention is "too much hair", which is normally how housemate P greeted me in a morning when my hair was in attack mode.
My mother hates Firefly, she doesn't take well to sci-fi and blames it entirely for the word 'shiny' becoming part of my vocabulary.
Day 1 - A show that shouldn't have been cancelled
Day 2 - A show that more people should watch
Day 3 - Your favourite new show
Day 4 - Your favourite TV show
Day 5 - Your least favourite TV show
Day 6 - My favourite episode of my favourite show(s)
Day 7 - My least favourite episode of my favourite show(s)
Day 8 - A show everyone ought to watch
Day 9 - Favourite scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A TV show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favourite Male Character
Day 15 - Favourite Female Character
Day 16 - Your Guilty Pleasure Show
Day 17 - Your favourite mini-series
Day 18 - Favourite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favourite kiss
Day 21 - Favourite ship
Day 22 - Favourite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
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Date: 2010-10-12 10:09 pm (UTC)