30 Days of Telly Meme - Day 24
My rebellious streak reasserted itself and, since the next couple of qs bored me yesterday, and I had fic to write, that I would do this today, and catch up with the missed days in the week, since they probably didn't justify a post to themselves. Oh, but this one...
Day 24 - Best quote: Doctor Who - the closing lines of Survival:
There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea is asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace; we've got work to do!
I'm so glad the series didn't, as it turned out, end here, but if it had, could you think of a better line to go out on?
So, I have one out and out winner that has never been bettered (as you see). But I also *love* quotes of all kinds. I had a friend who collected them and I used to pass any I liked on to her and it stayed with me. So, random assorted TV show quotes follow, because, whyever not?
Very little DW, because one of these days, I'll have to do a post solely dedicated to the wonder that is Doctor Who quotes. (Except that I rather love some of the First Doctor's little speeches, particularly. And I don't just mean the Billy-fluffs!)
First Doctor
If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?
I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it.
One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.
Your ideas are too narrow, too crippled. I am a citizen of the universe, and a gentleman to boot!
Second Doctor
There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things that act against everything we believe in. They must be fought!
Our lives are different to everybody else's... That's the exciting thing. Nobody else in the universe can do what we're doing.
Third Doctor & The Master
The Master, on a nuclear disaster: Well, you could take the usual precautions... Sticky tape on the windows, that sort of thing. and, on the TARDIS: Overweight, underpowered... might as well try to fly a second-hand gas stove!. And almost every line he says in Frontier in Space (Especially: "In reminiscent mood are we, Doctor? Poor Miss Grant, you have my deepest sympathies!")
(Yes, I know. What about Three?)
So free will is not an illusion after all.
And his final words in Planet of the Spiders are probably the loveliest regeneration final words we've had so far. I mean, there's not much competition for some of them. Four's It's the end, being the only serious contender I can think of... :lol:
See, I'll be here all day - and I've skipped over so many. Let's take it as read that Doctor Who quotes are wonderful and ridiculous and great, and give some attention to some others. (but "Please do not throw hands at me!")
Red Dwarf
Again, only a smattering:
It's the old, old story: Droid meets Droid, Droid becomes Chameleon, Droid loses Chameleon, Chameleon turns into Blob, Droid gets Blob back again, Blob meets Blob, Blob goes off with Blob, and Droid loses Blob, Chameleon, and Droid. How many times have we seen that story? (Kryten)
Cat: "Maybe we should drop the defensive shields?"
Kryten: "A superlative suggestion sir, with only two drawbacks: one, we don't have any defensive shields and two, we don't have any defensive shields. I know that, technically, that's only one drawback, but it was such a big one I thought I'd mention it twice."
Rimmer: "Step up to red alert."
Kryten: "Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
Lister: "I'm gonna get a sheep and a cow and breed horses."
Rimmer: "With a sheep and a cow?"
And I found some Space directives listed - I don't even remember some of these:
Terraformers are expressly forbidden from recreating Swindon.
Work done by an officer's doppelganger in a parallel universe cannot be claimed as overtime.
During temporal disturbances, no questions shall be raised about any crewmember whose timesheet shows him or her clocking off 187 years before he clocked on.
Any officer found to have been slaughtered and replaced by a shape-changing chameleonic life form shall forfeit all pension rights.
Star Trek: Voyager
Janeway: If you can't solve a puzzle, cheat.
Mr. Kim - we're Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job.
My advice when making sense of temporal paradoxes is simple: don't even try.
B’Elanna: "Get the cheese to sickbay!"
Janeway: "Dismissed"
Neelix: [stands there dumbfounded] "B...but.."
Janeway: "That's Starfleet for get out"
Q: "Oh, I see, this is one of those silly human rituals - you're playing hard to get."
Janeway: "As far as you're concerned, Q, I'm impossible to get."
Q: "Goody! A challenge! This is going to be fun!"
Blake's 7
Avon: I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care, or, indeed, why it should be necessary to prove it at all. [Exits]
Vila: Was that an insult or did I miss something?
Cally: You missed something.
Avon: Logic says we're dead.
Blake: Logic has never defined what dead is.
Avon: I'm finished. Staying with you requires a degree of stupidity of which I no longer feel capable.
Blake: No, you're just being modest.
Vila: Where are all the good guys?
Blake: Could be looking at them.
Avon: What a very depressing thought.
Vila: When Avon holds out the hand of friendship, watch his other hand. That's the one with the hammer.
Avon: There are a quarter of a million volts running through that converter. I make one false move, I'll be so crisped up what's left of me won't fit into a sandwich.
Vila: I'm a vegetarian. Thanks for the offer, though.
(I should note that this one is the fault of one Robert Holmes... :lol:)
Avon: Of all the things I am, I never recognized the fool.
(Can you see why I fell in love with this show?)
Allo Allo
(If you're not familiar with the set-up, Crabtree is a British spy disguised as French policeman. He has a terrible French accent...)
René (at the police station): I would like to turn myself in.
Crabtree: Do you wash to confuss to some form of cream?
René: Yes. Cream galore!
Crabtree: In that curse, you must fill in a foam, here is a list of creams and I will tick what you have din. Do you wash to confuss to mordor?
René: No.
Crabtree: Minslatter?
René: No.
Crabtree: Biglary?
René: No.
Crabtree: Biglary woth minaces?
René: No.
Crabtree: Roop?
René: No.
Crabtree: Handbog Snitching?
René: No.
Crabtree: Arsin?
René: What is "arsin"?
Crabtree: Setting fire to places.
Helga: What about the good news?
Herr Flick: The good news is there is no more bad news.
Gen. Von Klinkerhoffen: Guards! Arrest all Gypsies driving fire engines.
René: Excuse me, is this the secret hideout of the Gestapo?
Von Smallhausen: It was, until now.
Hans: "Colonel, we are Germans! To have our uniforms made in London must be against the rules!"
Yvette, on Rene's tombstone: "Excuse me - may I say something? They shot him. You cannot have 'Sadly Missed'" (Strange as it seems, that is not actually a spoiler.)
Herr Flick: "He fell out of a Gestapo car, over a bridge, onto a railway line, and was run over by the Berlin Express. It was an accident."
Col. von Strohm: "One of the first things you learn in military academy is never to tell a General when he has a chicken on his head."
René (to Yvette): "When we are too old to make love, we will make wonderful soup."
Spooks
I've already done a Spooks quote post HERE. (I also did some West Wing quotes earlier as part of this meme).
Press Gang
Spike: "You don't happen to be jealous of a girl I've never even met, do you?"
Lynda: "Of course I'm jealous, Spike. I wish I was the girl you've never even met."
Lynda: "Has anyone ever told you you've got a wonderful vocabulary?"
Spike: "I always knew that. I just could never put it into words."
Spike: "Lynda, you've got the dress sense of a washing line."
Colin: "Why does no-one ever take me seriously?"
Mr Sullivan: "Colin, don't forget your lizard net."
Kenny: "I'm not going to let you go to pieces while there is nothing to go to pieces about."
Lynda: "So what are you saying, I should go in there and edit a newspaper?"
Kenny: "Put it this way, what would Spike want you to do?"
Lynda: "The usual. Wear tighter clothes and show more cleavage."
Spike: "Excuse me, but I would like to know more about this blind driving plumber you bathe with. Can you explain any of that?"
Lynda: "Okay - it's like this. There's a tribe living by a river, and in the river there are crocodiles. The tribe has one particular piece of wisdom passed down through the generations. It goes like this: if you happen to meet a crocodile, don't stick your head in its mouth. Every now and then - and who knows the reason - people ignore this advice. Which is sad. Because they die. But very stupid because they were warned. They had a choice. The moral of this story is - you can't afford to be stupid. There are crocodiles."
***
Days of Telly Meme:
Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled: Blake's 7
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching: Spooks
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season): The West Wing
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever: Doctor Who
Day 05 - A show you hate: Big Brother/ Who Wants to be a millionaire?
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show: Robots of Death / Ghostlight
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show: 42.
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch: Life on Mars
Day 09 - Best scene ever: DW - Ghostlight "I can't stand burnt toast."
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving: Star Trek Voyager
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you: Heroes
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times: BtVS 'Once More With Feeling'
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show: Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
Day 14 - Favorite male character: The Doctor (all 11 splendid chaps)
Day 15 - Favorite female character: Ruth Evershed (Spooks)
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show: Hotel Babylon
Day 17 - Favorite mini series: BBC North & South
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence: The X-Files
Day 19 - Best TV show cast: Spooks
Day 20 - Favorite Most Memorable kiss: Red Dwarf - Rimmer and Lister.
Day 21 - Favorite ship: Spooks - Ruth/Harry
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote: Doctor Who - Survival's last words.
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
Day 24 - Best quote: Doctor Who - the closing lines of Survival:
There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea is asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace; we've got work to do!
I'm so glad the series didn't, as it turned out, end here, but if it had, could you think of a better line to go out on?
So, I have one out and out winner that has never been bettered (as you see). But I also *love* quotes of all kinds. I had a friend who collected them and I used to pass any I liked on to her and it stayed with me. So, random assorted TV show quotes follow, because, whyever not?
Very little DW, because one of these days, I'll have to do a post solely dedicated to the wonder that is Doctor Who quotes. (Except that I rather love some of the First Doctor's little speeches, particularly. And I don't just mean the Billy-fluffs!)
First Doctor
If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?
I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it.
One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.
Your ideas are too narrow, too crippled. I am a citizen of the universe, and a gentleman to boot!
Second Doctor
There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things that act against everything we believe in. They must be fought!
Our lives are different to everybody else's... That's the exciting thing. Nobody else in the universe can do what we're doing.
Third Doctor & The Master
The Master, on a nuclear disaster: Well, you could take the usual precautions... Sticky tape on the windows, that sort of thing. and, on the TARDIS: Overweight, underpowered... might as well try to fly a second-hand gas stove!. And almost every line he says in Frontier in Space (Especially: "In reminiscent mood are we, Doctor? Poor Miss Grant, you have my deepest sympathies!")
(Yes, I know. What about Three?)
So free will is not an illusion after all.
And his final words in Planet of the Spiders are probably the loveliest regeneration final words we've had so far. I mean, there's not much competition for some of them. Four's It's the end, being the only serious contender I can think of... :lol:
See, I'll be here all day - and I've skipped over so many. Let's take it as read that Doctor Who quotes are wonderful and ridiculous and great, and give some attention to some others. (but "Please do not throw hands at me!")
Red Dwarf
Again, only a smattering:
It's the old, old story: Droid meets Droid, Droid becomes Chameleon, Droid loses Chameleon, Chameleon turns into Blob, Droid gets Blob back again, Blob meets Blob, Blob goes off with Blob, and Droid loses Blob, Chameleon, and Droid. How many times have we seen that story? (Kryten)
Cat: "Maybe we should drop the defensive shields?"
Kryten: "A superlative suggestion sir, with only two drawbacks: one, we don't have any defensive shields and two, we don't have any defensive shields. I know that, technically, that's only one drawback, but it was such a big one I thought I'd mention it twice."
Rimmer: "Step up to red alert."
Kryten: "Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
Lister: "I'm gonna get a sheep and a cow and breed horses."
Rimmer: "With a sheep and a cow?"
And I found some Space directives listed - I don't even remember some of these:
Terraformers are expressly forbidden from recreating Swindon.
Work done by an officer's doppelganger in a parallel universe cannot be claimed as overtime.
During temporal disturbances, no questions shall be raised about any crewmember whose timesheet shows him or her clocking off 187 years before he clocked on.
Any officer found to have been slaughtered and replaced by a shape-changing chameleonic life form shall forfeit all pension rights.
Star Trek: Voyager
Janeway: If you can't solve a puzzle, cheat.
Mr. Kim - we're Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job.
My advice when making sense of temporal paradoxes is simple: don't even try.
B’Elanna: "Get the cheese to sickbay!"
Janeway: "Dismissed"
Neelix: [stands there dumbfounded] "B...but.."
Janeway: "That's Starfleet for get out"
Q: "Oh, I see, this is one of those silly human rituals - you're playing hard to get."
Janeway: "As far as you're concerned, Q, I'm impossible to get."
Q: "Goody! A challenge! This is going to be fun!"
Blake's 7
Avon: I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care, or, indeed, why it should be necessary to prove it at all. [Exits]
Vila: Was that an insult or did I miss something?
Cally: You missed something.
Avon: Logic says we're dead.
Blake: Logic has never defined what dead is.
Avon: I'm finished. Staying with you requires a degree of stupidity of which I no longer feel capable.
Blake: No, you're just being modest.
Vila: Where are all the good guys?
Blake: Could be looking at them.
Avon: What a very depressing thought.
Vila: When Avon holds out the hand of friendship, watch his other hand. That's the one with the hammer.
Avon: There are a quarter of a million volts running through that converter. I make one false move, I'll be so crisped up what's left of me won't fit into a sandwich.
Vila: I'm a vegetarian. Thanks for the offer, though.
(I should note that this one is the fault of one Robert Holmes... :lol:)
Avon: Of all the things I am, I never recognized the fool.
(Can you see why I fell in love with this show?)
Allo Allo
(If you're not familiar with the set-up, Crabtree is a British spy disguised as French policeman. He has a terrible French accent...)
René (at the police station): I would like to turn myself in.
Crabtree: Do you wash to confuss to some form of cream?
René: Yes. Cream galore!
Crabtree: In that curse, you must fill in a foam, here is a list of creams and I will tick what you have din. Do you wash to confuss to mordor?
René: No.
Crabtree: Minslatter?
René: No.
Crabtree: Biglary?
René: No.
Crabtree: Biglary woth minaces?
René: No.
Crabtree: Roop?
René: No.
Crabtree: Handbog Snitching?
René: No.
Crabtree: Arsin?
René: What is "arsin"?
Crabtree: Setting fire to places.
Helga: What about the good news?
Herr Flick: The good news is there is no more bad news.
Gen. Von Klinkerhoffen: Guards! Arrest all Gypsies driving fire engines.
René: Excuse me, is this the secret hideout of the Gestapo?
Von Smallhausen: It was, until now.
Hans: "Colonel, we are Germans! To have our uniforms made in London must be against the rules!"
Yvette, on Rene's tombstone: "Excuse me - may I say something? They shot him. You cannot have 'Sadly Missed'" (Strange as it seems, that is not actually a spoiler.)
Herr Flick: "He fell out of a Gestapo car, over a bridge, onto a railway line, and was run over by the Berlin Express. It was an accident."
Col. von Strohm: "One of the first things you learn in military academy is never to tell a General when he has a chicken on his head."
René (to Yvette): "When we are too old to make love, we will make wonderful soup."
Spooks
I've already done a Spooks quote post HERE. (I also did some West Wing quotes earlier as part of this meme).
Press Gang
Spike: "You don't happen to be jealous of a girl I've never even met, do you?"
Lynda: "Of course I'm jealous, Spike. I wish I was the girl you've never even met."
Lynda: "Has anyone ever told you you've got a wonderful vocabulary?"
Spike: "I always knew that. I just could never put it into words."
Spike: "Lynda, you've got the dress sense of a washing line."
Colin: "Why does no-one ever take me seriously?"
Mr Sullivan: "Colin, don't forget your lizard net."
Kenny: "I'm not going to let you go to pieces while there is nothing to go to pieces about."
Lynda: "So what are you saying, I should go in there and edit a newspaper?"
Kenny: "Put it this way, what would Spike want you to do?"
Lynda: "The usual. Wear tighter clothes and show more cleavage."
Spike: "Excuse me, but I would like to know more about this blind driving plumber you bathe with. Can you explain any of that?"
Lynda: "Okay - it's like this. There's a tribe living by a river, and in the river there are crocodiles. The tribe has one particular piece of wisdom passed down through the generations. It goes like this: if you happen to meet a crocodile, don't stick your head in its mouth. Every now and then - and who knows the reason - people ignore this advice. Which is sad. Because they die. But very stupid because they were warned. They had a choice. The moral of this story is - you can't afford to be stupid. There are crocodiles."
***
Days of Telly Meme:
Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled: Blake's 7
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching: Spooks
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season): The West Wing
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever: Doctor Who
Day 05 - A show you hate: Big Brother/ Who Wants to be a millionaire?
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show: Robots of Death / Ghostlight
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show: 42.
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch: Life on Mars
Day 09 - Best scene ever: DW - Ghostlight "I can't stand burnt toast."
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving: Star Trek Voyager
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you: Heroes
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times: BtVS 'Once More With Feeling'
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show: Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
Day 14 - Favorite male character: The Doctor (all 11 splendid chaps)
Day 15 - Favorite female character: Ruth Evershed (Spooks)
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show: Hotel Babylon
Day 17 - Favorite mini series: BBC North & South
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence: The X-Files
Day 19 - Best TV show cast: Spooks
Day 20 - Favorite Most Memorable kiss: Red Dwarf - Rimmer and Lister.
Day 21 - Favorite ship: Spooks - Ruth/Harry
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote: Doctor Who - Survival's last words.
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