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TV characters hold a special place in our hearts. And the words that come out of their mouths hold a special place in our brains. Click on any TV quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"'Cause it's a Wednesday night, baby, and I'm alive."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"A lion does not ask permission before he eats a zebra."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"All I do is think and blink."Source: I Dream of Jeannie | Speaker: Jeannie

"All in the game. All in the game, yo."Source: The Wire | Speaker: Omar Little


"All monsters are human."Source: American Horror Story: Asylum | Speaker: Sister Jude Martin

"Allons-y!"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor

"And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"Source: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | Speaker: Various Villains

"And now for something completely different."Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: The Announcer

"And that's the way it is."Source: CBS Evening News | Speaker: Walter Cronkite

"Any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me. Probably in the last half hour."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"Anything. Can be a slam. Poem. If you say it like this."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Leslie Knope

"Baby, you got a stew going."Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Carl Weathers

"Baby, you're the greatest."Source: The Honeymooners | Speaker: Ralph Kramden

"Bam!"Source: Emeril Live | Speaker: Emeril Lagasse

"Bazinga!"Source: The Big Bang Theory | Speaker: Sheldon Cooper

"Book 'em, Danno."Source: Hawaii Five-O | Speaker: Steve McGarrett

"Burn!"Source: That '70s Show | Speaker: Kelso

"But that's life. One minute you're on top of the world. The next minute, some secretary is running you over with a lawnmower."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway

"Butts."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"By all means, attribute my legitimate feelings of sadness to menses."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman


"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose."Source: Friday Night Lights | Speaker: Coach Eric Taylor

"Come on down!"Source: The Price is Right | Speaker: Johnny Olson

"Consume mass quantities."Source: SNL sketch "The Coneheads" | Speaker: The Coneheads

"Cut it out."Source: Full House | Speaker: Joey Gladstone

"D'oh!"Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Homer Simpson

"Danger, Will Robinson!"Source: Lost in Space | Speaker: The Robot

"De plane! De plane!"Source: Fantasy Island | Speaker: Tattoo

"Dear frozen yogurt: you are the celery of desserts. Be ice cream or nothing. Zero stars."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson

"Democracy is so overrated."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"Did I do that?"Source: Family Matters | Speaker: Steve Urkel

"Do you believe in miracles?"Source: 1980 Winter Olympics | Speaker: Al Michaels

"Do you have any Grey Poupon?"Source: Grey Poupon TV commercial | Speaker: Man in Car

"Don't have a cow, man."Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Bart Simpson


"Dy-no-mite!"Source: Good Times | Speaker: James "J.J." Evans Jr.

"Eat my shorts!"Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Bart Simpson

"Elizabeth, I'm coming!"Source: Sanford and Son | Speaker: Fred Sanford

"Everybody lies."Source: House M.D. | Speaker: Dr. Gregory House

"Everyone keeps saying that. It must be a conspiracy."Source: Jessica Jones | Speaker: Jessica Jones

"Frak!"Source: Battlestar Galactica | Speaker: Various characters

"Gee, Mrs. Cleaver..."Source: Leave It to Beaver | Speaker: Eddie Haskell

"Get out of my chair, Meathead."Source: All in the Family | Speaker: Archie Bunker

"Get out!"Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Elaine Benes

"Giggity giggity"Source: Family Guy | Speaker: Glen Quagmire

"Go home, Roger"Source: Sister Sister | Speaker: Tia and Tamera

"God'll get you for that."Source: Maude | Speaker: Maude Findlay

"Good grief!"Source: A Charlie Brown Christmas | Speaker: Charlie Brown


"Goodnight, John Boy."Source: The Waltons | Speaker: The Waltons

"Have a good life."Source: Cheers | Speaker: Sam Malone

"Have mercy."Source: Full House | Speaker: Uncle Jesse

"Heh heh."Source: Beavis and Butt-Head | Speaker: Beavis and Butt-Head

"Hello, Newman."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Jerry Seinfeld

"Hello. IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"Source: The IT Crowd | Speaker: Roy Trenneman

"Here it is, your moment of Zen."Source: The Daily Show | Speaker: The Daily Show

"Here's Johnny! (Tonight Show)"Source: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Speaker: Ed McMahon

"Hey now!"Source: The Larry Sanders Show | Speaker: Hank Kingsley

"Hey, brother."Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Buster Bluth

"Hey, HEY, hey!"Source: What's Happening!! | Speaker: Dwayne Nelson

"Hi, my name is George. I'm unemployed, and I live with my parents."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: George Costanza

"Hi-di-ho, neighbor!"Source: Home Improvement | Speaker: Wilson W. Wilson, Jr.

"Holy crap!"Source: Everybody Loves Raymond | Speaker: Frank Barone

"Homey don't play that."Source: In Living Color | Speaker: Homey D. Clown

"How you doin'?"Source: Friends | Speaker: Joey Tribbiani

"I am definitely a mad man with a box."Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Eleventh Doctor

"I am the one who knocks."Source: Breaking Bad | Speaker: Walter White

"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman

"I can't believe I ate that whole thing."Source: Alka-Seltzer commercial | Speaker: Ralph

"I don't even want a boyfriend."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Pam Swynford de Beaufort

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys "R" Us kid."Source: Toys "R" Us Commercial | Author: James Patterson

"I have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened, and called Taylor Swift."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman

"I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"I know nothing!"Source: Hogan's Heroes | Speaker: Sergeant Hans Schultz

"I live in a van down by the river."Source: Saturday Night Live, Motivation | Speaker: Matt Foley

"I love it when a plan comes together."Source: The A-Team | Speaker: John "Hannibal" Smith

"I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"I need to know that I'm being heard."Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish

"I stand behind my decision to avoid salad and other disgusting things"Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Leslie Knope

"I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"I want my MTV!"Source: MTV commercial | Speaker: Various

"I want to go to there."Source: 30 Rock | Speaker: Liz Lemon

"I was so worried I baked a whole cake. And then I ate a whole cake."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Lincoln Rice

"I'd consider myself a realist, alright?"Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle

"I'd like to buy a vowel."Source: Wheel of Fortune | Speaker: Contestants

"I'm a monster!"Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Buster Bluth

"I'm a smart, strong, sensual woman."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"I'm an adult, and I'm responsible. Let's go get some candy."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Abbi Jacobson

"I'm Larry, this is my brother, Darryl, and this is my other brother, Darryl."Source: Newheart | Speaker: Larry

"I'm listening."Source: Frasier | Speaker: Frasier Crane

"I'm no hero. I put my bra on one boob at a time like everyone else."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV."Source: Vicks Formula 44 | Speaker: Chris Robinson

"I'm not interested in caring about people."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson

"I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: The Tenth Doctor

"If it doesn't have meat, it's a snack."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson

"If the apocalypse comes, beep me."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers

"If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper

"If you need me, I'll be down here on the floor. Dying."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"Is that your final answer?"Source: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | Speaker: Regis Philbin

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: Jean-Luc Picard

"It keeps going and going and going..."Source: Energizer Commercials | Speaker: Commercial Narrator

"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking."Source: Timex Commercials | Speaker: John Cameron Swayze

"It's a dog eat dog world, Sammy, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear."Source: Cheers | Speaker: Norm Peterson

"It's a really big show tonight!"Source: The Ed Sullivan Show | Speaker: Ed Sullivan

"It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal, and the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down."Source: Scandal | Speaker: Olivia Pope

"It's this century. It still does perplex me so."Source: American Horror Story: Coven | Speaker: Delphine LaLaurie

"Jerome's in the house! Watch your mouth!"Source: Martin | Speaker: Jerome

"Just one more thing..."Source: Columbo | Speaker: Lieutenant Columbo

"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try."Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Homer Simpson

"Kiss my grits!"Source: Alice | Speaker: Flo

"Ladies and gentlemen…The Beatles!"Source: The Ed Sullivan Show | Speaker: Ed Sullivan

"Legen—wait for it—dary!"Source: How I Met Your Mother | Speaker: Barney Stinson

"Let's be careful out there."Source: Hill Street Blues | Speaker: Sergeant Phil Esterhaus

"Let's get ready to rumble!"Source: Professional Wrestling | Speaker: Michael Buffer

"Live from New York; it's Saturday Night!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Various Saturday Night Live Cast Members

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"Source: Adventures of Superman | Speaker: Men and Women

"Love fades away. But things...things are forever."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Tom Haverford

"Make it so."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"Make it work."Source: Project Runway | Speaker: Tim Gunn

"Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"Source: The Brady Bunch | Speaker: Jan Brady

"Mom always liked you best."Source: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | Speaker: Tommy Smothers

"More cowbell."Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: The Bruce Dickinson

"My mad face and my happy face are the same."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Pam De Beaufort

"Nanu nanu."Source: Mork & Mindy | Speaker: Mork

"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."Source: Game of Thrones | Speaker: Tyrion Lannister

"Nip it in the bud!"Source: The Andy Griffith Show | Speaker: Barney Fife


"No soup for you!"Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: The Soup Nazi

"No touching!"Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Various Prison Guards

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: Cardinal Ximénez

"Norm!"Source: Cheers | Speaker: The Cast of Cheers

"Nostalgia. It's delicate, but potent."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper

"Not that there's anything wrong with that."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Jerry Seinfeld

"Note to self: After a long day at work, I don't need to see that!"Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish as Aunt Sassy

"Now cut that out!"Source: The Jack Benny Program | Speaker: Jack Benny

"Oh my god, they killed Kenny!"Source: South Park | Speaker: Cast of South Park

"Oh, it's okay. I guess I wasn't meant to have a good life."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher


"Once there was only dark."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle

"POW, right in the kisser!"Source: The Honeymooners | Speaker: Ralph Kramden

"Resistance is futile."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: The Borg

"Say goodnight, Gracie."Source: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | Speaker: George Burns

"Schwing!"Source: Saturday Night Live and Wayne's World | Speaker: Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar

"Seize the moment. 'Cause tomorrow you might be dead."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers

"Serenity now!"Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Frank Costanza

"She's my person."Source: Grey's Anatomy | Speaker: Dr. Cristina Yang


"Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!"Source: Trix Commercial | Speaker: Kids

"Smile! You're on Candid Camera."Source: Candid Camera | Speaker: Allen Funt

"Sock it to me."Source: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Speaker: The Sock-It-To-Me girl

"Sometimes being stuck inside my own head is so exhausting it makes me want to cry."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels

"Sookie."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Bill Compton

"Space, the final frontier."Source: Star Trek | Speaker: Narrator

"Stifle."Source: All in the Family | Speaker: Archie Bunker

"Suit up!"Source: How I Met Your Mother | Speaker: Barney Stinson

"Survey says!"Source: Family Feud | Speaker: Family Feud Hosts

"Tell me what you don't like about yourself."Source: Nip/Tuck | Speaker: Sean McNamara and Christian Troy

"That's a dealbreaker!"Source: 30 Rock | Speaker: Liz Lemon

"That's hot."Source: The Simple Life | Speaker: Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie

"That's what she said."Source: The Office | Speaker: Michael Scott et al

"The best thing about human beings is that they stack so neatly."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"The gift of a good liar is making people believe you lack a talent for lying."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers

"The San Francisco Treat!"Source: Rice-A-Roni commercial | Speaker: Rice-A-Roni

"The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat"Source: Wide World of Sports | Speaker: Jim McKay

"The tribe has spoken."Source: Survivor | Speaker: Jeff Probst

"The truth is out there."Source: The X-Files | Speaker: Title Sequence

"The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle


"There's always hope tomorrow will be taco night."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Nicky Nichols

"These pretzels are making me thirsty!"Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Seinfeld Cast

"They're like humans, but miniature. Teacup humans."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Eric Northman

"This is not one of your more convincing fake showers."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels

"This is the city."Source: Dragnet | Speaker: Sergeant Joe Friday

"This place is like somebody's memory of a town."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle

"Those stories (and Andy Rooney) tonight, on 60 Minutes."Source: 60 Minutes | Speaker: Reporter

"Time for the charm bomb to explode."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"Time is a flat circle."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle

"Time to make the donuts."Source: Dunkin' Donuts commercial | Speaker: Fred the Baker


"Troy and Abed in the morning!"Source: Community | Speaker: Troy Barnes and Abed Nadir

"Two thumbs up."Source: Siskel & Ebert & the Movies | Speaker: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert

"Up your nose with a rubber hose!"Source: Welcome Back, Kotter | Speaker: Vincent "Vinnie" Barbarino

"Wassup?"Source: 2000 Budweiser commercial | Speaker: Various Budweiser mascots

"We are two wild and crazy guys!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: The Festrunk Brothers

"We've got a situation."Source: Jersey Shore | Speaker: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino

"Well, isn't that special?"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: The Church Lady

"What you call love was invented by guys like me...to sell Nylons."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper

"What you see is what you get!"Source: The Flip Wilson Show | Speaker: Geraldine Jones

"What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?"Source: Diff'rent Strokes | Speaker: Arnold Jackson

"When you control the mail...you control information."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Newman

"Where are you going in those Keds?"Source: Girls | Speaker: Charlie Dattolo and Ray Ploshansky

"Where’s the beef?"Source: Wendy’s Commercial “Fluffy Bun” | Speaker: Clara Peller

"Who are you wearing?"Source: Joan Rivers, on the red carpet | Speaker: Joan Rivers

"Who loves ya, baby?"Source: Kojak | Speaker: Theo Kojak

"Wii (We) would like to play."Source: Wii Commercial | Author: Leo Burnett

"Will you accept this rose?"Source: The Bachelor | Speaker: Bachelors

"Would you believe…?"Source: Get Smart | Speaker: Maxwell Smart

"Yabba dabba doo!"Source: The Flintstones | Speaker: Fred Flintstone

"Yas queen!"Source: Broad City | Speaker: Ilana Wexler

"Yeah, that's the ticket!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar

"You are about to enter another dimension."Source: The Twilight Zone | Speaker: Rod Serling

"You are from New York; therefore, you are just naturally interesting."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath


"You come at the king, you best not miss."Source: The Wire | Speaker: Omar Little

"You eediot!"Source: Ren & Stimpy | Speaker: Ren Höek

"You know what the weirdest part about having a job is?"Source: Girls | Speaker: Jessa Johansson

"You look mahvelous!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Fernando Lamas

"You rang?"Source: The Addams Family | Speaker: Lurch

"You should never assume."Source: The Odd Couple | Speaker: Felix Unger

"You very bad man, Jerry."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Babu

"You want to be taken seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway

"You want weapons. We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world."Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor

"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."Source: The Incredible Hulk | Speaker: Dr. David Banner

"You're fired."Source: The Apprentice | Speaker: Donald Trump

"You've got spunk. I hate spunk!"Source: The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Speaker: Lou Grant

"Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Roger Sterling

"Zoinks!"Source: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | Speaker: Shaggy