Title: TV's Top 10 put downs
Description: How many do you remember??
fordprefect - February 26, 2008 02:46 PM (GMT)
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Insults by Captain Mainwaring and Lord Blackadder have been named among the top 25 put-downs in TV history, as chosen by the Radio Times magazine.
"Stupid Boy!" uttered by Dad's Army's Captain Mainwaring to Private Pike, is one of the lines in the list.
The selected Blackadder line was: "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?" |
Personally I love the Basil Fawlty one <roflmao>
DCMonkey - February 26, 2008 03:00 PM (GMT)
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| Arnold Rimmer - Red Dwarf. "Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence." |
I should use this quote at work! <LOL>
u4coffee - February 26, 2008 03:12 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (DCMonkey @ Feb 26 2008, 03:00 PM) |
| QUOTE | | Arnold Rimmer - Red Dwarf. "Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence." |
I should use this quote at work! <LOL>
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<roflmao> Me too <roflmao>
GV Legend - February 27, 2008 11:11 AM (GMT)
There are so many better house ones!
"Dr. Wilson: Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
Dr. Gregory House: And triteness kicks us in the nads"
"Dr. Gregory House: A patient comes because she's sleeping 16 hours a day, and it takes ten doctors and a coma to diagnose sleeping sickness. "
"Dr. Gregory House: [to EMT guy who has just tried to give directions] You wanted to be a doctor, maybe you should have buckled down a little more in high school. "
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and my all time favorite
"Dr. Roger Spain (First Applicant): Wow, I thought you'd be the last person to have a problem with nonconformity.
Dr. Gregory House: Nonconformity; right... I can't remember the last time saw a twenty something kid with a tattoo of an Asian letter on his wrist. You are one wicked free thinker! You want to be a rebel; stop being cool. Wear a pocket protector like he does, and get a hair cut. Like the Asian kids that don't leave the library for a twenty hours stretch. They're the ones that don't care what you think.
[pause]
Dr. Gregory House: Sayonara
[Dr. Spain exits office]
Dr. Wilson: So, should I go through all the resumes looking for Asian names?
Dr. Gregory House: Actually, the Asian kids are probably just responding to parental pressure, but my point is still valid. "
GV Legend - February 27, 2008 11:19 AM (GMT)
Dr. Cameron: That's not necessarily bad news.
Dr. Eric Foreman: Do you ever watch "Gilligan's Island" reruns and really, really think they're going to get off the island this time?
AndyW76 - February 27, 2008 11:43 AM (GMT)
Personally I like the repertoire of Edmund Blackadder.
"Baldric, go forth into the streets and announce that Lord Blackadder wishes to sell his house. Percy, just go forth into the streets." - EB, "Money", BA2
G: "If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do ?"
EB: "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area." - somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4
Hag: "Two things you must know about the wise woman. First...she is a woman. Second...she is..."
EB: "Wise?"
Hag: "Oh! You know her then?"
EB: "No, just a stab in the dark, which is what you'll be getting in a minute if you don't become more helpful."
- EB to Olf Hag, Bells, BA2
"...but the Prince is young and foolish and has a peanut for a brain..."
- EB to Dr Samuel Johnson, author of the Dictionary, BA3
Lord Tau - February 27, 2008 02:02 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (AndyW76 @ Feb 27 2008, 11:43 AM) |
Personally I like the repertoire of Edmund Blackadder.
"Baldric, go forth into the streets and announce that Lord Blackadder wishes to sell his house. Percy, just go forth into the streets." - EB, "Money", BA2
G: "If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do ?"
EB: "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area." - somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4
Hag: "Two things you must know about the wise woman. First...she is a woman. Second...she is..."
EB: "Wise?"
Hag: "Oh! You know her then?"
EB: "No, just a stab in the dark, which is what you'll be getting in a minute if you don't become more helpful."
- EB to Olf Hag, Bells, BA2
"...but the Prince is young and foolish and has a peanut for a brain..."
- EB to Dr Samuel Johnson, author of the Dictionary, BA3 |
Lady Whiteadder: Do you know that man?
Blackadder: No.
Lady Whiteadder: He called you "Edmund".
Blackadder: Oh "know" him. Yes, I do.
Lady Whiteadder: Then, can you tell me what he mean't by "great booze up"?
*Long pause*
Blackadder: Yes I can. That man is a missionary, and on his last trip abroad, brought back the leader of a famous tribe. His name is "Great Boo". He's been suffering from sleeping sickness, and has obviously just woken up, because as you've just heard, Great Boo's Up!
AndyW76 - March 3, 2008 01:44 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Lord Tau @ Feb 27 2008, 02:02 PM) |
| QUOTE (AndyW76 @ Feb 27 2008, 11:43 AM) | Personally I like the repertoire of Edmund Blackadder.
"Baldric, go forth into the streets and announce that Lord Blackadder wishes to sell his house. Percy, just go forth into the streets." - EB, "Money", BA2
G: "If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do ?"
EB: "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area." - somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4
Hag: "Two things you must know about the wise woman. First...she is a woman. Second...she is..."
EB: "Wise?"
Hag: "Oh! You know her then?"
EB: "No, just a stab in the dark, which is what you'll be getting in a minute if you don't become more helpful."
- EB to Olf Hag, Bells, BA2
"...but the Prince is young and foolish and has a peanut for a brain..."
- EB to Dr Samuel Johnson, author of the Dictionary, BA3 |
Lady Whiteadder: Do you know that man?
Blackadder: No.
Lady Whiteadder: He called you "Edmund".
Blackadder: Oh "know" him. Yes, I do.
Lady Whiteadder: Then, can you tell me what he mean't by "great booze up"?
*Long pause*
Blackadder: Yes I can. That man is a missionary, and on his last trip abroad, brought back the leader of a famous tribe. His name is "Great Boo". He's been suffering from sleeping sickness, and has obviously just woken up, because as you've just heard, Great Boo's Up!
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The only thing funnier than that is "the Germans" episode of Fawlty towers.
fordprefect - March 3, 2008 01:58 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (AndyW76 @ Mar 3 2008, 01:44 PM) |
The only thing funnier than that is "the Germans" episode of Fawlty towers. |
The mini Ford's and I watched that one the other night - it's sooooo funny
<roflmao> <roflmao>
GV Legend - March 3, 2008 04:36 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (AndyW76 @ Mar 3 2008, 01:44 PM) |
| QUOTE (Lord Tau @ Feb 27 2008, 02:02 PM) | Lady Whiteadder: Do you know that man?
Blackadder: No.
Lady Whiteadder: He called you "Edmund".
Blackadder: Oh "know" him. Yes, I do.
Lady Whiteadder: Then, can you tell me what he mean't by "great booze up"?
*Long pause*
Blackadder: Yes I can. That man is a missionary, and on his last trip abroad, brought back the leader of a famous tribe. His name is "Great Boo". He's been suffering from sleeping sickness, and has obviously just woken up, because as you've just heard, Great Boo's Up! |
The only thing funnier than that is "the Germans" episode of Fawlty towers.
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Very witty pieces no doubt, but not really put downs
AndyW76 - March 4, 2008 12:28 PM (GMT)
Ok, a bit off topic but still funny, all the same.