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Take a pick from the list:

.The Beverly Hillbillies.
.The Cosby Show.
.The Honeymooners.
.I Love Lucy.
.Looney Tunes.
.The Lucy Show.

Quotes about TV


The Beverly Hillbillies:

Jed: "I'd rather be caught betwixt a pair of scrapping bobcats than two women trying to run the same house."

Jed: "Look at that big house - I wonder if any movie stars live there."
Pearl: "Oh, Jethro, drive up the driveway so I can go in and ask for directions!"
Jethro: "Directions to where, Ma?"
Pearl: "Directions to the next corner, who cares!"
Pearl: "You didn't stop!"
Jethro: "Aw, I know how to get to the next corner!"

Jethro: "Hey Ma, wanna race me and Elly to the far end of the pond?"
Pearl: "In the water? And get my swimmin' clothes all wet??"

Pearl: [after their car just crashed into a chicken coop] "Jethro, I thought I told you to get rid of those worn-out brakes!"
Jethro: "I did, Ma! That's how come we ain't got none!"

Granny: [to the theiving monkey] "Come back here you little varmint! You get your paw-paw-pickin' paws off of my pickled paw-paws!"

Elly Mae: "Pa, what's a embrace?"
Jed: "Well, it's when two people kinda wrap their arms around each other."
Elly Mae:: "You mean like wrasslin'?"
Jed "Well...yeah, except they ain't mad."
Elly Mae: "Ooh, you mean like wrasslin' for fun!"
Jed: "I suppose you could put it that way."

Jed: "Jethro! How come there's no ice in California?"
[pause]
Jethro: "Don't look at me, I didn't take it!"

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The Cosby Show:

Denise: [explaining her bad grade to her parents] "If you have 60% of a pie, that's still a lot of pie!"

Vanessa: "Denise pushed us out of the bathroom and Rudy doesn't have all of the shampoo rinsed out of her hair. If she goes blind can we get a dog?"

Vanessa: "Rudy, what would you do in life if you only had a fourth grade education?"
Rudy: "Teach third grade."

Theo: [upon being woken up] "Come on, Dad, five more minutes... Four? Three?"
Cliff: "Is this an auction?"

Cliff: [Holding a ridiculous tie he got for Father's Day] "I am sure, somewhere, there is a suit that goes with this tie. Don't get me the suit!"

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The Honeymooners:

Ralph Kramden: "Hello there Mr. Harper. How are the kids?"
Mr. Harper: "I haven't got any children."
Ralph Kramden: "Uh, how's the wife?"
Mr. Harper: "I'm not married."
Ralph Kramden: "Oh, uh, well how are you, Mr. Harper? HAHA! Got you that time!!"

Ralph Kramden: "But I don't know anything about a golf course. I don't even know where left field is!"

Ed Norton: "What are you doing there, Ralphie Boy?"
Ralph: "I'm making a list of all my weak points."
Ed Norton: "Oh. Is that all the paper you're going to use?"

Ralph Kramden: "It says here to step up to the tee and address the ball. What does that mean?"
Ed Norton: "Hold on, I think I know."
[steps up to the tee]
Ed Norton: "Hello ball!"

Ralph Kramden: "We weren't picking up the mailbox, we were just setting it down..."
Mailman: "Oh really? Well from here it looked like tampering with the mail. That's a Federal offense, you know. You could get 2 years in prison or a $1000 fine."
Ed Norton: "How 'bout that, Ralph - you get a choice!"

Ralph Kramden: "Norton, you're a mental case."

Ed Norton: "If you ever have trouble, just remember - Ed Norton lives upstairs."

Ralph Kramden: "One of these days, Alice, one of these days! - POW! Right in the kisser!"

Ralph Kramden: "I'd kill myself before I'd commit suicide!"

Alice Kramden: "Oh why don't you go jump out the window?"
RalpH Kramden: "You said that yesterday."
Alice Kramden: "Yeah, but you didn't do it."

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I Love Lucy: (and the Lucy/Desi comedy hour)

Lucy: "We're going uranium hunting!"
Ethel: "But I thought Ricky put his foot down."
Lucy: "Ricky's put his foot down so many times I feel like I'm married to a Cuban centipede!"

Lucy: "There's more than one way to skin a Cuban cat!"

Fred: "I'll have you know that that baseball was signed by one of the greatest baseball players that ever lived."
Lucy: "Oh yeah, Spaulding!"

Lucy: "It's hard to believe that Fred was ever a little boy growing up on a farm."
Ethel: "It's hard to believe that Fred was ever a little boy."

Fred: "Maybe she's a kleptomaniac."
Ricky: "Naw, I just think she steals a lot."

Fred: "She said my mother looks like a weasel."
Lucy: "Ethel, apologize."
Ethel: "I'm sorry your mother looks like a weasel."

Ricky: "Lucy's actin' crazy."
Fred: "Crazy for Lucy, or crazy for ordinary people?"

Ricky: [during a show] "Hey, Lucy, a funny thing happened to me on the way to the theater."
Lucy: "What?"
Ricky: "Some tramp comes up to me on the street and says he hadn't had a bite in three days."
Lucy: "What did you do, bite him?"

Ethel: "Gee, this high altitude sure gives me an appetite."
Fred: "What's your excuse at sea level?"

Ethel: "There's lots of things you're good at."
Lucy: "Like what?"
Ethel: "Well, you're awfully good at...uh...you've always been great at..."
Lucy: "Those are the same ones Ricky came up with."

Ricky: "We've got to use our brains."
Lucy: "Well, let's see..."
Ricky: "You stay out of this!"

Superman: "How long have you been married [to Lucy]?"
Ricky: "15 years."
Superman: "And they call ME Superman!"

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Looney Tunes:

Yosemite Sam: "I've got you outnumbered 1 to 1! Surrender or die, rabbit!"

Bugs Bunny: "Eh, what's up Doc?"

Bugs Bunny: "Oh I knew I should've taken that left turn at Albuquerque."

Bugs Bunny: "I know this is defying the law of gravity, but I never studied law."

Porky Pig: "Tell me, Holmes, in what kind of school did you learn to be a detective?"
Daffy Duck: "Elementary, my dear Watkins!"

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The Lucy Show:

Lucy: "Well, if you ask me..."
Mr. Mooney: "Nobody asked YOU!"

Mr. Mooney: "Mrs. Carmichael, I've been trying to find Mr. Burns' file - it is not under the B's."
Lucy: "Oh, I must have put it under the X's."
Mr. Mooney: "Why would you put the B file under the X's??"
Lucy: "Well that poor little file never has anything in it! ...Oh, it's not here."
Mr. Mooney: "Well where is it??"
Lucy: "Well, now, I don't know, wait a minute - oh, I bet I know what I did. You see Mr. Burns, I have trouble remembering names, so I took a course in word association. Now, Burns reminds me of fire."
Mr. Mooney: "So you filed it under the F's."
Lucy: "No, fire reminds me of stove."
George Burns: "So you put my file under the S's."
Lucy: "No, stove reminds me of pot roast."
George Burns: [to Mr. Mooney] "It's your turn."
Mr. Mooney: "You filed it under the P's?"
Lucy: "No, pot roast reminds me of noodles."
Mr. Mooney: "Mrs. Carmichael, you're making me angry..."
George Burns: "She's making me hungry."
Lucy: "And noodles remind me of my mother."
Mr. Mooney: [to George Burns] "It's your turn."
George Burns: "Noodles remind you of your mother?"
Lucy: "Yeah, she made the best noodles...and I bet that's where I put your file."
George Burns: "Under noodles."
Lucy: "No, under gravy."
Mr. Mooney: "Mrs. Carmichael, I don't know what I'm going to do with you!"
George Burns: "I know what I'm going to do with her - start a whole knew career! Mrs. Carmichael?"
Lucy: "Yes sir?"
George Burns: "Have you ever thought about going on the stage?"
Lucy: "Oh, all my life!"
George Burns: "How would you like to do an act with me?"
Lucy: "Oh Mr. Burns, you can't be serious!"
George Burns: "I know it, that's why I want to get back on the stage."

Lucy: "Oh, that's very nice of you Mr. Burns, but I couldn't quit my job here."
Mr. Mooney: "Why not??"
Lucy: "Well because, it wouldn't be fair to you Mr. Mooney, you need me."

.................

Lucy: "Oh, and you know, today my horoscope said my whole future was going to take a turn for the better."
Mr. Mooney: "So did mine!"

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Quotes about TV:

"Television has raised writing to a new low."
~Samuel Goldwyn

"The networks say they don't influence anybody. If that's true, why do they have commercials? Why am I sitting there with Jell-O pudding?"
~Bill Cosby

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
~Groucho Marx

"On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window."
~Dan Spencer

"I know I'm biting the hand that feeds me, but TV can really suck the brains right out of your body."
~Kristen Johnston

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