If you could only communicate using quotes from one TV show for the rest of your life, which show would you choose and how would that change your interactions?
If you could only communicate using quotes from one TV show for the rest of your life, which show would you choose and how would that change your interactions?
I'd say Simpsons, because it has probably the largest base of useful quotes.
Futurama. I don't what I would do if I couldn't tell people to bite my shiny metal ass.
67ReplyShut up and take my money!
4ReplyI basically already do it with Futurama, to the great confusion of everyone around me.
4ReplyI think Simpsons would still have you covered, they've had crossovers in the past
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Star Trek: TNG
“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra”
Wouldn't change much honestly.
36ReplyYeah, I was going to cheat and go with “the entire Star Trek franchise”
And… I pretty much already speak entirely in Star Trek quotes.
8ReplyRule of Acquisition 111: Treat people in your debt like family… exploit them.
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"The Good Place" - you bet your fudging life!
21ReplyHoly shirt balls!
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Shaka when the walls fell
21ReplyThat's how you speak isn't it, through metaphor
This broke my brain when I watched again, because I constantly use star trek, wars, Simpsons, Seinfeld, and so many other references to explain how I'm feeling.
Unfortunately no one else watches them.
10ReplyIt's ok, we understand here. This is your safe space. If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Tapiooooca!
20ReplyIce hole.
4ReplyBackstreet boys!
3ReplyI know this is hours later now but, as I am just now reading through winding down for my night, this is what I'm watching!
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Arrested development! Not sure it would change my daily interactions.
I've made a huge mistake
19ReplyIts Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it would be an easy transition
19ReplyBE GONE FROM ME
10ReplyI just wanna be pure
3Reply"Goddamn it! I don't know how to express myself unless through anger and personal attacks!"
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Pulp Fiction. I can still say useful everyday phrases like "Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet."
18ReplyI'm pretty sure nobody around me understands why I always say little KANGaroo so strangely.
And no, I don't often have reasons to say that, but that doesn't stop me from making my own.
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Community. Won't chang my interactions that much.
15ReplyCommunity
EDIT: changing my answer to Taskmaster, if only so I can still say "all the information's on the task"
13ReplyAlso: stopcockstopcock stop. Cock. Stopcock
Very handy and widely applicable.
Though you’d lose the equally useful “pop pop”.
4ReplyYou would gain "a lime!" but lose "hello, rich people?"
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Did I meet these potatoes before?
2ReplyWait what‽ What wait‽ Wait what‽
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South Park - not much would change since it would be only a slight increase in the number of f bombs I use.
13ReplyBrooklyn nine-nine “Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. No doubt, no doubt, no doubt.”
11ReplyNINE NINE!!
5ReplyPAIN!
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I take "Yes, Minister" together with it's follow-up "Yes, Prime Minister". It's old, yes, and British, but I've yet to see a series with more memorable quotes.
10ReplyI must rewatch this, I feel I was too young to get most of the more subtle humour when I first watched it.
2ReplyAbsolutely. The scenes where Sir Humphrey explains British Newspapers to the minister or talks with Frank Weisel about conscription were absolutely gold! Or "The Prime Minister giveth, and the Prime Minster taketh away." ;-)
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10ReplySmithers ... You ... Are ... Really ... Good ... At... Turning me on.
4ReplyYou should probably ignore that
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Your idea are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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Trailer park boys. Way she goes boys
9ReplyRen and Stimpy.
No sir, I don't like it.
9ReplyCling tenaciously to my buttocks!
3ReplyCALL THE POLEEEEEECCCEEEEE!!!
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Schitt's Creek. Half my online conversations are already gifs from the show.
8Replywhat up my glipglops
ol Rick n morty should cover all my wubalubadub dub.
8ReplyVenture Brothers, probably. I already quote it too much. Hot dolphin!
7ReplyAnything can be made from these quotes.
7Reply"30 Rock" No interaction I've ever had would be different...
6ReplyFraiser
6ReplyI AM WOUNDED!
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Local station news program. I suspect that would cover the most broadly applicable things that you'll need to deal with. Aside from local place names you'll still be able to talk about national and international news, finance/taxes, medical situations, weather, sports and entertainment, food... You'd have decades worth of back catalog to access from. You'd probably be wanting for specifics on some super niche hobbies, but it's hard to think of much that you'd be missing entirely from your available phrases.
6ReplyDeadwood would make my life interesting
6ReplyMy favorite show, Psych. My daily interactions will allow for lots of pineapples.
5Replyprobably like general hospital since it has so many episodes you would likely be able to speak anything.
5ReplyThe Office, basically it wouldn’t change anything because I already speak in mostly deep cut quotes and references from the show.
5ReplyFirefly. Using gorramitt, shiny, "I'm shocked my own self", and "big damn hero" on the regs would be right some good.
5ReplySame, but mainly because I already have all of the quotes and I do use them fairly regularly. The only downside is that the show was murdered in its infancy by Fox who I will never forgive and thus provides a limited vocabulary.
Edit:
Also, "Per-maybe-haps I'm thinkin'."
3ReplyNever forget what they did to us.
3ReplyI always think of Fox as the Alliance. They change the order the shows aired and the time/date. Bastards.
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Mean Girls. And I want my pink shirt back!
5ReplyThat'd be so fetch
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Letterkenny, give your balls a tug!
5ReplyI Think You Should Leave.
"Hey, nice shirt Kolanaki."
"Thanks. It was $450 dollars because the pattern is so complicated."
4ReplyThis show is already about 75% of my daily speech. Now shut the fuck up, Doug. I'll eat your wife's wig.
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Pingu
4ReplyHAIL ZORP
Get organized and then engage with Zorp. What else is there to say?
3Reply"yes" "I" "would" "it's" "not" "hard" "if" "they" "are" "short" "quotes"
3Reply30 rock.
"Are there any other black nerds or is it just you and Ukel?"
3ReplyRed Dwarf is an interesting thought here.
3ReplyOver the Garden Wall. It's not terribly long, yet remains one of the most quoted shows in my family.
3ReplyDelores!
3ReplyThe Simpsons or similar.
It's been running since forever. If you're going to constrain my vocabulary, I'd rather have it as large as possible.
3ReplyThe Simpsons are a perfectly cromulent way to enbiggen your vocabulary.
3ReplyMy son is also named Bort
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Frell.
3ReplyAww, son of a hazmot!
2ReplyHigh pitched voice: You fart helium!?
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3ReplyThe Regular Show. Mostly means I'm going to tap the nearest person to me to present all questions/answers in a synchronized choreographed song and dance.
IRL tho, ever since watching Letterkenney, all my friends and I do the fancy "To be fair" thing constantly.
2ReplyDeadwood.
It'd help me finally clean up my language, while still saying what I'm thinking most of the time.
2ReplyI think you should leave
2ReplyThat's why I'm so fucking confused!
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Star wars. It wouldn't change much
2Reply"The Sopranos" would be a fun one.
Anyways, $4 a pound..
2ReplyMy household quotes Adventure Time quite a bit. Oh my glob!
2ReplyI’ll tell you what: I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker
2ReplyStar Wars
1ReplyMechanical breathing Noooooooooooooooooo
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Peep Show.
1ReplyPsych, because I am a fan of delicious flavor. It wouldn't change much because I already quote it a lot
1Reply"I have a belly full of white dogcrap in me, and now you lay this shit on me?"
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