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From Steve's IMDB thread (what a monster - congragulations):
quote:Of course, the other pssobility is that five million years ago, primitive man was visited by aliens who said that constantly. And so, it's worked its way into our collective subconscious, with the result that we all recognise it, even though we haven't heard it anywhere ourselves.
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I keep hearing John Cleese saying it. I'm not sure why, but it seems to fit his many twitchy personas, especially Basil Fawlty. But since apparently it's an American quote, that shoots my theory down the tubes.
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On another note....what about M*A*S*H? The quote is familiar to me too, and I don't watch Seinfeld...I'll try to ask my sister, she knows almost all of the M*A*S*H episodes by heart.
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Ya know, Jeff, that sounds about right... though I swear I remember hearing it spoken. Maybe I just have a vivid imagination.
Unfortunately I don't have time to go reread that whole series... and about 30 pages into it, I'd likely forget that I was reading to find that quote, anyway.
Welcome back for however long you decide to stay, too. Whether this is just a short visit or the start of a series of short visits or whatever, it's good to see you posting.
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My lord. I'm sorry my inadvertant post of petty evils has ressurected this monster. ;_; Why God, why?
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I don't mean to ressurect this hateful thing, but one of my RL friends seems to think it's a line in K-Pax... Any takers?
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I feel as though it's older than that. Has anyone ruled out older sitcoms? Somehow it smacks of pre-1992... I don't know why. But I feel like I've had that line in my head for longer than 10 years. What makes me think that? I have no idea.
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Why? I've managed to live without this particular fixation for weeks now! Why didn't you let this die??? Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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I am much too lazy to look through all the pages of this thread again, but has anyone suggested this quote from Office Space?
quote:Samir: But that’s not much money, I -
Peter: That’s the beauty of it. Each withdrawal is a fraction of a cent. That’s too small to notice. Take a thousand withdrawals a day, space it out over a few years, that’s a couple hundred thousand dollars.
That could very well be what this quote has been reminding me of, at least.
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I have every Seinfeld on my hard drive, and I've seen them all. I even went through last night and watched the likely suspects--the ones where Kramer invents stuff--and nothing.
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Well, I'm not surprised. I was never a fan of Seinfeld. I probably haven't seen most of the episodes. So it's really improbable that it would come from there.
I'm beginning to wonder if there was ever an exchange between Mr. Green Jeans and Captain Kangaroo that went something like this. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Just making a reference to this deadly meme in my Xanga journal. Since I'm here, might as well bump it for fun. Posts: 1592 | Registered: May 2000
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I think we've just developed the perfect weapon for fending off the Borg should they ever invade us. This is a much more deadly and insidious idea than that stupid unanalyzable picture.
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Hmmm - I keep expecting to see this discussion in a Kevin Smith movie. If the line showed in a movie as part of a discussion about what movie the line had been in, would it count as being in the movie which had the discussion?
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I know Seinfeld has been shot down before, but my friend Dan swears it's on the DVD of Kramer's Invention. George asks what it does and Kramer responds. It isn't in the script, so he thinks it must have been an ad-lib.
If anyone has Seinfeld on DVD, maybe you could check it?
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Someone said that it's from Hitchhiker's Guide (I guess they mean the BBC mini-series version?). Can anyone try to confirm that if they own the BBC mini-series?
I can get a friend of mine to check Seinfeld next time I see him (my apartmentmate), he has all of them.
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I keep thinking it's from an episode of Saved by the Bell. Where Zack steals money or something in order to buy this huge boom box and he's telling Screech about the little red light that's on it. Prove me wrong!
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somebody mentioned MASH. There's an episode where Hawkeye builds a tower out of tongue depressors and some guy wants to do an article on it for Stars and Stripes or something - to promote enlistment. Hawkeye has the tower blown up just before the photographer gets a picture.
I can almost picture Hawkeye talking to the guy from Stars and Stripes with that being part of the conversation.
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gah! I know that episode...and I should be able to confirm or deny it...but I can't! it would fit perfectly though...*mutters and makes note to pay closer attention next time it's on*
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It's definitely Big. It's when tom Hanks is sitting in the meeting and the geek is demonstrating the new season's whizzbang toy, and Tom Hanks (the big kid) asks "What does it do...". Definitely, absolutely, nodoubtaboutit: BIG!!!
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I don't think it is the MASH ep -- I'm firmly in the "it doesn't actually exist!!!" camp at this point -- but the episode in question is from season 9, and is called, "Depressing News."
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Hey, Avidreader: what's the name of the episode in Seinfeld it's supposed to be in? Doesn't seem to be an episode called Kramer's Invention?
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Beren: In the quest for world domination, no fair distracting your rivals with an endless loop.
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the quote sounds familiar to me and I don't watch Simpsons, Futurama, Seinfeld, and a couple of the movies mentioned ...
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