Day #5 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #5 of 30 Days of Television Meme.

The prompt is - A quote from a television series that you find memorable or like

Mine is...

"We're all stories in the end..." - Doctor Who, The Girl Who Waited

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[cactuswatcher]

Funny how some things stick with you forever. From the stone age:

Episode 1 of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Lou Grant is interviewing Mary for her job at the station and mixing in some personal questions with the business ones. Mary calls him on it.
Smiling broadly, Lou: You know what? You've got spunk!
Proud and a little embarrassed Mary mumbles.
Lou growls: I hate spunk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ET7uTJiFW4&t=500s
scene starts about 4:29. (Yes, the sound sync is off.)

[cjlasky7]

Son of a gun. The Mary Tyler Moore quote was my choice, too!

As the owner of a cat and an adorable tiny poodle dog, I love this quote from Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) on Parks and Recreation:

"Any dog that weighs less than 50 pounds is a cat... and cats are useless."

Meow!

[atpo_onm]

Oh dear, so many possible ones, if I could remember them. I do believe I'll go with the very first one that came into mind after reading the prompt, which I suppose says something about it right there.

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one."

Ya'll remember that one, don't you? Oh, wait... that was in one of the movies, right, not the TV series? Poo.. still a good'n, though.

Lessee... TV, TV... ahh! Here's a memorable one-- and says so much with so few words. Can't believe I found a clip with this in it, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3CdFfUvwtU

"You could be more."

The X-Files, 2x17, "End Game"

[wendelah1]

Dana Scully: (Scully reads her report on the case as a voiceover as she enters Mulder's hospital room and sits down next to him.) Transfusions and a treatment with antiviral agents have resulted in a steady but gradual improvement in Agent Mulder's condition. Blood tests have confirmed his exposure to the still-unidentified retrovirus, whose origin remains a mystery. The search team that found Agent Mulder has located neither the missing submarine nor the man he was looking for. Several aspects of this case remain unexplained, suggesting the possibility of paranormal phenomena. But I am convinced that to accept such conclusions is to abandon all hope of understanding the scientific events behind them. Many of the things I have seen have challenged my faith and my belief in an ordered universe, but this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, to apply reason to those things that seem to defy it. It was science that isolated the retrovirus Agent Mulder was exposed to, and science that allowed us to understand its behavior. And ultimately, it was science that saved Agent Mulder's life.

Dana Scully is my favorite television character. This is my favorite scene in the entire series, actually. I was always rooting for science over the paranormal. I thought one of the greatest weakness in the writing was how predictable it became. They should have mixed it up a little more, had science and reason win the day more often. It would have made for much better drama.

The icon is from this scene. It's a very tender, emotional moment--she's holding his hand in hers, and watching him sleep. The look on her face when Mulder regains consciousness--I know that feeling so well.

[wendelah1]

Lovely.

[petzipellepingo]

From Fractured Fairy Tales :

A pinch of this, a pinch of that, a Dewey button and a French fried bat.

I often say this while cooking.