Catch and carry

[itsallovernow]

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Sitting on the couch last night, exhausted from rehearsal, arms aching from the giant gold wings, M. asks if I have any exciting plans coming up. Told him I had a hot date with the television on Sunday. He scans through the TV guide, glares when he remembers that Sunday is in next weeks and then bugs me about what I'm planning to watch.

Looking at him with lids at half mast, I say, "What would make me want to date the TV?"

"Ah, the Farscape movie."

Sometimes, the boy's a genius. Not right then, of course, but sometimes:)

So, since we're in the spirit of it over here, I'll play like Letterman and do my top ten. Think I'll save the ep list for later in the week - since I'm not sure I haven't done it already.

However, one of the reasons I love Farscape - one of the reasons I loved X-Files as well - is the brilliant writing. The sense of pace and timing is crucial, the ad libs are key, but the words make me love it. Only a show that knows how to use words this well can handle silence with so many layers and complexities.



"It is possible that we could make things better."
"With our track record?"
***
"The answer to that is no."
***
"Nah, looked more like Tandoori Chicken."
***
"As John said, I would rather go down in a swing."
"Swinging."
"Swinging."
***
"Hey, I got great eyes. They're better than 20/20 and they're blue!"
***
"Go on, kill my sex life!"
***
"Tell me Braca, is the rematch ever better than the real thing? Hmm. Hmm?"
***
"Do you understand any of those words?"
" Yeah, I watched all kinds of Star Trek. It's just the order that they're in."

***

AERYN: Well, in Peacekeepers, it was common practice to, ah... reduce fluid levels.

JOHN: Fluid levels. Like... what, like Valvoline, like brake fluid?

AERYN: Like sex... We can have sex, if you want.

JOHN: You know what... uh... now is not a good time. How about I, uh... check my diary and get back to you later in the week.

AERYN: It would... relieve the tension.

JOHN: Is this for you, or for me?

AERYN: For both of us.

JOHN: You know what? I got... two hands...

JOHN: I can alternate, I can release all the tension I want. I don't need your charity.

AERYN: And I don't need your emotions. But we can have sex if you want.

***
AERYN: Insane.

CRICHTON: Since birth.

AERYN: Suicidal.

CRICHTON: Test pilot.

AERYN: Do you trust her?

CRICHTON: If we don't do something, we're gonna die.

AERYN: I'm worried you're a little too excited by all this.

CRICHTON: It's wormholes. That's what Scorpius wants.

AERYN: Scorpius is dead. That's what you want.

CRICHTON: Aeryn. It can be a tool or a weapon. Let's get there first.

AERYN: Let's get there alive... first.


NEEYALA: She doesn't like you.

CRICHTON: Nah, it's a phase. It's part of her charm.

NEEYALA: Hm. I admit to some skepticism myself.

CRICHTON: ( peeved ) This way.
(Thanks to Farscape Ally, from whom I lifted this whole section).
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"Sex."
"With you or with him?"
"Chiana!"
"Either. Both. Sex."
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"It's beer o'clock. Where the hell is my riot."
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"Lock up the women and hide the fried chicken." (Those last two get a serious workout in my house:)
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The entire script of John Quixote.
****

Oy, this turned out to be an exercise in frustration because I want to write down everything, all of the sentences and paragraphs that run through my head at a moment's notice, and then they jumble all up together, "I want to sell out and settle down." and "Isn't it fun?" and "You were in my shoes, I was in your pants." and "There is always time for beer."getting in line with, "Are you sure it wasn't a girly scream?" and "Sometimes the need to mess with their heads outweighs the millstone of humiliation." and "Smart is sexy." All of these fabulous words that genre TV has given me, and I just want to roll around with them, cuddle them close, be so happy for them:)

So, give me a favorite line, or exchange, or moment of silence. Any character, any show, I'll open it up completely.

Comments

[eve11]

Okay:

*****
XF:
"We're exhuming your.... your potato"
and from the same episode
(Scully blah blah protocol investigations etc...)
Mulder: "We found out you used to be a dog-faced boy."
*****
Scape:
"Move over D'Argo. Let mommy shoot it."
and
"Unzip. Pull it out. Point it like a gun. And shoot."
"Aiming the right way?"
"Yes, that's fine."
*****
Angel:
Spike giving his own personal voiceover to the dramatic scene below: "How can I thank you, you mysterious, black-clad hunk of a night thing? (low voice) No need, little lady, your tears of gratitude are enough for me. You see, I was once a badass vampire, but love and a pesky curse defanged me. Now I’m just a big, fluffy puppy with bad teeth. (Rachel steps closer to Angel, and Angel steps back warding her off with his hands) No, not the hair! Never the hair! (high voice) But there must be someway I can show my appreciation. (low voice) No, helping those in need’s my job, - and working up a load of sexual tension, and prancing away like a magnificent poof is truly thanks enough! (high voice) I understand. I have a nephew who is gay, so… (low voice) Say no more. Evil’s still afoot! And I’m almost out of that Nancy-boy hair-gel that I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile, away!"
*****

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee hee:) Fabulous, all of those:)

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

I love that Spike voiceover. Makes me laugh every time.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - that kind of things was why I loved Spike:)

Right off the top of my head...

[jeviltwin.livejournal.com]

Mr. Burns: This house has quite a long and colorful history. It was built on an ancient Indian burial ground and was the setting of satanic rituals, witch-burnings, and five John Denver Christmas specials.
Homer: ::shudder:: Uggh, John Denver.


Will: I'm only working here another four days.
Toby: But what?
Will: He'd do a radio address proposing free liposuction to every child of woman born
if you wrote it for him.
Toby: You're wrong. And if he did, I'd be fired shortly thereafter.
Will: Maybe, but ten pounds lighter.


Mulder: Who are you?
(pause)
Scully: Oh, my god. Don't do that to me. Do you know...? Do you have any idea what you've been through?
Mulder: Only what I see in your face.
(pause)
Mulder: Anybody miss me?

Re: Right off the top of my head...

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah!!

hee. My all time favorite Simpsons quote, sadly, is, "There's nothing slicker than a greased Scotsman!"

Even, "Frst you get the sugar, than you get the money, and then you get the weemen."

And my ears just can't listen fast enough to reproduce West Wing quotes from memory:) But yeah for them!

[cofax7]

"Do you love John Crichton?"

The broken whimper BB makes when Aeryn dies in the vision in DWTB.

"May God have mercy on my soul."

Rygel peeing off the balcony in TGIFA.

"I'm considered quite the Zenetan beauty..." So plaintively. Hee.

"Why! So! Difficult!"

Mulder dying in Scully's arms in Monday. I'm a sucker for a good death scene.

"I'd kiss you if you weren't so ugly."

"Not even the yogurt thing? That is so YOU, Scully!"

"You can never have too much love."

"She had red hair. But it was TOO red, if you know what I mean."

"Oh, as usual, dear." (Which I use far too often.)

"Beer good. Foamy."

"Show not called Needy Multi-Ethnic Street Kids." (Oh, wait, that's Tim on B.org, not on the show. Whatever.)

::happy sigh::

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

"Not even the yogurt thing? That is so YOU, Scully!"

Hee, dude, just dude!


First three of those lines made me tear up right here in this office, and thank god you followed it up with the peeing and with Staanz:)

And, and... Beer good. Foamy!

There should be a revolving beer icon:) Yes, yes there should:) Mmm. Happy sighs indeed. So much good out of genre TV (and yes, I do count WW as genre TV, as well. Hee:)

[eve11]

"Oh, as usual, dear." (Which I use far too often.)

Heh, I forgot about that one! Hee!

[skippydoo.livejournal.com]

Everyone you listed and more, but off the top of my head:

Aeryn: It's not you, it's me. I just don't like you.

Aeryn: She gives me a Woody.

Crais: He said help me, not chant me over to the other side.

D'Argo: It's anarchy and today is my day to rule.

Rygel: My tiny, shiny, hiney.


****

Sports Night: Park all cover in cheese.

***

Commercial: "Great, but who are the Chefs?" "Great Googly-Moogly."

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

D'Argo: It's anarchy and today is my day to rule.

Hee, this matches perfectly with, "I loove shooting things."

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

Hee! You picked two of my faves: "Are you sure it wasn't a girly scream?" and "Smart is sexy." I use that last one all the time, actually. Another XF favorite, from "Detour":

Mulder, on seeing Scully peek around the door of his hotel room bearing wine and cheese: "Par-TAY." And later: "I don't wanna wrestle." Hee hee. "I identified with Betty's bustline." "So did I." Also:

"Scully?"
"Yes?"
"Marry me."
(Scully has no reaction whatsoever)

This may be my all-time favorite: "Pray for your soul, Scorpy, if you have one, and pray for the soul of Aeryn Sun." (punctated, of course, by a kick)

"Today I was pompous, and my sister was crazy. Today we got kidnapped by hillfolk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever." (this is what plays when I start up my computer at work)

"Seems we arrived just in the nick of time. What's that make us?"
"Big damn heroes, sir."
"Ain't. We. Just."

"She was all naked... and articulate!"

"Well, my sister's a ship... we had a complicated childhood."

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

"Here lies my Zoe, my autumn flower... somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross..."

And, of course, the classic: "I'll be in my bunk."

Finally: "No! Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat! I smell Captain Fear at the wheel!"

Oh, and one more:
"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do."
"Yeah, but we won't care."

Totally spamming your LJ today. Sorry, slow day at work. :)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

"Seems we arrived just in the nick of time. What's that make us?"
"Big damn heroes, sir."
"Ain't. We. Just."

Hee. I love that line. And it seems so fitting for all of my shows:)

[cofax7]

::happy sigh::

May have to watch some Firefly tonight.

Big Damn Movie!

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

April 22 is soooooo far away... love your icon. :)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - I'd love to watch some Firefly. But my DVD's are in Canada! And sniff, I can't even harass the Canadian for another 10 days:)

[boofadil.livejournal.com]

JOSH
So, five White House staffers in the room. I would like to say to the 1.6 of you who are stoned right now that it’s time to share.

*****

AERYN
We don't say good-byes.

JOHN
We do this time. You see, you leave and then you come back and I can't handle the in between.

*****
AERYN
Now don't feel bad, it's not you, it's me. I don't like you."

*****

JOSH
I serve at the pleasure of the President, and it’s a great privilege that I will never forget. I can’t keep this. I think it’s a white flag of surrender. I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy, and I want to be able to celebrate with them in triumph. And for all the times in between, I just want to be able to look them in the eye. Leo, it’s not for me. I want to be with my friends, my family, and these women.

*****

SAM
When I was downstairs, I made a decision. I’m gonna register with the Republican Party, and I’ll tell you why, if you’re curious. It’s because they’re a freedom-loving people.

Ainsley
We also like beef.


****

"You're just in your own little Euripides play over there aren't you?"


****

AMY
When a third candidate get elected, it's going to be by unlikely voters.

JOSH
And why is that good? Why are we eager...Why are we encouraging a group of people who are so
howl-at-the-moon, lazy-ass stupid that they can't bring themselves to raise their hands?
Why is it important that they be brought into the process?

AMY
You should stop being mad at me.

JOSH
I'm not.

AMY
You are. You know, I lost my job because of a strategy you organized.

JOSH
You lost your job in a fashion that insured you 93 better offers.

AMY
That's sweet of you to look out for me, but I liked the job I had. And when I lost it, I didn't
pitch anything. I didn't stage a nutty. I fought you, I lost, I had a drink, I took a shower.
'Cause that's how it is in the NBA. You know what I do when I win? Two drinks. I didn't start
consulting with Stackhouse to piss you off. There are things here I believe in. I didn't come
out here to piss you off, either. I wanted to tell you that if the Senator responds on needle
exchange, the President shouldn't take the bait.

...

JOSH
He's taking the President's votes. It's as simple... He is taking the President's votes.

AMY
Listen, I'm not indifferent to the situation, but that right there, that's the crazy part of
your argument.

JOSH
Why?

AMY
They're not his votes.

*****

ZOE
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.


*****

JAYNE
I'll be in my bunk.

*****

SIMON: You are my beautiful sister.
RIVER: I threw up on your bed.
SIMON: Yep. Definitely my sister.

i like this game! scripts stolen from shrift and shrift and some place called the communication office for the non shrift stuff.

[boofadil.livejournal.com]

AMY
Maybe not so much with you and the talking.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

hee. We use that one constantly in the house:)

[boofadil.livejournal.com]

people stare at me weird when i use that one.

not that it stops me, but what i wouldn't give to live with someone who had half the appreciation for random bits of wonderful dialogue as i do...

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - life with M. is all about the random dialogue. This is the boy who conceived of the Han Solo refrigerator. You tell it "I need a beer." and it says "I know". and opens to reveal beer.

So, yeah:)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - yeah for the West Wing love (double yay for your Toby icon, because I loooooove Toby).

Hee. I like this game too. It's kept me happy and giggly all afternoon.

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

Oh god. Everything Ainsley ever said, pretty much, but the Euripides line may be my favorite WW line ever (OK, said about her, not by her, but still). Also: "If I have to endure one more disappointment from this place that I have worshipped, I am gonna lose it." And the entire interaction between the boys as they're going to throw snowballs at Donna's apartment building:

JOSH
It's good cop/bad cop. I'm the good cop; the four of you are the bad cop. Will, what
are you?

WILL
The bad cop.

JOSH
Danny what are you?

DANNY
The bad cop.

JOSH
Toby, what are you?

TOBY
Hurry up.

JOSH
Charlie, who are you?

CHARLIE
I love Zoey, and I must have her back.

JOSH
The bad cop, that's right. Here we go.


WILL
That's great news about Zoey. I didn't meet her, but I bet she's nice.

CHARLIE
Not really, but my love for her knows no bounds.

DANNY
Charlie, aren't you cold without a coat?

CHARLIE
I took off my coat to show my love for Zoey.

DANNY
Wow.

CHARLIE
I'd take off my shirt too, but it's inappropriate with a tuxedo.

DANNY
Not if we're at Chipendales.

TOBY
[to Josh] I'm standing here!

JOSH
[coming back down the steps] The buzzer's not working.

TOBY
Did you try it?

JOSH
No, I divined it.

And then a bit later:

DONNA
How you doing, Charlie?

CHARLIE
Well, I'm going to win Zoey's heart from Jean-Paul.

DONNA
Excellent.

CHARLIE
'Cause he may be good-looking and rich and well schooled and French royalty, you know,
and live basically in a castle, but... Oh, God.

TOBY
This is what I've been telling you. Get in the car.

And the Simon/River exchange is a favorite, too. Also this one (which I definitely had to look up): "'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement.
Based on solar cycles. Not applicable. ...I didn't get you anything."

One more:

"Okay. So she won't win any beauty contests, that's true enough. But she's solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die."
"Yes, sir. Because it's a deathtrap."

See, it's so rare that I find a use for my brain's apparently fathomless capacity for useless movie and TV lines, I just go nuts here.

[boofadil.livejournal.com]

definitely with you on the anything ainsley says ever sentiment.

and hee. poor charlie.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah, love Ainsley, love the boys outside of Donna's window. And pretty much just everything that Toby's ever said:)

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Toby's snarky comments may be my favorite thing about that scene... and Toby laughing. What a sight. Also, his speech to his babies... sob! Yes, lurve Toby.

[mesascaper.livejournal.com]

Heh, all of those Farscape moments.

and I'll add....

John to Aeryn: does it hurt?
Aeryn: mmm,hmm
John; where?
Aeryn: where it's bleeding (slaps John's hand away)

John: Stop! or I'll shoot you full of little yellow bolts of light!


Aeryn: She gives me a woody.


Stark: my side your side! My side your side!

Stark: electro-magnetic candy....

John: work now. freak later.

Pilot: I don't get out much. So I read.

I could go on and on. There's so many words and moments. In fact, often times, I'll be conversing with people and they'll say something and I'll flash to a Farscape moment. *sigh* I'm a bit obessed at times ;-)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

John to Aeryn: does it hurt?
Aeryn: mmm,hmm
John; where?
Aeryn: where it's bleeding (slaps John's hand away)

Hee - this is one of my very favorite moments:)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

wow, what a great set of lists. it's so hard to chose..just about every line i hear strikes me in some way.i love when john quotes mony python on the holy grail in 'lava's a many splendored thing'. the perfect timing and situation for him saying "will it turn me into a newt?"

and then there's john saying: "you all might want to stay out of sight, we don't want to screw up the universe any more than i already have". er, it's season 4, kansas i think. :)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee. Oh yeah, to all of that:)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

the screw up the universe quote makes a great error message on my computer. really gets my attention. tee hee!

[bexxa.livejournal.com]

"Welcome to the Federation starship S.S. Buttcrack." (with the self-slapping of the firm leather-clad backside...)

"Vomit!"

"Don't make me stay. And don't make me say goodbye."

"John Crichton, Wizard of Oz."

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

"Welcome to the Federation starship S.S. Buttcrack." (with the self-slapping of the firm leather-clad backside...)

Hee - and thus begins John's obsession with his own ass:)

[anr]

John (to Chi): Come home alone!

Aeryn: I can manually prime the canon.
John: I'd love to see that.
Aeryn: Talyn's canon.
John: I'm stoked, not stupid.

Aeryn: So... what do you want to do to get noticed?
John: I got arrested once. College. Let me show you.

John: I can't believe it. I left a nuclear bomb in an elevator.
Chi: That's all right. You've done worse.

I have more favourites, obviously, but these are the few that always stay in my mind. :)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - from that same section, I also love. "Are we cursed? Could we be cursed?"

[anr]

"Well that depends on whether this will hold."

Hee! I so almost put that one in as well. Love that scene.

Oh! and another:

Aeryn: So it's over.
John: It's over.
Aeryn: There's nothing more between us.
John: Nothing.

*happy sigh*

One apiece

[leadensky.livejournal.com]

"Good, because I put it in the drawer with all the other videos that aren't yours."

"You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood...blood screaming inside you to work its will."

"I wish to do more violence."

"I'm the monster's mommy."

"I'm very...angry."

"Yeah, and if wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak."

"They say the snow on the roof was too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."


"So, what's the charge this time?"
"Well...striking a superior asshole."
"Ah! You must have been waiting all day to to say that."
"Most of the afternoon."

(TXF, BtVS, AtS, Alien4, FS, FF, FF again, and BSG04)

Re: One apiece

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

MMMM, such good quotes!

And dude, if I started quoting Aliens, the vast amount of lines that I love from that movie, I'd never get paid again:)

"Stop yer grinnin' and drop yer linen. We found 'em."

"I'm Hudson, sir. He's Hicks."

Yeah!

[leelee-cakes.livejournal.com]

Scully: He said that the men behind this hoax, behind these
lies, gave me this disease to make you believe.


Scully: You set us up. You're in on this with Lucas Henry. This was a trap for Mulder cause he helped put you away. Well I came here to tell you...that if he dies, because of what you've done, four days from now, no one will be able to stop me from being the one that will throw the switch and gas you out of this life for good, you son of bitch!


Mulder: Scully, should we be picking out china patterns, or what?


John: You don't scare me, missy...
Ok, you scare me a little.


Zhaan: Is that really you John Crichton? (I love the repetition of this theme)
John: I think, yeah. And you are?
Zhaan: Zhaan. For all that matters. This Stark wishes to keep you here. He blames you. Believes I died for the love of you.
John: A lot of people have died because of me.
Zhaan: What is it that you wish of me John Crichton? A kiss? Have you wasted my death, and the death of so many others?
John: I don't know.
Zhaan: Then I suggest you find out before anyone else dies for the love of you.


John: It's time to pray Scorpy. Pray for your soul Scorpy and pray for the soul of Aeryn Sun


John: How come I'm not afraid?
D'Argo: Fear accompanies the possibility of death. Calm shepherds its certainty.
John: I love hanging with you, man

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Dude, all of those. I love all of those so very much.

Scully: You set us up. You're in on this with Lucas Henry. This was a trap for Mulder cause he helped put you away. Well I came here to tell you...that if he dies, because of what you've done, four days from now, no one will be able to stop me from being the one that will throw the switch and gas you out of this life for good, you son of bitch!

This is still one of my favorite hours of TV:)

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

***WW: Leo to the President***
"Well, nothing says Christmas like animal fables in Iambic verse."


***WW: Toby and the President***
"Toby, if we start pulling strings like this, you don’t think every homeless veteran would come out of the woodwork?"

"I can only hope, sir. "


***XF: Mulder and Scully***
"Yeah, but imagine if it were true, Scully. Imagine if you could come back and take out five people who had caused you to suffer. Who would they be?"

"I only get five?"

"I remembered your birthday this year, didn't I, Scully?"


***Buffy: Andrew***
"In my plan, we are beltless."

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee! See, who needs steady employment when we've got quotes:)

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

I could quote WW all day. It's sad, really.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

They talk so fast, and I get so stuck in my Toby love that I forget what everyone else is saying.

Clearly this means I need the DVD's for Season 2, so I can have a fully stocked WW brain. And so I can watch Shibboleth whenever I want to:)

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

I vacillate between Toby and Josh.

"Let the poets write that he had the tools of greatness, but the voices of his better angels were shouted down by his obsessive need to win." (Toby)

"President Bartlet's a good man. He's got a good heart. He doesn't hold a grudge. That's what he pays me for." (Josh)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. I just so love Toby. My love knows no bounds:) He's so fantastically cranky, such an old revolutionary:)