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.
Shut up and take my money!
I basically already do it with Futurama, to the great confusion of everyone around me.
I think Simpsons would still have you covered, they've had crossovers in the past
Star Trek: TNG
“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra”
Wouldn't change much honestly.
Yeah, I was going to cheat and go with “the entire Star Trek franchise”
And… I pretty much already speak entirely in Star Trek quotes.
Rule of Acquisition 111: Treat people in your debt like family… exploit them.
I loved that some LD crew started learning to speak his language.
"The Good Place" - you bet your fudging life!
Holy shirt balls!
Shaka when the walls fell
That'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.
It'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.
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Tapiooooca!
Ice hole.
Backstreet boys!
I 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!
Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it would be an easy transition
I just wanna be pure
"Goddamn it! I don't know how to express myself unless through anger and personal attacks!"
Arrested development! Not sure it would change my daily interactions.
I've made a huge mistake
Pulp Fiction. I can still say useful everyday phrases like "Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet."
I'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.
Community. Won't chang my interactions that much.
South Park - not much would change since it would be only a slight increase in the number of f bombs I use.
Community
EDIT: changing my answer to Taskmaster, if only so I can still say "all the information's on the task"
Also: stopcockstopcock stop. Cock. Stopcock
Very handy and widely applicable.
Though you’d lose the equally useful “pop pop”.
You would gain "a lime!" but lose "hello, rich people?"
Did I meet these potatoes before?
Wait what‽ What wait‽ Wait what‽
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.
I must rewatch this, I feel I was too young to get most of the more subtle humour when I first watched it.
Brooklyn nine-nine “Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. No doubt, no doubt, no doubt.”
NINE NINE!!
PAIN!
Smithers ... You ... Are ... Really ... Good ... At... Turning me on.
You should probably ignore that
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Trailer park boys. Way she goes boys
Ren and Stimpy.
No sir, I don't like it.
Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!
CALL THE POLEEEEEECCCEEEEE!!!
Schitt's Creek. Half my online conversations are already gifs from the show.
what up my glipglops
ol Rick n morty should cover all my wubalubadub dub.
Anything can be made from these quotes.
Venture Brothers, probably. I already quote it too much. Hot dolphin!
Fraiser
I AM WOUNDED!
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.
"30 Rock" No interaction I've ever had would be different...
Deadwood would make my life interesting
Mean Girls. And I want my pink shirt back!
That'd be so fetch
Firefly. Using gorramitt, shiny, "I'm shocked my own self", and "big damn hero" on the regs would be right some good.
Same, 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'."
Never forget what they did to us.
I always think of Fox as the Alliance. They change the order the shows aired and the time/date. Bastards.
My favorite show, Psych. My daily interactions will allow for lots of pineapples.
The Office, basically it wouldn’t change anything because I already speak in mostly deep cut quotes and references from the show.
Letterkenny, give your balls a tug!
probably like general hospital since it has so many episodes you would likely be able to speak anything.
I Think You Should Leave.
"Hey, nice shirt Kolanaki."
"Thanks. It was $450 dollars because the pattern is so complicated."
This show is already about 75% of my daily speech. Now shut the fuck up, Doug. I'll eat your wife's wig.
Pingu
Red Dwarf is an interesting thought here.
HAIL ZORP
Get organized and then engage with Zorp. What else is there to say?
Over the Garden Wall. It's not terribly long, yet remains one of the most quoted shows in my family.
Delores!
30 rock.
"Are there any other black nerds or is it just you and Ukel?"
"yes" "I" "would" "it's" "not" "hard" "if" "they" "are" "short" "quotes"
Frell.
Aww, son of a hazmot!
High pitched voice: You fart helium!?
The 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.
The Simpsons are a perfectly cromulent way to enbiggen your vocabulary.
My son is also named Bort
I think you should leave
That's why I'm so fucking confused!
My household quotes Adventure Time quite a bit. Oh my glob!
I’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
Deadwood.
It'd help me finally clean up my language, while still saying what I'm thinking most of the time.
The 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.
Star wars. It wouldn't change much
"The Sopranos" would be a fun one.
Anyways, $4 a pound..
Psych, because I am a fan of delicious flavor. It wouldn't change much because I already quote it a lot
Peep Show.
Star Wars
Mechanical breathing Noooooooooooooooooo