Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DXMachina - Mar 16, 2005 9:48:30 am PST #8031 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

-t and I both saw the name "Buck Bokai" and our minds immediately went to the same place.

Fandom synergy.


Betsy HP - Mar 16, 2005 9:50:23 am PST #8032 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Hey, guys, I'm trying to remember famous opening monologues, voiceovers that started shows. Here are three I know of:

1. Try THIS for a deep dark secret. 2. My name is t deleted. I'm an astronaut. 3. In every generation, there is a ...

Other suggestions?


-t - Mar 16, 2005 9:50:34 am PST #8033 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

-t and I both saw the name "Buck Bokai" and our minds immediately went to the same place.

Yup. So much for me being enigmatic and inscrutable.


Dana - Mar 16, 2005 9:51:50 am PST #8034 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

"Space, the final frontier..."

And, um, how does it go? "Do not attempt to adjust your TV set..."


Kathy A - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:06 am PST #8035 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The handheld thingee that the Dean Stockwell character (what was his name, anyway?) used to contact Ziggy in Quantum Leap.


§ ita § - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:12 am PST #8036 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

"You unlock this door with the key of imagination, beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into . . . The Twilight Zone."


Emily - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:38 am PST #8037 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

One of Lex Luthor's Blue Bottles of Water?

Professor X's wheelchair?


Aims - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:40 am PST #8038 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

One more Victor...

A watermelon. That have been dropped from the sky.


Dana - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:52 am PST #8039 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

And "I was falsely accused of a hideous crime...", although maybe not so famous.


§ ita § - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:54 am PST #8040 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit! These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground! Today, if you have a problem, if no one else can help -- and if you can find them -- maybe you can hire... THE A-TEAM!"