Sad that I know it by heart.
Natter 33 1/3
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.
"And now for something completely different..." / "IT'S..."
How did Charlie's Angels go? "Once upon a time there were three girls..."
Ah. Here we go.
DAMN, this one scared me:
"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits."
And how many kids today even know what the horizontal and the vertical are, far less how to adjust them?
Monitors have a horizontal and vertical of sorts, don't they?
"Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and Vanished...He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home."
500 years into the future, she will enter a world where machines rule the Earth. Mankind has been driven underground.
I know, I know. Also FAR from famous. But I'm having such a kick with these...
"He was brought across in 1228. Preyed on humans for their blood. Now he wants to be mortal again. To repay society for his sins. To emerge from his world of darkness. From his endless ... forever night."
What was the one with the phrase "There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This is one of them."?
"It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal . . . all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5."
ita beat me to the Quantum Leap monologue. Which is sad, because I memorized it when I was 12 and it has been taking up valuable brainspace all this time, and I doubt anyone will ever ask a question to which it is an apporpriate answer again.
-t, I think it's something like "..three little girls. They graduated from the police academy, and were assigned to very dangerous missions. I took them away from all that, and now they work for me. My name is Charlie."
Wording extremely imprecise because I've seen it, like, once.
For the scavenger hunt, how about Lex's blue glass bottle, from Smallville?