12.01.2008

Most over-used lines on television

(which, unlike ‘DOH!’, have lost their charm through repetition)
  • “Take it back to the lab and see what you can get.”
  • “Detective, do you have children?”
  • “Hurry! Please! Fast! Fast! Hurry!”
  • “How have things been between you and your wife/husband lately?”
  • Family member: “You have to get the man that killed my wife/child/mother/dog.” Official (usually David Caruso): “We’ll get him. I can promise you that.”
  • Intern intubating patient, sweating profusely: “I can’t do it! I can’t visualize the cords!”
  • “The body was found by a jogger.”
Did I miss anything?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Official: We found the gun, but who fired the shot?
Horatio Cane: I don't know. But I plan (puts on sunglasses) to find out.

**

Attending: Give him 5 CTs of [gobbledygook].
Nurse: It's too late. He's crashing!
Attending: Start compressions.

**

Starlet to handsome co-star: I've never felt this way before.

--1 year later--

Starlet to handsome co-star's best friend: I've never felt this way before.

**

Nurse to patronizing doctor: I may just be a nurse, but I know what suffering looks like.

**

Doctor to newly dead patient's loved ones: We did everything we could.

**

Conservative boss to rebellious doctor: You can't do that. It's unethical!
Rebellious doctor: Watch me.

--and then the patient's life was saved--

ad said...

Nice flourish of the sunglasses!
Olivia: I think you watch too many medical dramas, and I watch too many cop shows.

Anonymous said...

Oh, I've watched my share of cop shows, Palanca. In fact, I usually make it a point to tune in just in time for Horatio Cane's "cut-to-commercial" line.

But it just doesn't feel like drama unless a bunch of doctors are sleeping together.

ad said...

I'm watching Horatio right now.

He's doing that thing where he speaks while turning, thereby allowing his words to linger in that hot Miami sun...

Anonymous said...

I just threw a cream-cheese-bagel agt my TV-screen. I hate when old Caruso/HoCaine does that....

ad said...

Vixen: that was a perfectly good waste of a bagel. You should, instead, blog about David Caruso... wait! YOU ALREADY DO!

Anonymous said...

Ah, the finely tuned thespian David Caruso and his sunglasses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHnUrUAbho

My tv quote, which is unfortunately creeping into every day life, and one that annoys me to no end: At the end of the day...

ad said...

I think David Caruso may be our generation's William Shatner.

Tha Connoisseur said...

Oh this post was PRECIOUS! I should have my Mom read it, since she is a Horatio stalker...