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20091012 Monday October 12, 2009

22 Great SF Insults

1 “You're about as much use as a condom machine in the Vatican.”
Rimmer, “Queeg”, Red Dwarf

2 “He’s not as stupid as he looks.”
“My dear, nobody could be as stupid as he looks.”

The Countess and Count Scarlioni, “City Of Death”, Doctor Who

3 “He’s like a turd that won’t flush.”
Deacon, Waterworld

4 “Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass in front of your eyes? ‘Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged, cup of tea?’”
Spike, “Lessons”, Buffy The Vampire Slayer

5 “Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”
Zoe, “The Train Job”, Firefly

6 “Where’s the fire?”
“That would be in my pants.”
“That’s probably syphilis.”

Rube, Mason and Daisy, “Vacation”, Dead Like Me

7 “Allow me to congratulate you, sir. You have the most totally closed mind I have ever met.”
The Doctor, “Frontier In Space”, Doctor Who

8 “You’re a lot smarter than you look. Of course, you look like a retard.”
Cordelia, “I Fall To Pieces”, Angel

9 “Did the Peacekeepers capture you and steal your brain and replace it with whatever you’re suing now?”
Chiana, “What Was Lost, Part One”, Farscape

10 “You’re like a trained ape, only without the training.”
Simon, “Jaynestown”, Firefly

11 “You moon-faced assassin of joy.”
Londo, “Born To The Purple”, Babylon 5

12 “Still using all the muscles except the one that matters?”
Agent Smith, The Matrix Reloaded

13 “Hey, Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?”
“No, have you?”

Vasquez and Hudson, Aliens

14 “Friendship? Do you know how many people I've met in my life I could count on as friends? True friends?”
“Well, if you count Inflatable Ingrid, your polythene pal, one.”

Rimmer and Lister, “Queeg”, Red Dwarf

15 “You know, sometimes, I even amaze myself.”
“That doesn’t sound too hard.”

Han and Leia, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

16 “I’m older and wiser.”
“Yeah well, you’re half right.”

Earl and Valentine, Tremors

17 “I’m entitled to my opinion.”
“It’s the assumption that we are entitled to it as well that is irritating.”

Villa and Avon, “Bounty”, Blake’s Seven

18 “Anything I can do to help?”
“Short of dying, no, I can’t think of a thing.”

Morden and Vir, “Interludes And Examinations”, Babylon 5

19 “If I was as worried as you, I’d never fart for fear of shitting myself.”
The Gene genie, Life On Mars

20 “You were right. That must be a novel experience for you.”
Avon, “Killer”, Blake’s Seven

21 “You ham-fisted bun vendor.”
The Doctor, “Terror Of The Autons”, Doctor Who

22 “You are superior in only one respect.”
“What is that?”
“You are better at dying.”

Dalek Sec and Cyberleader, “Doomsday”, Doctor Who

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Thanks for the laughs, guys!

Posted by Kell Harker (127.0.0.1) on October 12, 2009 at 06:04 PM BST #

"Han and Leia, Star Wars Episode I: A New Hope"

Nope.

Posted by brady (127.0.0.1) on October 12, 2009 at 06:30 PM BST
Website: http://www.bradygolden.com #

You`re about as much use as a chocolate kettle !

Posted by andy sears (127.0.0.1) on October 12, 2009 at 08:45 PM BST #

Thanks for the laughs. Not to geek out ENTIRELY here, but the Spike quote is from Bargaining, Part 1, not Lessons.

Posted by Katie (127.0.0.1) on October 12, 2009 at 09:04 PM BST #

How come there are only a couple of Red Dwarf quotes in there....You could find 22 decent quotes in each episode of the 1st half dozen series...

Posted by Andy (127.0.0.1) on October 12, 2009 at 10:29 PM BST #

"It's not you, it's me. I don't like you."

Aeryn Sun. Some episode of Farscape I can't remember the name of.

Posted by Non Blonde John (127.0.0.1) on October 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM BST #

Your mamma was s snow blower

Number 5 to number 2
Short circuit

Posted by Phil McVark (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 12:52 AM BST #

Glad to see a lot from the Whedon gang. Would have been easy to get 22 just from Spike. Thanks for the laughs.

Posted by Elaine (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 01:25 AM BST #

Kerr Avon will always be remembered as the reigning champion of the put-down as he had so many memorable lines always at Vila's expense.
They were the perfect double-act.

Posted by Blayne Jensen (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 01:42 AM BST #

"My days of not taking you serious are definitely coming to a middle"

Malcolm Reynolds, "Our Mrs Reynolds", Firefly

Sheer class.

Posted by Dave McLafferty (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 09:29 AM BST #

Red Dwarf quote -

Kryten: "If ignorance is bliss he must be the happiest man in the universe"

Posted by Robell (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 09:45 AM BST #

"Krau Timmin, I don't like your tone"
"I wish that was all I didn't like about you"

Morgus and Timmin from Who's Caves of Androzani.

Posted by archimandrite (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 09:46 AM BST #

Am I the only one who spotted the typo? :)

“Did the Peacekeepers capture you and steal your brain and replace it with whatever you’re suing now?”

Posted by Coen (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 01:01 PM BST #

"I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinking"

"No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking"

Jayne and Inara from Objects in Space

Also, I second Dave McLafferty. I love that one!

Posted by Zorba the Geek (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 02:33 PM BST #

I actually expected to find most of these coming from Red Dwarf but I was pleasantly surprised by some of them. Ah, don't they bring back memories...?

Posted by Keith (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 03:17 PM BST #

Wrong! The last one should not be on the list. I stopped watching the new Doctor Who after “Doomsday” when the Daleks and Cybermen (two of the most feared groups in Sci-Fi history) suddenly became an old Jewish couple on a long car journey.

Posted by Benny-bebop (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 06:46 PM BST #

How about from Doctor Who: The Robots of Death

"You're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain"

Posted by Dave Flint (127.0.0.1) on October 13, 2009 at 09:22 PM BST #

"You prattling jackanapes!"
I think was from Time Warrior...

Posted by Peter Chandler (127.0.0.1) on October 14, 2009 at 09:59 AM BST #

"Oh, I'm really scared there, Kirby. What're ya gonna do, suck me to death?"

-Air Conditioner, The Brave Little Toaster

Posted by Randy W (127.0.0.1) on October 15, 2009 at 08:36 PM BST #

this is not war, THIS IS PEST CONTROL!!!

Posted by James (127.0.0.1) on October 16, 2009 at 10:05 AM BST #

B5 had some great putdowns

Londo: There, you see... I am going to live!
G'kar: ...So it would seem. Well, it is an imperfect universe.

Posted by george hutchinson (127.0.0.1) on November 07, 2009 at 05:24 AM GMT #

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