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Yeah, we love MP’s Holy Grail (”I am of the shoe! I am of the gourd!” “Splinter!!!!”)

And today I asked my early 20’s co-workers if they knew who Ellie Mae Clampett was (character on Beverly Hills, actress died just a few days ago, age 82), and the response was *crickets, crickets*.

But Hey! Don’t overlook the great SciFi series. Here are a few of my family’s favorites, employed (sometimes in paraphase) when any discussion could benefit from a shared reference:

(delivered deadpan) “Yes, sir, About yeah high.”
(Commander Ivonova on Babylon 5 about Mimbari Ambassador Delenn being in a cocoon!)

“Natural born IDIOTS!”
(Neelix to Kes on Star Trek: Voyager:
Kes: These people are natural born explorers, Neelix.
Neelix: These people are natural born *IDIOTS*, if you ask me! They don’t appreciate what they have here. This ship is the match of any vessel within a hundred light years, and what do they do with it?
Neelix: [mimicking] “Well, uh, let’s see if we can’t find some space anomaly today that might RIP IT APART !!!” “)

(delivered very softly and introspectively) “Been thinking about moving to the middle.”
(Capt. Mal Reynolds on FireFly:
Jayne: [the three of them are playing Chinese checkers; to Mal] Your move.
[Mal jumps four marbles]
Zoë: That’s a bold move.
Mal: I live on the edge.
[Zoe jumps six of his marbles]
Jayne: Nice work dumb-ass.
Mal: [as Zoe chuckles] I’ve given some thought to moving off the edge. Not an ideal location. Might get a place in the middle.)

“Ith not the heat, ith the humidity.” (Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space 9, on a “camping trip,” making the (groan) expected complaint about the weather, in his own slightly lisping way)

“...where they’re be no tribble a’tall” (Scotty to Kirk on Star Trek: The Original Series, in “The Trouble With Tribbles”)

(delivered very guardedly) “I may have experiemented with a few options.”
(Rommie to the jealous Becca, in Andromeda, about how Rommie chose her (beautiful, sexy avatar appearance:
Beka: So, what you’re saying is that you randomly chose a bunch of human female features, you mixed them all up, and this was the first face that you came up with?
Rommie: I may have experimented with a few options.
Beka: Define “a few”.
Rommie: 170,894)

And so on!