Thursday, February 16, 2012

IF YOU WERE IN MY TAX BRACKET, YOU WOULDN'T BE SHOUTING SUCH SOCIALIST PROPAGANDA: A question, prompted by Matt's Bunheads post below: for imperious and disapproving mothers of a certain vintage, are you Team Kelly Bishop or Team Jessica Walter?

And while we're at it, Emily Gilmore, Lucille Bluth, or Malory Archer quote?
  1. Title quote above
  2. A Nazi we knew. I'd forgotten. We stayed with him once in Munich. Nice old man. Interesting stories.
  3. All ashore from the S.S. Date Rape.
  4. Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant. It just makes me want to set myself on fire.
  5. It's not "Ms. ___," it's "Mrs. ___." I'm not a Cosmo woman.
  6. Look at me chopping ice for a Tom Collins like a field hand ... or do I want a mint julep?
  7. The bride walks down the aisle with a ketchup dispenser in her hand.
  8. I'm glad you were honest with me. Now we can discuss what on earth you could possibly be thinking.
  9. Who can get along with a woman who wallpapers her guest bathroom with vintage New Yorker covers?
  10. She'd be upstairs making the bed and it'd sound like a Munich beer hall rally.
  11. Ugh. Just what Miami needs, more Cubans.
  12. How much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?
  13. That's food you eat at a carnival, or in a Turkish prison.
  14. If I cared what you do on the weekend I'd stick a shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger with my toes.
Posted by Isaac Spaceman at 11:02 AM

14 comments:

  1. bristlesage11:50 AM

    We're all winners here, but I'd go with Lucille Bluth.  "She's too critical.  That's another fault of hers." 

    2, 5, 13 are Emily Gilmore.  6 and 9 (TRUDY BEEKMAN) are Mallory Archer.  12 is Lucille Bluth.

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  2. Matt11:53 AM

    Amusingly, Kelly Bishop replaced Jessica Walter in the current Roundabout Production of Anything Goes.

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  3. Anonymous11:53 AM

    3,6,9 & 11 Mallory.Or was it Buddy Rich?

    Sorry. Haven't seen the rest.

    --bd

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  4. victoria11:58 AM

    4 is definitely Lucille.

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  5. Watts12:13 PM

    Follow-up match: Holland Taylor and Susan Sullivan.

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  6. isaac_spaceman12:23 PM

    I originally had the "I can never say no to a drummer" quote, but I cut it. 

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  7. Maret12:33 PM

    Team Gilmore. 8 is also Gilmore.

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  8. Randy12:45 PM

    Team Gilmore here, too.  I still think the Emily quote to beat is: " Young man, I don’t know where that’s been, but I can say with absolute certainty it won’t be going anywhere near my mouth."

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  9. LB1:38 PM

    These are 3 of my all time favorite shows, and while I adored Kelly Bishop, Walters has it by 2/1 just by the numbers. 

    1,3,6,9  Mallory
    2,5,7,8,13  Emily
    4,10,12 Lucille

    I know 11 is a Jessica Walter character but I can't remeber which one. 
    And I think 14 is Mallory, but I am not sure. The rest I am pretty confident are correct. 

    This was an excellent quiz that I am now passing along to all my friends :)

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  10. Anonymous3:58 PM

    While I don't have time for the mid-season review, I do want to raise the timeline / anachronism issue. I've read that Adam Reed decided to keep the Soviet Union viable in this universe because the old cold war spy stuff just works better than our more recent history. So I accept that. However, I don't accept that history BEFORE 1989 has changed.

    So, we have Woodhouse as a WWI vet, Mallory giving birth to Sterling about 1945, Mallory's 1953 Christmas message - <span>"Tehran is ours! Stop. Merry X-mas from Mommy and Uncle Kermit." to an 8 year old Sterling, Lana with a 70s fro when she was first hired by ISIS, Sterling's age isted as 35 in his dossier, und so weiter.</span>

    Deadspin's Drew Magery has written a novel "The Postmortal", imanging a world where old age is cured, yet death is not conquered. My theory: KRIEGER DISCOVERED THIS IN ABOUT 1980!! Mallory, Woodhouse, Sterling, Krieger and Lana all took the cure about then. Rotate the rest of the staff every few years to hide the lack of aging of this group and there you have it, up to today. Unless of course, karate was the Dane Cook of martial arts back in 1983 as well.

    I think about this show WAY too much.

    --bd

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  11. Anonymous4:07 PM

    And 14 to Cheryl/Carol/Cristal/Carrina in the elevator as well, duh.

    --bd

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  12. isaac_spaceman4:28 PM

    I prefer to just think of it as a show that is not set in time.  They have modern satellites and anime porn.  They also have Wang terminals and three-pound mobile phones.  Don't think so hard.  

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  13. isaac_spaceman6:31 PM

    If that were on the web site I used to cull these quotes, I definitely would have used it.  It's the one that I can hear in all three voices -- Gilmore dismissively, Bluth cluelessly, and Archer knowingly. 

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  14. Randy7:38 PM

    Funny you should put it that way, since I initially couldn't remember if it was Emily Gilmore or Lucille Bluth who'd said it. 

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