Top 10 favorite lines from Firefly

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JAVIDRHO

Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:12 PM

I was reading some of the long list of quotes from the IMBD listing of Firefly, and I thought that it might be nice to compile a "top 10 favorite lines from Firefly" list of our own, as voted on by the FFF.net community.

What we could do is each of us post our #1 favorite line (or short dialogue) on this thread, even if someone else has already posted it - then after a week or so, someone could tally up the results. The line with the most repeats is #1 and on down.

I think this would be helpful to newcomers, since most of us agree that dialogue is what made Firefly one of the best shows on TV. I think for this reason, a top 10 list would be a nice addition to the FFF.net site - that is if the great and powerful Oz-Haken, agrees.

For the sake of newcomers, maybe add a bit of scene description before the quote if needed.

Anyone like this idea? We all know that there are literally hundreds of great lines in Firefly, but try to narrow it down to your #1 favorite.

JAVIDRHO

Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:21 PM

Here is my vote (It was a close call between this and Jayne's great "chain of command" line)

[From Pilot Episode "Serenity"]
[Zoe telling Simon about the Reavers]
"If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death,
eat our flesh and sew our skins into their clothing
and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order."

FLOATER68

Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:35 PM

I know this goes without saying, but someone has to mention the "special hell" line from "Our Mrs. Reynolds":

Book: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're
going to burn in a very special level of hell.
A level they reserve for child molesters and
people who talk at the theater.

F68

SERGEANTX

Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:23 PM

Just one?? Are you out of your mind? I guess that's between you and your mind.

Well, for me the one line, the bit of dialogue that best sums up the whole experience of being a Firefly fan... well it wasn't actually aired. But choosing from the lines that were, I'd have to go with the exchange between Simon and Mal at the end of Serenity, the last bit of Firefly to grace the screen (so far) -

Quote:
Simon: "Are you always this sentimental?"

Mal: "I had a good day."

Simon: "You had the Alliance on you, criminals and savages. Half the people on the ship have been shot or wounded, including yourself, and you're harboring known fugitives.

Mal: "We're still flying."

Simon: "That's not much."

Mal: "It's enough."

BTW, the other line I was thinking of, the one not aired, comes from the unaired version of the pilot. Zoe is explaining to Simon the significance of the name of the ship, "Serenity". She tells him about the insanity and violence that she and Mal survived at the "Battle of Serenity". The end of the discussion:

Quote:
Zoe: "Mercy, Forgiveness, Trust... those are things he left back there. What he has now is the ship, the ship and us on it."

Simon: "If that battle was so horrible, why did he name the ship after it?"

Zoe: "Once you've been in Serenity you never leave, you just learn to live there."

SergeantX,

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

PBGAINES

Thursday, November 20, 2003 5:37 PM

[War Stories]
Wash: "Mmm. Wife soup."
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[Jaynestown]
Jayne: "My very own riot?"
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[Our Mrs. Reynolds]
Saffron: "Do you know the myth of Earth that was?"
Wash: "Not so much."
Saffron: "That when she was born she had no sky and was open, inviting, and the stars would rush into her--through the skin of her--making the oceans boil with sensation. And when she could endure no more ecstasy, she puffed up her cheeks and blew out the sky."
Wash: "Whoa, good myth."
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[Shindig]
Malcom: "Use of a s-what?"
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[War Stories]
Malcom: "Wash, get her started."
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[Out of Gas]
Malcom: "...and start thinking about what she can be."
Zoe: "What's that, sir."
Malcom: "Freedom is one."
Zoe: "No, I mean: What's that, sir"

BTA,

ZEKE023

Thursday, November 20, 2003 5:45 PM

If I had to pick one (obviously this one is not for comedic purposes).

Book: "You don't fix faith. Faith fixes you."

I really like that quote.

STILLSHINY

Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:08 PM

I got too many favorites! Gorramit! Oh well ya can never go wrong with this one.

Now think real hard. You been bird-dogging
this township a while now. They wouldn't mind
a corpse of you. Now you can luxuriate in a nice
jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear
by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.

You think I look good now, wait till you see me in my new "Browncoat T-shirt"

JK

Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:20 PM

Ooh, too many lines.

The Train Job
"Kaylee? What the hell's going on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?" - Mal

"Have you got time to do my hair?" - Mal

"Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing." - Zoe

Bushwacked
"What could it be, we're all doomed, who's flying this thing?!?! Oh, that would be me." - Wash

Our Mrs Reynolds
"My days of taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." - Mal

Jaynestown
"Too much hair." - River

Ariel
"There's some beautiful museums, not to mention some of the finest restaraunts in the Core." - Inara
"But not boring like she made it sound." - Wash

"Beats just sittin'" - Jayne
"It is just sitting." - Wash

And those are just the ones off the top of my head. There are so many better ones that escape my tiny little mind it's not even funny.

JK

PHYSICSCHICK

Thursday, November 20, 2003 7:51 PM

If I had to pick JUST ONE (please forgive if not exact):

(Discussing River)
Wash: "Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."
Zoe: "Dear, you live on a spaceship."

BLACKSTAR

Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:20 PM

Ummm.....
Wash, Bushwacked, nuff said.
"Oh, my God! What could it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing? Oh, right, that would be me..."

CHANNAIN

Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:20 PM

JAYNE: Time for some thrilling heroics.

MAL: Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back!

SIMON: I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.

MAL: You are very much lacking in imagination.
ZOE: I imagine I am, sir.

WASH: Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...

ZOE: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?
BOOK: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.

RIVER: No power in the 'verse can stop me.

BOOK: Afraid I might be needing a preacher.
MAL: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.

KAYLEE: Good night! Don't let the spacebugs bite...spacebugs?

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TRAGICSTORY

Friday, November 21, 2003 12:10 AM

off the top of my head:

What y'all order a dead guy for?

We follow the chain of command. That's the chain I go get and beat you with until you follow my commands.

Plus I can kill you with my brain.

Shiny. (has to me my most used quote)

shove all the planets in the universe up my ass. (I know its in chinese, but still a great quote)

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SHINY

Friday, November 21, 2003 12:53 AM

SAFFRON: But...you know I'm bequeathed to you...?

MAL: To-whubba-who?

LUNA

Friday, November 21, 2003 1:23 AM

Patron: "That girl is a witch!"

Mal: "Yeah, but she's our witch. So cut her the
hell down."

JK

Friday, November 21, 2003 2:17 AM

Who asks people to shove planets up their ass?

JK

SUENOS

Friday, November 21, 2003 2:48 AM

From Safe, when they are about to rescue River and Simon, something along the lines of,

"What does that make us?"

"Big damm hereos, sir."

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CANTTAKESKY

Friday, November 21, 2003 4:40 AM

I vote for the first 3 quotations on this thread. The reavers one, the special hell one, and the "It's enough" one.

Here is one other I think needs to be in the top 10.

Take my love, Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
-- lyrics, theme song from Firefly

I'm partial to this one.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

WILLIAMX

Friday, November 21, 2003 6:10 PM

Some good stuff . . .

Nobody escaped . . . Nobody. (Mal, Bushwacked)

Mal:Which one you figure tracked us?
Zoe:Ugly one, sir.
Mal:um, could you be more specific?
dude:Do we look reasonable to you?
Mal:Well, looks can be decieving.
Jayne:Not as decieving as a low down, dirty deciever.
Mal: Well said. Zoe, wasn't that well said?
Zoe: Had a certain poetry to it sir.

KEVIN

Friday, November 21, 2003 7:57 PM

jayne(to mal in part 1 of serinity)-pain is fear.

CALHOUN

Friday, November 21, 2003 9:19 PM

Classic scene from "Objects in Space" but there are soooo many classic scenes its impossible for me to find the "best".

Jayne - Saint Jayne - Its got a ring to it!

Book - I'm just tryin to remember how many miracles you,ve performed.

Jayne - I once hit a guy in the neck from 500 yards with a bent scope, dont that count upstairs?

Book - Oh i'm sure it'll be taken into consideration.

CALHOUN

Friday, November 21, 2003 9:21 PM

Erm.. and Kevin just above me, I dont mean to be picky but try to be a bit more accurate... :)

It goes......

Mal - Remember you've just gotta scare him.

Jayne - Pain is scary.

PSYKOTEK

Saturday, November 22, 2003 3:13 AM

walsh there are 10 kinds of perople inthe universe, those that understand binary and those that don't.

LINDYCAT

Saturday, November 22, 2003 7:14 AM

"And I was gonna get me an ear too..."

"That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth."

"Captain, don't you know kissing girls makes you sleepy?"

"But she was all naked... and articulate."

"OK! Everyone not talking about sex, in here."

"To Jayne, the box dropping, man-ape gone wrong thing."

Just as the War Against Drugs would make some kind of sense if they honestly called it a War Against Some Drugs, I regard Dubya's current Kampf as a War Against Some Terrorists. I may remain wed to that horrid heresy until he bombs CIA headquarters in Langrty. - RAW

SERENITYVALLEY

Saturday, November 22, 2003 3:13 PM

Quote:
Who asks people to shove planets up their ass?

That would be Wash.

Hmmm, a quote?

Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?

or

All I got was a dumba$$ stick sounds like it's rainin', how come you got a wife?

or

Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive./
We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."/
I think we should call it "your grave!"/
Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!/
Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!/
Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

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SERGEANTX

Saturday, November 22, 2003 4:40 PM

"I was gonna get me an ear, too..."

Heh, I feel like an idiot. For some reason I just now got the rather obvious irony and foreshadowing there, given what happened later to Mal in "War Stories". Damn, this show sure ages well.

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

NORUDDINWAY

Saturday, November 22, 2003 9:09 PM

Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive./
We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."/
I think we should call it "your grave!"/
Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!/
Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!/
Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

That whole quote is great but the way he says betrayal line is quite impressive, that would have to be my favorite line other than my signature.

You know oyu only have to scare him...

Pain is scary.

NOXIOUS

Sunday, November 23, 2003 12:19 AM

There are too many great quotes, but one of my favorites comes from The Train Job

Sherif: You were truthful back in town, these are tough times. A man can get a job, he might not look too close what that job is. But a man learns all the details of a situation like ours, well, then he has a choice

Mal: I don't believe he does.

Just shows what sort of man Mal is, even while he is doing crime.

You are
What you do
When it counts
-The Masao

CANTTAKESKY

Sunday, November 23, 2003 5:39 AM

Quote:
Mal: I don't believe he does.

I LOVE that line. Every time I watch it, I still tear up. (Okay, I'm a sap, but that's another story.)

Thank you for mentioning it.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

JK

Sunday, November 23, 2003 4:31 PM

What ep does Wash ask for planetary penetration?

JK

TWICEONSUNDAYS

Sunday, November 23, 2003 4:41 PM

lets not forget

"I'll be in my bunk"

TRAGICSTORY

Sunday, November 23, 2003 5:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JK:
What ep does Wash ask for planetary penetration?

JK

If I remember correctly it is War Stories. At the beginning when Wash and Zoe are arguing about taking some time together. Zoe says "I'll ask the captain." Wash rattles off in chinese "Shove all the planets in the universe up my ass" "Was I ever asking what the captain wanted." Then Mal walks in. "I wanted what?" "Nothing sir."

That's as verbatim as I can remember (my vcds are on loan) so it probably is a little off.

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NOXIOUS

Sunday, November 23, 2003 8:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by twiceonsundays:
lets not forget

"I'll be in my bunk"

or...

"I like smackin' 'em"

From Safe

You are
What you do
When it counts
-The Masao

LINDYCAT

Monday, November 24, 2003 12:50 AM

Sgt. X,

"Heh, I feel like an idiot. For some reason I just now got the rather obvious irony and foreshadowing there, given what happened later to Mal in "War Stories". Damn, this show sure ages well."

I never even noticed that until you mentioned it, damn. Guiness is on me if we ever meet.

The first FF ep I ever saw was the orignial aring of Ariel, which made me hate Jayne. The next show I saw was OiS which had little of Jayne, and then I saw the pilot which also had Jayne acting poorly to the crew. Then the show was cancelled. However after seeing the rest of the eps in order, Jayne turns out to be my absolute favorite character.

LC

You must always hate the right group to maintain your modernity. To become post-modern, find even more groups to hate. - Robet Anton Wilson

CHANNAIN

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 7:23 PM

Okay, so My all-time favorites, despite the previous listing would have to be...

Mal: Whoa...good bible.

Wash: Whoa...good myth.

I find myself paraphrasing these a LOT.

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DYAIRVATREE

Wednesday, December 3, 2003 7:29 AM

I have to go with a line from Our Mrs.Reynolds
Mal- "My days of not taking you seriosly are certainly comming to a middle"

SDSS9462

Wednesday, December 3, 2003 8:50 AM

Two of my favs from Shindig...

Mal--"...and I -never- back down from a fight."
Inara--"Yes you do. You do all the time."
Mal--"Well...yeah...but I'm not backing down from this one."

Mal--"Mercy is the mark of a great man."
(pauses, then stabs Atherton)
"Guess I'm just a good man."
(again)
"Well, I'm alright."

But really, the show is all about great lines.

ROGM

Wednesday, December 3, 2003 9:19 AM

From THE TRAIN ROBBERY AND WAR STORIES

"Solid"

HUITZIL

Wednesday, December 3, 2003 9:36 AM

as said by Simon :
'It was my birthday'

I felt really sorry for him. plus, did Joss Whedon have really screwy birthday's cos he's always punishing his characters on their birthdays.

As a person who has pretty sh*tty birthdays herself - this rings poignant

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the turtle and the wolf are natural enemies

ASTRIANA

Wednesday, December 3, 2003 4:21 PM

Slightly OT, but in response to LindyCat's closing statement: Not only do I agree wholeheartedly, but I also noticed that the War Against Some Terrorists, if slightly modified to the War Against Some Terrorist Elements, would be aptly named the WASTE.

On the topic of favorite lines... I'll have to give that more thought, there are so many!

~A~

RISKEVERYTHING

Saturday, December 6, 2003 2:09 AM

Quote:
Calhoun wrote:
Friday, November 21, 2003 11:19
Classic scene from "Objects in Space" but there are soooo many classic scenes its impossible for me to find the "best".

Jayne - Saint Jayne - Its got a ring to it!

Book - I'm just tryin to remember how many miracles you,ve performed.

Jayne - I once hit a guy in the neck from 500 yards with a bent scope, dont that count upstairs?

Book - Oh i'm sure it'll be taken into consideration.

Since the focus is on River, you have to listen closely to hear the next line (paraphrased):

Jayne: You make that sound ominous

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Just got a new favorite quote of the moment:

Jayne- "Don't know these folks, don't much care to"
Mal- "They're whores."
Jayne- "I'm in."

TEELABROWN

Saturday, December 6, 2003 3:08 AM

Wash's lines are usually funny. And about the hair...

ZOE: "River, honey? He's putting the hair away now."
RIVER: "Doesn't matter. It'll still be there...waiting."

Too many to chose, hair one from someone else's post. (Don't remember, sorry)

Keep flyin'!

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

TEELABROWN

Saturday, December 6, 2003 3:12 AM

This post I put here for the soul purpose of making it say "42 posts". Gorram, I love Hitchhikker's Guide. Weird, ain't I?

Keep flyin'!

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

CALHOUN

Saturday, December 6, 2003 7:10 AM

Hey Teela,

Maybe you could clear up a disagreement I have with my Dad about Hitchhikers. You know how the answer to life the universe and everthing turned out to be 42.. well they then went on to find out the question and I seem to recall the question being 6x7, My old man reckons the question was 7x8.. Is either of us right?

DRAKON

Saturday, December 6, 2003 11:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Calhoun:
Hey Teela,

Maybe you could clear up a disagreement I have with my Dad about Hitchhikers. You know how the answer to life the universe and everthing turned out to be 42.. well they then went on to find out the question and I seem to recall the question being 6x7, My old man reckons the question was 7x8.. Is either of us right?

I ain't Teela, nor do I play one on TV.
The question is what is 6 times 9. It only works in base 13 though.

"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"

CALHOUN

Saturday, December 6, 2003 1:11 PM

Are you sure Drakon? my memory usually dont play tricks on me and I vividly recall the question as being "what is 6 x 7"... still.. I been wrong once or twice before.

TEELABROWN

Saturday, December 6, 2003 1:15 PM

Calhoun-
You are both wrong. It is 6x9. The original quote is...(from my handy-dandy-all-inl-one set, which sooner or later I will find the quote)

Basically, Ford and Arthur have decided that swince Arthur grew up on Earth, the second super-computer, that his sub-concious has The Answer. They take Arthur's scrabble he made, put all the pieces (Except Z. They lost that) in Ford's towl. So, here we go...

"W," said Ford, "H, A, T...What!"

He blinked.

"I think it's working!" he said.

Arthur pushed three mor at him.

"D, O, Y...Doy. Oh, prehaps it isn't working," said Ford.

"O, U, G...Doyoug...It's not making sense, I'm afraid"

Arthur pulled two more from the bag.

"E, T, doyouget...Do you get!" shouted Ford. "It is working! This is amazing, it is really working!"

"More here." Arthur was throwing them out feverishly as fast as he could.

"I, F," said Ford, "Y, O, U.....M, U, L, T, I, P, L, Y...What do you get if you multiply...S, I, X,...six...B, Y...by, six,by...what do you get if you multiply six by...N, I, N, E...six by nine..." He paused. "Come on, where's the next one?"

"Er, that's the lot," said Arthur, "that's all there were."

He sat back, nonplussed.

He rooted around again in the knotted up towl but there were no more letters.

"You mean that's it?" said Ford.

"That's it"

"Six by nine. Forty-two."

"That's it. That's all there is."

Hope that clears things up. If you really want to check, it's chapter 33 in The Resturant at the End of the Universe.

Also, a note: 6 by 9 is 54 in base ten, but, acording to my dad who loves math, in base 13, 6 by 9 IS forty-two.

Keep flyin'!

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

TEELABROWN

Saturday, December 6, 2003 1:16 PM

Didn't get around to Drakon's. He is right.

Thanks! Keep flyin'!

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

LINDYCAT

Saturday, December 6, 2003 5:00 PM

A - I love your modification, if you send it to Wilson I think he would like it too.

"Slightly OT, but in response to LindyCat's closing statement: Not only do I agree wholeheartedly, but I also noticed that the War Against Some Terrorists, if slightly modified to the War Against Some Terrorist Elements, would be aptly named the WASTE." ~A~

If you go to rawilson dot com you will find lots more good stuff along the lines of this quote.

The whole quote in my sig is this...

WAR AGAINST SOME TERRORISTS

7 Ways of Looking at a Monkey-House
September 29, 2001 e.v.

Just as the War Against Drugs would make some kind of sense if they honestly called it a War Against Some Drugs, I regard Dubya's current Kampf as a War Against Some Terrorists. I may remain wed to that horrid heresy until he bombs CIA headquarters in Langtry.

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I turned on CNN a few days ago and a White House robot announced that the rebels in Chechnya "were" no longer freedom fighters but "are" now terrorists with "clear" links to Osama bin Laden.

CNN provided no details about whether the transformation occured in a sudden miraculous flash like the transubstantiation of the host in a Catholic mass, or happened slowly and gradually like Darwinian evolution.

In a related bulletin, Russia pledged its support in the War Against Some Terrorists, and will presumably start with those bastards in Chechnya.

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DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND:
IT IS REALITY THAT IS MALFUNCTIONING

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The plight of Bill Maher reminds me of something Ezra Pound wrote about London in 1919: "A single intelligent remark can destroy a man's entire career."

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A friend in Israel just sent me an email quoting George Bush saying we should all go to Disneyland. It didn't surprise me. I kind of suspect George lives in Disneyland all the time, with Mickey and Goofy and Osama bin Laden and all the "faith-based organizations" in the world.

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As Voltaire said, "The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity."

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Pfui.

Robert Anton Wilson

Just as the War Against Drugs would make some kind of sense if they honestly called it a War Against Some Drugs, I regard Dubya's current Kampf as a War Against Some Terrorists. I may remain wed to that horrid heresy until he bombs CIA headquarters in Langtry. - RAW

MANIACNUMBERONE

Saturday, December 6, 2003 6:35 PM

I don't know much where math is concerned, so y'all should tell me what this base 13 business is about.
I always just made up my own question to the answer 42, by the way.... it was "how many roads must a man walk down?"

TEELABROWN

Saturday, December 6, 2003 7:51 PM

The mice made that up! Maniac, come on. I pretty sure you're smarter than that. It's plagerism!

Also-base thirteen is um...well base ten with three extra fingers. Does that help?
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

TEELABROWN

Saturday, December 6, 2003 7:52 PM

I like that:

DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND
IT REALLY IS THAT MALFUNTIONING.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

TEELABROWN

Sunday, December 7, 2003 2:51 AM

Maniac, you there?

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

VETERAN

Sunday, December 7, 2003 5:20 AM

Ok, let's see. Please pardon any paraphrasing or slight misquotes. These are as they come off the top of my head not in any ranked ordrer.

Zoe's description of whate Reaver's will do to you.

Wash's "Who's flying this thing? .. That would be me.

Book telling Mal about the "Special Hell." i fee lthe scence is really made when he sticks his head around the corner and restates... "A special Hell."

Mal to Saffron: "If some one tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back."

Jubal Early: "What? Am I a lion. No, but I have a mighty roar."

Jubal Early to Simon: "You should be shot. Just to know what it feels like. They make physcologists be analyzed.."

Wash describing Zoe: "Have you ever had a 'Warrior Woman.' It's the legs, no the part just above the legs, and the part above that ..."

Wash and Zoe in OIS: W: "That sounds like Science Fiction."
Z: "We live on a spaceship dear."

Mal: ..."Or by my pretty floral bonnet, I'll end you."

Jayne: "The living legend needs some eggs."

Well that's the first ten I could think of.

LORA

Sunday, December 7, 2003 8:32 AM

I can't put them in an order, but, here are my favorites:

1. Defining moment for Shepherd Book: in the aired pilot, when Book is being cleaned up by Inara after his beating by Dobson, Book says, "I've been out of the Abbey two days, I've fallen in with brigands, beaten a lawman senseless, watched the Captain shoot a man I swore to protect. I don't even know if I think he was wrong. I think I'm on the wrong ship." Inara says something like, "Or maybe you're right where you need to be," as she places her hand on his bowed head as if she's giving him benediction. Very poignant and perfectly fits why he stays on board.

2. Defining moment for Wash: he displayed his mettle in War Stories. Zoe just bought him away from Niska, leaving Mal. Wash is telling her he's crazy. Zoe seems to think he means Niska, but Wash continues and talks about how Mal wouldn't break and kept him from breaking. Wash says he wouldn't have made it, then realizes that Niska will kill Mal. Zoe tells him that Niska will draw it out, for days if he can. Wash gets up with purpose and says, "Bastard's not gonna get days." Gives me chills every time.

3. Defining moment for Zoe: the oft-cited line about Reavers in Serenity. "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order." She delivered that line so well it still scares me, every time. Couldn't bring myself to use it for a signature.

4. Defining moment for River: her exchange with Mal over the intercom in Objects in Space. "I know you have questions." Mal, "That would be why I just asked them." River, "There's no time, Captain, I need you to trust me." Mal, "Am I dreamin'?" River, "We all are." Mal rolls his eyes. River, "Don't make faces." Very serious and very with it.

5. The exchange in The Train Job that got me in front of the TV to watch Firefly. Mal, "Whatever happens, remember that I love you." Zoe, "Sir?" Mal, "Because you're my wife." Zoe, "Right, Sir. Honey."

6. Defining moment for Mal: Ariel. After getting Jayne in the airlock. "You turn on any of my crew, you turn on me."

7. Defining moment for Simon Tam: realizing he can't fight the whole town who wants to burn River near the end of Safe, he wraps his arms around her, looks out at the crowd and says, "Light it."

8. Defining moment for Kaylee Frye: Serenity. "Machines got workin's and they talk to me."

9. Defining moment for Inara: The Train Job. Book says he feels awfully uselss. Inara tells him he could pray they make it back safely. Book says he doesn't think the Captain'd like that very much. Inara says, "Don't tell him. I never do."

10. Defining moment for Jayne: Ariel. When Mal has him in the airlock and has got it out of him that he did turn on the Tam's, this saves him: "Don't tell 'em what I did."

(This is really hard, folks. I'd quote the whole episode of Out of Gas if I could. All about Mal and Serenity. "Freedom is what...Never have to be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance gets, we'll just get a little further." "I wasn't askin', I was tellin'." "Time we stopped focusing on what we ain't got and think about what we do." "You all gonna be here when I wake up?")

"Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?"

ZAMPANO

Monday, December 8, 2003 12:43 AM

I liked a Zoe one from Bushwhacked, where Jane goes into some details about the reavers, and Zoe interrupts him: "Jane, you´re scaring the women!"

Also a funny one, from "The Train Job":

Jane: "You know what the chain of command is? - That´s the chain I´ll go get and beat you with until you know who´s in rotten command here!"

MANIACNUMBERONE

Monday, December 8, 2003 1:41 AM

I am here now Teela... I had quite the night and awoke with a strange heaviness in my head. So after much napping and water, I'm back in the saddle again. I didn't make that one up for sure... What's this about mice getting to my thought first?

TEELABROWN

Monday, December 8, 2003 3:30 PM

Note: Hard to explain without reading.

In the Hitchikker's Guide, the smartest beings on earth are not humans, but mice. In the end, you meet up with the last two mice in existence, since earth was destroyed. Anyway, they were about to take out Arthur's brain to find the Question to the Answer, but Arthur and the rest escape. So the mice make up the question "How many roads must a man walk down?" And that is what I mean.

Keep flyin'!

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

GORRAM817

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 3:40 AM

Zoe: This is something captain's gotta do for himself.

Mal: NO...no it's not.

All: Oh!

VETERAN

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 4:09 AM

Gorram817 wrote:

Quote:
Zoe: This is something captain's gotta do for himself.

Mal: NO...no it's not.

All: Oh!

That's onoe of my favorite scenes.

TEELABROWN

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 4:27 AM

I also like this little bit in "Shindig":

Jayne: We need a diverson. I say Zoe gets naked!

Wash: Nope.

Jayne: I could get naked.

Everyone: No.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

JAYNESGIRLFRIEND

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 6:23 AM

I've been obsessed with Objects in Space since I got my DVDs so I've grown fair attached to these.

Jubal Early: You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport, yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

RIVER
It's okay, Early. I'm going with you. Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets. I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.

A couple Simon reaction lines cut out but they aren't necessary to the appreciation of the speech.

"I was gonna get me an ear, too." - Jayne

HUMBLE

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 5:24 PM

i liked "don't look in the closet, it's greedy!", also, "i do a job and then i get paid!", "still walkin' and talkin'!", "you turn on a member of my crew and you turn on me!". can't seem to get "two by two, hands of blue" out of my head and "he looks better in red!"

y'all have a merry x-mas!

GUNSLINGER

Wednesday, December 24, 2003 1:57 PM

If I ever do decide to kill you, you will be awake, you will be facing me, and you will be armed.

INSANESPIKE

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:41 AM

So many to choose from, or to even remember! But, since I just got done watching "War Stories", there is one that definitely stands out in my mind as one of the funniest lines in the show.

Zoe: Preacher, don't the bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?

Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.

Now that's my kind of preacher!

JOJO

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:44 PM

JOJO

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:44 PM

(I'm at work, people! So they're paraprashed)

10. Wash: Goslings...They were juggled

9. Cap: Was it monkeys? Space monkeys?

8. Cap: They're Whores. Jayne: I'm in.

7. Wash: When can we go to the crappy planet where I'm a hero?

6. Book: The SPECIAL hell (GREAT delivery)

5. Cap: Jayne I'm not feeling particularily girly or dirty

4. Jayne: I'd make you prettier if I could

3. Wash: It's grotesque. Oh, there's a jar, too!

2. Cap: How drunk was I last night?

1. Zoe: Take me sir, take me hard. Jayne: That's all kinds of disturbing (Sorry, don't know exact)

JoJo

STALBANS

Saturday, January 3, 2004 2:33 AM

Hey, my first post, can't keep quiet about writing this good.
Good enough that 13 episodes establish someone as a mythic archetype in my mind.

The epitome of a leader -Mal Reynolds

"Everybody dies alone"

and

"You woulda done the same"
"Well you can already see I haven't, now get the hell off my ship"

Both from Out of Gas

"None of it means a damned thing"

From Objects in Space, although it's not actually spoken, I suppose.

"So you're a bounty hunter?"
"That ain't it at all"
"Then what are you?"
"I'm a bounty hunter"

AMANDA4U

Saturday, January 3, 2004 3:16 AM

Ok, these are all good and all, but what about:

"The Train Job" - Well, they tell ya, never hit a man with a closed fist, but it is on occasion hilarious. - Mal

"Our Mrs. Reynolds" - You can't just open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I am a mystery. - Mal

"Objects in Space" - She understands. She doesn't comprehend. - River

"Jaynestown" - To Jayne! The box dropping man ape gone wrong thing. - Simon

LORA

Sunday, January 4, 2004 8:57 AM

Back on the topic of the post, I see: one-liners.

"Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing."

"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose in the engine room?"

"Anybody ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back."

"Morbid and creepifyin' I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like."

"You paid money for this, Sir? On purpose?"

"I figure every man ever got a statue built of him was one kind of sombitch or another."

"You rely on luck you end up beggin' for Alliance make work, on the drift, towed out to the scrap belt. That's not us. Not ever."

"When you can't run no more you crawl. When you can't do that, you find someone to carry you."

I'm being too serious, aren't I? Sorry.

"If your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you."

"Your mouth's talkin'. Might want to look to that."

"Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?"

LITWOLF689

Monday, January 5, 2004 12:11 AM

so many quotes, so little time...

Inara: What did I tell you about barging into my shuttle?
Mal: That it was manly and impulsive?
Inara: Yes only the exact phrase I used was "don't".

Mal: What the hell's going on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Did some terrifying space monkeys get loose?

Book: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Mal: Appears we got here just in the nick of time! What does that make us?
Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir!
Mal: Ain't we just?

Patron: That girl is a witch!
Mal: Yeah, but she's our witch. *cocks gun* So cut her the hell down.

Mal: If your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you.

Wash's dinos: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive./
We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."/
I think we should call it "your grave!"/
Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!/
Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh!

Jayne: What y'all order a dead guy for?

These are my personal favs!
^-^

Litwolf689

LADYJAYNE

Monday, January 5, 2004 1:45 AM

"If wishes were horses, we'd be eatin' steak."
--Jayne Cobb

And my favorite background sign: "Good Dogs".

Ewwww.

RATTLESNAKESMILE

Monday, January 5, 2004 3:49 AM

I think I love this show, since I spent the last three days watching my entire DVD set (including watching eps with and without the commentary tracks. I decided the best thing to do was sign up as a member and make this my first post.

Does this qualify me as a FFF?

Anyways, since the #1 favorite rule seems to have flown out the window around post number 5 or so, here are my votes for the ones already quoted and a new quote for consideration.

Wash: "What could it be, we're all doomed, who's flying this thing?!?! Oh, that would be me."
---
Wash: "Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."
Zoe: "Dear, you live on a spaceship."
---
Wash: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive./
We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."/
I think we should call it "your grave!"/
Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!/
Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!/
Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
---
Sherif: You were truthful back in town, these are tough times. A man can get a job, he might not look too close what that job is. But a man learns all the details of a situation like ours, well, then he has a choice
Mal: I don't believe he does.
---
Mal:"Mercy is the mark of a great man."
(pauses, then stabs Atherton)
"Guess I'm just a good man."
(again)
"Well, I'm alright."
---
Inara (regarding praying for Mal):Don't tell him. I never do.
---

And a new quote for the list:

From the very end of Safe:
Simon: "Captain, why did you come back for us?"
Mal: "You're on my crew."
Simon: "yeah, but you don't even like me. Why d'you come back?"
Mal: "You're on my crew. Why are we still talking about this?"

Cheers,
RSS

LADYJAYNE

Monday, January 5, 2004 10:46 PM

My favorite lines are always the ones that are still hilarious when taken completely out of context. If they need surrounding dialogue or descriptions, I never put them in my "favorites" bag.

"He looked bigger when I couldn't see him."
--Jayne Cobb

LADYJAYNE

Tuesday, January 6, 2004 12:42 AM

Okay, okay, I post too many times here.

However:

"I guess it was the Harvard of whore academies."
--Marena Baccarin, SHINGDIG commentary

"I guess they don't want anybody turning on the channel and seeing just black. Not when you can fill it with some reality based game show."
--Allen Tudyk, WAR STORIES commentary

MADLOVE

Tuesday, January 6, 2004 3:47 AM

I'm also a new fan of the show, but totally obsessed. I bought my mom the DVD set for Christmas, and watched all the eps over and over...
My favorite quotes, that havent been posted yet-

"We're not gonna die, you hear me? And you know why? Because we are so very PRETTY. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
(Mal, *Serenity*)

"I love my captain."
(Kaylee, *Serenity*)

"I got a share in this buisness! Ten percent of nothin' is- lemme do the math- nothin', plus nothin', carry the-"
(Jayne, *Serenity*)

"But like all creative minds, they must be slapped down."
(Joss, *Serenity* commentary)

Also *Serenity* commentary:
Joss: "Here's the star of the show, here comes Chicken."
Nathan: "*Sweet!*"

The Train Job--

Mal: "Say that to my face."
Drunk Guy: "I said that you're a coward, and a piss pot. Now what are you gonna do about it?"
Mal: "Nothing. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind you."
Zoe punches the man.
Mal: "Drunks are so cute."

Mal: "I would pull this job for free."
Zoe: "Then can I have your share?"
Mal: "No."
Zoe: "If you die, can I have your share?"
Mal: "Yes."

I can't believe no one mentioned any of these from Shindig:

Mal: "And you're supposed to make me look respectable."
Kaylee: "Yessir, Captain Tight-Pants!"

Mal: "Just help me look for him."
Kaylee: "Is that him?"
Mal: "That's the buffet table."
Kaylee: "Well, how can we be sure...unless we question it?"

"He's an expert swordsman, Mal. You had trouble with the *pillar*."
(Inara, *Shindig*)

Nothing but Jayne cuteness, *Shindig*-

"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hill-folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."

Our Mrs. Reynolds (another best for one-liners)-

Kaylee: "Oh, sweetie, dont feel bad, he makes everyone cry. He's like a monster."
Mal: "I am NOT a monster!"

Jaynestown--

"Everywhere I go, his eyes keep followin' me..."
(Kaylee)

"His brains are in terrible danger!!"

"Just keep walkin', Preacher-man."
(River)

"My food is problematic!"
(River, *The Message*)

Here endeth the rant, I'm just so in love...

HEX20

Tuesday, January 6, 2004 4:50 AM

One of my favorite Jayne's quotes is:

Jayne: "Dear diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy... Today we were kidnapped by hill folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."

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Jayne: "Dear diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy... Today we were kidnapped by hill folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."

BOOMERGOODHEART

Tuesday, January 6, 2004 6:01 AM

You guys have got 'em all....nothing I need to add.

Although...this isn't a line, but I love the scene in "Safe" where River steals the bread off of Jayne's plate. Cracks me up everytime. (I'm pretty sure it's "Safe".)

BoomerGoodheart
"I love my Captain."

WERZBOWSKI

Tuesday, January 6, 2004 1:16 PM

Besides the quote I use below my name (see above) which was said by Wash upon reaching this zen-like state while trying to outfly the Reavers I like this one too...

Mal: "...She makes things go not smooth"

Simon: "Well I'm sorry if she's drawing attention to your carefuly concealed heard of cows."

From "Safe" I believe. Forgive me for paraphrasing I don't have the best of memories sometimes. Feel free to correct me please.

"We will rise again!"

JAYNE'SJOJO

Tuesday, January 6, 2004 3:13 PM

I love when the group gets going...everyone's delivery and timing is flawless:

Wash: Wacky Fun!
Jayne: You wanna go little man?
Wash: Only if it's somewhere with candlelight

Zoe: I don't think she'd hurt anyone
Jayne: Butcher's knife???
Zoe: Anyone we can't spare

Jayne: I don't like the thought of her hearing what I'm thinking.
Inara: No one likes the thought of hearing what you're thinking.

Zoe:Take me Sir...take me hard
Jayne: Well something about that is just downright unsettlin'

JoJo

IRISANNE

Tuesday, January 6, 2004 3:24 PM

I love when the whole group gets going, too. That dinner table scene where they talk about "the natty thing" just shines. I love that whole scene.

I also love the scene where Book takes a plate of food to Inara and she assumes he's come to deliver a lecture on her evil ways. He says (paraphrase, please excuse) "I brought you some dinner, but if you'd like a lecture I have a couple of good ones. Hellfire and brimstone. One even has a leper."

"Don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. If someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back."

LTNOWIS

Tuesday, January 6, 2004 10:03 PM

What was that quote from Heart of Gold?
"Ain't nothin' worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God" -Mal

TOM

Thursday, January 8, 2004 5:49 AM

off the top of my head i would have to say from serenity in the commentary.

Nathan Fillion says "...And that was the first time I split my pants"

The "it's enough" line is another one

Kaylee after she gets shot "Everybody's so mad"

Another is the grunt from mal when he first sees river

CLANGASSOCIATION

Friday, January 9, 2004 3:33 AM

I can't believe no one mentioned this one:

"Every planet has its own weird customs... I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese... Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled." --Wash, 'Our Mrs. Reynolds'

And I can't help but laugh at Kaylee's indignance:

"Six gerstlers crammed right under every cooling drive so that you strain your primary artery function and you end up having to recycle secondary exhaust through a bypass system just so's you don't end up pumping it through the main atmofeed and asphyxiating the entire crew. Now that's junk." --Kaylee, 'Bushwacked'

And though it turns out in the end of the episode that this quote doesn't refer to what you'd think, I still like it:

"Real beauty, ain't she? Yes sir, a right smart purchase, this vessel. I'll tell you what. You buy this ship, treat her proper... she'll be with you for the rest of your life." --Salesman, 'Out of Gas'

SERGEANTX

Friday, January 9, 2004 6:27 AM

Mal: "huh"

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

TALONPEST

Friday, January 9, 2004 9:01 AM

Stuff that hasn't been mentioned:

Trash-
Mal: "I hate to bring up our iminent arrest in the middle of your CRAZY TIME, but we have to leave, now."

OMR -
Mal: "Are you offering me a trade?"
Jayne: "A trade? Hell, it's practically theft. This here's the finest gun made by man, it's lots better than what you got."
Mal: "What I got? She has a name."
Jayne: "So does this! I call her Veera."

Saffron: "You would lie with me?"
Alarm goes off
Inara: "I think we've lied enough."
Saffron: "You're good."
Inara: "You're incredible, who are you?"

Serenity -
Simon: "What do you pay him for?"
Mal: "Eh?"
Simon: "I was just wondering what his job was, on the ship."
Mal: "Public relations."

Dobson: "Alright, I can see you're not an idiot."
Jayne: "Well I wish I could say the same for you Lawrence, but... this is just dissapointing as hell."

Shindig -
Simon: "The captian's a good fighter, I'm sure he knows how to use a sword..."
Zoey: "I think he knows which end to hold."

The Message -
Simon: "This may come as a surprise, but I'm not very good at talking to girls."
Zoey: "Why, is there someone you are good at talking to?"

Heart of Gold -
Mal: "I'll introduce the rest of the crew later. They're good people."
Jayne: "Can I start gettin' sexed already?"
Mal: "Well, that one's a bit horrific."

The Train Job-
Simon: "What're we doing?"
Kaylee: "Oh. Crime."

War Stories -
Niska: "You died, Mr. Reynolds."
Mal: "Seemed like the thing to do."

Mal: "Listen, if you've got guests, I can come back later."

Wash: "I can handle myself. I've been in a fire fight. Well, I was in a fire. Actually I was fired... from a fry cook opertunity."

DEADHEADFRED

Friday, January 9, 2004 6:44 PM

Jaynestown:
either
River, " Hair Hair!"
or
"I tore these out of your symbol and they turned into paper"

JAYNE'SJOJO

Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:17 PM

Talonpest:
You pretty much listed all of my favorites...i'm just too lazy to type them myself..

"I didn't fight in no war...but good luck to you"

JoJo

TALONPEST

Saturday, January 10, 2004 9:24 PM

Oh, one more from Heart of Gold:

Kaylee: "Wash, tell me I'm pretty."
Wash: "Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion."
Kaylee: "'Cause I'm pretty?"
Wash: "'Cause you're pretty."

JAYNE'SJOJO

Monday, January 12, 2004 3:44 AM

I was watching War Stories tonight. How about:

"I am a large, semi-masculine man..."

ooh, and

"There is obeying going on right under my nose"

JoJo

UNICORN

Monday, January 12, 2004 4:15 AM

Okay. Limit one, I have two I'll post.

"Not so much." This is classic Firefly understatment and gets tossed around by lots of people in different episodes.

Mal in Out of Gas: "Everyone dies alone." I just love this line in context!

There is no such thing as a weed.

UNICORN

Monday, January 12, 2004 4:32 AM

Sorry. One more.

"No power in the 'verse can stop me."

It's also a line several people deliver.

There is no such thing as a weed.

MUDDER

Monday, January 12, 2004 6:18 AM

In "Heart of Gold" u hear jayne on the radio teaching the girls to shoot:

you guys are pulling instead of squeezing like i told you. Now the next one of you to miss that board is getting a special treat.

i missed what he was saying the first few times i watched it, was cracking up once i did finally hear it.

SHADESIREN

Monday, January 12, 2004 7:06 AM

MAN... favorite quote.. that's a gorram BIG request...(paraphrased as I've been drinking lol)

Mal: How's Business?
Inara: None of yours.

Wash: 'Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

Mal: huh!

Inara: As in most cases, the key seems to be giving Jayne a big stick and standing back

Inara: I think she looks adorable.
Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.

Jayne: Hmmm.. let me see.. let me do the math.. Nuthin' plus nuthin'.. divided by nuthin'..

Mal: what's gonna happen when it is enough money..
Jayne: Well.. that's gonna be a very interestin' day..

and from the pre-edited pilot..
Mal: Happy Thoughts, Jayne..

Simon: I never killed anyone before..
Book: I was there, and I'm pretty sure you still haven't

Book's special hell quote.. that one came up in real life today.. to a lady in Safeway.. about someone leaving a cart in the middle of the exit.. lol.. My hubby told her there was a special hell.. for people who talk in theatres.. I wonder if she go it.. ?

and of course, EVERYTHING Wash says in the interview with the Alliance in "Bushwacked"...

Wow.. coming up with these is a never endin' task... lol... they never stop occuring to ya, do they? My hubby and I went back and forth and back and forth.. and I figured it was about time we stopped there :)

ACEHUNTER

Monday, January 12, 2004 11:13 PM

"Genius, huh? Nobody's ever called me that before. Shiny!"
-Bester, "Out of Gas"

Kaylee: So when we made love last night...
Simon: (shock of surprise) When we what?
Kaylee: (laughing) You are such an easy mark.
- "Jaynestown"

"What, is she mad or somethin?"
-Jayne (clueless), "shindig", after Mal really cheezes off Kaylee and Zoe

"Didn't I hear something about black market beagles? Don't they have smallish droppings"
-Mal, "Safe"

"Isn't that special?"
-Book, "Our Mrs. Reynolds"

"Well isn't that something? .... I knew you let her kiss you"
-Mal, "Our Mrs. Reynolds"

"I'm waiting to see if I pass out"
-Mal, after being kissed, "Heart of Gold"

"See Vera, get yourself dressed up real nice, you get taken somewhere special"
-Jayne, "Our Mrs. Reynolds"

"Only fluid I see is the puddle of piss refusing to pay us our wage"
-Jayne, "Serenity"

"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me"

GRSCJO3

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:41 AM

Hey, don't forget:
"Some people juggle geese." -Wash

-Scott

SHINY

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:44 AM

How about:

SIMON: Son of a bitch!

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

NIGHTTRAIN

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:47 AM

Can't believe that no one has mentioned my favorite line of all.

"This 'distress' wouldn't happen to be taking place in someone's pants, would it?" -Mal

TRAGICSATURN

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:30 AM

My favourite character is Kaylee. I love the little conversation between Mal and Kaylee at the ball in "Shindig."

Kaylee: Is that him?
Mal: That's the buffet table.
Kaylee: How will we know unless we question it?
Mal: Just don't make yourself sick.

"Born to blossom, and bloom to perish." -No Doubt

TRAGICSATURN

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:37 AM

Also, I like this exchange from "Jaynestown," between Wash and Kaylee.

Wash: (talking about Jayne's statue) I think they captured his essence.
Kaylee: It looks kind of angry.
Wash: That's what I meant.

"Born to Blossom, and bloom to perish". No Doubt

DIRTYDECEIVER

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:38 PM

Mal (in OiS) taking loaded gun from River:
"This here's a recipe for unpleasantness."

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