Top 10 favorite lines from Firefly

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CAITLYN

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:27 PM

Without a doubt, River, in Jaynestown:

"Bible's broken. Contradictions, false
logistics - doesn't make sense."

SEGURANT

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:37 PM

Shindig:

Mal: “Mercy is the mark of a great man. (stabs Atherton) Guess I'm just a good one. (stabs Atherton again) Well, I'm alright.”

Trainjob:

"You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here. "

Two of my favorites but really I like them all

Segurant

"You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here. "

AURAPTOR

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:17 PM

Didn't see this one mentioned, sorry if it was, but even my dad laughed at it....

Mal: Ain't no way in the 'verse they can find that compartment even.....even if they were looken for it
Zoe: Why not ?
Mal: (pause )... cause.
Zoe: Oh yeah, this is gonna go great.

Followed by...
Mal: If anyone gets nosey,just..you know..shoot'em
Zoe: Shoot'em?
Mal: Polietly

SHINY

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Caitlyn:
Without a doubt, River, in Jaynestown:

"Bible's broken. Contradictions, false
logistics - doesn't make sense."

Or the later: "just keep walkin', preacher-man..."

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

SQUEE

Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:31 AM

This has got to be one of the hardest decisions... I think my all time favorite is:

Mal: Ain't no way in the 'verse they can find that compartment even... even if they were looken for it
Zoe: Why not?
Mal: ... cause
Zoe: Oh yeah, this is gonna go great.
Mal: If anyone gets nosey, just shoot'em
Zoe: Shoot 'em?
Mal: Polietly

I was actually very surprised that no one had posted it before today. someone beat me by only a couple hours.
Another one that I really like that hasn't been posted yet is:

Jayne: Captin? Captin can you hear me?
Mal: I'm standin' right here.
Jayne: You're comin' in good and loud.
Mal: That's cuz I'm standin' right here.
Jayne: Well, yeah but... the transmitters...

OOH! and then I like: (off the top of my head, hope it's right)

Mal: I did a job, and I got nothin' but trouble since I did it, not to mention some unkind words as regrad to my character. So let me make this ubundantly clear: I do a job, and then I get paid. Go run your little world.

Other favs:

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.

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

Mal: Public relations

Mal: If you got guests, I can come back later

Wash: Yes, this is a firtile 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. Ahh, curse your sudden but enevitable betrayal. Ha, ha, ha- mine is an evil laugh- now die! Ahh, no God

Mal: 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.

Need help on this one. I don't know exactly what she says.
River: (talking about Simon's birthday) caporial years... stellar- blah, blah jargon. *pause* I didn't get you anything.

And of coarse the theme song hast to count for something. It's just way too cool to ignore.

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.

Anyway, you all know the rest...
Oh! and I just came up with a very good one for my signature. I don't think anyone else is using it as a signature, but if you are... sorry.

When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you.

SQUEE

Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:46 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SergeantX:
"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

I don't know whether I should feel like an idiot, but I just made a realization about the last verse of the theme song:
There's no place I can be,
Since I found Serinity
At first I thought it was referring to the ship, but then I made the connection to the part when Zoe tells Simon about why Mal named the ship after the valley and the battle they lost there.
Once you're in Serenity, you never leave it. You learn to live there. Or something like that.
Did anyone else miss that?
Anyway, SergeantX, I didn't get that connection until you mentioned it.

When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you.

AURAPTOR

Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:15 AM

Wow... this list has been up for days, and yet you and I were the only ones who thought to post that same quote, and w/ in hours of each other... wooo...karma? heh heh

Lets face it, most of the show can be quoted, its almost to the level of...dare I say it... Monty Python? Gee, I hope thats not blashemy for anyone here.....

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

SAINT JAYNE

Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Squee:
There's no place I can be,
Since I found Serinity

It would have been more meaningful with that deleted scene included.

You would figure with that kind of mental scarring, Mal and Zoe would be plagued by shell-shock and nightmares. I guess there is the funny way they eat their apples.

PAINISSCARY

Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:09 PM

Though it'd probably be easier to come up with a list of least favorite lines (since there aren't any), here's some great ones (I'm trying hard to mention ones that haven't already been quoted):

Mal, befuddled at Wash's insisting on coming along on a mission: I'm lost, I'm angry... and I'm armed.

Wash, about Zoe's terseness: Right. Less talking. She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.

Jayne's crude assessment of River: It's a girl. She's cute, too, but I don't think she's all there, y'know? 'Course, not all of her has to be...

River, having trouble with her dessert: My food is problematic.

Jayne, eager to make use of his rehearsed dialogue: We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

Jayne, asking Mal not to reveal his attempted betrayal of Simon and River: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.

River freaking out over Book's voluminous hair, Zoe trying to help:
BOOK
River? Why don't you come out?

RIVER
No! I can't. Too much hair.

ZOE
Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the
hair away now.

RIVER
It'll still be there....waiting.

CANTTAKESKY

Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by painisscary:
Though it'd probably be easier to come up with a list of least favorite lines (snip):

Mal, befuddled at Wash's insisting on coming along on a mission: I'm lost, I'm angry...and I'm armed.

Oh, c'mon. That is one of my FAVORITE lines.

I guess it comes down to how you feel about being armed.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

JAVIDRHO

Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:25 PM

Hey, canttakesky:
I think you misunderstood what painisscary said (you sniped the initial sentence too quickly).

painisscary said:
"Though it'd probably be easier to come up with a list of least favorite lines (since there aren't any), here's some great ones"

In other words, you two agree...

On a side note, when I started this thread way back in November (a hundred and eleven posts ago), I apparently didn't realize just how amazingly quotable just about every line of Firefly is. This is a testament and a huge compliment to Joss and his band-o-writers.

CAITLYN

Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:46 PM

The whole set of exchanges between Book and River in Jaynestown is pretty hilarious. While I like River's explanation of how the Bible is "broken" best, this line (about Book's hair) is also brilliant:

They say the snow on the roof was too heavy.
They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains
are in terrible danger.

ZOE
Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the
hair away now.

RIVER
It'll still be there....waiting.

GUNSLINGER

Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:18 PM

Jayne: "I wuz gunna git me an ear too."

GUNSLINGER

Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:18 PM

Jayne: "I wuz gunna git me an ear too."

CAITLYN

Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:28 PM

OK, here's another great River quote, from Shindig:

(spoken with Badger's accent)

Sure, I got a secret. More than one. Don't seem likely I'd tell 'em to you now, do it? Anyone off Dyton Colony knows better than to talk to strangers. You're talking loud enough for the both of us though, ain'tcha? I've known a dozen like you. Skipped off home early, running graft jobs here and there. Spent some time in the lock down, but less than you claim. And you're what? Petty thief with delusions of standing? Sad, little king of a sad, little hill.

"Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people. "

CANTTAKESKY

Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:02 PM

Duh. Thanks for your correction. So I have a problem with my brain being missing. Sorry, painisscary!

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

GUNSLINGER

Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Caitlyn:
OK, here's another great River quote, from Shindig:

(spoken with Badger's accent)

Sure, I got a secret. More than one. Don't seem likely I'd tell 'em to you now, do it? Anyone off Dyton Colony knows better than to talk to strangers. You're talking loud enough for the both of us though, ain'tcha? I've known a dozen like you. Skipped off home early, running graft jobs here and there. Spent some time in the lock down, but less than you claim. And you're what? Petty thief with delusions of standing? Sad, little king of a sad, little hill.

You forgot, "Let me know if anyone interesting shows up."

SQUEE

Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Caitlyn:
OK, here's another great River quote, from Shindig:

(spoken with Badger's accent)

Sure, I got a secret. More than one. Don't seem likely I'd tell 'em to you now, do it? Anyone off Dyton Colony knows better than to talk to strangers. You're talking loud enough for the both of us though, ain'tcha? I've known a dozen like you. Skipped off home early, running graft jobs here and there. Spent some time in the lock down, but less than you claim. And you're what? Petty thief with delusions of standing? Sad, little king of a sad, little hill.

"Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people. "

lol, your signature reminded me of another funny line in the show: (sorry if its not exact)

It must have taken a dozen slaves and a dozen days to get you into that get up, of coarse your daddy tells me it takes the wink of a school boy to get you out of it again.

When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you.

TAMFAMFAN

Friday, January 16, 2004 6:24 PM

::smile::

The two times Simon uses the phrase "This must be what going mad feels like."

Jayne:"Are YOU about to jump onto a moving train?"

River:"I can kill you with my brain."

Book:"You can't kill this man."
Jayne:"Not right away."

and the vote for the serious line:
Jayne:"Don't tell 'em what I done."

Keep on walkin', Preacher-man.

ANKHAGOGO

Monday, January 19, 2004 2:06 AM

I love reading favourite lines -- and luckily (or not, depending on how carried away I get) I just finished watching my shiny new DVD set today!
I'll try not to repeat, and sorry if I don't get something precisely word-for-word.
BTW, I also am a big fan of stuff that sounds great taken completely out of context. But I'll go ahead n credit em.

"Haven't you killed me enough?" (Mal)

"You're using wiles on me!" (Mal)

"Lady, you're my kind of stupid." (er..Mal again)

"Jayne? Jayne Cobb?" (Inara, on finding out who the hero of Canton is)

"Jayne is a girl's name." (River)

"I'll stay out of your whorin' and you stay out of my thievin'." (Mal..seems to be a trend)

I think I have too many screaming around my brain right now. I'll narrow em down and come back later.

Ankhagogo

"She was naked--and all....articulate!"

ANKHAGOGO

Monday, January 19, 2004 2:25 AM

Wow, that was quick...

"The pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots." (Mal)

"Captain'll come up with a plan."
"Well, that's good... right?"
"Possibly you're not recalling some of his previous plans." (Zoe & Kaylee)

"Ship like this, be with you til the day you die."
"That's because it's a deathtrap." (Mal & Zoe)

"..and I've made myself ready for you."
"Let's ride right past the part where you explain exactly what that means." (Saffron & Mal)

Ankhagogo

"She was naked---and all...articulate!"

BARB

Monday, January 19, 2004 2:50 AM

River: "Just keep walkin' preacher man"

"It's pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambytoes."

TEELABROWN

Monday, January 19, 2004 11:01 PM

Quote:
It must have taken a dozen slaves and a dozen days to get you into that get up, of coarse your daddy tells me it takes the wink of a school boy to get you out of it again.

You almost got it. It's "....the space of a school boy's wink..."

Not tryin' to be mean, just tryin' to help a out.

............................................................................................
"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!

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Monday, January 19, 2004 11:20 PM

Its getting late, and so I scanned the posts, so apologies if I missed these -

The moment for me that manages to define the Simon/River relationship perfectly -

"I threw up...."
"I threw up on your bed"
"That's my sister"

Okay, its a great deal to do with the acting, but the layers it works on amaze me.

On that level, Objects in Space - pretty much all of it as a fantastically constructed script - River's "surrender" - "I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early". Add to that Early's terrifying speech to Kaylee, the "lion" exchange and "we're becoming fast friends". Wasn't this the "wacky fun" episode as well?

"I threw up on your bed"

SQUEE

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by TeelaBrown:
Quote:
It must have taken a dozen slaves and a dozen days to get you into that get up, of coarse your daddy tells me it takes the wink of a school boy to get you out of it again.

You almost got it. It's "....the space of a school boy's wink..."

Not tryin' to be mean, just tryin' to help a out.

............................................................................................
"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!

^_^ That was it... thank you

When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you.

LITWOLF689

Monday, January 26, 2004 10:11 PM

I just thought of some more lines I love:

River: Purple elephants are flying.
Mal: Good. Thanks for the update.

Petaline: Rance, this is Jonah. Jonah, say hello to your daddy.
Rance: *smiles*
Petaline: *pulls out gun* Say goodbye to your daddy Jonah. *fires*
Rance: *dies*

^-^

Litwolf689

EBONEZER

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:59 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:

Lets face it, most of the show can be quoted, its almost to the level of...dare I say it... Monty Python? Gee, I hope thats not blashemy for anyone here.....

THIS IS A DEAD PARROT!

you've got two coconuts and your bangen 'en toghter!

"Oh my god it's grotesqe! and here's a thing in a jar."

EBONEZER

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:16 AM

I've always liked:

Zoe: Doesn't the bible have some pretty spicific things to say about killing?
Book: Yes, but it's fuzzy on the area of knee caps.
(war stories)

Zoe: Jayne!?
Jayne: I didn't fight in no war. Best of luck though
(train job)

Mal: We've got some local color hapening...a grand entrance would not go amis.
(train job)

Wash: Aww, we always hoped you two'd get together, who is she?
(our mrs. reynolds)

Mal: she's not my wife!
safferon starts crying
Kaylee goes to her: Oh, there there, he's a monster
(our mrs. reynolds, not sure if i got that one quite right)

Simon (to jayne): your like a trained ape...without the training.
(serenity)

Wash: ok, everybody not talking about sex, in here. everybody else, out there!

I could go on with this for days...

"Oh my god it's grotesqe! and here's a thing in a jar."

DIGIFICWRITER

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:24 PM

All-time fav Firefly quotes? Hard to choose just 1, so I'm gonna do 5 that I love:

#1 - "Too much hair" - River
#2 - "Kaylee? What the hell's going on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?" - Mal
#3 - "You like ships. Don't seem to be
looking at the destinations. What
you care about is ships and mine
is the nicest." - Kaylee
#4 - "Every man there go back inside or
we will blow a new crater in this
little moon." - Wash
#5 - "He took this right off 'em. They
earned that with the sweat of their
slave-tradin' brows." - Mal

I love that last quote, mainly because of the way Nathan Fillion delivers it. It's also very reminiscent of a couple of his lines in "The Train Job".

***
Badger: If you'd gotten here sooner, you might've beaten the bulletin that came up saying a rogue vessel, classification 'Firefly', was spotted pulling illegal salvage on a derelict
transport.

LITWOLF689

Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:24 PM

I love how Mal refers to the sky as his, like in these two quotes:

Mal: Its getting crowed under my sky.
Mal: Wash, I would like my sky to be a little less empty.

It fits well with the theme song and Mal's cowboyish personality. You know what I mean, when some cowboys refer to a town as their town, their territory. Thats what Mal is doing; the sky is his territory. I love Mal.

^-^

Litwolf689

DRACOS

Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:40 PM

From Objects in Space:

Jayne: So shes a witch?
Wash: Yes Jayne she is a witch and she has had congress with the beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did you even learn human speech!? Tell m, Im really curious!

(bit screwed up but thats the jist of it)

Dont ask me silly questions.
I wont play silly games.
--------------------------------------------------
Somebody tries to kill you you go ahead and try to kill them right on back!

TMURRIE

Tuesday, February 3, 2004 11:58 PM

Only one eh? Ok well...

"I'll be in my bunk."

and

Badger: I had a problem with your attitude is why.Felt you was--what's word?
Jayne:Pretencious?
(Mal looks at Jayne strangly)
Badger: Exactly!

How would Jayne know a word like pretencious?!

KNIBBLET

Wednesday, February 4, 2004 12:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by LindyCat:
"... I may remain wed to that horrid heresy until he bombs CIA headquarters in Langrty. - RAW

LindyCat, I hate to be a perfectionist (#&%), but that is "Langley". Not Langrty.

There are two Langleys in Virginia. One is the small town in northern VA where the CIA is headquartered and the other is Langley AFB in Hampton, home of the Tactical Air Command.

KNIBBLET

Wednesday, February 4, 2004 12:24 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by LindyCat:
"... I may remain wed to that horrid heresy until he bombs CIA headquarters in Langrty. - RAW

LindyCat, I hate to be a perfectionist (#&%), but that is "Langley". Not Langrty.

There are two Langleys in Virginia. One is the small town in northern VA where the CIA is headquartered and the other is Langley AFB in Hampton, home of the Tactical Air Command.

SLAYER730

Friday, February 6, 2004 12:47 AM

Dracos, is that "Don't ask me silly questions......" quote a reference to Blaine the Mono (Blaine is a PAIN!)????

***Never judge a book by its movie***

TEELABROWN

Friday, February 6, 2004 3:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Squee:
Quote:
Originally posted by TeelaBrown:
Quote:
It must have taken a dozen slaves and a dozen days to get you into that get up, of coarse your daddy tells me it takes the wink of a school boy to get you out of it again.

You almost got it. It's "....the space of a school boy's wink..."

Not tryin' to be mean, just tryin' to help a out.

............................................................................................
"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!

^_^ That was it... thank you

When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you.

You're very welcome Squee.

............................................................................................
"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!
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.

SERENA

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 7:41 PM

I have dozens of favs, but here's one that hasn't made the list yet (and forgive me if I get it wrong - I lent my DVD with Bushwacked out so can't check it):

Alliance officer to Zoe: you fought in the war?
Zoe: yes.
Alliance officer: and your husband?
Zoe: fought with him, too.

"Every well bred, petty crook knows that the small, concealable weapons always go to the far left of the place setting."

DTT

Saturday, February 14, 2004 7:32 AM

"Pain is scary."

"Give it baack?!!!?"

"You look stupid in that hat."

You know, it would be easier to make a list of lines I didn't like. But with that list, I'm not sure I'd make it to ten.

"You didn't have to wound that man."
"Yeah, I know. It was just funny."

SASJA

Sunday, March 7, 2004 3:34 PM

This doesn't really count as a line (more like, several), but it's hilarious:

Mal's asking Niska's main guy to take the money back to him.

Niska's guy: Keep the money. Use it to buy a funeral. It doesn't matter where you go, or how far you fly. I will hunt you down, and the last thing you see will be my blade.

Mal: Darn.

Mal kicks the guy and he's sucked out through the engine. Next Niska guy is brought forward.

Mal: Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance.

Second guy: Oh, I'm good. Best for everyone. I'm right there with you.

EST120

Thursday, April 8, 2004 7:35 PM

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. Well I'm just a good man. I'm alright.
Shindig)

Mal: Seems to me we got here just in the nick of time. What's that make us?
Zoe: Big damn heroes sir.
Mal: A'int we just.
(Safe)

Zoe: Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
(The Train Job)

Drunk: You know, your coat is kind of a brownish color.
Mal: It was on sale.
(The Train Job)

Book: Well. Isn't that *special*.
(Our Mrs. Reynolds)

Mal: Ship like this, be with you till the day you die.
Zoe: Because it's a death trap, sir.
(Out of Gas)

Mal: I got stabbed you know, right here.
(Shindig)

Simon: Captin's a good fighter, he must know how to use a sword.
Zoe: I think he knows which end to hold.
(Shindig)

Zoe: You paid money for this sir? On purpose?
(Out of Gas)

Wash: I am a large, semi-muscular man.
(War Stories)

River: Jayne is a girl's name.
(Trash)
(I absolutely LOVE the look on her face when she says this, one of the funniest moments in the entire series for me)

RICHARDECHEANDIA

Thursday, April 8, 2004 8:29 PM

from "Our Mrs Reynolds"

Mal: "Is there blubber?"

MAUGWAI

Thursday, April 8, 2004 8:49 PM

Wow, no one ever mentioned this one:

Jayne: I married me a powerful ugly creature.

Mal: How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people?

Jayne: If I could make you prettier, I would.

"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."

TALVIN

Friday, April 9, 2004 12:53 AM

Oh, I can't believe nobody mentioned one of my personal favorites:

Book: "Oh, I got heathens a-plenty right here!"

(Edited to remove an extra word that was not in the actual line.)

RANDA

Friday, April 9, 2004 8:46 PM

I can't believe no one nominated this one:

Mal: (walking away after Badger turns away the cargo in "Serenity") The wheel never stops turning, Badger.

Badger: (in a casual tone) That only matters to the people on the rim.

Miranda

"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." - Paul Fix

ROCKETJOCK

Saturday, April 10, 2004 9:12 PM

"Keep on walkin, preacher man."

"Muwahahahaha. Mine is an evil laugh."

Zoe: "I need this man to tear my clothes off."
Wash: "Work, work, work."

"There's more than seventy Earths spinning around this galaxy, and the meek have inherited not a one of them."

Mal: "The wheel never stops turning, Badger."
Badger: "That only matters to the people on the rim."

"Let's see, ten percent of nothin' is... let me do the math..."

"Mal. Bad. From the Latin."

"You can't enslave a free man. The most you can do is kill him." -- Robert A. Heinlein

ROCKETJOCK

Saturday, April 10, 2004 9:35 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by LindyCat:

------------------------------------------------

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

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"I don't mind being in touch with reality, as long as I don't have to live there." -- Bob Thaves, Frank and Earnest

"You can't enslave a free man. The most you can do is kill him." -- Robert A. Heinlein

DROKKA

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:23 PM

Amongst many others I like Mal's "Its a real burden being right so often" from Bushwacked.

d~

CLASSICGAMER

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 6:36 PM

This is one of my favorites and I haven't seen it posted yet.

It emphasizes the issues between Jayne and Simon

Wash: So... two days in a hospital. That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors?
Simon: Hey.
Wash: I mean, present company excluded.
Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.

JANNIE78

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:16 PM

the greatest saying is from "Objects in Space" when Jayne says "If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak"

Jannie78

MALICIOUS

Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:40 AM

Another good one is when Mal is being kept overnight by Atherton Wing pending the duel at dawn. Badger's gang is keeping watch on the Serenity crew. After our guys craft their plan and are waiting for the diversion they were going to create, River has a conversation with Badger mimicking his accent. Everyone watches in fascination. Afterward, Jayne says, "That there? Just the kind of di-version we could have used."

Like I always say, ya gotta love Jayne!

Mal-licious

IAMTHESHIP

Friday, April 16, 2004 1:05 PM

My favourite line is the same as my username, from OiS.

River: "I am the ship."

Well, here I am.

HARPIE

Friday, April 30, 2004 4:03 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by sdss9462:
Two of my favs from Shindig...

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.

Every time I see that episode I almost fall off my chair laughing! What a great line!

Also, at the beginning of Serenity, pt 1, the dinosaur thing was hilarious. I can't remember the exact wording.

Trekkie,Browncoat,Leaper,MSTie

JOHNCLARK

Friday, April 30, 2004 5:09 PM

I like the whole training exercise from Ariel with Simon and the Crew

"The patients were cynical and not responding and we couldn't bring them back"

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Experience has taught me that interest begets expectation, and expectation begets disappointment, so the key to avoiding disappointment is to avoid interest. A=B=C=A, or whatever

BLACKEYEDGIRL

Friday, April 30, 2004 7:58 PM

So I've got about 2,000 favorites (give or take) but here's a minor comminglation of them:

Wash: "Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

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

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

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

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

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."

Jayne: "Pain is scary"

River: "He looks better in red."

Mal:"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."

Kaylee: "Yessir, Captain Tight-Pants!"

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."

Zoe: "Take me sir, take me hard."

River: "Sad little king of a sad little hill"

Simon: "This must be what going mad feels like."

Simon: "no, THIS must be what going mad feels like."

Inara: "Every well bred, petty crook knows that the small, concealable weapons always go to the far left of the place setting."

And finally, I can't believe, no one has put these up!!

River (HoG): Who do you think is in there?

NANDI: "You gonna remember where everything
goes?"
MAL: "Let's just say I plan to take it real
slow."

Mal: "Yup, that went well."

and finally, Inara in Trash:
Inara: "You know, I put on this big act and
storm away in a huff, then I fly off,
wait for you to doublecross Mal, beat
you to the rendezvous spot and grab
the loot before you can get to it. What, you didn't see it coming? You know, I'm a little disappointed. Some of the crew's performances
weren't quite as nuanced as they
could have been. I thought they might
tip the fact that we were playing you
from the second Mal took you out of
that crate. Oh, well guess not."

Inara: "Should I start with the part where
you're stranded in the middle of
nowhere, or the part where you have
no clothes?"

WEERWOLF

Friday, April 30, 2004 9:27 PM

The last scene of Shindig, when Mal and Inara are sitting on the catwalk in the hold and Inara says "Besides, how could I leave Serenity?" and then the next camera shot reveals the hold full of cows...

The last twenty minutes of Shindig were my first Firefly experience and I fell in love right away. Luckily the DVD set came in the week after.

'd You say only one quote? I must have misread... Thought you meant 100...

Some Simon quotes:

Simon to Jayne: "Enemies? You? No! How can that be!"

"I always thought the name Serenity had a vaguely funereal sound to it."

Mal: "I need that in captain dummy talk."

Mal: "Next time you stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face."

Mal: "One of you's gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!"

Inara: "Do aliens live among us?"
Kaylee: "Yes. One of them's a doctor."

Mal: "However I might slip, you're not going to catch my crew with their pants down."

Mal whispering to Jayne: "How drunk was I last night?"
Jayne: "I don't know, I passed out."

Mal: "I take it you're not overburdened with an abundance of schooling."

Monty: "I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!"

Mal: "Don't strain your brain trying. It might break something."

Mal: "We're deep in space, corner of No and Where."

River: "And Early, Serenity is very unhappy..."

Nandy: "I've been waiting to kiss you ever since I showed you my guns."

Badger: "Thought we might have a bit of a sit-down."
Mal: "I prefer a bit of a piss-off."

Jayne: "This place gives me an uncomfortableness."

The next scene is one of my favourites since it takes the piss on all the "hero's revenge" scenes in genre flix. Mal's fighting one of Niska's minions just outside Niska's office. Jayne's raising his gun to shoot the minion.

Zoe: "Jayne, this is something the captain has to do himself." Jayne lowers his gun.
Mal: "No! No it's not!"
Zoe: "Oh" and she, Jayne and Wash start blasting the minion who falls to a sticky end.

And I can type down the whole Our Mrs. Reynolds episode for quotes... That is such a funny episode!

"I would never have tried to save River's life if I'd known there was a dinnerparty at risk."

THEDUKE333

Friday, April 30, 2004 10:16 PM

I would agree with all. There simply is too many...But here are some of my favorites. The ones where I watch other peoples faces who havent seen it yet, just to watch there rweactions to these great lines. i love it when they laugh out loud.

I have a horrible memory,please forgive the below butchering.

OMR: Mal- If somebody tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back.

War Stories: Wash- i was in a fire fight
well i was fired
I can handle myself
(again sorry)

OMR: Mal- well my days of taking your seriously are deffenitely coming to a middle.

Serenity: Mal- i do the job and then I get paid. Go run your little world. ( my favorite)

Serenity: Mal- If I ever decide to kill you, you will be awake, you will be facing me, and you will be armed.

Were still flying!!!

TheDuke333

SIOUX

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 2:30 AM

This is my first post. Laugh out loud scene from Shindig with Mal, Jayne and Badger. Badger is trying to convince Mal to meet Sir Warrick Harrow at an exclusive, hard-to-get-into party.

Badger: "Course you couldn't buy an invite with a diamond the size of a testicle. I got my hands on a couple..."

(Mal and Jayne make eye contact and crack up.)

Badger: "of invites!"

STUDIOD

Wednesday, May 5, 2004 3:19 PM

Wash: Oh my god, it's hideous! Ooh, and there's something in a jar.

TEDC

Thursday, May 6, 2004 8:57 PM

They say mercy is the mark of a great man.
*stab*
I guess I'm just a good man.
*stab*
Maybe I'm OK.

--Mal, "Shindig"

"Burn the land and boil the sea, still can't keep the sky from me."

PSELUS

Friday, May 14, 2004 9:36 PM

no one's mentioned this one yet...and I honestly have no idea WHY it's my favorite quote...but I can't EVER get it out of my head after hearing it...
"You're not right Jubal Early. You're not righteous." - River, Objects in Space (my favorite episode)

"Big Damn Heroes sir."

XCLAIM

Friday, June 11, 2004 8:23 AM

Man, you guys beat me to a ton of good ones, but I still have a couple:

"The Train Job", when Mal realizes Feds are on the train unaware that he's about to pull a theft right under their noses:

Mal: This job I would do for free.

Zoe: Well in that case, can I have your share?

Mal: No.

Zoe: If you die, can I have your share?

Mal: Yes.

"Trash", after Inara calls Mal a petty thief:

Mal: Petty?

Inara: I didn't mean petty.

Mal: Well what did you mean?

Inara: Swa-shi? (sp?)

Mal: (annoyed) That's Chinese for "petty".

MANTICHORUS

Friday, June 11, 2004 11:03 AM

The ones in my sig, along with...:
Niska:"You died, Mr Reynolds."
Mal:"Seemed like the thing to do."
{War Stories.}

And...
Wash:"Oh my God, it's grotesque! (beat) ...Oh, and there's something in a jar."
And whatever Wash says to the cow fetus... I've forgotten what it was... But it made me laugh like hell... {The Message.}

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"BADGER: You think you're better than other people.
MAL: Just the ones I'm better than."
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"MAL: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous.
SIMON: Yes, I'm very proud."

EVILTOBZ

Friday, June 11, 2004 11:17 AM

my fave for dramatic poigniant writing and characterisation is

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?

and the line that made me laugh more than anything else has in years was

jayne: that's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth.

just works for a grotty little perv like me :)

EST120

Friday, June 11, 2004 1:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Mantichorus:
[And whatever Wash says to the cow fetus... I've forgotten what it was... But it made me laugh like hell... {The Message.}

i think he says "we are a peaceful race" while he holds up his hand like he is doing the stereotypical native american "how" thing or whatever.

DENOR

Saturday, June 12, 2004 3:07 AM

My personal favorite is a River quote - in Safe, when she's talking to Simon:

"You gave up everything you had to find me, and you found me broken"

Gives me chills, every time.

INSIGHT SPINNER

Saturday, June 12, 2004 3:13 AM

Most of my fav's have been covered above. I can't believe I almost got to the end without someone adding Inara's: "Every well bred petty crook knows the small, concealable weapons go to the far left of the place setting." [from memory, excuse errors] Which is classic.

Frankly, Jubal Early supplied the strongest, most creepifying dialogue throughout OiS, but I particularly like his exchange with Simon:

s: are you Alliance?
e: A lion? ....

But I'm partial to the one from River in my sig below.

insight spinner
__________

Just an object. It doesn't mean what you think....

GREGGALLINSON

Saturday, June 12, 2004 3:36 AM

In no particular order (and forgive me if these aren't exactly spot-on):

10) "Why'd y'all order a dead guy for?"-Jayne
9) "I bet Inara's got some funny whoring stories."-Jayne
8) "That's just downright unsettlin'."-Jayne
7) "The *special* hell."-Book
6) "He looks better in red."-River
5) "It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think."-River
4) Book's "fuzzy on the kneecaps" bit from War Stories.
3) "You wanna know the *real* me?!"-Mal
2) "Does that seem right to you?"-Early
1) "See, morbid and creepifying I got no problem with."-Mal

SNIPERJAC

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:02 PM

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

I thought he said "Well you can already see I have" I mean it makes more sense. He's holding a gun to the guy and taking the part for free.

These are my favourite quotes that have already been mentioned:

1. Mal: One of you is gonna fall and die and I’m not cleaning it up!
(War Stories)

2. Mal: Ah the sound of tiny feet in huge combat boots.
(War Stories)

3. Wash: 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. Ahh, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. Ha, ha, ha- mine is an evil laugh- now die! Ahh, no God
(Serenity)

4. River: They say the snow on the roof was too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger
(I think Jaynestown)

5. Mal: "And you're supposed to make me look respectable."
Kaylee: "Yes sir, Captain Tight-Pants!
(Shindig)

6. 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 disappointing as hell."
(Serenity)

This one hasn’t yet been posted

ZOE: Captain'll come up with a plan.
KAYLEE: That's good, right?
ZOE: Possible you're not recalling some of his previous plans.
(Safe)

And this one is so adorable. Even though it was never made I just love it.

JAYNE: Hey!
KAYLEE: Sorry.
JAYNE: Got any thread?
Jayne holds up the turtle, neck is almost gone.
JAYNE: His floppy neck's makin' me sad.
(From Dead or Alive)

BARCLAY

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 8:21 PM

Just two...

Out of Gas

Inara: "Mal, you don't have to die alone."

Mal: "We all die alone."

Heart of Gold

Kaylee: "I wish somebody would tell me I'm pretty." (not exact?)

Wash: "If I were unwed I'd take you in a manly fashion."

Kaylee: "Because I'm pretty?"

Wash: "Because you're pretty."

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JUSTASHEPHERD

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:21 PM

Ok, since the "pick only one" thing was ignored long ago ...

From Jaynestown -
Wash: We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm a hero!

Jayne: I think I really made a difference in their lives. Me, Jayne Cobb.
Mal: I know your name jackass.

From Shindig -
Zoe: If I were gonna wear a dress, I'd want one with some slink.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I'll buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have some money for a slinky dress?
Jayne: I'll chip in.
Zoe: I can hurt you.

From Our Mrs. Reynolds -
Mal: You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people, ya know, people that are trying to ... that's a dumb planet.

Inara: I only fell is all.

And far too many that have already been mentioned.

THEREALME

Sunday, June 20, 2004 3:17 PM

Hi,

Since there was a new thread that started concerning favorite quotes, I thought I'd bump this one in case folks might want to see it, too, and hadn't.

The Real Me

Got Mudder's Milk?

GODDESSMMWC

Sunday, August 29, 2004 8:43 PM

"Here lies Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less atrractive now that she's all corpsified and gross."
"Daddy will come for us." i still maintain that River was talking about Mal and not Mr. Tam

PIRATEJENNY

Sunday, August 29, 2004 10:43 PM

Janyne: thats crazy talk ,
Simon: then lets talk crazy

I always loved that one...

Jubal Early: you could be on to something no I'm not a hundred percent

River: I'll be your Bounty Jubal Early...

I just love her zeal when she says that..

Zoe: if you'll excuse us captain I need this man to take off all my clothes

River: you gave up everything you had to find me and you found me broken

that one is so passionate

from the deleted scene

River: But the Captain took a wife
Book: and thats also very complicated

that one always cracks me up!!

SHINYFFFAN

Monday, August 30, 2004 12:24 AM

probably already been said but mine are..

(Our Mrs. Reynolds)

Jayne: "Awe I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. Ya see I married me a..powerful ugly creature."
Mal : "How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people"
Jayne :"If I could make you purtier I would."
Mal: "You are not the man I met a year ago."

(Jaynestown)

Kaylee: "Simon the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate."

CORNCOBB

Monday, August 30, 2004 4:22 AM

I can't pick just one.

Mal: You're on my ship.

Jayne: I'll be in my bunk

Kayllee: Not. Speaking. To you. Captain.

Mal: Certain words were exchanged. Also certain... bullets

Jayne: Today we were kidnapped by hill folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever

Simon: This must be what going mad feels like

Zoe: Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing

And many more...

"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."

TMURRIE

Monday, August 30, 2004 5:08 AM

Since only one can be chosen....

I'll be in my bunk.

LIVIDLIQUID

Monday, August 30, 2004 8:58 AM

This part of the show is brought to you by black. The color of... night...

LIVIDLIQUID

Monday, August 30, 2004 8:58 AM

This part of the show is brought to you by black. The color of... night...

OZYMANDIAS

Monday, August 30, 2004 5:10 PM

I can't remember what episode it is, but book and jayne are talking. Jayne says something about becoming Saint Jayne, book says you need to perform miracles to become a saint and Jayne replies: "I once hit a man in the neck at 500 yards with a bent scope, doesn't that count for anything upstairs?"

Nothing beats that

You must die, I alone am best

MALLORY

Monday, August 30, 2004 8:24 PM

I'm surprised no one mentioned this quote...or maybe they did and I didn't see it.

"Have good sex!"
--Kaylee to Inara, Jaynestown

BROWNCOAT2006

Monday, March 13, 2006 2:21 AM

lol, is it sad that I always thought that she was talking about Mal? Does anyone elles have the problem of seeing Mal and Inara as, kind of, the father and mother figures in the boat and everybody elles as one large, rather strange and highly disfunctional family??

SAB39

Monday, March 13, 2006 4:29 AM

"Put Shepherd Book front and center, he was our friend, he should be honored. Kaylee, find me that kid takin' a dirt nap with baby Jesus, we need a hood ornament. Jayne, try not to steal too much of their shit!"

I love the way the entire cast is cracking up around him and he just keeps going.

There are so many great lines in the Serenity outtakes. The whole "I do NOT NEED A BACK SPACESHIP DRIVER" scene is classic too. And "TRAAAPP!!!"

One that really made it to the screen:

"You can't change that by gettin' all... bendy" (and the rest of that quote, which Google's failing to find for me right now)

I think all the other ones I was going to mention have been already but I only saw these ones once each, buried in lists:

"You wanna meet the real me now?"

"Son of a bitch!"

ASARIAN

Monday, March 13, 2006 10:06 AM

So very moving, this one:

River: Is it time to go to sleep again?
Simon: No, mei-mei. It's time to wake up.

--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

TOWELIE

Monday, March 13, 2006 10:09 AM

Zoe: You can come out now sweetie, the hair's
gone.

River: No. It'll still be there. Waiting.

Or it was something along those lines... Hair: The Terror of the 'Verse.

Men of Honour - Pain is Scary

ASARIAN

Monday, March 13, 2006 10:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by painisscary:

RIVER
No! I can't. Too much hair.

ZOE
Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the
hair away now.

RIVER
It'll still be there....waiting.

I believe it goes like this:

River: "No. Can't. Too much hair."
Zoe: "River, honey, he's putting the hair away now."
River: "Doesn't matter. It'll still be there, waiting."

--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

GIRLASKEW

Monday, March 13, 2006 10:17 PM

in "Our Mrs. Reyonlds", Mal discovering "Saffron" is to cleve to him...
"To wubba who?"
Love that.
That could be why it's under my name. I heart redundancy.
What can I say, I heart redundancy.

"...once you've been on Serenity, you never leave...you just learn how to live there."

COPILOT

Monday, March 13, 2006 10:32 PM

Mal-I never back down from a fight
Inara-Yes you do you do all the time
Just cause I'm watching Shindig.

Jayne-I say Zoey gets naked
Wash-NO
Jayne-I could get naked
Everyone-NO

An I carried such a torch

CAB1729

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:59 AM

Don't make faces.

Anger on one side, sadness on the other.
Nobody knows about the third side.

RUSSELL

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:44 AM

i have alot of favorite lines :) but i have to agree with the earlier person that posted this bit.

from the train job: zoe and mal just past through a car full of alliance guys. zoe and mal have a short conversation about whether it concerns them and mal tells zoe it only makes it more fun. then zoe says

"sir, i think you have a problem with your brain being missing."

hehe, i loved that. the look on her face when she said it was great. you can tell they had alot of fun doing that show. another great quote was from jayne:

"if wishes were horses we'd all be eatin steaks"

man... i could list about 50 of them :) breaks my heart that the show was cancelled. firefly was about as entertaining as tv gets.

ELOISA

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:00 PM

Hey, I've got a favourite nobody's mentioned yet!

Mal: You're making out like Zoe just blindly follows my every word, and that ain't true.
Wash: Sure it is.
Mal: Not so. There've been plenty of orders of mine she didn't obey.
Wash: Name one!
Mal: She married you!

(War Stories)

Later in the episode:

Mal: You want me to sleep with her [Zoe]? That make you feel better?
Wash: It might...
Mal: Imagine it'd do wonders for her too.
Wash: Screw you!
Mal: Get in line!

Hilarious, especially given the context.

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MICJWELCH

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Floater68:
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

That one gets my vote! The one I use for my signature gets second.

"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."

KEVAR

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:58 PM

Quote:
Also-base thirteen is um...well base ten with three extra fingers. Does that help?

Hehe, I love Tom Lehrer.

For the record, my fave quote has got to be.
"you're going to fall and crack your skulls and I'm not going to clean up the mess."

Or
"Why are we discussing what's already been decided?"

or

"Your mouth is talking, might want to see to that."

I use them on my students all the time.

LEEBO

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:31 AM

Jayne: He looked bigger when I couldn't see him.

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