#Metaphors

Jan

2022

Why can't I have normal offspring?!

From: Rocko's Modern Life

Episode: An Elk for Heffer (1996) (Season 3, Episode 12a)

Why can't I have any normal offspring?! –The fruit never falls far from the tree, dad. Heh heh heh.

Charlie Adler (George Wolfe) | Mr. Lawrence (Peter Wolfe)

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Nov

2020

Breathe the free air

From: Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

Breathe the free air again, my friend.

Ian McKellen (Gandalf)

Aug

2019

Proof of the pudding

From: Lost In Space

Episode: War of the Robots (1966) (Season 1, Episode 20)

As you have said, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Dick Tufeld (The Robot)

Apr

2019

Colorful metaphor

From: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?

Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock)

Oct

2018

A wolf is a wolf

From: The Black Hole

A wolf remains a wolf even if it has not eaten your sheep.

Roddy McDowall (V.I.N.CENT.)

Nov

2017

I don't watch TV

From: Babylon 5

Episode: Between the Darkness and the Light (1997) (Season 4, Episode 19)

I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the Liberal Media Elite.

James Laing (First Guard)

Apr

2016

The only thing you're going to learn about yourself on a plane is that you like the honey-roasted peanuts better than the plain-salted. If you're really hungry, the open road is a smorgasbord of life experience.

Joe Manganiello (Joe Manganiello)

Apr

2016

The nail that gets hammered down

From: Babylon 5

Episode: Comes the Inquisitor (1995) (Season 2, Episode 21)

Your only destiny is to be the nail that gets hammered down. Bang, bang, bang.

Wayne Alexander (Sebastian)

Apr

2016

Valley of the Dolls

From: Valley of the Dolls

You've got to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls.

Barbara Parkins (Anne Welles)

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Feb

2016

Walking thesaurus

From: Guardians Of The Galaxy

Cease your yammering and relieve us from this urgent confinement. –Yeah, I'll have to agree with the walking thesaurus on that one. –Do not ever call me a thesaurus. –It's just a metaphor, dude. –His people are completely literal. Metaphors are going to go over his head. –Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it. –I'm going to die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy.

Dave Bautista (Drax the Destroyer) | Chris Pratt (Peter Quill / Star-Lord) | Bradley Cooper (Rocket) | Zoe Saldana (Gamora)

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