Quotes needed! Whedonesque needs your help (yet again).
The quotes section that appears in the top right hand side of the page needs to get updated with more Dollhouse dialogue. So please do post your favourite lines from 'Epitaph One', 'Echo' and the first four episodes of Season Two.
If you recall we did your favourite lines from the first twelve episodes of season one back in May.
October 30 2009
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"The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates."
duffman | October 30, 23:44 CET
Dominic: Did I miss anything?
Adelle DeWitt: Just the vodka, thank God.
Topher Brink: Alpha got it to work through a phone, nonetheless. Are you comparing my intelligence to Alpha's? Well, you're talking to yourself like he does. That's... a very good point.
Echo: You're taking matters into your own hands.
Victor: They're in my shirt.
Sierra: I love him so much more that I hate you.
Adelle DeWitt: Given that you're a raping scumbag one tick shy of a murderer. I can't recall, do you take sugar?
Adelle DeWitt: Or the last woman to whom you gave a permanent imprint, the other wounded flower you restored by offering her a new life. Who apparently found you so unbearable she had to flee the city, is it that one?
Victor: I'll wait for you right here.
Topher Brink: No problem, I can't remember your name today...
GoldDust8912 | October 30, 23:48 CET
Sunfire | October 30, 23:49 CET
Adelle: I wouldn't let you near an active no sooner I would let a mad dog near a child
Topher: I can keep it...but I don't know if I can live with it
Topher:If I think I can figure out how things work,is that curiosity or arrogance?
okelay | October 30, 23:51 CET
*giggles*
Just kidding. Please don't use that.
didifallasleep | October 30, 23:52 CET
gossi | October 30, 23:55 CET
"My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater-vest. What do you suggest I do?"
"No. Kids playing with matches. And they burned the house down."
"How's it feel to end the world, Ms. Dewitt?"
"What if she goes over your head?" "I'm very tall."
Taaroko | October 30, 23:59 CET
"I know what I know."
GoldDust8912 | October 31, 00:04 CET
Frick | October 31, 00:06 CET
"Something bad is coming, like a storm,and I want everyone to survive it."
"You had a moral dilemma, your first, and it didn't go well."
[ edited by impalergeneral on 2009-10-31 00:09 ]
impalergeneral | October 31, 00:07 CET
Frick | October 31, 00:08 CET
Frick | October 31, 00:11 CET
Topher: "Actually you're in Los Angeles, but I can understand the mix-up."
"Shine light on me
Your image reflected is all you’ll ever see" - Remains, by Maurissa and Jed
Pantaryl | October 31, 00:13 CET
Topher: Can I be your nose and throat?
Topher: Mother ship!
Victor: I'm Kiki. I don't know how I got here, I sorta don't care... am I drunk?
Paul: You got a problem?
And I second Claire's "sociopath in a sweater-vest" line.
CrazyKidBen | October 31, 00:13 CET
"So, what? You're happy now?" "I'm not sad."
redders | October 31, 00:18 CET
beergood | October 31, 00:24 CET
"This is the Dollhouse, Frenemy!" (FRENEMY!)
"You're touching my face.."
"I'm very tall"
"You're human!" "Don't flatter yourself!"
"I'm running out.... of excuses".
" I don't wanna use the word genius,but I'd be ok if you wanted to!"
"I don't understand" "But it's so cute that you're trying!"
"How do you feel about ventriloquism?"
"Victor's loose, he doesn't have a GPS, and apparently he's a serial killer" "Aah."
"I can keep it. I don't know if I can live with it"
JotheCat | October 31, 00:26 CET
kishi | October 31, 00:30 CET
On topic...
Echo: I think he dreams.
Paul: Not anymore.
Paul: We're going on a little spree.
Echo: Shopping or killing? ... Joke!
Echo: My body's just sort of programmed to do this.
Ivy: She's not wrong.
Topher: If you tweaked an imprint I'll put you through that window.
Echo: (to the car) Go please?
Echo: Wait...who did they make me this time.
Echo: We are lost, but we are not gone.
Echo: Do you know who's real?
Echo: No one is their best in here.
(This is becoming Echo-heavy. Um...)
Boyd: I like his suit.
Boyd: Mr. Ballard. We were just about to talk about you.
Paul: You're working an angle.
Adelle: With the exception of the very special and the comatose, have you ever met someone who wasn't?
Ivy: Why is it moving?
Topher: Because it's designed to go where it's not supposed to.
Topher: It's the autumn rush. The temperatures drop the the high 60's. The leaves fall off that one tree on Wilshire. People need comfort.
Rossum-guy-whose-name-I-can't-remember: You wouldn't like our early retirement plan.
Claire: There is a physical need for something other than fulfilling the whims of the rich.
Xantastic1316 | October 31, 00:31 CET
Progressive_Stupidity | October 31, 00:33 CET
"I didn’t make you hate me. You chose to hate me."
Songbird61 | October 31, 00:37 CET
Victor: You're touching my face.
Adele: Ah, Tempura Joe. Such a lonely soul.
Whikey: I have a problem with crowds, people, sunlight, open spaces, noise, pets. For some reason I'm just built that way.
And that's just from rewatching Act One of the season opener.
rocknjosie | October 31, 00:40 CET
zombiecow | October 31, 00:47 CET
Rachelkachel | October 31, 01:03 CET
"You mean to tell me the tech that punk-kicked the ass of mankind was designed to make more believable hookers?" - Zone
Pantaryl | October 31, 01:04 CET
"He'll be an empty-headed robot, wandering around Hollywood. He'll be fine."
"I wish I'd thought of that. Did I think of that?"
[ edited by mouse on 2009-10-31 01:30 ]
mouse | October 31, 01:16 CET
beergood | October 31, 01:17 CET
Paul: You need therapy.
Boyd: Treatment. You need a treatment.
Xantastic1316 | October 31, 01:20 CET
Claire: "Was I my best?"
Caroline: "Better."
"I hope we find me alive."
sonofyork | October 31, 01:26 CET
Ballard: "Serial killer? .... Thank God."
Also,
Ballard: "Got a problem?"
So it's Ballard-heavy. So sue me.
I also wonder, on a personal note, why the directors are not making Tahmoh take his shirt off more often.
lbowman | October 31, 01:34 CET
sonofyork | October 31, 01:35 CET
Zone's line about the tech and hookers.
Saunder's line about her existence being constructed.
Adelle's "Given that you're a raping scumbag....." line
trunkstheslayer | October 31, 01:36 CET
"Put the rats back in the maze, Topher. Before one of them bites you." -Dr. Saunders
"I've always been here." -Whiskey
"If I think I can figure things out, is that curiosity or arrogance?" -Topher
"I like my scars. They bring out my eyes. Without my scars I might as well be one of them." -Dr. Saunders
"I will shoot you very hard."
"So should I intepert this new concern as pity? Curiosity? Deviant excitement?" -Dr. Saunders
I would also like to agree to the sociopath and no judging in the Dollhouse quotes.
marvelknight616 | October 31, 01:40 CET
Zone: "Yup, straight ahead... Big ol' plate of chicken"
*BLAM*
Litwal | October 31, 01:48 CET
JMaloney | October 31, 02:00 CET
"I don't understand" "But it's so cute that you're trying!"
"Topher has ethical problems. Topher!"
"I wish I'd thought of that. Did I think of that?" (doesn't that one have an "Oh my God, did I think of that?" afterwards?)
sab39 | October 31, 02:09 CET
(Or is that too obvious?)
katetwo | October 31, 02:17 CET
"You're not looking hard enough. You never do." Again from Echo to Topher from Belonging.
"You lost me at brain" from Boyd once again from Belonging.
"Something bad is coming. Like a storm. And I want everyone to survive. They need to wake up".
(Blame all the Belonging quotes on re-watching, just noticing some additional great lines)
[ edited by Numfar PTB on 2009-10-31 02:45 ]
Numfar PTB | October 31, 02:19 CET
Pisumnux | October 31, 02:29 CET
oh and " man reaction." has yet to make it up
oopsgirl | October 31, 02:41 CET
Adelle - "I find 'lentels" completely incomprehensible."
Victor - "How can I be my best now?"
Echo - "I don't like this room anymore. Where are the better rooms?"
Boyd - "Hey... Wow... Did not maintain control of that situation"
I could do this all day
Donkey | October 31, 03:11 CET
sab39 | October 31, 03:18 CET
Definitely this.
Maratanos | October 31, 03:21 CET
ilion | October 31, 03:44 CET
snakegriffin | October 31, 04:19 CET
Sorry if it's already been used
DeezyG | October 31, 04:25 CET
snakegriffin | October 31, 04:28 CET
Topher: "What?...What are you talking about?"
Boyd: "Consequences."
Boyd: "...Yeah, it's me, been a while...yeah, I'm gonna need 'The Goose' is he around? ...Yeah, I'm gonna need someone...disappeared."
snakegriffin | October 31, 04:38 CET
SteveP | October 31, 04:42 CET
snakegriffin | October 31, 04:45 CET
ardentdelerium | October 31, 04:47 CET
"I found your friend."
"With the obvious exception of yours, the human brain is a massively powerful creature."
"I'm sorry, but whence this clown? Did Idi Amin turn down the job?"
zombiecow | October 31, 05:08 CET
"Do you trust me?" "With my life."
Adelle to Paul: (something along these lines): You can't just walk into a place that everyone knows does not exist.
just about everything said by Patton Oswald's character EXCEPT the line about Kindle.
all interviewee comments in Man on the Street.
Paul to Mellie, in his dream about Echo: "I have something she NEEDS."
Boyd to Whiskey: "Most of the people I know are pretty poorly constructed."
Dominic to Echo: "No, I'm really sorry I tried to kill you. Who DOES that?"
Dominic cooing as he pets his suit.
ananda | October 31, 05:24 CET
AngelDiva | October 31, 06:04 CET
>My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater-vest. What do you suggest I do?
>Mr. Dominic, get this man a refrigerator.
>You had a moral dilemma, your first. And it didn't go well.
>Most of the people I know are pretty poorly constructed.
>You lost me at 'brain'.
>I've always been here.
>Put the rats back in the maze, Topher. Before one of them bites you.
>He'll be an empty-headed robot, wandering around Hollywood. He'll be fine.
>Given that you're a raping scumbag one tick shy of a murderer. I can't recall, do you take sugar?
>Let's blow this bitch back to the Bush years.
I know there are a few from Alpha, from both Briar Rose and Omega. Anyone know if there are entire transcripts online?
EF: mistake
[ edited by Shey on 2009-10-31 07:05 ]
Shey | October 31, 07:03 CET
(also, yay for open registration!)
sammy_jai | October 31, 07:54 CET
More votes for:
"My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater vest, what do you suggest I do?"
"You mean to tell me the tech that punk-kicked the ass of mankind was designed to make more believable hookers?"
"I have a problem with crowds, people, sunlight, open spaces, noise, pets. For some reason I'm just built that way."
"I don't want to use the word genius, but I'd be ok if you wanted to!"
"Given that you're a raping scumbag one tick shy of a murderer. I can't recall, do you take sugar?"
"The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates."
"They're a little bit Bison."
I know there are more....
curlymynci | October 31, 08:00 CET
Or most of you do at least ;).
Saje | October 31, 09:49 CET
Adelle: I choose not to hear that.
silent knight | October 31, 09:53 CET
Giles'chainsawchick | October 31, 11:34 CET
Also, yey for open reg! Only took me a few years to time my lurking properly...
DimensionallyT | October 31, 11:40 CET
Nice that membership is open. I un-lurked 2 years ago today.
curlymynci | October 31, 12:10 CET
OldSwede | October 31, 12:23 CET
Dana5140 | October 31, 13:22 CET
Simon | October 31, 13:59 CET
And in case they haven't been said already:
"I'm not as comfortable with you saying that word as I thought I would be"
"Fighting crime by listening to Echo have sex - it's terribly noble."
"We are lost, but we are not gone"
"You need a frickin treatment!"
"There's no judging in the dollhouse."
"A guy's asleep, could've been Fozzie Bear and it would've - not that I think of Fozzie Bear. "
And yay for open registration :D
emmy | October 31, 15:19 CET
"So not exactly a rocket scientist then? Normally that would be irony but here one never knows."
"I'm like the Scarlet lady with an F on her chest" - Kiki/Echo
"Hearn called me a nerd. Is he a 4th grader?" - Topher
"But that would be lying. I'm just kidding. We should totally lie. For the ethics." - Topher
"Everyone likes to take a little something home from the office once in a while." - Hearn.
And finally, two from Echo, as the Party Minx talking up Nolan.
"How good you are is history's business."
"Let them think they have the power. Our time will come."
Thanks for allowing my reg.
viewingfigures | October 31, 17:35 CET
Topher: Is this your idea of a joke?
Claire: You designed me, Mr. Brinks. I guess it must be your idea of a joke.
Fred_Sonja | October 31, 17:42 CET
I believe most of the other quotes are already mentioned, though it would be nice if we could find transcripts somewhere.
lostinthis | October 31, 18:24 CET
wrecks | October 31, 18:25 CET
AngelDiva | October 31, 19:37 CET
Satai (with Punsch) | October 31, 20:23 CET
Topher: Let me guess, is she attractive? Little bit?
But I'd have to rewatch belonging to make sure I got it right. Also:
(to Boyd)
Topher: Look, uh, this is a brain. Normal, boring brain like your brain. This... is a brain on drugs
latinandgreek | October 31, 20:38 CET
Ivy: "Have a seat."
Sierra: "I supposed I'm at your mercy. [lowers her voice] In fact, if you were to tie me down and spank me, I couldn't hardly be expected to resist, could I?" (Vows)
Madeline: "Adelle, don't misunderstand. It's nice to see you. But I have this irrational fear that if I say one wrong thing, men in suits are going to throw me in a black van and take me away." (Instinct)
and all the other repeated posts of Dr. Saunders/sweater vest quotes
riotgrrrljaz | October 31, 20:58 CET
"I'm wet." Echo
Yay open reg! <3 Whedonesque!
poseidon | October 31, 22:35 CET
The exchange between Kiki/Echo and the professor is particularly good. Intro to evil!
poseidon | October 31, 22:41 CET
Totally forgot that line, and it's one of the best out there!
trunkstheslayer | November 01, 00:51 CET
Remembered it thanks to what trunkstheslayer said.
Xantastic1316 | November 01, 01:20 CET
Also, I'm awesomely pleased that my username hadn't been taken.
Erm... any Topher quotes, really.
And Dominic in Echoes.
manreaction | November 01, 03:53 CET
"Ok, *that*... is the minority vote. And you tricked it!"
"That's the contract. You don't know me, and I don't know you. Not fully, not ever."
"And BOOM, we win, we win boom."
"So which is worse, pick up the phone or don't pick up the phone? I can't tell... it's an interesting question..."
"That's brilliant! That's so... brilliant! Why didn't *I* think of that? ...Did I think of that? Did I?"
aygg | November 01, 04:19 CET
Some Topher and Adelle love particularly. And a little mix, love everyone's suggestions so far, this is fun to read.
Adelle: "Given that you're a raping scumbag one tick shy of a murderer. I can't recall, do you take sugar?"
Zone: "You mean to tell me the tech that punk-kicked the ass of mankind was designed to make more believable hookers?"
Topher: "He'll be an empty-headed robot, wandering around Hollywood. He'll be fine."
Topher: "I know what I know."
Topher: "I'm sorry, but whence this clown? Did Idi Amin turn down the job?"
Topher: "I don't want to use the word genius, but I'd be okay if you did."
Topher: "I'm not the bad man."
Adelle: "Mr. Dominic, get this man a refrigerator."
Claire: "My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater-vest. What do you suggest I do?"
Topher: "The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates."
I need to think of more quotes outside of Topher and Adelle, hmms.
sVnsilver | November 01, 04:57 CET
What's with the hordes of first time posters (myself included)? Did it not previously accept new members or something?
manreaction | November 01, 11:49 CET
[ edited by Saje on 2009-11-01 12:32 ]
Saje | November 01, 12:14 CET
Also I actually squeed slightly that someone whose username I recognise (from much time spent lurking) has replied to me.
Clearly, registering here is a renewed attempt at sabotaging my own degree :D
manreaction | November 01, 12:43 CET
And no worries at all BTW, nobody really stands on ceremony round here - we were all newbies once ;).
Saje | November 01, 13:49 CET
Pointy | November 01, 14:38 CET
gossi | November 01, 14:50 CET
Shocked more people haven't brought this one up:
Adelle: "You, Topher, were chosen because you have no morals. You have always thought of people as playthings. This is not a judgment; you always take very good care of your toys. But you're simply going to have to let this one go." (from 'Belonging')
Thought that line was one of the best in the episode.
sarahb | November 01, 14:50 CET
sarahb: I found that quote pretty creepy (but good) - not that I entirely agree with what Adelle said, though. When the (hopefully) inevitable 'origins of Topher' episode pops up, I'm betting we'll see that he's had morals all along, that his callousness is a self-protecting disguise.
He could turn out to be the most moral character in the show.
...*is showing obvious Topherlovebias*
manreaction | November 01, 15:34 CET
Topher: "Achievement is balanced by fault...by...a lack. Can't have one without the other." (Topher stares at Whiskey.) "Everyone who excels is overcompensating. Running from something. Hiding from something."
Boyd: "The past?"
Topher: "Sometimes..."
eyes of the world | November 01, 15:49 CET
That's the one I was trying to remember! The other Alpha quote I'm trying to remember (without going back and checking my recording) - from Omega, the one about "we're not multiple personalities - well one of us is .... " . Anyone?
*Waves to all the enthusiastic newbies*. :)
Shey | November 01, 17:56 CET
"We're not multiple personalities, we're many personalities. Well, one one of my personalities happens to be a multiple personality, but that doesn't make me a multiple personality - I'm looking for a little nuance here."
azzers | November 01, 18:50 CET
Has always been one of my favourites :D
liljemsey | November 02, 01:42 CET
"We're not kidding, I'm not joking, he's not laughing, well he is, but the rest of us are dead serious."
- Alpha
Astonishing_Chaos | November 02, 03:38 CET
It just made me laugh.
twinkle | November 02, 13:32 CET
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