The Helping People Tick
I love The Tick. Jay has a good Tick quote. That somehow led me to this list of Tick quotes:
And, isn’t sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you’re good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit.
Everybody was a baby once, Arthur. Oh, sure, maybe not today, or even yesterday. But once. Babies, chum: tiny, dimpled, fleshy mirrors of our us-ness, that we parents hurl into the future, like leathery footballs of hope. And you’ve got to get a good spiral on that baby, or evil will make an interception.
Good stuff. And the comic rocked too:
And then he threw a chimney at us.
Update: And how could I leave off:
Tick: It’s your turn now, Thorace-bog.
Thrakkorzog: It’s Thrakkorzog. Thrakkorzog. With a K.
Tick: We’re only serving humble pie, Whatchamazog.
Thrakkorzog: For the last time, it’s…
Tick: Thorax-and-a-bog. Four-yacks-and-a-dog.
Thrakkorzog: No.
Tick: Ah, laxative-log.
Thrakkorzog: No, no, no.
Tick: Sapsucker-frog.
Thrakkorzog: Thrakkorzog.
Tick: Susan?
Thrakkorzog: Now you’re doing it on purpose. How juvenile.
December 5th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
A few of my favorites:
“I hate broccoli, and yet, in a certain sense, I am broccoli. ”
“Well, once again we find that clowning and anarchy don’t mix. ”
“You know, evil comes in many forms, be it a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin. But you can’t let the package hide the pudding. Evil is just plain bad. You don’t cotton to it. You gotta smack it on the nose with the rolled up newspaper of goodness. Bad dog! Bad dog!”
“Like a great blue salmon of Justice, the mighty Tick courses upstream to the very spawning ground of evil. “
December 5th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
This looks like a job for Bi-Polar Bear… but I just cant seem to get out of bed.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
My fave:
Charles: See these insects? That’s Coach Fussell’s gym class. They made me wear shorts. So I turned ’em into earwigs.
Tick: You know, Charles, sometimes, when I feel like a raving ding-dong, I find a nice bit of chamomile tea…
Charles: Shut up.
December 5th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I NEED you, Arthur! You are on a first-name-basis with Lucidity. I have to call him “Mister Lucidity.”
December 5th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Bad is good, baby! Down with government!
December 5th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Rustmeister:
When that cartoon first came out, I didn’t get that joke, which is embarrassing, because I was old enough that I should have. But then, that’s the beauty of The Tick: it just keeps giving.
P.S. “Wow! It looks just like an apartment!”
December 5th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
My favorite quote comes from the episode in which the Tick is fighting a “Lord of the Flies” style baseball team named the Aztecs that had formed a society after crashing in the jungle of South America. It’s also the episode where he gets his capybara, “Speak,” which he mistakenly believes is a talking dog after it is launched at his plane.
The Tick, bursting through a wall, shouts, “Sun-worshiping dog-launchers!”
December 5th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
BOOM BABY BOOM!!!
December 5th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
“Not in the face, not in the face!!!” “Look a secrete message……from my teeth!” “Gun and superheros don’t mix……get some help.” “Is that 5 men a piece, or 20 men all together?” “I have pockets?!?!” “You cant just pick up that dirty brain and just wash it off. No sir, you have to think it clean from the inside!” “We just spent 6 month, 3 millon years in the past, in the course of 20 minutes. Isn’t science neat.” “Prehistoric cave bear battleing it’s natural enemy, the robot.” The villians were the best. Poor Ben Edlund was never given a chance by any TV media, be it cartoon or live action. Comics were his strong hold. Night of a milion zilion ninjas is still my favroite.
December 5th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
“I will call you ‘Speak’, for that is what you do!”
Carmelita-itlan…
December 6th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I am the mad bomber what bombs at midnight!
We don’t need another superhero signal, everytime we activate the Deflatermouse signal he takes his phone off the hook and leaves town for a week.
December 6th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Sorry,
I’m the evil midnight bomber what bombs at midnight.
My tick-ese is a little rusty.
December 7th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!