Scotty: Mister Spock, you said a while ago that there were always alternatives.
Spock: Did l? I may have been mistaken.
McCoy: Well, at least I lived long enough to hear that.
Star Trek – Season 1: Episode 13 – “The Galileo Seven”
Snyder: Whoa, Summers! You drive like a spaz!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 3: Episode 6 – “Band Candy”
If you haven’t been watching Galavant, well you’re too late now. Its season, and probably series, finale aired this past Sunday, and I’m sad to see it go. A half-hour medieval musical comedy series was never going to have mass appeal, but it was just the sort of thing I was looking for, and it rapidly became one of my favorite shows on TV. The idea of legendary songwriter Alan Menken doing a musical TV show was enough to pique my interest, but I quickly discovered last season that Galavant was more than just great songs from the Disney vet. It stylistically combined Disney musicals with Monty Python (specifically Spamalot), The Princess Bride, and Mel Brooks movies to create one of the funniest shows out there, but as the presumed series finale approached I wasn’t prepared for just how emotional the show could be, without losing its humor, nor how attached I’d become to these characters. Add in the fact that Galavant was perhaps the most self-aware and self-depreciating show in history and you’ve got a recipe for something unique. If this really is the end, and I hope it isn’t, I’m at least happy that Galavant existed and even got unexpected second season, and I hope more people will discover it as the years go by.
‘We are pretty forward, sir. She will be ready for you as soon as her decks are dry.’ There was a superstition in the Navy that damp was mortal to superior officers and that its malignant effects increased with rank; few first lieutenants turned out before the dawn washing of the decks was almost finished, and no commander or post-captain until they had been swabbed, squeegeed and flogged dry.
HMS Surprise – Patrick O’Brian
Harrow: Whom do you represent?
Mal: “Represent” isn’t exactly the…
Harrow: Don’t waste my time.
Mal: Fellow called Badger.
Harrow: I know him. And I think he’s a psychotic low-life.
Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.
Firefly – Episode 4 – “Shindig”
Spock: Check.
Kirk: Checkmate.
Spock: Your illogical approach to chess does have its advantages on occasion, Captain.
Kirk: I’d prefer to call it inspired.
Spock: As you wish.
Star Trek – Season 1: Episode 7 – “Charlie X”
Buffy: Yes, you are. We are gonna get out of here, and we are gonna head back to the library, where Giles and the rest of the weapons live. Then I’m gonna take out the rest of these guys just in time for you to congratulate me on my sweeping victory as Homecoming Queen.
Cordelia: I know what you’re up to. You think if you get me mad enough, I won’t be so scared. And, hey! It’s working! Where’s a damn weapon?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 3: Episode 5 – “Homecoming”
The Love Pirate 