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Talk:Germany

if someone even mentions germany people think of: nazis, hitler innocent jews hopelessly murdered. if people just knew that whats past is past and just forget about it and also anyone who likes nazis well....see you in hell losers!

 * It is true that the sole current quote in this article is not exactly kind to Germans (even though its sting should be lessened by the fact that it's a joke, coming from a comedy centered around an ill-mannered Briton). But rather than complain about it here, it is much more effective to contribute reliably-sourced positive quotes about Germans and Germany, which certainly exist. The same is true for any Wikiquote article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

its true the germans are turely cool

Isn't this page kinda "onesided"? I only see quotes like "nazis-yadda-yadda"..

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 * The Teutonic reputation for brutality is well-founded. Their operas last three or four days. And they have no word for "fluffy".
 * Captain Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth, Episode 4: Private Plane.

 * To the English I say this: be grateful for the Germans. Were it not for them, you would be the most hated people in Europe.
 * Simon Munnery, Attention Scum episode three

 * To think about Germany is to think about Auschwitz.
 * Original (German): An Deutschland zu denken, heißt an Auschwitz zu denken.
 * Theodor Adorno

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 * A reformation of relations between the Soviet people and the German people is not possible along the lines pursued by the authorities of the Soviet zone of Germany. The Germans in that zone have come to hate and despise those who violate them in so inhuman a manner. And they must be having similar feelings towards those who support that system. The closing of the border is an unprecedented admission of bankruptcy. It shows that the people who are compelled to live in that part of Germany can be prevented only by the use of physical force from leaving that paradise of workers and farmers. There is but one possibility of placing relations between the Soviet and German peoples on a new foundation: the German people must be given back the right, denied to no people on earth, to form, through a free and uninfluenced expression of their will, a government which would then be truly entitled to speak, act and decide on behalf of the whole German nation.
 * Konrad Adenauer, Statement to the Bundestag on the building of the Berlin Wall (18 August 1961)

 * The French fear of German resurgence which caused France to press for a policy of dismemberment of Germany seemed to be altogether exaggerated. After 1945 Germany lay prostrate - militarily, economically and politically - and in my opinion this condition was a sufficient guarantee that Germany could not again threaten France. In the future United States of Europe I saw great hope for Europe and thus for Germany. We had to try to remind France, Holland, Belgium, and the other European countries that they were - as we were - situated in Western Europe, that they are and will forever remain our neighbours, that any violence they do to us must in the end lead to trouble, and that no lasting peace can be established in Europe if it is founded on force alone.
 * Konrad Adenauer, Memoirs 1945-1953 (1966)

 * After twelve years of National Socialism there simply were no perfect solutions for Germany and certainly none for a divided Germany. There was very often only the policy of the lesser evil. We were a small and very exposed country. By our own strength we could achieve nothing. We must not be a no-man's land between East and West for then we would have friends nowhere and a dangerous neighbour in the East.
 * Konrad Adenauer, Memoirs 1945-1953 (1966)

 * An unsteady nation has no friends. The German people seriously worry me. The only thing I can say for them is that they have lived through too much. They have not found peace of mind and stability since the war of 1914-18.
 * Konrad Adenauer, as quoted in "Adenauer 1876-1967" (28 April 1967) by James Bell, Life, Vol. 62, No. 17

 * If maps were shaded like balance sheets, the bottom part of mainland Europe would be deepest red. Italy, Spain and Portugal are heavily in debt. They are also Catholic countries. Their predominantly Protestant neighbours to the north, including Germany and Scandinavia, are in comparatively good shape financially. Is that simply a coincidence, or is Max Weber's theory about the Protestant ethic being intertwined with the spirit of capitalism still valid, over 100 years on?
 * Chris Arnot, “Protestant v Catholic: which countries are more successful?”, The Guardian, (Mon 31 Oct 2011 13.00 EDT First published on Mon 31 Oct 2011 13.00 EDT)

 * Richard Dressler: Most people believe the twentieth century was defined by the death struggle of communism versus capitalism, and that fascism was but a hiccup. Today we know better. Communism was a fool's errand, the followers of Marx gone from this Earth; but the followers of Hitler abound and thrive. Hitler, however, had one great disadvantage. He lived in a time when fascism, like a virus, like the AIDS virus, required a strong host in order to spread. Germany was that host, but strong as it was, Germany couldn't prevail. The world was too big. Fortunately, the world has changed. Global communication, cable TV, the internet. Today the world is smaller, and the virus no longer needs a strong host in order to spread. This virus is airborne... One more thing; let no man call us crazy. They called Hitler crazy, but Hitler wasn't crazy. He was stupid. You don't fight Russia and America. You get Russia and America to fight each other, and destroy each other.
 * The Sum of All Fears (31 May 2002), written by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne, California: Paramount Pictures Corporation

 * I started this war killing Germans in Africa. Then France. Then Belgium. Now I'm killing Germans in Germany. It will end, soon. But before it does, a lot more people gotta die.
 * Fury (2014), written by David Ayer, spoken by Don Collier

 * Perhaps they know that they are in danger as much as anybody. They simply would rather see American men and women, rather than French and German men and women, dying to preserve their safety. Far better, from this cynical perspective, to signal that you will not take on the terrorists, so as to earn their good will amidst the uncertain times ahead.
 * David Brooks, "French Kiss Off" (6 February 2003), The Weekly Standard.

 * When I came to Germany in 1990, I thought our relations would be more difficult. During the Cold War years, we were taught that this country was an enemy and that our job was to fight the enemy. I came here still holding this cold-war mentality. I think I made a great mistake, and that all Soviet citizens were wrong as far as Germany is concerned. The Germans made the same mistake about the Soviets. I think both sides now realize this. Our relations are really quite cordial.
 * Matvei Burlakov, as quoted in "Bitter Goodbye: Russians Leave Germany" (1994), The New York Times

 * On behalf of the American people, I thank the world for its outpouring of support. America will never forget the sounds of our National Anthem playing at Buckingham Palace, on the streets of Paris, and at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. We will not forget South Korean children gathering to pray outside our embassy in Seoul, or the prayers of sympathy offered at a mosque in Cairo. We will not forget moments of silence and days of mourning in Australia and Africa...
 * George W. Bush, Freedom and Fear Are at War (20 September 2001)

 * If we can succeed in inventing means of changing their attitudes and beliefs, we shall find ourselves in possession of measures which, if wisely used, may be employed in freeing ourselves from their attitudes and beliefs in other fields which have greatly contributed to the instability of our period by their propensity for holding up progress.
 * Donald Ewen Cameron on the Germans, in Life is For Living in Father, Son and CIA, by Harvey Weinstein p. 100

 * Germany, once NATO’s front line against the Soviets, is the most glaring example. Over the last 25 years, the Germans have chosen to become militarily impotent. On average, just 39 of Germany’s 128 Eurofighter Typhoons, the Luftwaffe’s best fighter plane, were available for service in 2017. Barely a quarter of its older Tornados are serviceable. Maybe this horrible maintenance record is a secondary concern, though: Der Spiegel reported that Germany only had enough missiles for four of the Typhoons to engage in combat... The German military is currently short a staggering 21,000 officers and noncommissioned officers. Even Germany’s elite KSK special operations troops have earned more of a reputation for their beer than their battles.
 * Macedonia is set to join NATO — an alliance that can’t fight, Defense News, February 13, 2019

 * Germany lied to Russia when it promised that NATO would not move one inch eastwards if Russia supported the reunification with East Germany. Germany lied to Russia again when Ukraine and Germany had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements. I'm German. This is not honorable.
 * Kim Dotcom, from a tweet, 10 December 2022.

 * By 2040, France and Germany are going to be has-beens, historically. Between population crises and the redefinition of the geopolitics of Europe, the French and Germans will be facing a decisive moment. If they do not assert themselves, their futures will be dictated by others and they will move from decadence to powerlessness. And with powerlessness would come a geopolitical spiral from which they would not recover.
 * George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 151, Doubleday

 * I find it difficult to say whether the leadership's 'second echelon' could have preserved the German Democratic Republic. Helmut Kohl later told me he had never believed that Egon Krenz was capable of getting the situation under control. I do not know - we are all wiser after the event, as the saying goes. For my part, I must admit I briefly had a faint hope that the new leaders would be able to change the course of events by establishing a new type of relations between the two German states - based on radical domestic reforms in East Germany.
 * Mikhail Gorbachev, Memoirs (1995)

 * A German-Russian partnership is a key element in any serious pan-European integration process. It is my ardent wish that Russia and Germany may manage to preserve all the positive achievements of the late 1980s and early 1990s in today's difficult times.
 * Mikhail Gorbachev, Memoirs (1995)

 * Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that if they had their war, their people might refuse to fight it.
 * James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany (2017)

 * Not so long ago we Germans thirsted after blood. We had half the world in trenches crawling through the mud. Victory was in our reach as we launched U-boat fleets. Back at home our women starved or else they worked the streets. From Attila on we've had a steady line of heroes. So how come we got stuck this time with a bunch of zeroes. Then a naval mutiny made it clear for all to see the status quo just had to go in Germany. Oh, how we wish that we were kids again. How pure we were back then when we were young. Back then we played at war on soft green grass. We fought with make-believe, not poison gas. And now that we have seen the face of war. We're not the same men that we were before, and we can say without hypocrisy, now we want the world to be safe for democracy.
 * Friedrich Hollaender, "Oh, How We Wish That We Were Kids Again"

 * As President Biden explained, the current U.S.-orchestrated military escalation (“Prodding the Bear”) is not really about Ukraine. Biden promised at the outset that no U.S. troops would be involved. But he has been demanding for over a year that Germany prevent the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from supplying its industry and housing with low-priced gas and turn to the much higher-priced U.S. suppliers.... So the most pressing U.S. strategic aim of NATO confrontation with Russia is soaring oil and gas prices, above all to the detriment of Germany. In addition to creating profits and stock-market gains for U.S. oil companies, higher energy prices will take much of the steam out of the German economy. Thus looms the third time in a century that the United States will have defeated Germany – each time increasing its control over a German economy increasingly dependent on the United States for imports and policy leadership, with NATO being the effective check against any domestic nationalist resistance.
 * Michael Hudson, America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century, (28 February 2022)

 * The reaction to the sabotage of three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four places on Monday, September 26,[2022] has focused on speculations about who did it and whether NATO will make a serious attempt to discover the answer. Yet instead of panic, there has been a great sigh of diplomatic relief, even calm.... Disabling these pipelines ends the uncertainty and worries on the part of US/NATO diplomats that nearly reached a crisis proportion the previous week, when large demonstrations took place in Germany calling for the sanctions to end and to commission Nord Stream 2 to resolve the energy shortage...The German public was coming to understand what it will mean if their steel companies, fertilizer companies, glass companies and toilet-paper companies were shutting down. These companies were forecasting that they would have to go out of business entirely – or shift operations to the United States – if Germany did not withdraw from the trade and currency sanctions against Russia and permit Russian gas and oil imports to resume, and presumably to fall back from their astronomical eight to tenfold price increase... If policymakers were to put German business interests and living standards first, NATO’s common sanctions and New Cold War front would be broken. Italy and France might follow suit. That prospect made it urgent to take the anti-Russian sanctions out of the hands of democratic politics.
 * Michael Hudson, The Euro Without German Industry, October 4, 2022

 * While I was in Germany, I met a student. He told me that I am a Muslim, that I am a terrorist. I told him that he is the German, that he burned people. I said "Why are you talking to me? I didn’t burn anybody." I told him also that I didn’t terrorize anybody, and that I was the first person to condemn what Osama bin Laden did to America on 9/11. I told him that we, the Shia people, in Iraq we were the first victims. Saddam killed civilian people, he cut off our heads, he blew up our houses. I told him that Hitler burned the Jews. Nobody in the world has done what he did. Then I told him we are the same. You are German, and you are not Hitler. I am a Muslim, but I am not Osama bin Laden.
 * Sayyed Mohammad Ali El Husseini, as quoted in "The Liberal Cleric of the Dahiyeh"] (14 January 2007), by Michael J. Totten, World Affairs Journal

 * I always feel quite American, I just grew up in Germany.
 * Fabian M. Johnson, as quoted in "USMNT's Fabian Johnson interview" (5 May 2015), by Jack Kerr, The Guardian, United Kingdom.

 * Americans reflexively believe that 'Had Germany occupied the United States, nearly all of us would have joined an armed resistance to the Nazis. That's what I thought, too, when I was 16. But that reflects a hopelessly naive view, both of what the world looked like to most people after the Nazis had conquered Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway and France, and of what it actually meant to take up arms against an occupying power'.
 * Charles Kaiser, "What Americans forget about French resistance" (7 May 2015), Cable News Network, Atlanta, Georgia.

 * It's common in Germany, and elsewhere in continental Europe, for football to be just one of many sports a club fields teams in. Bayern, for instance, even have a chess team.
 * Jack Kerr, as quoted in "USMNT's Fabian Johnson interview" (5 May 2015), by J. Kerr, The Guardian, United Kingdom.

 * I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.
 * Nikita Khrushchev, quoted in Edward Crankshaw, Khrushchev: A Career (1966), p. 12.

 * It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. It's wrong to throw our lives away in riotous living. No matter if everybody in Detroit is doing it, it's wrong. It always will be wrong, and it always has been wrong. It's wrong in every age and it's wrong in every nation. Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute. The God of the universe has made it so. And so long as we adopt this relative attitude toward right and wrong, we're revolting against the very laws of God himself.
 * Martin Luther King, Jr., Rediscovering Lost Values, Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church (28 February 1954)

 * The post-Nazi German experience, frequently cited and mistakenly seen as normal, is actually a massive exception to the general rule. The Germans are indeed all but unified in their disgust for the Nazi past, but we should not forget that de-Nazification was first forced upon the Germans by the victorious Allies under an occupation regime and then strengthened by the objective circumstances of the post-war European political and social environment... One should be reminded about the East German post-unification experience. According to a 2009 poll, cited by Spiegel, 57 percent of ex-East Germans were positive about East Germany. In a poll, 49 percent agreed with the following statement: "The GDR had more good sides than bad sides. There were some problems, but life was good there', while 8 percent went even further and agreed with the statement: 'The GDR had, for the most part, good sides. Life there was happier and better than in reunified Germany."
 * Andrei N. Lankov, "Get ready for selective amnesia: Expect northern Koreans to take a Russian or Japanese – not a German – attitude toward the past" (16 November 2015), Post-unification Korea, NK News

 * When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled "made in Germany"...
 * Halford E. Luccock in "Keeping Life Out of Confusion" (11 September 1938), as quoted in "Disguised Fascism Seen As A Menace" in The New York Times (12 September 1938), p. 15; also in "Fascism comes wrapped in the flag" (with online facsimile of article).

 * Germany is as good an example of the practical blessings and drawbacks of democracy as any country can give. The Weimar Constitution of 1919 has been described by that distinguished historian, Dr. G. P. Gooch, as ‘a consistent democracy’ and he adds that ‘the commentators who describe it as the most democratic constitution in the world are not exaggerating its character.’ Germany now has universal suffrage for men and women over twenty; in fact, over half the population possesses the vote, and there are neither legal nor practical impediments in the way of the vote being used. Such democratic quackeries as proportional representation, the referendum, and the initiative have all been adopted. I t would take more than one generation to enable any people to settle down with so democratic a constitution, and yet it is less than sixty years since the Germans became a united people, and up to 1919 they lived under a constitution that lacked every essential of democracy. There is no tradition of democracy, and without that an ultrademocratic constitution is a rash experiment. It is too early yet to answer the question whether the Germans can make a success of democracy. The country is not politically happy and yearns for a leader, as was amply illustrated by the pathetic election of the elderly Hindenburg as President. The type of statesman thrown up by Germany’s ultrademocratic system is not one that satisfies the German people, always prone to follow a big man. Up to the present, those who would be Napoleons have been kept quiet for fear of those who would be Lenins, and between the two democracy has had a fairly even course. But, as one who knows Germany and the Germans fairly well, I believe that Germany will have to pay for her sudden dash to democracy in 1919. The craving of the people for leadership will not indefinitely be suppressed, and the mediocrities which the democratic system exalts will not long be tolerated when the control of Germany’s late enemies finally ceases. The election of Hindenburg was a portent not to be ignored. One can only hope that a compromise will be possible, but I feel sure that in that compromise, if it comes, there will be many departures from the pure democracy of 1919.
 * Claud Mullins, Democracy — A realist View, The Atlantic, 1928 Issue, p.560-61

 * The European Union and many of its countries, which used to take initiatives in the United Nations for peaceful settlements of conflict, are now one of the most important war assets of the U.S./NATO front. Many countries have also been drawn into complicity in breaking international law through U.S./U.K./NATO wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and so on.
 * Mairead Maguire in The Disturbing Expansion of the Military-Industrial Complex, Common Dreams, (14 October 2014)

 * The United States is not an island but for much of its history it was protected on either side by two great oceans and had as neighbours the much weaker Canada and Mexico. As a result detachment, even isolation, from the rest of the world and limited land forces made sense. German military planning in the twentieth century, by contrast, was fixated on the possibility of a two-front war opened up by having a hostile France in the west and Russia, later the Soviet Union, in the east. Israel too for much of its short history has lived with the fear of being surrounded by enemies. In the lead-up to the Second World War Britain could invest heavily in long-range bombers to be launched against Germany’s infrastructure and cities from the relative safety of its islands, but the Germans had to think of how to support their ground troops against their opponents. As a result Germany favoured short-range planes capable of bombing and strafing the enemy forces rather than longer-range ones, something that stood it in good stead in the rapid, blitzkrieg opening stages of the Second World War.
 * Margaret MacMillan, War: How Conflict Shaped Us (2020)
 * Remember that Moses led his people through the desert for forty years, and that after twenty years people began to complain... they told Moses that life in the desert was too difficult, and that at least while they were slaves they had had food and water and places to sleep. Moses's friends asked him how long he thought people would be complaining like this, and he replied, "Until the last person born under slavery has died". Our situation is very similar. The psychological gap between eastern and western Germany will last for at least a generation, or perhaps until the last person born under Communism has passed away.
 * Lothar de Maizière, as quoted in "A Wall of Resentment Now Divides Germany" (14 October 1994), by Stephen Kinzer, New York Times, New York

 * Now, this (2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage) was an act of war, pure and simple... against Germany. And...President Joseph Biden, at a press conference in the presence of the chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, said this is going to happen if Russia invaded Ukraine. And, of course, he was asked, well, how do you do this? I mean, how can you how can you be so confident that Nordstrom will be killed and Biden said, well, just, you know, trust me, it’s going to happen. And so she, bilingual, the Reuters reporter, turned to Scholz – and this is not widely available now for obvious reasons – and she said, well, I mean, do you agree with that? I mean, hello, how do you feel about this? And this hack, this political hack said: we do everything together. We do everything together. We will be together on this now. So... that interview is available in Germany.... I describe Olaf Scholz as kind of the epitome of the abused spouse. Stands there and is abused not only by his master, Joe Biden, but also by this hack that he has as foreign minister. Her name is Baerbock. She is the the most vociferous of all the people saying that we are...at war with Russia.... Here it is exactly to the month, 90 years later.Will the German people acquiesce in their industry, and then their bodies being frozen out this winter? Or will they rise up and say: “Look, Mr Scholz, you don’t know what the hell you’re doing, and neither does Baerbock. Get out of here!”, and replace that government?
 * Ray McGovern, Transcription of Ray’s Feb 11 Comments on Sy Hersh, on Blowing Up Nord Stream Interviewed by Garland Nixon, February 12, 2023

 * Conspicuous pacifism is especially striking in Germany, a nation that was once so connected to martial values that the words Teutonic and Prussian became synonyms for rigid militarism. As recently as 1964 the satirist Tom Lehrer expressed a common fear at the prospect of West Germany participating in a multilateral nuclear coalition. In a sarcastic lullaby, the singer reassures a baby: "Once all the Germans were warlike and mean, But that couldn’t happen again. We taught them a lesson in 1918. And they’ve hardly bothered us since then." The fear of a revanchist Germany was revived in 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down and the two Germanys made plans to reunite. Yet today German culture remains racked with soul-searching over its role in the world wars and permeated with revulsion against anything that smacks of military force. Violence is taboo even in video games, and when Parker Brothers tried to introduce a German version of Risk, the board game in which players try to dominate a map of the world, the German government tried to censor it. (Eventually the rules were rewritten so that players were “liberating” rather than conquering their opponents’ territories. German pacifism is not just symbolic: in 2003 half a million Germans marched to oppose the American-led invasion of Iraq. The American secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, famously wrote the country off as part of “Old Europe.” Given the history of ceaseless war on that continent, the remark may have been the most flagrant display of historical amnesia since the student who complained about the clichés in Shakespeare.
 * Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (2012)

 * Far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector. We have sent men and women from the armed forces of the United States to other parts of the world throughout the past century to put down oppression. We defeated fascism. We defeated communism. We saved Europe in World War I and World War II. We were willing to do it, glad to do it. We went to Korea. We went to Vietnam. All in the interest of preserving the rights of people. And when all those conflicts were over, what did we do? Did we stay and conquer? Did we say, 'Okay, we defeated Germany. Now Germany belongs to us? We defeated Japan, so Japan belongs to us'? No. What did we do? We built them up. We gave them democratic systems which they have embraced totally to their soul. And did we ask for any land? No. The only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead, and that is the kind of nation we are.
 * Colin L. Powell, as quoted in MTV Global Discussion (14 February 2002).

 * The decay of the Soviet experiment should come as no surprise to us. Wherever the comparisons have been made between free and closed societies -- West Germany and East Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, Malaysia and Vietnam -- it is the democratic countries what are prosperous and responsive to the needs of their people. And one of the simple but overwhelming facts of our time is this: Of all the millions of refugees we've seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward the Communist world. Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving.
 * Ronald Reagan, Address to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 8 June 1982

 * At the beginning of the twentieth century, few people would have suspected that a nation considered by many to be the most cultured, advanced and civilized would elect to power a homicidal maniac and allow him to seize total control of every institution in the country and every facet of the community. A man who maltreated, gassed and otherwise murdered millions of people based on their racial and ethnic background.
 * Stefan Tahmassebi, "Gun Control and Racism" (1991), George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal , p. 67.

 * Germany, it should be said, was also a typical Western consumer society in many, often quite disarming, ways. However, with the active encouragement of the Nazi governing apparatus, the country was also a pressure cooker of passions. A regime such as Hitler’s, which follows a major peaceful diplomatic victory (the Munich Agreement) in short order with a state-sponsored savage and murderous attack on a law-abiding section of its own population (the Kristallnacht outrages against Germany’s Jews), is not one whose leader’s actions on the international stage can be viewed in a value-free way as ‘pragmatic’. There is, it seems to me, something much more powerful and compulsive at work here in the German national psyche at that time – turmoil within, that eventually became reflected in turmoil without. Piecing together a mosaic of public and private feeling, and judging its often hidden power, seems to me a way of redressing the imbalances of a ‘top-down’ view that can end up looking at major political actors’ machinations in a kind of arid, almost laboratory isolation. Perhaps some similar history will be written years from now about present-day Britain and America – especially the latter – in this fascinating and unnerving context.
 * Frederick Taylor, 1939: A People's History (2020)

 * The Russians are like us... They are fine people. They got along with our soldiers in Berlin very well.
 * Harry S. Truman, statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44.

 * With the creation of a separate West German state, with the conclusion of the Paris Agreements and with the inclusion of West Germany in NATO, the Western powers finally unilaterally broke the Potsdam Agreement, this sole valid document in international law for Germany in the postwar period. It is not coincidental that in connection with this a special occupation status of the three powers was established in West Berlin. By this three-sided occupation status, the Western powers themselves confirmed that they violated the international-legal basis of their occupation regime in West Berlin and that this regime was based only on undisguised military force.
 * Walter Ulbricht, "Speech at the Moscow Conference, 3-5 August 1961" (August 3, 1961)

 * Had all of us in France meekly, lawfully carried out the orders of the German master, no Frenchman could have ever looked another man in the face. Such submission would have saved the lives of many, some very dear to me. But, France would have lost its soul.
 * Commandant le Baron de Vomécourt, as quoted in "What Americans forget about French resistance" (7 May 2015), by Charles Kaiser, Cable News Network, Atlanta, Georgia.

 * Germans circa 1941 were enthusiastic racists who endorsed Hitler’s program of conquest, subjugation, and colonization... Germans at the time held attitudes of casual racism at the very least and a strong sense of imperial entitlement over Jews, Slavs, and others deemed racially and culturally inferior. The series tries to draw a distinction between Nazis and everyday Germans that simply did not exist... Germans believed in the Nazi agenda.
 * Laurence Zuckerman, "Generation War Shows Nazi Mass Killers" (February 2014), TabletMag.

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Freakazoid!

Freakazoid! (1995–1997) is an American animated television series featuring a madcap superhero named Freakazoid. It was produced by and Warner Bros. Animation.

Five Day Forecast/Dance of Doom/Handman [1.1]

 * Announcer: Terror grips a peaceful city. Terror that wears a loin cloth. His real name is Royce Mumphry, but police in five states know him as Cave Guy. Yes, Cave Guy: hostile, powerful, but also highly intelligent.
 * Cave Guy: I subscribe to The New Yorker. [laughs snootily]
 * Announcer: Only one hero can track down Cave Guy. Only one hero has the heart to fight this fiend. That hero is... [silhouette of Batman appears on the screen] on another network. Thus, we have no choice but to turn to this fellow. A teenage nerd, or is he...?

 * Freakazoid: [in tough guy voice] Nothing will stand in my way!
 * Cosgrove: Hey, Freakazoid! Wanna get a mint?
 * Freakazoid: [in normal voice] OK!

 * Freakazoid: Low Bridge! Everybody Down, Low Bridge! Cave guy's underwear is brown! Brown, Brown, It looks like he's got the cooties, ootie! Goodbyyyyyye! Stop ya singing now! End the singing songs, stop, go. Enough with the songs, stop, [In quite voice] Bring it down, come down...(The people come down) Everybody "Shh, Shh" On this side of the room. Everybody, Shh Shh Shh... EVERYBODY DOWN!

 * Freakazoid: Steph, you fibbed to Dex about washing your hair. If this were an afterschool special, oh, you would pay a bittersweet price for your little deceit. Like getting big oily zits! Or eating off the same plate as David Lee Roth! EW! BLUH! GOH! EW! OH! IT'S THE PLATE... AND HES BEEN ON IT! DON'T YOU UNDER... OW! THINK ABOUT IT! I'LL BE OVER TALKING TO JILL!

 * Jeepers: You want to see something strange and mystical?
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 * Big Bad Wolf: Pipe Down, You're Not the boss of me now!

 * The Lobe: No one can save you this time, Freakazoid!
 * Freakazoid: That's where you're wrong, Lobe! My new sidekick will save me.
 * The Lobe: Oh yeah? Well, where is he?
 * Handman: I'm right here!
 * Freakazoid: Handman! You've come in the nick of time!
 * Handman: I wouldn't let you down, Freakabazaal! Oh, I'm sorry, it's Freakazee. Uh, Freakabee.
 * Freakazoid: No. Freakazoid.
 * Handman: Freakazoy.
 * Freakazoid: No. Freakazoid.
 * Handman: Freakazee! Freeballoo! Meemalar!
 * Freakazoid: No. Say it with me. Frea.
 * Handman: Frea.
 * Freakazoid: Ka.
 * Handman: Ka.
 * Freakazoid: Zoid.
 * Handman: Peterson! No! Freakazoid! Freakazoid. [kisses up to Freakazoid]
 * Freakazoid: Hey, stop it! Pardon me, my mouth is a bit parched. [drinks a glass of water while Handman makes gulping noises] Aah! Thank you. That was a-very refreshing!
 * The Lobe: Oh, just stop!
 * Freakazoid: What?
 * The Lobe: This is stupid.
 * Freakazoid: You're calling my sidekick stupid?
 * The Lobe: That's not a proper sidekick; that's just your hand.
 * Freakazoid: No it isn't.
 * The Lobe: Yes it is!
 * Freakazoid: No it isn't!
 * The Lobe: Yes it is! It's just your hand, you simpleton!
 * Handman: No, take a closer look. [The Lobe does so] Closer... Closer still... Hold it right there. [punches The Lobe, knocking him into his artillery]

 * The Lobe: It's the waiting around that kills me.

Candle Jack/Toby Danger in Doomsday Bet/The Lobe [1.2]

 * Buzz: The scariest thing in the world would be... if all the air in the world turned to WOOD!
 * [The children gasp]
 * Girl: Okay, like, the scariest thing in the world would be... if like you went to grab something and it wasn't there!
 * [The children stare blankly]
 * Girl: .... Because it turned to WOOD!
 * [The children gasp]
 * Freakazoid: [grinning] The scariest thing in the world would be... if they gave Sinbad another TV show! [All the children scream and flee in terror.]
 * [Later]
 * Other Kid: You don't really believe in that stuff, about Sinbad getting another TV show, do you Buzz?
 * Buzz: Nah, the broadcasting industry has all sorts of safeguards to prevent that sort of thing.

 * [Freakazoid keeps trying to take flight to no avail.]
 * Freakazoid: Uhg! Hng! Up! UP! GO UP! FLY!
 * Steff: Freakazoid, you don't fly.
 * Freakazoid: Oh, right.

 * Buzz: The guy you want to look out for is Candle Jack.
 * Other Kid: Candle Jack? Who's that?
 * Buzz: He's the Boogeyman. Y'know, the for-real one! He snatches kids from their bed and takes them away.... and they never come back.
 * Other Kid: Why does he do that?
 * Buzz: Because he's a nut.
 * Other Kid: Well, how does he get you?
 * Buzz: That's the thing. He can't, as long as you don't say his name. So just don't say it, okay?
 * Other Kid: Okay. Good night!
 * [They lie down and go to bed]
 * Other Kid: Hey, we did say his name!
 * Buzz: Well... maybe he didn't hear us.
 * [Candle Jack rises up from between them]
 * Candle Jack: Hello, boys!

 * Girls: Look! It's Candle Jack!
 * All: CANDLE JACK!
 * Candle Jack: I'm gonna need more rope.

 * Freakazoid: Well, if it isn't...
 * Steff and kids: NO!
 * Freakazoid: What? I was just gonna say...
 * Steff and kids: NO!
 * Dr. Hanker: Don't say it!
 * Freakazoid: Don't say what?
 * Steff: Don't say his name!
 * Freakazoid: You mean "don't say Candle Jack"?
 * [quick cut to Freakazoid now tied up]
 * Steff: Freakazoid, why did you say his name?
 * Freakazoid: 'Cause I-I wanted to do one of those funny things, like on - you ever watch F Troop? - where Agarn says "There's no way I'm wearin' a dress! Absolutely not! No dress!" And Forrest Tucker's like, "Yeah, you're wearin' that dress! You're gonna wear that dress!" And they wipe - blblblblblblblb - and Agarn's wearin' a dress!
 * [quick cut to a clip from F Troop of Agarn, crossdressed]
 * Agarn: YOO-HOO! LOCO BROTHERS! LOOK WHO'S HERE FOR YOU!
 * Candle Jack: Oh, I love that bit!

 * Paul Harvey-type announcer: I think there's a thumbtack under my fanny.

 * [All the Dangers gasp when looking upon a photo of the villian.]
 * "Dash" O'Pepper: I knew it! It's some guy in a helmet!

 * "Dash" O'Pepper: Just let me throw a barrel at it!

 * The Lobe: [just before being blown up] I feel so used...

Mo-Ron/The Sewer Rescue/The Big Question/The Legends Who Lunch [1.3]

 * Announcer: We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you this special report from The WB Network.
 * Freakazoid: What exactly is The WB? Can someone tell me this? What's it mean, The WB? The Water Bucket? The Wimpy Boy? The Wet Bananas?! I don't know! What, the Weird Butt?! What? I'm asking!
 * Announcer: This has been a special report from The Weird Butt Network. We now join Freakazoid! already in progress.

 * Lord Bravery: [talking to his mother-in-law] Most people your age die. Why won't you?

 * Freakazoid: Now, now, ladies, there's plenty of me for everybody - if not, I'll just have 'em draw me bigger.

 * Alien: I have traveled many millions of lightyears across forty billion galaxies to come here for the answer to a vital question that concerns the entire universe.
 * Bill Clinton: And what is that question?
 * Alien: Please tell us - that doll Barbie... what's the name of her little sister?
 * [Freakazoid and Clinton look at each other, puzzled]
 * Bill Clinton: I think it was Pebbles.
 * Freakazoid: Lemme handle this. It's Skipper!
 * Alien: Skipper? Hmmm. [walks back inside his ship] Hey everyone, it's Skipper!

And Fan Boy Is His Name/Lawn Gnomes: Chapter IV - Fun in the Sun/Freak's French Lesson [1.4]

 * Freakazoid: I said, give me another one. Curse your tiny paper hat!

 * Freakazoid: If I wanna blitz myself into some papaya-induced hallucination that's MY business!

 * Fan Boy: I've studied everything about you! Like you like to drown your sorrows in papaya juice whenever you lose a sidekick!
 * Freakazoid: That's because I'm allergic to cranapple!

 * [pan shot of the Freaka-lair]
 * Fan Boy: Where are we?
 * Freakazoid: My Freaka-lair!
 * Fan Boy: I didn't know you had one!
 * Freakazoid: Yeah, we're trying a bunch of new stuff this week. Tryin' to see what sticks.

 * Freakazoid: Alright, kid. You wanna be my new side kick? You've gotta pass the initiation test.
 * Fan Boy: Challenge me!
 * Freakazoid: Mr. Cameraguy, zip pan to the next scene!
 * ''[Zip pan to a scene with two people standing with windmills in the background]
 * Freakazoid: NO! THE OTHER SCENE! AM I WORKING ALONE HERE?!

 * Freakazoid: Please! Please leave me alone! I'll give you anything, anything you want if you'll just go away! How about the just written script of Batman IV?
 * Fan Boy: Plucked it off the Internet last night.
 * Freakazoid: An autographed photo of Stan Lee?
 * Fan Boy: Who's that?
 * Freakazoid: No idea.

 * Fan Boy: Marrrrrrkk...... Hamillllll...
 * Freakazoid: Why settle for a mere sidekick, when Jedi Knighthood awaits?
 * Fan Boy: Yes! The Force is strong in this one!
 * [slowly approaching Mark Hamill]
 * Fan Boy: Luke! Join me!
 * Mark Hamill: Come again?
 * Fan Boy: Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as Fan Boy and son!
 * Mark Hamill: No! I'll never join you!
 * Fan Boy: It is your destiny!

 * Rathgar: Your willingness to change has so impressed me that I will affect a different curse.
 * Young Quist: Can you make slow, overweight birds appear out of thin air?
 * Rathgar: Yes. But, I won't.

Foamy the Freakadog/Office Visit/Ode to Leonard Nimoy/Emergency Broadcast System [1.5]

 * Fan Boy: Leonard Nimoy, Leonard Nimoy
 * Dear Mister Spock, oh golly gee boy
 * It sure would make me smile and laugh
 * If I could have your autograph
 * If I don't get it, I'll be blue
 * But then I know what I will do
 * I'll call you up on the telephone
 * And bother you when you're at home
 * You hang up, the line goes dead
 * But then a new idea pops in my head
 * I'll visit you right where you live
 * I'll ring on the doorbell and ask if you'll give
 * That autograph I've been waiting for
 * You give it to me, and so much more
 * (BOOM!)
 * Oh thank you, thank you, Mister Spock
 * Now please call Bones; I need a doc.

 * Narrator: Freakazoid, in stereo where available. And where not available, it's not in stereo. There's nothing we can do about that so don't blame us. We have no control over it. Call your cable company if there's some sort of a problem or the local broadcaster. But if they're not giving you stereo and you want stereo, that's your problem. Not ours. Don't bug us. Complain to your congressman or Newt Gingrich! Like I'm sure he'd care! Ha! But we don't want to get any letters. Understand? Good!

 * Narrator: The following scene has been deleted by the network censor because it shows a pup making dog water.

 * Lord Bravery: Look, what don't you understand?
 * Bill: Any of it.
 * Lord Bravery: Listen, it's really quite simple. I take Lord Bravery. She becomes "Helen's Bake Shop", "Helen's Butcher Shop" becomes "Rudy's Butcher Shop", because "Rudy's Hardware And Twine" changes to "Hank's Hardware And Twine" and "Hank's Tires" becomes "Terry's Tires" and if "Terry's Intimate Apparel" changes to "Wendy's Intimate Apparel" requiring Wendy's to change to Johnny's, Johnny's to Ellen's, Ellen's to Frank's, Frank's becomes Enrique's and Enrique's becomes Bill's, which means all you have to do is change your name from "Bill's World Of Paint" to something else!
 * Bill: But I don't want to!
 * Lord Bravery: Why?!
 * Bill: Cos' my name's Bill.

 * Lord Bravery: What kind of superhero would call himself Lord Smoked Meats and Fishes?
 * Mr. Snarzetti: Ah. One who wants to use the element of surprise.

 * Freakazoid: [After demonstrating the Emergency Broadcasting System] This was only a test. If there had been an actual emergency, we would have gone like this: AAH! HELP! HELP US! NO! GET US OUT OF HERE! HELP ME! HELP EVERYONE! AAH!

The Chip (Part 1) [1.6]

 * Jack Valenti: We've put together a little motion picture about Freakazoid's origin. It's filled with action and adventure and even features a scene with a man wrestling a bear for no reason.

 * Business Man: A Freaky-zoid? What's that?
 * Roddy MacStew: That's just what it sounds like Mr. Fancy Man sitting in your chair!

 * [Roddy is thrown from the top of a building.]
 * Guitierrez: Now, how did that happen? [He begins to chuckle, then pauses at the silence of his colleagues.] Laugh with me!

 * Announcer: We interrupt this program to increase dramatic tension. Thank you. And now back to our program.

 * Roddy MacStew: Oh I'm his uh.. [thinking] WHAT SHOULD I SAY! I CANT THINK! SHE'LL NEVER BUY IT! CRUD! CRUD! [out loud] I'm his insurance agent.
 * Mrs. Douglas: Insurance agent? But he's only 17.
 * Roddy MacStew: [thinking] CRUD! I BLEW IT! I BLEW IT! [out loud] Oh no, I meant his driving instructor. It's time for his lesson.
 * Mrs. Douglas: On Christmas Day?
 * Roddy MacStew: He's a very bad driver.

 * Roddy MacStew: You'll never get away with it Guitierrez!
 * Guitierrez: Get away with what? I haven't said anything yet.
 * Roddy MacStew: Yeah you're right. Sorry, I jumped the gun. My fault.

 * Mrs Douglas: Dexter? Is that you? How bad a driver are you, hon?

 * Duncan: Dexter! Open the door, you little dip. I've gotta make tinky.
 * Freakazoid: Well, hi, Sport! You must be Duncan! Nice to meet you, let's wrassle.

 * Freakazoid: Say Uncle!
 * Duncan: Uncle!
 * Freakazoid: Say Grandma Moses makes munchy meat most Monday mornings!
 * Duncan: Grandma Moses makes munch... much... I can't!

 * Jack Valenti: But if the movie's rated NC-17, that means kids can't get in; Only adults can get in. Mom doesn't want to see adult movies, but Grandpa was in the army and he's not bothered very much so he decides to stay along with Sgt. Scruffy, who's just a dumb dog anyway. I hope that explains it. Now, back to the cartoon!

 * Mr. Chubbikins: Meow.
 * Guitierrez: What does that mean? "Meow"? Bring the animal psychologist in! [enter the animal psychologist] Ask the kitty how to activate the flaw.
 * Animal Psychologist: Meow meow meow?
 * Mr. Chubbikins: Meow, meow.
 * Animal Psychologist: Meow?
 * Mr. Chubbikins: Meow meow.
 * Animal Psychologist: He says he's very sad.
 * Guitierrez: Oh, go away.

The Chip (Part 2)/Freakazoid is History [1.7]

 * Roddy MacStew: At least let the lad go!
 * Guitierrez: No, I cannot.
 * Roddy MacStew: Why?
 * Guitierrez: Because he tasks me! He tasks me! 'round the moons of Snivia, I chuckle at thee. Beyond the Corpian clouds I chuckle more at thee. Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins! Kirk, old friend, I... Oh, sorry. [He fixes his tie.] Good-bye.

 * Freakazoid: Note to myself: Cut Dexter out of the main title. Buh bye!

 * Dexter: No! This can't be happening... I'M FREAKING OUT!
 * [changes into Freakazoid]
 * Freakazoid: [in Groucho Marx voice] I think he just said the secret word!

 * Roddy MacStew: [voice-over] When you want to change into the Freakazoid, just say "Freak Out." When you want to change back into Dexter, say "Freak In." You're a good lad. I'll be seeing you around.
 * Freakazoid: [crying] That made water come out my eyes.

 * Freakazoid: ...And then I got sucked into the Internet, and well, here I am.
 * Cosgrove: Y'know what you should do with your powers?
 * Freakazoid: What?
 * Cosgrove: I'd become a superhero, but that's me.
 * Freakazoid: Nah.
 * Cosgrove: You could fight crime.
 * Freakazoid: Nah.
 * Cosgrove: Uphold the truths.
 * Freakazoid: Nah.
 * Cosgrove: Impress the ladies.
 * Freakazoid: OKAY! I'll do it!

 * Freakazoid: Hey, what is this place? [looks through binoculars] Palm Trees. Hula girls! Pineapples. Hula girls! Surfboards. Hula girls! Hula girls! Hula girls! Of course, it all adds up! I've somehow landed in Norway!

 * Freakazoid: Have I got time for another gawking-at-the-girls-through-binoculars gag? I like those! [looks through binoculars] Hula girls!

 * Freakazoid: To Destiny! Hello Destiny! I was seeing your friend Duty! He says very bad things about you!

 * Voice Over: One day, while saving Air Force One, teen super hero Freakazoid was unexpectedly swept into both a time warp vortex and a T.V. show parody. From that point on and until the segment ends, Freakazoid is lost in time. He is... Quantum Freak!

 * [Freakazoid views the world he altered.]
 * Freakazoid: Good heavens. It's Rush Limbaugh. He's become a real bleeding-heart liberal and look! Euro Disney is packed! Cold fusion works! No Chevy Chase movies!

 * Brain: Might I inquire is to whom is piloting the aircraft?
 * [As it turns out, Pinky was controlling the plane.]
 * Pinky: [laughs] Zort!

Hot Rods From Heck/A Time For Evil [1.8]

 * Dexter Douglas: I wish I was at home reading funny stories in binary.

 * Freakazoid: "Hey, so I'm picking up a few bucks. Don't tell the IRS."

 * Duncan Douglas: We'd be at grandpa's by now if it weren't for Dexter.
 * Dexter Douglas: Hey, I got lost in the desert.
 * Duncan Douglas: And you weren't around to help when that blue guy jumped me again.
 * Mr. Douglas: You're the only one who see this blue guy, Duncan.
 * Duncan Douglas: He's real.
 * Mrs. Douglas: Of course, he's real to you, dear. But that's because, you're probably insane.
 * [Dexter starts laughing. Duncan gets annoyed.]
 * Duncan Douglas: What are you laughing at?!

Relax-O-Vision/Fatman and Boy Blubber/Limbo Lock-Up/Terror Palace [1.9]

 * H. A. Futterman: Good day. I'm H. A. Futterman, professor of broadcast standards here at Kids WB.  And you've just witnessed Relax-O-Vision.  Relax-O-Vision is a... [notices the camera has changed and re-orients himself accordingly]  Relax-O-Vision is a process that inserts calming, mirthful images, into scenes that might be too intense for the kiddos watching at home.  For example, Freakazoid's extremely... [notices the camera has changed and re-orients himself accordingly] Freakazoid's extremely violent brawl with the demon ninjas was replaced with a soothing scene of fishes as they think their happy little pleasant thoughts.  Now, settle back...  [notices the camera has changed and re-orients himself accordingly]  Now, settle back and get ready to enjoy the first cartoon ever broadcasted in calming, save, and kid-friendly Relax-O-Vision.

 * Freakazoid: [dazed] Anybody for loosemeat sanwiches?

 * Cave Guy: Now, it's our turn. [he and Kid Carrion laugh maniacally]
 * Freakazoid: BLABLABLABLABLABLABLAAAA! [lunges towards them as Relax-o-Vision cuts in; later, after Cave Guy and Kid Carrion are defeated]
 * Freakazoid: I probably blew the animation budget for the WHOLE season on that one fight.

 * Fatman: I've got a stitch in my side, and I've lost my freshness!

In Arms Way/The Cloud [1.10]

 * Store clerk: What's Oops Insurance?
 * [Arms Akimbo knocks over jar]
 * Arms Akimbo: Oops.

 * Arms Akimbo: What's this hee haw!? Stop that!  Fight normal!
 * Freakazoid: [singing] Circle around with a Brooklyn thug, toss him in the aisle with a coffee mug!

 * Hans: I am Hans. We will take the sky buckets to the observatory. The professor is waiting for you there. Now, come. We mustn't linger. It is not safe here at night.
 * Freakazoid: It's day.
 * Hans: Well then, I suppose we can linger for a moment.

 * [Freakazoid and Hans are riding "sky buckets" to the top of a mountain]
 * Freakazoid: It's just like at Disneyland!
 * Hans: Not anymore, I'm afraid.
 * Freakazoid: What?
 * Hans: At Disneyland. Zee sky buckets, they are gone, kaput. And zee ride where zey shrink you down tiny, nicht. [German for not, implying that the ride was removed]
 * Freakazoid: Oh no, well, at least they still have the little motorboats.
 * Hans: [He hangs his head and grits teeth, indicating they removed the motorboats as well; sad music plays in background.]
 * Freakazoid: NO! NOT THE BOATS!

 * [Freakazoid opens a door, expecting a evil villain outside. When he opens the door, there stands Cosgrove.]
 * Cosgrove: Hey Freakazoid, wanna go build a Go-cart?

Next Time, Phone Ahead/Nerdator [1.11]

 * Steven Spielberg: Fade to black. The End. What was that other plan, exactly?
 * Paul Rugg: Well, we'd end the show early to show some more Animaniacs reruns.
 * Steven Spielberg: Oh! I like that. Let's do it. [cuts to the final verses of the Animaniacs theme song]

 * Bo-Ron: Large Cakes!

 * Freakazoid: Diane Sawyer acts sincere, but she's really faking it.
 * Bo-Ron: DUH! Faking it.

 * Bo-Ron: DUH! Piece of the gross. [then smiles with chewed up Oreo cookies in his teeth, while having milk & Oreo cookies on his plate]

 * Freakazoid: STAY OUT OF YOUR FATHER'S UNDERWEAR DRAWER! Trust me on this one.
 * Bo-Ron: Duh, underwear drawer, no no.

 * Freakazoid: So AT&T, MCI, & Sprint fought a pitched battle over who would provide service. [showing stock footage of armored tanks fighting in a warzone] Finally, Bo-Ron chose the winner [showing Bo-Ron with lipstick imprints on his face while Candice Bergen is attracted to Bo-Ron] and we phoned his home.
 * Bo-Ron: AAH! It's ringing. [They reached an answering machine in Bo-Ron's primitive language addressing "We're not here right now. Please leave your message after the beep"]
 * Bo-Ron: I got the machine. It's ALWAYS on. Hello? You're there. I know you're there. PICK UP! COME ON! PICK UP!

 * Dexter Douglas: O-O-O-O-O-O-OH, FREAK OUT! [melts into the ground and resolidifies as Freakazoid]
 * Freakazoid: Is it just me or am I showing up later and later in each episode? [then talking like Jerry Lewis] OH, LOOK AT ALL THE NERD PEOPLE MAKING THE FUNNY JERKY-SHAKY MOTIONS WITH THEIR SILLY HEADS!

House of Freakazoid/Sewer or Later [1.12]

 * [Freakazoid is at a recent crime scene committed by Cobra Queen. He notices a piece of shedding from one of her snakes.]
 * Freakazoid: Ah-ha, looks like one of Cobra Queen's little pets. [turns to the officers, and says this with poor lip sync] Or maybe it was a tourist who got too much sun, I'm never sure.
 * [Flips to blue screen with only Freakazoid showing]
 * Freakazoid: Please, let's watch the lip sync, okay?
 * [A giant set of lips sinks into the ocean]
 * Freakazoid: I thank you.

 * Freakazoid: I'm not going down there. It smells like poo-gas!

 * Cobra Queen: If it isn't my dear friend, Atomic Boy.
 * Freakazoid: Freakazoid. I'm Freakazoid.
 * Cobra Queen: Oh! I'm so terribly sorry, Freakazoid. The light is dreadful down here.
 * Freakazoid: Nah, forget it Cobra Queen. You know, you should really get some of those Japanese lanterns to brighten up the place.
 * Cobra Queen: The paper ones? Are they expensive?

The Wrath of Guitierrez [1.13]

 * Cosgrove: Y'know, I like jousting so much I wish I could marry it.

 * Freakazoid: [finds a small bowl hidden behind a torch] A bowl! I found a bowl!  GOOD FOR ME!

 * Freakazoid: [grumbling about Guitierrez] He's such a weenie.
 * Guitierrez: [shouting dramatically] I am not a weenie! YOU ARE THE WEENIE!

 * Roddy MacStew: Ever since Guitierrez entered the net, he's been busy setting up some sort of deranged trap for you. When I tried to see what it was, he found me and kicked me out. He's amazingly powerful!
 * Freakazoid: If it's a trap, why do you want me to go in?
 * Roddy MacStew: You don't have a choice, lad. The reason you're so weak is that Guitierrez sabotaged the energy field that powers ya here on the outside. If you didn't go in, another hour or so, you'd be no better than a dried-up piece of fleshy haggis. Oh, he's figured it all out! He's baiting ya, lad. He's made sure you've got no choice but to go in after him. He means to destroy ya.
 * Freakazoid: Boy, you've got a lot of lines in this show.
 * Roddy MacStew: AYE! THAT'S WHAT I TOLD THEM! BUT, NO! ALL THE CRUDDY EXPOSITION GOES TO ME! I'VE GOT TO TALK AND TALK AND FIDDLE WITH THE COMPUTER AND TALK SOME MORE AND FIDDLE AND TALK, I FEEL LIKE OBI-WAN CRUDDY KENOBI!
 * Freakazoid: Roddy, settle.
 * Roddy Macstew: Alright, we're ready.
 * Freakazoid: Aren't you coming?
 * Roddy Macstew: Nay, Guitierrez has locked me out. He want's you... alone. THERE! THAT'S THE LAST OF THE CRUDDY EXPOSITION! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
 * (an audience applaudes)

Dexter's Date [2.1]

 * Debbie Douglas: [waving goodbye to Dexter from the car] Have a good time, now!

 * The Lobe: Don't touch that dial. For the next 40 minutes, I'm in control.

 * [The Lobe is watching Seinfeld'')
 * Newman: C'mon, Kramer, give me the donut!
 * Cosmo Kramer: Never!
 * The Lobe: [laughs] The whole key to this show is Newman.

 * The Lobe: Now, with just a flick of the switch, my video-zapper will steal every movie, every program, every broadcast ever produced! Not only will I be able to flood the market with counterfeit cassettes - thus crippling the entertainment industry - but I'll never have to program my VCR again!

 * [Freakazoid breaks into a room to stop the Lobe - destroying a wall full of TV monitors in the process]
 * Freakazoid: Hello? Lobe? Is this the right room?
 * The Lobe: Freakazoid! Look what you've done!
 * Freakazoid: Sorry. I'm in a hurry.
 * The Lobe: There's a door not ten feet away. A fine invention. You should try it.

 * Duncan: Aawww! What's the matter? Am I ruining your date?
 * Mr. Douglas: Duncan! Mind your apples, huh!

 * Freakazoid: FREAK IN! [while shifting back into Dexter, he still is Freakazoid] Uh-oh. [he then comes out of the stall as Oprah Winfrey)I think we have a problem here. ZOIDS! I LOOK LIKE OPRAH WINFREY! OH, FREAK OUT! Okay, let's not PANIC! Let me try it again. FREAK IN! [turns to Dexter] Yes! [shifting in as David Letterman]'' David Letterman?! Oh, FREAK OUT!

 * The Bus Boy: Come, she awaits. [While passing every pillar in the restaurant, Dexter changes into Michael Jackson, Barney the Dinosaur, and The Skipper from Gilligan's Island]
 * The Bus Boy: I have your date.
 * Steff: That's not my date.
 * The Bus Boy: Well, of course he is? [gasps] "Skipper" Alan Hale!
 * Freakazoid: Oh, no. [in Alan Hale's voice] GOODBYE, LIL' BUDDIES!

 * The Bus Boy: Here! I've found him.
 * Steff: That's still not my date.
 * The Bus Boy: Well, of... [gasps as he sees Freakazoid as Judge Lance Ito] Your Honor, I'm so sorry.
 * Freakazoid: [depressedly] Me too. See ya.
 * The Bus Boy: I THINK I'M GOING CRAZY!

 * Freakazoid: [very depressed in a monotone way] Freak In. [shifts into Bette Milder] Oh, freak out. [shifts back into Freakazoid]

 * Medulla: That is one happy man.

The Freakazoid [2.2]

 * Freakazoid: Oh, we've been at this all day! I hate this.
 * Cosgrove: I know, kid, but it's tradition. No superhero can refuse any request on their birthday.
 * Caption: IMPORTANT PLOT POINT
 * Freakazoid: Cosgrove, are you positive that's a superhero tradition?
 * Cosgrove: What, ya think I'm fibbing? I'm a fibby-boy? I heard it somewhere. Talk to the other superheroes if you don't believe me.
 * Freakazoid: I can't. They're all away at some conference.
 * Caption: ANOTHER IMPORTANT PLOT POINT
 * Cosgrove: I'm wearing blue socks.
 * Caption: NOT IMPORTANT
 * Freakazoid: If you put baking soda and vinegar together, they make a little volcano!
 * Caption: NOT IMPORTANT... BUT INTERESTING

 * Neighbor: Hey! What are you doing!?
 * Freakazoid: I'm fulfilling your request; I'm mowing your lawn.
 * Neighbor: While the Lobe's attacking everybody?! Go get him already! What are you, wacko?
 * Wakko Warner: No, I'm Wakko! [starts singing] Baton Rouge, Louisiana / Indianapolis, Indiana, / And Columbus is the capitol of Ohio-
 * Freakazoid: HEY! Wakko, what are you doing here? We're kind of in the middle of something.
 * Wakko: Oh, it's OK! Steven loves it when we do stuff like this. After all, Animaniacs is his favorite.
 * Freakazoid: Uh, sorry to break this to you, Wakko, but if I'm not mistaken, Freakazoid! is Steven's favorite show. We got a memo.
 * Brain: Ahem. I believe you're both mistaken. It is the sophisticated wit and charm of Pinky and the Brain that has captured Steven's heart, as well as making it the breakaway hit of the WB's schedule.
 * Freakazoid: Well, why don't we just go find out?!
 * [Later, at the Amblin Entertainment building, they continue to argue.]
 * Steven Spielberg: QUIET! Now what's this about?
 * Freakazoid: First of all, Steven, thank you very much for taking the time to meet with us. We realize you're very busy, and-
 * Brain: Oh, just ask him!
 * Freakazoid: We were just wondering... who's your favorite?
 * Steven Spielberg: Who are you people?

 * The Lobe: Well, what about [the Superhero Codebook]?
 * Freakazoid: There isn't any such thing as a Superhero Codebook, is there?! You made it all up! You made up all those rules! YOU FIBBED! YOU'RE A FIBBY-BOY!
 * The Lobe: [chuckles] Freakazoid, really, you're completely delusional. Whatever gave you a silly ridiculous idea like that?
 * Freakazoid: THIS! [holds up scrap of paper from the book] "Copyright Lobe Industries"!
 * The Lobe: I knew I shouldn't have put that on there! Dumb, dumb, dumb!

Mission: Freakazoid [2.3]

 * Announcer: [if the show hypothetically ended short] Since this week's episode ended early, I'll recite some of my favorite naughty limericks. I'm sure you'll find them pleasing and saucy. There once was a woman from Bristow...

 * Cosgrove: I want a can of hash and some coffee.

 * Roddy MacStew: Ay, that's the master chip. If I can disconnect it, the system will be as helpless as a man with big apples for feet!

 * Cosgrove: One thing still bothers me. How come Vucanova has got such a rotten government?
 * Freakazoid: Because individual liberty is the key to good government. A good example might be your local Anubis Market.
 * Steff: Where customers are free to experience quality and service.
 * Roddy MacStew: Aye, Steff. And to choose low prices without fear or coercion.
 * Prof. Jones: I rest easier knowing that Anubis Markets are a division of Osiris Foods.
 * Everyone: Food so good, you can eat it!
 * Freakazoid: What can I say? It kept me on the air for another season.

Virtual Freak [2.4]

 * [Cosgrove is trying to put on his VR Helmet when a gamer helps him]
 * Gamer: There man, like, you were all fouled up, and now you're cool, in the butt, haha, awesome.
 * Cosgrove: You're saying strange things. Stop it.

 * Cosgrove: You're not a failure kid. It's just that your ideas are silly and dumb. By the way, there a heavy pillar rolling at you, I'd take care of that if I were you.
 * Freakazoid: I can handle a pillar.

 * Freakazoid: Don't let me fall into nothingness! I won't be happy there!
 * Cosgrove: Few people would.

 * The Lobe: Freakazoid! Why's it taking us so long to fall?!
 * Freakazoid: 'Cause it's funny!
 * The Lobe: No it's not, it's just stupid! It's as dumb as that Handman episode!

Hero Boy [2.5]

 * Hero Boy: I Must Succeed!

 * [Guitierrez tries to find Freakazoid's weakness, so he pulls a green rock out of his cloak]
 * Guitierrez: Behold, the purest Kryptonite. Feeling weak, my friend, oh so weak?
 * Freakazoid: That's Superman's weakness, not mine!
 * Guitierrez: Really?
 * Freakazoid: Yeah, DUH!
 * Guitierrez: Oh, that stupid man at the store! Well then, how about this! [pulls out a yellow pad of paper, and holds it in front of Freakazoid's face] Does the yellow hurt your eyes, my friend? Getting weak, oh so very weak?
 * Freakazoid: That's the Green Lantern!
 * Guitierrez: Oh, shoot! [throws it down] Then how 'bout some... [picks up a glass of water and throws it in Freakazoid's face] water in your face! Are you melting, melting, my friend?
 * Freakazoid: That's the Wicked Witch!
 * Guitierrez: Oh, we're wasting time. What is your weakness?
 * Freakazoid: Well...
 * [scene switch to Freakazoid in a cage]
 * Freakazoid: Dumb, dumb, dumb! Never tell the villain how to trap you in a cage!
 * Guitierrez: You probably shouldn't have helped us build it, either.
 * Freakazoid: I know! Dumb!
 * Guitierrez: So... graphite bars charged with negative ions. That is your weakness, eh?
 * Freakazoid: That, or poo gas.
 * Guitierrez: You know, it's a funny thing. Nobody likes poo gas, my friend. Blagh!

A Matter of Love [2.6]

 * Freakazoid: I saw this once on an after school special. Mary & Sally, best friends. They did absolutely everything together. Then one day, Mary fell in with the "wrong crowd" and Mary didn't have time for Sally anymore. Sally would say, "Wanna go play a game or pretend we're kitties?" And Mary would say, "Uh-uh, I'm in with the wrong crowd!" Sally was so sad, that she ran home, climbed up a tree and started eating cookies. A ton of cookies. She got huge. Huge! HUGE! HUGE! Got any cookies, Mike?

 * [Left alone at a "Gulliver" show.]
 * Professor Jones: Freakazoid? Where are you?
 * [pause]
 * Professor Jones: Oh, the pain, the pain.

 * Freakazoid: HUGGBEES!
 * The crowd: HUGGBEES!
 * Cosgrove: Hey, Cut it Out!

Statuesque [2.7]

 * Woman: It was awful! Awful! JUST AWFUL!
 * Freakazoid: Can you be more specific?
 * Woman: It was like having to watch Waterworld for a month.
 * Freakazoid: Anything else?
 * Woman: [screaming in fear] AAH!
 * Freakazoid: That should be enough to go on

 * [Repeated line]
 * Vorn the Unspeakable: And you are?

The Island of Dr. Mystico [2.8]

 * Leonard Maltin: Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin. Y'know, many consider "The Island of Dr. Mystico" one of the most pointless Freakazoid! adventures ever made. Interestingly, critics first loved the episodes, but that changed when they found out it wasn't European. However, today's episode does contain some interesting performances. See if you can spot Emmit Nervend in a walk-on role as a salty dance hall shaunteuse. Also- [an oranguman barges onto the set and abducts him] No! For the love of humanity! AAH!

 * Freakazoid: Whee-hee-hee-hee! I'm flying a plane! I'm flying a plane! Boy, being a pilot's really neato!
 * Cosgrove: You're doing real good, ki- plane.
 * [Freakazoid and Cosgrove swerve to avoid oncoming plane.]
 * [Later on...]
 * Cosgrove: Blimp.
 * [Freakazoid and Cosgrove swerve to avoid oncoming blimp.]
 * [Later on some more...]
 * Cosgrove: Brando.
 * [Freakazoid and Cosgrove swerve to avoid a huge copy of Brando.]

 * Steff: 'Dat was a quite a jolt, Freak!

 * Freakazoid: To our right is the right wing
 * Everyone: Ooh!
 * Freakazoid: [over the PA system] And at the left is something very special
 * Lobe: Where?, I don't see anything.
 * Freakazoid: [outside the window] Booga-booga-booga!
 * Lobe: AAH! [vomits]

 * Freakazoid: What's wrong?
 * Cosgrove: I just remembered. I don't know how to fly.

 * Freakazoid: Can't see! Sun in eyes! Must talk like this!

 * Candle Jack: Excuse me Freakazoid, is there anything I should do?
 * Freakazoid: Why don't you stay here and... scare the professor!
 * Candle Jack: Marvelous. [Heads off screen. Professor Jones is then heard screaming loudly]

 * Freakazoid: Who are you? What have you done with the others?!
 * Dr. Mystico: There'll be time for questions later...
 * Freakazoid: No there won't; the show's over in ten minutes!
 * Dr. Mystico: WELL, IF YOU HADN'T WASTED ALL THAT TIME IN THE PLANE, I...!
 * [Mystico breaks abruptly from his rant and smiles at the camera.]
 * Dr. Mystico: You will all be my guests for dinner. I trust you're hungry? I've made a casserole! Akbar! Ringo! Fatima! To the house! Schnell!

 * Dr. Mystico: They called me mad! Insane! WENDELL! [jumping onto table and ranting] They barred me from the universities until I had no choice but to flee here to conduct my research! Well, who's crazy now, hmmmm?! Who's mad now?! Hmmmmmmmm?! [jumping back into his seat and speaking normally] Try the casserole, Freakazoid, before it gets cold.
 * [Freakazoid makes a "cuckoo" gesture to Cosgrove and Lobe]
 * Dr. Mystico: I SAW THAT!
 * Freakazoid: What?
 * Dr. Mystico: That! You think I've got a clock in my head, don't you?!
 * Freakazoid, Cosgrove and Lobe: Ooh!
 * Freakazoid: What have you done with Longhorn and Cave Guy?
 * Dr. Mystico: Have patience. You'll be joining them soon enough! [laughs maniacally for a moment] Sorry, I just thought of something funny...

 * Dr. Mystico: Brilliantly deduced! Using the likes of Freakazoid, Caveguy, The Lobe, LEONARD MALTIN!, there'll be no stopping me!
 * [Lighting crashes.]
 * Dr. Mystico: I'll build a private army of super apes and take over Cleveland!
 * Cosgrove: Don't you mean the world?
 * Dr. Mystico: I meant the world, yes... What did I say? Cleveland? I always do that.
 * Freakazoid, Cosgrove, Professor, and Villains: Ooh!
 * Dr. Mystico: Now who wants to go first?
 * Freakazoid, Cosgrove, Professor, and Villains: [all pointing at each other] He does!
 * [Sparkle meows into Dr. Mystico's ear.]
 * Dr. Mystico: Why didn't you do that before we got down here? I'll deal with you all shortly. Sparkle has to tinky.

Two Against Freak [2.9]

 * Cosgrove: [walking through sewers] What do they call "poo-gas" in Scotland?
 * Roddy MacStew: "Crud-vapors".
 * Cosgrove: Crud-vapors. I like that.

 * Roddy MacStew: From what ya tell me, it sounds like you can only use your telekinetic powers when you're really angry!
 * Freakazoid: Then I'll only use them when I'm really angry!
 * Roddy MacStew: That's what I just said! Can you hear me or is there a wee goblin in your head eatin my words!?
 * Freakazoid: I... don't think there's a goblin in there...

 * Freakazoid: Why do I have to learn to move things with my mind?
 * Roddy MacStew: Strength and speed will only take you so far, lad.
 * Freakazoid: It got me a second season.
 * Roddy MacStew: You can't count on that! Networks are fickle, they can drop you like a man with big oak fingers!

 * Roddy MacStew: A vast river of woe is heading our way!

 * Roddy Macstew: [seeing that Freakazoid mastered his levitation powers] By the soiled trousers of Argus! That lad's done it!

Freak-A-Panel/Tomb of Invisibo [2.10]

 * Cave Guy: I think it was a big mistake to run in [this sci-fi convention]; this is frightening behavior in adults. I hope none of them touches me.
 * [Cave Guy bumps into someone cosplaying a Klingon (actually Freakazoid in disguise)]
 * Cosplayer: [Says something in Klingon]
 * Cave Guy: Go away!
 * [Cosplayer looks confused, then understands and hands Cave Guy a 'Klingon to English' dictionary]
 * Cave Guy: Oh dear, a Klingon-to-English dictionary. You, made up a little language based off a TV show. That's not right!
 * Cos-player: [Says another phrase in Klingon while buddying up with Cave Guy]
 * [Cave Guy runs out of the convention screaming and leaps into a manned police car]
 * Cave Guy: Take me to jail, please! A Klingon is after me.

 * Announcer: Of course, this whole fight is just busy filler because our main episode came up short on footage. Great planning around here, huh?
 * Freakazoid: Joe, what are you doing?!
 * Announcer: I'm tired of trying to cover for other people's mistakes!
 * Freakazoid: You've been getting a real attitude lately.
 * Announcer: Big deal!
 * Freakazoid: You could be replaced by an intern, or maybe the announcer from Earthworm Jim!
 * Announcer: Oh?
 * Freakazoid: Yeah. Now stop buttin' in and stick to the copy!

 * [Freakazoid spends several off-camera minutes throwing himself at the invisible villain Invisibo, leaving him exhausted.]
 * Freakazoid: Y-you give up yet? Say, "Uncle Jimbo's flying poodles" and I'll go easy on ya.
 * Invisibo: Uncle Jimbo- wait, I'm winning.
 * [Invisibo hurls Freakazoid through a wall.]
 * Invisibo: Farewell, you clownish being. When I again rule all, perhaps I'll keep you about as a jester, or a chimp, or something.

 * [A large e-mail window appears]
 * E-mail client: You've got some nice e-mail!
 * Freakazoid: Mail, for me? [Presses button, then reading] To Freakazoid, from Mandy Triceratops of Columbia University. My question concerns Pearl Jam. When will they appear on your show? Sincerely, Mandy. P.S. I am majoring in all the knowledge ever acquired throughout history. [Hauls window off-camera]
 * Cosgrove: Those Columbia kids are pretty smart.
 * Freakazoid: Huh, they sure are! Mandy, not to rain on your girlish hopes but Pearl Jam will never appear on this program because they would want money.

Normadeus [2.11]

 * Freakazoid: One: Norm Abram is missing. Two:...
 * Cosgrove: We don't have a two.

 * Woman: They took Norm! They kidnapped Norm Abram! AND I WAS NEXT!

 * Freakazoid: Don't do it, Guitierrez! Remember when you were a nice guy.
 * Guitierrez: I was never a nice guy!

 * Norm Abram: YOU'RE AN EVIL MAN! [last line of the series]

Unsorted Quotes

 * Freakazoid: Aw, nut bunnies.
 * Freakazoid: Will you hug me? I'm needy.

Cast

 * Paul Rugg - Freakazoid
 * Edward Asner - Sgt. Mike Cosgrove
 * Craig Ferguson - Roddy MacStew
 * Tracy Rowe - Steff
 * David Kaufman - Dexter Douglas
 * Jonathan Harris - Professor Jones
 * Brian Benben - Narrator/Announcer
 * David Warner - The Lobe
 * Jeff Glen Bennett - Cave Guy, Candle Jack, Jeepers, The Huntsman, Lord Bravery
 * Maurice LaMarche - Longhorn
 * Tress MacNeille - Cobra Queen
 * Ricardo Montalban - Armando Guitierrez
 * Tim Curry - Dr. Mystico

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User talk:68.13.182.148

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Hank Williams

Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, who has become an icon of country music, Rock 'n' Roll and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.

Quotes

 * A good song is a good song, and if I'm lucky enough to write it, well....! I get more kick out of writing than  I do singing. I reckon I've written a thousand songs and had over  300 published.
 * Gleason, Ralph (06-28-1969). 1952 interview of Hank Williams. Rolling Stone.

 * [The country singer] sings more sincere than most entertainers, because the hillbilly was raised tougher than most entertainers. The people who has been raised something like the way the hillbilly has, knows what he is singing about and appreciates it. For what he is singing, is the hopes, and prayers, and dreams and experiences of what some call the "common people." I call them the "best people," because they are the ones that the world is made up most of. They're really the ones who make things tick, wherever they are in this country, or in other country.

Lyrics

 * You wore out a brand new trunk, packin' and unpackin your junk.
 * "You're gonna change (or I'm gonna leave)" (1949)

 * No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.
 * "I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" (1952)
 * Used as "No matter how you struggle and strive, you never get out of this world alive" on the Babyshambles music-video for the single  "The Blinding".

 * We'll put aside a little time to fix a flat or 2, my tires and tubes are doing fine but the air is showing through
 * "Settin' the Woods on Fire" (1952)

About

 * When I wrote about Hank Williams 'A hundred floors above me in the tower of song', it's not some kind of inverse modesty. I know where Hank Williams stands in the history of popular song. Your Cheatin' Heart, songs like that, are sublime, in his own tradition, and I feel myself a very minor writer.
 * Leonard Cohen, Who held a gun to Leonard Cohen's head? The Guardian (2006-06-20)
 * I became aware that in Hank's recorded songs were the archetype rules of poetic songwriting. The architectural forms are like marble pillars and they had to be there. Even his words - all of the syllables are divided up so they make perfect mathematical sense. You can learn a lot about the structure of songwriting by listening to his records.
 * Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (2004)

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Talk:Star Trek: The Next Generation

Form a new section called Star Trek Movies
There are lots of quotes building up in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generations. I propose we add a new section called Star Trek Movies and move all movies from both sections there. This is the most common way that other websites section off the franchise, such as the official site, startrek.com

 * This suggestion has been superceded by events. All Star Trek shows and films now have individual articles, which is more in keeping with Wikiquote practice for substantive subjects. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:07, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Embedded comments in articles
I've noticed some embedded questions in this article about content issues, like where a quote is from. Please do not embed comments and/or sign material in the article. This talk page the place to explicitly bring up such questions and comments, where editors can address them properly. Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:10, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I had moved some stuff into embedded comments when an editor added several quotes to the "Unidentified episode" section but also mentioned an episode name. I couldn't verify that the quotes were from those episodes, so in the course of properly formatting the new additions, I tucked the possible sources into an embedded comment so that other editors would have something to go on. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:40, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup tag
I've added cleanup to this article for several reasons: With the exception of the TOC, most of these problems seem to be in Season 5. I've cleaned it up a little, but it still needs work. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:04, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) The custom TOC does not work.
 * 2) Inconsistent formatting of episode titles (some have WP links, some don't; some are italicized, some are not).
 * 3) Inconsistent usage of names (some have full names, some have only last names).
 * 4) Inconsistent use of links for names. Some go to Wikipedia, others to Memory Alpha. Which one they should go to is another issue, but all links should go to the same site.

Merger
I support merger Star trek: Q into this article. --Aphaia 08:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I support merging Star trek: Q into this article as well. No offense intended to the creator of that article, but it isn't even correctly named.  (It should be either "Q" or "Q (Star Trek)")  All potential quotes are already covered with the other Star Trek articles.  It also goes against traditional WQ guidelines for television series.  --CALQL8 06:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I have just done the official merge. I've added the quotes that were in Star trek: Q to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and I put in a redirect from there to here.  --CALQL8 02:36, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

many of these quotes suck. they miss the point of quotes completely. instead of quoting meaningful bits from an episode, they quote mundane or (slightly) humorous things.

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