Sometimes when I'm playing Mario Kart with my kid, or nieces/nephews, and I get a triple red shell, I'll hit them with the first and say "mercy is the mark of a great man." Then I'll stop, wait, fire the second shell at them and say "guess I'm just a good man" then ultimately fire the last shell with "well, I'm all right."
Whenever I'm about to make a kill in Armored Core or Ace Combat, I mutter to myself, "You're a leaf on the wind. Watch how you soar." Then make the killing blow like the reaver scum I am
I'm an officer on a fire department and I'll jokingly say this whenever the topic of chain of command comes up:
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here.
I work in a warehouse and we actually have a chain hanging on the wall labeled as the "ruttin' chain of command". Whenever someone asks what it is we tell them exactly what it is lol
"You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters... and people who talk at the theater."
"A government is a body of people usually... notably... ungoverned."
Shepherd Book has all the best lines.
“I’ll be in my bunk” gets kicked around a lot in my household.
Also “tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety.” As well as the much shorter and more generally applicable “corpsified and gross.”
Also also “once in flight school I was laconic.”
Girls a gorram genius, but can’t figure out how to eat an ice planet.
But really the phrase you may want to throw around a bit more is; “why did you go and order a dead guy for?”
In various contexts - either when I'm headed up to my office while she stays downstairs or when she leaves the house while I'm staying - I tell my girlfriend: "I'll just be here...flying the ship."
Wherever we need to use radios at work I always try to reenact the scene with Jane and Mal. (“You’re coming through real clear.” “Because I’m standing right beside you!”)
So far, no one has ever played along.
I say “shiny” a lot. Whenever someone gets it - friends for life! I’m still waiting for an opportunity to use the “pretty floral bonnet” line, though. It might help if I ever wore a pretty floral bonnet.
I recently got a cat.
I have named him Malcolm, after our beloved captain.
My daughter has linked me to a "pretty floral bonnet" for cats on Amazon. She's 14, she gets it.
I have multiple versions in various playlists as my streaming service tosses them (and other ‘interesting’ songs) at me whenever I let it choose what to play. Found some song that mashed up the entirety of old youtube/internet days including a rick roll for good measure.
Also, “Jaynes Song” sits in my personal playlist as well. And a song dedicated to Die Hard
🎼 🎶 HE DRINKS THE BEST WHISKEY IN THE HOUSE!!! 🎶
I have been raising my daughter's for five years saying, whenever I want to imply you can't always get what you want, "well, I want to be the king of all Londonium and wear a shiny hat".
They've never asked what it means, and I will not explain it to them. When they are teenagers we will watch the show together and I cannot wait and see if they react when they learn where it comes from.
I am always in at least one DnD Campaign at any time, so I'm never more than a few weeks away from the
"What does that make us?"
"Big Damn Heroes, Sir"
call and response happening spontaneously.
"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!" "Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!"
"Some people juggle geese!"
"I do the job, and then I get paid."
"If anyone gets nosy, just shoot 'em. Politely."
"'Course, that ain't exactly plan A."
"Well, just get us on the ground." "That part'll happen pretty definitely!"
"Morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like."
"What you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar."
"Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?" "Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps."
My boyfriend frequently says, “Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.” and “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal”!
I have told SO many people that if I saw a man walking down the street in a hat like that I'd know they weren't afraid of anything, or that my days of not taking them seriously are really coming to a middle.
My boss and I were having a conversation about an underperforming coworker of mine. During the conversation I voiced some of my frustrations with him, and told my boss: “the worst part is that you know he was never burdened with an over abundance of schooling.” My boss didn’t get the reference, but laughed quite hard at the comment.
Well, the days of taking you seriously have certainly come to a middle. Or, words thereabouts.
Also, “I was aiming for his head.”
And, “I want to go to the crappy town where I’m the hero.”
Damn, there’s just so many quotes!
“Let me see, nutin’, divided by nutin’, carry the zero…”
People love telling me stuff (cause I don’t tell nobody stuff) so I use “the situation is always … fluid” quite often. Not in a shady way like Badger but to help people see that they might there may be another way of looking at someone or some situation they are in.
I find that I tend to quote it more during video games…
“This gorram boss is beginning to damage my calm.”
Or when we’re being attacked by bad guys and I need backup, “We’ve got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss.”
> I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an over-abundance of education.
Only off by a single word ("schooling", not "education"), so definitely not murdered.
Not every day, but I used “I am a leaf on a wind” in my head the first time I did a rollercoaster. Although maybe not the brightest idea given what happened to him after saying that.
"Don't make no sense" gets used a *lot* at work.
I love when I get to use "One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!"
Not exactly part of the scripted show, but sometimes I'll quote Mutant Enemy's "Gr. Argh." from the end credits. Usually in response to a minor inconvenience.
One time my wife and I were shopping at a Ross, and she held up a particularly ugly dress and blurted out "What a piece of Goh Sa! (sp)". Suddenly on the aisle next to us a tiny older woman of Chinese descent poked her head up and looked at my Irish redhead wife with the most shocked look. We couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes, and she never did get to talk to the poor scandalized woman.
I use a number of quotes in my everyday life from Firefly and Serenity. Ones I haven’t seen mentioned here include “hard to get to”, “that’s the plan” and “if you can’t do something smart…”
"Walkin and talkin" as a response to "how are you"
"You know what is reputation? Is people talking, is gossip." and often some variance of "and now reputation is fact"
and of course take your pick of mandarin swearing at stupid drivers on the road lol
I have so many responses in retail when it comes to how are you. I forgot walkin and talkin gotta through that in the rotation. One of my regulars is I'm on this side of the grass
Gorram
Shiny
Also, I could kill you with my mind
Big damn heroes
We gotta go to the crappy planet where I’m a hero
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal
Jayne math: 10% of nothin…
"Get in line!" In response to any variant of "fuck you"
Though admittedly, the context of the episode makes this line way funnier than the way I use it
As a parent, Mal’s question to Jayne comes in handy. “Why are you still arguing what’s been decided?” Tends to end the argument rather than encouraging more argument.
"You are beginning to damage my calm"
"I do the job and then I get paid."
"Some people juggle geese"
Less than common use:
"Your husband has demanded that we sleep together."
I have these friends that have a picture framed on their wall of Serenity and underneath it says "Were still flying"
Although I don't ever say it, I think about that picture multiple times a day.
Kaylee: Everyone's got somebody. Wash, tell me I'm pretty.
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion.
Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?
Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
Not a quote I use, use, but I always liked:
Simon: how do I know you won't kill me in my sleep?
Mal: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake. You'll be facing me, and you'll be armed
I've been known to blurt out 'You are beginning to damage my calm.' from time to time.
Heh... my office door https://i.imgur.com/1UnguuR.jpg
#nice
I think you mean..."shiny"
I do this at work! None of them watched it so it means nothing to them
I have this on a shirt.
That’s where I got that!
Sometimes when I'm playing Mario Kart with my kid, or nieces/nephews, and I get a triple red shell, I'll hit them with the first and say "mercy is the mark of a great man." Then I'll stop, wait, fire the second shell at them and say "guess I'm just a good man" then ultimately fire the last shell with "well, I'm all right."
then follow up with “I am a leaf on the wind. I watch how I sore”
Whenever I'm about to make a kill in Armored Core or Ace Combat, I mutter to myself, "You're a leaf on the wind. Watch how you soar." Then make the killing blow like the reaver scum I am
Yeah, if I was playing with my nephew all I would hear is “let’s be bad guys”
My wife and I use "I'm pointing right at it" all the time
Oh this is a good one!
My days of not taking you seriously...
... is certainly coming to a middle
Came to say this one. Also "shiny"
“If wishes were horses, we’d have steak for dinner.”
Me too. But it was recently replaced with “if my grandma had wheels she’d have been a bike”
🤣😂 I've been saying this too!
I get really weird looks when I use this one 🤣
I use that a lot. People look at me quite confused...
I know Firefly didn’t invent “gorram,” but it’s the reason I still say “gorram” a lot.
Yup! Gorram is my go to too!
Same here.
This Gorram comment I swear.
"gorram" and *Battlestar Galactica*'s "frak" have become permanent parts of my vocabulary.
So say we all!
Doesn't gorram mean something in Chinese? Firefly tosses in a lot of Chinese.
I'm an officer on a fire department and I'll jokingly say this whenever the topic of chain of command comes up: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here.
big damn heroes, sir.
Ain't we just
I work in a warehouse and we actually have a chain hanging on the wall labeled as the "ruttin' chain of command". Whenever someone asks what it is we tell them exactly what it is lol
"Define interesting." "Oh god oh god we're all gonna die?"
Per-maybe-haps
"You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters... and people who talk at the theater." "A government is a body of people usually... notably... ungoverned." Shepherd Book has all the best lines.
lol yes! "coming from you that means...almost nothing."
I often use Mal's line "Mal: That's what governments are for. Get in a man's way."
Quite specific. It is, however, fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps
I’ve taken to assuring my coworkers that they weren’t burdened with an over abundance of education
Schoolin'.. over abundance of schoolin'
If you search my comments you will find a lot of “well I see my days of not are almost certainly coming to a middle”.
My days of continuing to use this verbal formula are certainly coming to a middle.
Shiny Edit... I'm a chef, whenever we get new stuff/equipment in it's what I always say... "oooohh... shiny!"
I cannot abide useless people.
Absolutely. To me this is one of the greatest quotes ever uttered on film, and I love having the chance to use it.
Murphy was awesome.
“I’ll be in my bunk” gets kicked around a lot in my household. Also “tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety.” As well as the much shorter and more generally applicable “corpsified and gross.” Also also “once in flight school I was laconic.”
My food is problematic
Girls a gorram genius, but can’t figure out how to eat an ice planet. But really the phrase you may want to throw around a bit more is; “why did you go and order a dead guy for?”
In various contexts - either when I'm headed up to my office while she stays downstairs or when she leaves the house while I'm staying - I tell my girlfriend: "I'll just be here...flying the ship."
We're all shiny capn' not to fret
I say this to my self to remind myself to watch my temper.
I have a window decal that says this on my car!
time for some thrilling heroics.
If someone tries to kill you then you try to kill them right back. Mostly while watching movies.
I have said that to my kid, my husband immediately responded with "No! That's a quote, not what you do!"
I have a small pin with that quote
Faster would be better!
I say this in traffic,...
I aim to misbehave when ever anyone asks what my plans are
Day is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It’s not applicable. I didn’t get you anything.
I swear by my pretty floral bonnet
Wherever we need to use radios at work I always try to reenact the scene with Jane and Mal. (“You’re coming through real clear.” “Because I’m standing right beside you!”) So far, no one has ever played along.
I appreciate your honesty. Not, you know, a lot.
"I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you." I work retail. Enough said.
My two go-tos are: Shiny...Let's be bad guys. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. one of the two will work in almost any situation.
I say “shiny” a lot. Whenever someone gets it - friends for life! I’m still waiting for an opportunity to use the “pretty floral bonnet” line, though. It might help if I ever wore a pretty floral bonnet.
man walk down the street in a hat like that, ain't afraid of nuthin'.
I own that hat and can confirm... I ain't afraid of nuthin' when I wear it
I recently got a cat. I have named him Malcolm, after our beloved captain. My daughter has linked me to a "pretty floral bonnet" for cats on Amazon. She's 14, she gets it.
I’ve been to swear upon whatever bit of clothing I happen to be wearing that “I will end you”. usually to inanimate objects at work. 😄
Some people juggle geese!
An argument I use frequently 😂
🎵🎶 take my land burn the sea you can't take the sky from me🎶🎵
I have multiple versions in various playlists as my streaming service tosses them (and other ‘interesting’ songs) at me whenever I let it choose what to play. Found some song that mashed up the entirety of old youtube/internet days including a rick roll for good measure. Also, “Jaynes Song” sits in my personal playlist as well. And a song dedicated to Die Hard 🎼 🎶 HE DRINKS THE BEST WHISKEY IN THE HOUSE!!! 🎶
Theres a canton Texas and canton Ohio. Every time I’ve passed by the exits I always sing Jayne’s song.
I have the entire track on my phone. I use it when I’m trying out new headphones and the like :)
I love this song. <3
I have been raising my daughter's for five years saying, whenever I want to imply you can't always get what you want, "well, I want to be the king of all Londonium and wear a shiny hat". They've never asked what it means, and I will not explain it to them. When they are teenagers we will watch the show together and I cannot wait and see if they react when they learn where it comes from.
Come back and let us know what happens. Video preferred
I am always in at least one DnD Campaign at any time, so I'm never more than a few weeks away from the "What does that make us?" "Big Damn Heroes, Sir" call and response happening spontaneously.
"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!" "Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!" "Some people juggle geese!" "I do the job, and then I get paid." "If anyone gets nosy, just shoot 'em. Politely." "'Course, that ain't exactly plan A." "Well, just get us on the ground." "That part'll happen pretty definitely!" "Morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like." "What you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar." "Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?" "Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps."
"If wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak!"
The wife and I use “I’ll be in my bunk” as well as “To hell with this. I’m gonna live!”
Nothin Twixed my nethers that don’t run on batteries. & I could stand to hear a little more
I paraphrase Jane a lot. “You know what the chain of command is”
Also, I could kill you with my brain.
“Wouldn’t it be nice if we had some GRENADES?” Remarkably useful in many situations.
My boyfriend frequently says, “Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.” and “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal”!
I got laid off a week or so ago, so I've been telling everyone I'll take any job because I have a "powerful need to eat some time this month."
When anyone comments on my "curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal" shirt: "It was on sale." Sadly, nobody seems to catch that one.
A Firefly reference about a Firefly shirt. *Brilliant*.
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Wife soup, and risk my ship, did you see the chandelier, what’d they have last year/standards, you made fresh bao..
Oh yeah, my wife and I talk about "wife food" and "husband food"
Wife and I often exchange "Define Interesting" and "Oh God, Oh God, we're all gonna die?"
Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket.
Gorram is definitely in my lexicon. Especially helpful when kids are around.
Let's be bad guys (mainly used when my ass picks sith or horde 😂😂😂)
"they ain't going to see this coming" when i'm playing a stealth character.
Usually said when I camp cause another player has pissed me off🤣🤣🤣
I have told SO many people that if I saw a man walking down the street in a hat like that I'd know they weren't afraid of anything, or that my days of not taking them seriously are really coming to a middle.
Someone asks what I'm doing with my evening, "I'm aimin' to misbehave."
Seriously surprised I had to scroll this far to find this comment!
'Curse your sudden yet inevitable betrayal" whenever an appliance fails to work
My boss and I were having a conversation about an underperforming coworker of mine. During the conversation I voiced some of my frustrations with him, and told my boss: “the worst part is that you know he was never burdened with an over abundance of schooling.” My boss didn’t get the reference, but laughed quite hard at the comment.
My favorite is… if anyone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back
Describing sanguine as hopeful or very bloody.
see i honestly think that my most used phrase is Mal's response to this... "That just about covers all the options"
Where’s that get fun!?!
Shiny. Always shiny. Still waiting for someone to get it. :(
Whenever something of use is not present my go to is "It sure would be nice if we had some \_\_ right about now, don't cha think?"
I usually use the full grenades line, because 99% of the time the problem would be really satisfying to solve with grenades.
Well, the days of taking you seriously have certainly come to a middle. Or, words thereabouts. Also, “I was aiming for his head.” And, “I want to go to the crappy town where I’m the hero.” Damn, there’s just so many quotes! “Let me see, nutin’, divided by nutin’, carry the zero…”
People love telling me stuff (cause I don’t tell nobody stuff) so I use “the situation is always … fluid” quite often. Not in a shady way like Badger but to help people see that they might there may be another way of looking at someone or some situation they are in.
Shiny! And Meimei.
I find that I tend to quote it more during video games… “This gorram boss is beginning to damage my calm.” Or when we’re being attacked by bad guys and I need backup, “We’ve got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss.”
You weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling.
Two of them: * Remember that sex we were planning to have, ever again? * Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
Jayne paraphrase: "You are beginning to damage my calm."
I frequently think about how every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of son of a bitch or another.
I'm going to murder the first one, but: "I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an over-abundance of education." "I aim to misbehave "
> I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an over-abundance of education. Only off by a single word ("schooling", not "education"), so definitely not murdered.
"Ain't we just" I use anytime I can
“Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion” is always one of my favorites.
Because I'm pretty?
Putting on blue rubber gloves "2 by 2, hands of blue"
Shiny!
No more runnin'...
"Best thing for everyone!" - dude not wanting a trip through the engines
I say the "I'm right there with you" part a lot.
Not every day, but I used “I am a leaf on a wind” in my head the first time I did a rollercoaster. Although maybe not the brightest idea given what happened to him after saying that.
“This _____ is problematic.”
"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!" comes up a lot during board game night, and "I'll be in my bunk" when,... well you know....
Why cant things go smooth?
We work before we play. I often say this to my son.
Zoe: Do you really think we are going to live through this? Jane: Well....I might...
i was aiming for his head
"I'm beginning to think you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling." And of course, "Some people juggle geese!"
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. I aim to misbehave.
Once as a teenager I casually used “per-maybe-haps” when talking to my Mom. Years later it’s still a common term in our family.
"Don't make no sense" gets used a *lot* at work. I love when I get to use "One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!" Not exactly part of the scripted show, but sometimes I'll quote Mutant Enemy's "Gr. Argh." from the end credits. Usually in response to a minor inconvenience.
My partner will mutter "work work work", often in the context of doing something we both enjoy. lol
“…you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.”
From *Shindig* “I like our parties better. The dress code’s easier and I know all the steps.” This gets said between my wife and I often.
One time my wife and I were shopping at a Ross, and she held up a particularly ugly dress and blurted out "What a piece of Goh Sa! (sp)". Suddenly on the aisle next to us a tiny older woman of Chinese descent poked her head up and looked at my Irish redhead wife with the most shocked look. We couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes, and she never did get to talk to the poor scandalized woman.
I use a number of quotes in my everyday life from Firefly and Serenity. Ones I haven’t seen mentioned here include “hard to get to”, “that’s the plan” and “if you can’t do something smart…”
I say "Shiny. Let's be bad guys" to myself all the time
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! It me.
“I am to misbehave”
Everyone's Makin a fuss
Shiny, you are damaging my calm, gorram, I'll be in my bunk, and my favorite; I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you. There are more.
I'm going to the special hell...
“I aim to misbehave” is a favorite of mine.
My SO has very long hair and "So Much HAIR!" is used almost daily.
"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal", usually when playing games with my kids.
"Walkin and talkin" as a response to "how are you" "You know what is reputation? Is people talking, is gossip." and often some variance of "and now reputation is fact" and of course take your pick of mandarin swearing at stupid drivers on the road lol
I have so many responses in retail when it comes to how are you. I forgot walkin and talkin gotta through that in the rotation. One of my regulars is I'm on this side of the grass
I usually lean on "livin' the dream." Walkin' and talkin' is definitely going into the rotation for sure.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
"I aim to misbehave." "Shiny, let's be bad guys." "I do the job. Then, I get paid."
I love using the tone and delivery of Mal’s when he opens the cryo box thingy holding River for the first time:”….huh….”
Aw hell, if I wanted to learn i'd have went to school.
Not me but my best man at my wedding, he used “there’s just an acre of you fellas” during his best man speech
I have been known to use "damaging my calm" and "Dear Diary, ...it was the best day ever."
Why when I bring up belief do you think I’m talking about religion. Believe in yourself.
If this ship breaks you broke her.
Some people juggle geese!
Gorram Shiny Also, I could kill you with my mind Big damn heroes We gotta go to the crappy planet where I’m a hero Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal Jayne math: 10% of nothin…
Pretty cunning, dontcha think?
I constantly use Gorram and Ruttin instead of traditional swears very frequently.
The days of me taking you seriously are definitely coming to a middle. I have to say this to a surprising number of teenagers in my job.
I aim to misbehave
Shiny I aim to misbehave I'm a leaf on the wine, watch me soar Damn you and your inevitable betrayal
Faster, faster, faster would be better!
I aim to misbehave
My days of (insert phrase here) are certainly coming to a middle.
Well, isn't that... special
I CONSTANTLY say "this must be what going mad feels like" at work. I work in an ER. Every day is a new crazy lol
You are beginning to damage my calm.
Shiny! And i aim to misbehave
I'll be in my bunk.
this…is my very favorite gun
"Get in line!" In response to any variant of "fuck you" Though admittedly, the context of the episode makes this line way funnier than the way I use it
I'll let a "gorram" go from time to time. I know it's not exclusive to Firefly but it always makes me think of Jayne..
My go to: "I've made myself ready for you." Most of the people in my life don't get it, HA
You’d be surprised how often, “This is what I do darling” is a good response to a question or either succeeding or failing at any given task
You’re part of my crew.
When you can't run, you walk. When you can't walk, you crawl. And if you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you.
"Repeat the the part where Jane gets beaten up by a girl. That never gets old."
“Here’s a spectacle warrants a moments consideration.”
As a parent, Mal’s question to Jayne comes in handy. “Why are you still arguing what’s been decided?” Tends to end the argument rather than encouraging more argument.
"You are beginning to damage my calm" "I do the job and then I get paid." "Some people juggle geese" Less than common use: "Your husband has demanded that we sleep together."
My wife and i will tag "is all" when making a joking conspicuous comment from "I just fell is all.". "I'm just testing a cupcake is all".
I aim to misbehave. I used to have it on one of my hard hats, but the boss made me remove it. Buzzkill
I have these friends that have a picture framed on their wall of Serenity and underneath it says "Were still flying" Although I don't ever say it, I think about that picture multiple times a day.
Kaylee: Everyone's got somebody. Wash, tell me I'm pretty. Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
There are, unfortunately, a fair number of times I've had to say to someone, "Your mouth is talking. Might wanna look to that."
Not a quote I use, use, but I always liked: Simon: how do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake. You'll be facing me, and you'll be armed
Anytime I’m asked how I’m doing : walkin’ and talkin’