Taxi Fans - Need a Quote
Jo Theis
with a quote.
He's looking for some of Jim Ignatowski's "classic" lines. Does anyone have any or
could anyone tell me where I might locate a source?
Many thanks.
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Mark E. Mallett
> He's looking for some of Jim Ignatowski's "classic" lines. Does
> anyone have any or could anyone tell me where I might locate a source?
My favorite is the eulogy over the turkey that Alex shot when they
were holed up in a cabin. To wit,
Lord,
We know this bird was
One of your miracles.
No easier to create
Than a billion stars, or a single grain of sand.
It was a truly magnificent creature, your honor.
And, iii-if we hadn't gotten so hungry,
your faithul servant Alex, here, would never have snuck up on it,
And blown its brains out.
But we grieve that one of your creatures
Should have been sacrificed.
Though he could not think, he could feel.
And now, he will never again
walk your good earth;
smell the sweet air;
experience the glory of flying in your heavens.
Taken from him is the precious gift of life!
One small, innocent being
Lies here lifeless.
And we are diminished.
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Mark E. Mallett
m...@zwac.mv.com
Gary S. St. Lawrence
The cabbies are all sitting around talking about several things.
Invariably, an out of the blue question comes up, like "Do you know how
many stamps go through the post office in Zimbabwe?"
From the bench near the soda machine, Jim says flatly, "2.657 million a year."
Later, the question comes up, "How much does it cost to put one
of those (rockets) into space anyway?"
From the bench near the soda machine, Jim says flatly, "Approximately
$13.7 billion per launch."
Later, someone asks, "How many redheaded people do you think there
are in America."
Everyone looks over a Jim expecting an answer, he looks blank,
runs his hands through his hair, shrugs his shoulders and throws his
hands in the air. "You went to the well once too often!"
I almost wet my pants the first time I saw that episode!
REVEREND JIM RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saint.
David Johnson
They then immediately proceed DEVOUR the turkey -- including Jim.
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Matt Ackeret
writes:
> If there are any lingering fans of Taxi out there, a friend of mine needs
some help
> with a quote.
>
> He's looking for some of Jim Ignatowski's "classic" lines. Does anyone
have any or
> could anyone tell me where I might locate a source?
It's not a single quote, but one of the best, if not the best scene in
"Taxi" is when Jim is taking his driver's test.. (Maybe it's the *taxi*
driver's test.. I dunno.. whatever, it's irrelevant)
He gets stumped, so he asks the other guys, who are standing
nearby (the actor, Alex, and Elaine, at least).
He whispers to them "What do you do when you see a yellow light?"
(paraphrase if not exact)
the actor - "slow down."
He whispers "whaaat dooo yoouuu dooo wheeennnn youuuu seee aa yelllooowww
liiightt?"
the actor - "slow down!"
He says "whaaaaaaaaaaaat doooooooooo ...."
and so on.. you get the picture.. it happens 3 or 4 times, and is very funny.
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Derek Toten
"The Actor" was Bobby. For once he tries to help someone out
and it backfires in his face. Definitely one of the best television
comedy scenes of all time. Just when you think it can't go any further,
it does! BTW, Marilu Henner claims that if you look close enough, you can
see her stabbing herself in the hand with a pencil in an attempt to keep
from laughing.
Derek Toten
to...@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu
Derek Toten
Mark J. Rinehart
> In article <1993Jan22....@hemlock.cray.com> Jo Theis, n2...@cray.com
> writes:
> > If there are any lingering fans of Taxi out there, a friend of mine needs
> > some help with a quote.
> > He's looking for some of Jim Ignatowski's "classic" lines. Does anyone
> > have any or could anyone tell me where I might locate a source?
>
> It's not a single quote, but one of the best, if not the best scene in
> "Taxi" is when Jim is taking his driver's test.. (Maybe it's the *taxi*
> driver's test.. I dunno.. whatever, it's irrelevant)
Absolutely the best Rev. Jim scene in the series.....has me hysterical
laughing right now, just remembering it......
Mark
marc.colten
Virtually everything he did was perfect on that show. Someof
my favorites were:
1) when he had the reconciliation with his father, who wanted to
know why he never called. Then Jim went into this long thing
about how he called on every holiday, but never said anything,
so he could hear his father voice yelling "Who are you ...
Why do you keep calling?" Then Jim looks down at the phone
and says "Oh, is THAT your number?"
2) The time he had the horse in his apartment and told the
others that it was sleeping, then proceeded to show HOW it
was sleeping, upside down, legs in the air.
3) The time he burned out Louie's apartment and when Louie saw
it and went berserk he said "Oh my God, it's noticeable?"
4) The time the actor was attempting to practice mime in the
garage. He was pathetic at it as he tried "man stuck in a
transparent box". Then Jim walked into the box, felt around
the walls and said "Would you mind moving that thing?"
5) The entire show where he was dating Tony's sister. "I've
learned the most important lesson of all. I LOVE to be lifted!"
marc colten
hyderabadi
> Try this one:
>
My favorite Jim Ignatowski scene..
All the cabbies are doing other jobs bcoz of a strike or something. They meet
at the bar to tell each other their stories.
Iggy is a salesman! He goes into some unfortunate woman's house trying to
sell vaccum-cleaners. Tells her that his vaccum can clean anything, and he
means *anything*. To prove his point, he spills some food on the carpet,
throws in more yucky stuff on top of that, stomps on the ugly mess, squishes
some kethcup on it all to mess it further.. the lady is alternately
going bananas and is in a shock. Iggy assures her that there is nothing to
worry [in that calm voice of his], stomps on the mess for one last time,
hands the lady his briefcase and asks, "Where do I plug this in?" Then,
the realization dawns, "Oh! I didn't get the vaccum-cleaner job. I got the
job selling encylopadeas." And then he has that priceless look on his face
as if asking the lady if she wants to buy those!!
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Ken Denton (Supervisor)
>From: col...@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
>Subject: Re: Taxi Fans - Need a Quote
>Summary: Reverend Jim
>Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:05:12 GMT
>In article <Jan.28.13.41....@aramis.rutgers.edu>, rine...@aramis.rutgers.edu (Mark J. Rinehart) writes:
>> In article <1993Jan26.2...@gallant.apple.com> unk...@apple.com (Matt Ackeret) writes:
>>
>> > In article <1993Jan22....@hemlock.cray.com> Jo Theis, n2...@cray.com
>> > writes:
>> > > If there are any lingering fans of Taxi out there, a friend of mine needs
>> > > some help with a quote.
>> > > He's looking for some of Jim Ignatowski's "classic" lines. Does anyone
>> > > have any or could anyone tell me where I might locate a source?
One of my faves:
When Elaine takes Jim to her high-society party, and he tries his
hand at the piano, "I musta had lessons".
Hans L'Orange
>One of my faves:
> When Elaine takes Jim to her high-society party, and he tries his
> hand at the piano, "I musta had lessons".
>
That whole scene is one of my favorites. Elaine is certain that Jim will
embarrass her during a party where she is trying to impress the other folks
there. He insists upon playing the piano, to Elaines mortification. Jim sits
down, tries to play Chopsticks or some such piece and does it very badly.
Elaine is just about to die when Jim says something to the effect of "The hell
with it" and proceeds to ripe flawlessly through a classical piece. That's
when the above mentioned quote comes in.
Hans
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mel rupinski
One of my favorite quotes (I'm doing this completely from memory, so I
may not be completely accurate. . .) was when someone asked Jim what he
had been doing (I think from Latka & Simka's wedding 'till he was hired)
and he replied "Oh, bumming around, getting handouts, getting STONED".
That, and the time he had invited all the other cabbies to his apartment
to see what he had done with his money (I think that he inherited), and
he unveiled a wall completely covered with televisions, cable, satellite
receivers, and anything else you could think of. The facial expressions
of *EVERY*one in the scene were simply hilarious.
mtr
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rlwil...@gallua.gallaudet.edu
> Try this one:
>
>
Jim is struck by a gambling frenzy and will bet on anything. One time he
offers to bet that the next thing out of the soda machine will be a
vodka gimlet. Someone says "That's impossible!"
Jim: "Gimme odds!"
Does anyone remember his sermon at Latka's wedding?
skip
rlwil...@gallua.bitnet
JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH
[On Jim Ignatowski]
>Virtually everything he did was perfect on that show. Someof
>my favorites were:
[Five hilarious Iggy moments deleted]
My favorite:
In the episode where everyone has their daydream dramatized (e.g. Tony picks
up Eric Sevareid as a fare, and impresses him with his sense), Jim is contacted
by extraterrestrials, who say they've been watching him, understand and love
him, and invite him to return to their home planet.
Jim, bathed in white light, enters their craft, looks around pernsively and
says, "Boy, you guys are funny-looking!"
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Derek Toten
>
>One of my favorite quotes (I'm doing this completely from memory, so I
>may not be completely accurate. . .) was when someone asked Jim what he
>had been doing (I think from Latka & Simka's wedding 'till he was hired)
>and he replied "Oh, bumming around, getting handouts, getting STONED".
>
>That, and the time he had invited all the other cabbies to his apartment
>to see what he had done with his money (I think that he inherited), and
>he unveiled a wall completely covered with televisions, cable, satellite
>receivers, and anything else you could think of. The facial expressions
>of *EVERY*one in the scene were simply hilarious.
>
>mtr
>
He was following the tennets of "dynamic perfectionism," a mumbo, jumbo
zen-type practic he heard a couple of fares discussing.
BTW, I especially loved Jim's description of a debate he witnessed
in the cablecast of a Delaware state legislature session. Would they
call themselves "Delawarians" or "Delawarites?" Jim's choice? "Delaweanies!"
Derek
to...@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu
>|Mel Rupinski |An MST3K quote that works for QL (sorta): |
>|Dept. of Psych. (Tulane U.)|"History is fun -- especially when you make |
>|ps7...@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu | it up yourself!" |
>|ps7...@vm.tcs.tulane.edu | |
Derek Toten
Steven M. Goldman
Here are a few of my favorites, which are paraphrased, since they are
all from memory:
* Upon realizing that Jim is the one who has been writing love
poems anonymously to Elaine, Alex confronts him:
Alex (pointing to Jim): "Jim, is this you?"
Jim (pointing back to Alex): "Sure. Is this you, Alex?"
* Later in the same scene:
Jim: "I'm in love with Elaine the same way I'm in love with all
living things."
Alex: "Jim, you don't write poems to every living thing."
Jim: "Yes, I do."
Alex: "You don't MAIL poems to every living thing."
Jim: "Yes, I do."
* When Alex has a relapse of his gambling problem, Jim tries to
help him, and says, "I wasn't always as together as I am now."
* Given some basic facts about how Tony started with 2 chinchillas
and has been breeding them for a period of time, Jim guesses how
many he has now:
Jim: "176?"
Tony: "Wrong! I have 179!"
Jim: "How could I have made such a mistake?"
Elaine: "Jim, you were off by 3!"
Jim: "Go ahead! Rub it in!!"
* Upon finding that Jim had had his name changed TO Ignatowski,
the others ask why, and he says that it was the 60's, and asks
them to spell it backwards:
Bobby: "Ikswotangi."
Jim: "Wow! What was I thinking?? That isn't even close to
star child!!"
michael kamlet
>
>Here are a few of my favorites, which are paraphrased, since they are
>all from memory:
>
Well I haven't seen this classic -- Jim takes his test to get a cabby's license
Bobby is asking him all sorts of questions..
Bobby: Do you every experience dizzyness or blackouts ?
Jim: Tough Choice
Then as he's taking his test he wispers to Bobby --
Jim: What does a yellow light mean ?
Bobby: Slow Down
Jim: Ok Whaaat does.. a yellllow light mean...
and they got through this several times....
Mike :-)
Ken Kubey
the garage for help - Jim answers the phone and is the only on there:
Alex: Jim go to my locker and...
(Jim puts down the phone, runs up the stairs, tags the locker
and runs back down to the phone)
Alex: Jim I need you to get something out of my locker...
(Jim puts down the phone, runs up the stairs, tries to open
the locker, but there's a lock on it. Runs back down to the phone)
Alex: Jim, don't leave the phone until I say... (mumbles to himself)
Have to be careful, accidents will happen.
Jim: Accidents will happen.
Alex: No, no... oh what the hell.
Later:
Alex: The combination to my locker is 14-38-57, did you write that down?
Jim: I can remember that. Those are all ages that Frank Sinatra has been.
Alex: Okay, get the money out of my locker and bring it to me
at 1 West 1st stree.
Jim: Hold on, I better write that down.
Later:
Alex says good-bye, hangs up the phone. Jim hangs up the phone and
just stands there looking at the phone. Cut back to Alex, thinking
for a second, he picks up the phone and dials. Cut back to Jim
in the garage picking up the phone and from the reciver we hear:
Alex: Accidents will happen.
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Michelle Holley
>writes:
>> If there are any lingering fans of Taxi out there, a friend of mine needs
>some help
>> with a quote.
>
>"Taxi" is when Jim is taking his driver's test.. (Maybe it's the *taxi*
>driver's test.. I dunno.. whatever, it's irrelevant)
>
>He gets stumped, so he asks the other guys, who are standing
>nearby (the actor, Alex, and Elaine, at least).
>
>He whispers to them "What do you do when you see a yellow light?"
>(paraphrase if not exact)
>
>the actor - "slow down."
>
>He whispers "whaaat dooo yoouuu dooo wheeennnn youuuu seee aa yelllooowww
>liiightt?"
>
>the actor - "slow down!"
>
>He says "whaaaaaaaaaaaat doooooooooo ...."
>
>and so on.. you get the picture.. it happens 3 or 4 times, and is very funny.
>--
>unk...@apple.com Apple II Forever
>unk...@ucscb.ucsc.edu These opinions are mine, not Apple's.
This was the all-time best scene. Not to mention hysterical!! I
still laugh whenever I think of it and definately every time I take
my driver's test.
michelle
THE SAINT
would be when Jim, seeing Bobby doing a mime of "man in a box," walks
directly to Bobby, begins intently following Bobby's hands and begins
tracing the outline of the box with Bobby. After a few seconds, Bobby
stops because Jim has distracted him. Bobby storms away, Jim looks at
everyone and asks, "How long has this thing been here?"
He then turns back around to walk toward Latka and "slams:
into the "wall" and falls to the ground flailing. He sits up, looking
dazed and says, "Leave it to me to walk into something as big as this!"
IGNATOWSKI IN `96!!!
Saint.
Mike Weber
How about this one...there was an ep in which Jim thought he was Igatizski(?)
(played by Andy Kaufman) or something to that affect, and the gang tried to
get him to seek out a pyscologist...
"When your stomach hurts, you see a doctor.
When your ears hurt, you see an ear doctor.
When your suffering from primary and seconadry diffusion of your personality,
you see a psychoogist!"
*grin*
UBIQUITOUS IS EVERYWHERE!
mikalst...@gmail.com
Ed Stasiak
> Anyone know what episode this came from?
from 20+ years ago pops up again.
Charles H. Sampson
My favorite scene along such lines is when Alex is thinking of going to
Rio for his daughter's wedding. In the conversation, he says, "How far
is it from New York to Rio?" Jim immediately says something like, "6,239
miles." Alex looks at him in astonishment and says, "How do you know
that?" Jim replies, with that stupified look that he often had in such
situations, "You mean I was right!?"
I might be wrong about Rio, daughter, and wedding, but you get the idea.
Charlie
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Nobody in this country got rich on his own. You built a factory--good.
But you moved your goods on roads we all paid for. You hired workers we
all paid to educate. So keep a big hunk of the money from your factory.
But take a hunk and pay it forward. Elizabeth Warren (paraphrased)
Rhino
> On Tuesday, January 26, 1993 at 12:26:34 PM UTC-6, Gary S. St. Lawrence wrote:
>> Try this one:
>>
>> The cabbies are all sitting around talking about several things.
>> Invariably, an out of the blue question comes up, like "Do you know how
>> many stamps go through the post office in Zimbabwe?"
>>
>> From the bench near the soda machine, Jim says flatly, "2.657 million a year."
>>
or shine? Why am I having trouble believing that?
>> Later, the question comes up, "How much does it cost to put one
>> of those (rockets) into space anyway?"
>>
>> From the bench near the soda machine, Jim says flatly, "Approximately
>> $13.7 billion per launch."
>>
Apollo program cost $25 billion so $13.7 billion for a single launch
seems unduly high. Then again, there was substantial inflation in the
late 70s and early 80s so maybe the launches they're talking about *did*
cost 13.7 billion - in much inflated dollars.
Or maybe the writers just pulled those numbers out of their asses.
>> Later, someone asks, "How many redheaded people do you think there
>> are in America."
>>
>> Everyone looks over a Jim expecting an answer, he looks blank,
>> runs his hands through his hair, shrugs his shoulders and throws his
>> hands in the air. "You went to the well once too often!"
>>
>> I almost wet my pants the first time I saw that episode!
>>
>> REVEREND JIM RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Saint.
>
> Anyone know what episode this came from?
>
despite my quibbles :-)
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Rhino
Michael Black
messages older than 30 days. That had been the standard, on
one iteration of the interface they removed it, I complained and
I assume others did, and eventually it was fixed. The next
iteration of the interface, they put it back in, and it's remained,
now for years.
I'm sure they are sculpting the interface for their "groups" and
this doesn't matter there, since nobody is seeing the "group" except
via the webpage. But when the bug is applied to usenet, it's a problem.
What puzzles me is why someone is looking for this post so they can
reply now. They can't just phrase a post and ask "does anyone know
which episode this was in", they have to dig out an old post, and reply.
I've seen thread resurrected when the original poster got what he needed
years back, and the new reply says nothing new. I've seen old threads
resurrected, and that causes someone else to see the old thread (since
at google, it's visible at the end because of the new reply) and act like
the whole thread is new, so they proceed to complain that "nobody should
be using RedHat 2.3, it's too old", but at the time of the original post,
it was current.
What's interesting in this thread's case is that one of the participants
is still posting here, which perhaps is a record 22 years later.
Michael
Adam H. Kerman
>On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Ed Stasiak wrote:
>>>mikalst...@gmail.com
>>>Anyone know what episode this came from?
>>I have no idea but it's interesting when a thread
>>from 20+ years ago pops up again.
>It's because google still has the bug that allows replies to
>messages older than 30 days. That had been the standard, on
>one iteration of the interface they removed it, I complained and
>I assume others did, and eventually it was fixed. The next
>iteration of the interface, they put it back in, and it's remained,
>now for years.
>I'm sure they are sculpting the interface for their "groups" and
>this doesn't matter there, since nobody is seeing the "group" except
>via the webpage. But when the bug is applied to usenet, it's a problem.
>What puzzles me is why someone is looking for this post so they can
>reply now. They can't just phrase a post and ask "does anyone know
>which episode this was in", they have to dig out an old post, and reply.
It's a troll, same as any other troll. They're trying to provoke a
reaction. As you can see, a whole bunch of people couldn't bring
themselves to ignore the troll.
Michael Black
>
>
Did someone give the proper answer back then? I checked the thread,
because I assumed it was old, and lost track of things when I noticed you
were posting way back then.
But I've certainly seen that elsewhere. Someone rejuvenates an old thread
via google, and others don't notice the date, so they add their two cents.
In one case, it was only a five year old thread, but some of the original
participants replied to the rejuvenated thread, not noticing that they'd
answered five years before.
Michael