The Tick (live-action) Quotes
"I am the wild blue yonder. The front line in a never-ending battle between good and not-so-good. Together with my stalwart sidekick Arthur, and the magnanimous help of some other folks I know, we form the yin to villainy's malevolent yang. Destiny has chosen us. Wicked men — you face the Tick!"
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Patrick Warburton - the Tick
David Burke - Arthur
Nestor Carbonell - Batmanuel
Liz Vassey - Captain Liberty
David Burke - Arthur
Nestor Carbonell - Batmanuel
Liz Vassey - Captain Liberty
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
The Tick: The life of a superhero is a lonely one, filled with hardship and danger. The few who answer the call must leave comfort, safety, and often sanity behind. But someone's gotta stand the heat and stay in the kitchen. Someone's gotta don the oven mitts of all that's right and strangle the red-hot throat of all that's wrong. This is that someone's story.
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Tick: He stands in silence — stoic, godlike — the mysterious blue avenger who has become legend to the simple folk of this bus station. But glory will not distract him from his vigil.
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(A vending machine has taken a commuter's money and failed to deliver a cup of coffee)"
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Tick: He stands in silence — stoic, godlike — the mysterious blue avenger who has become legend to the simple folk of this bus station. But glory will not distract him from his vigil.
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(A vending machine has taken a commuter's money and failed to deliver a cup of coffee)"
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Tick: Gimme that ! (snatches the judge's gavel) Who died and made you the cross-dressing king of justice?
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Arthur: Contempt of COURT?!?
Tick: Well, "contempt" is a strong word. I certainly didn't like court very much...
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Arthur: Contempt of COURT?!?
Tick: Well, "contempt" is a strong word. I certainly didn't like court very much...
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Tick: Stand back, citizen! So, vending menace, we meet again. (to commuter, while flipping coin return lever) Did ya jiggle the thingie? (he heaves machine off the ground, shaking it and pounding it against the wall) Armless bandit! Empty your bladder of that bitter black urine men call coffee! It has its price and that price has been paid! (he slams machine back onto the ground; it delivers a cup of coffee) Java devil, you are now my bitch. Well, here you are, weary traveler, one steaming hot cup of justice. No need to thank me, it's my sworn duty to defend this bus station from the ravages of evil.
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Tick: Well, Destiny honks the horn of Gotta Go. To the City!
Bus station manager: Who was that blue stranger?
Tick: He was — the Tick!
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Tick: Well, Destiny honks the horn of Gotta Go. To the City!
Bus station manager: Who was that blue stranger?
Tick: He was — the Tick!
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
(Arthur is in an office, working, in his superhero suit; his boss sits beside Arthur's desk and clears his throat.)
Arthur: Mister-Mister Fishladder!
Mr. Fishladder: Arthur... it is still "Arthur", isn't it? Arthur, my time is worth seventeen dollars a second. I want an explanation, and I want it to cost less than fifteen hundred dollars. Go!
Arthur: Oh. Uh, well, it's a little hard to explain —
Fishladder: Fifty-one dollars.
Arthur: Mr. Fishladder, I have been living a lie. I am more than just a mild-mannered accountant. Now, I do good work for this firm and I value my job. It's just... my entire life has become nothing but numbers and deductions and IRA's.
Fishladder: Two hundred fifty-five dollars.
Arthur: Granted, I have been doing my parents' tax returns since I was six — but even then I knew I had a higher calling. I can't hide from it any longer. I —
Fishladder: Don't say it!
Arthur: I am going to become a superhero! You know... part-time, at first...
Fishladder: Christ in heaven, look at yourself! You're built like a sensible shoe! You shouldn't be jumping around in a body-sock fighting crime!
Arthur: Well, I haven't actually fought any crime yet.
Fishladder: Good! Keep it that way! Crime fights back! Remember the lesson of Metcalf.
Arthur: Metcalf?
Fishladder: METCALF! Head of Shipping and Receiving, third floor. Metcalf! He lost all his game pieces just like you, cashed in his 401k, and bought a jetpack. Now the poor bastard needs a machine — to POOP!
Arthur: Mr. Fishladder, I know that sort of thing can happen, but —
Fishladder: But you're gonna ride this thing out to the bloody, gruesome end, aren't you?
Arthur: Well, maybe not all the way to the end but... you know, for a while. Mr.
Arthur: Mister-Mister Fishladder!
Mr. Fishladder: Arthur... it is still "Arthur", isn't it? Arthur, my time is worth seventeen dollars a second. I want an explanation, and I want it to cost less than fifteen hundred dollars. Go!
Arthur: Oh. Uh, well, it's a little hard to explain —
Fishladder: Fifty-one dollars.
Arthur: Mr. Fishladder, I have been living a lie. I am more than just a mild-mannered accountant. Now, I do good work for this firm and I value my job. It's just... my entire life has become nothing but numbers and deductions and IRA's.
Fishladder: Two hundred fifty-five dollars.
Arthur: Granted, I have been doing my parents' tax returns since I was six — but even then I knew I had a higher calling. I can't hide from it any longer. I —
Fishladder: Don't say it!
Arthur: I am going to become a superhero! You know... part-time, at first...
Fishladder: Christ in heaven, look at yourself! You're built like a sensible shoe! You shouldn't be jumping around in a body-sock fighting crime!
Arthur: Well, I haven't actually fought any crime yet.
Fishladder: Good! Keep it that way! Crime fights back! Remember the lesson of Metcalf.
Arthur: Metcalf?
Fishladder: METCALF! Head of Shipping and Receiving, third floor. Metcalf! He lost all his game pieces just like you, cashed in his 401k, and bought a jetpack. Now the poor bastard needs a machine — to POOP!
Arthur: Mr. Fishladder, I know that sort of thing can happen, but —
Fishladder: But you're gonna ride this thing out to the bloody, gruesome end, aren't you?
Arthur: Well, maybe not all the way to the end but... you know, for a while. Mr.
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Panda Bartender: [About Arthur trying to fly] I think he going to fall down a lot and die.
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Captain Liberty: I'm working on having him deported.
Batmanuel: She fears the demons I have awoken in her... womanly places.
Batmanuel: She fears the demons I have awoken in her... womanly places.
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Arthur: I'm not moth-man, I'm not a superhero... I'm not even an accountant anymore! I'm just Arthur.
Tick: Arthur, listen to me carefully. I believe in you! I always have! That's why I'm here. Destiny dressed you this morning my friend, and now Fear is trying to pull off your pants. If you give up, if you give in, you're gonna end up naked with Fear just standing there laughing at your dangling unmentionables!
Tick: Arthur, listen to me carefully. I believe in you! I always have! That's why I'm here. Destiny dressed you this morning my friend, and now Fear is trying to pull off your pants. If you give up, if you give in, you're gonna end up naked with Fear just standing there laughing at your dangling unmentionables!
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Jimmy Carter: Help! Circus freaks! Help! Help! Men in wrestling outfits!
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Tick: Yes, it's too late, we've learned that Communism does not pay. So, don't have a snappy Soviet comeback for that one, do we? (to the Red Scare)
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Tick: Gravity... is a harsh mistress.
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Tick: Gravity... is a harsh mistress.
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Tick: ...and that's how we defeated our first supervillain, and how Arthur learned to fly, and how we gave Jimmy Carter a mild concussion.
Arthur: We saved an ex-president!
Tick: Yet the evening's greatest victory is the partnership forged between this heroic duo! Friends to the end — bonded together by the Krazy-Glue of justice! Til death to they part!
Arthur: We saved an ex-president!
Tick: Yet the evening's greatest victory is the partnership forged between this heroic duo! Friends to the end — bonded together by the Krazy-Glue of justice! Til death to they part!
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
[Arthur is on a gurney, while the Tick runs alongside with hospital personnel.]
Tick: Arthur is broken! Gimme two hundred cc's of tender loving care, stat!
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Tick: Say, you think you could soup him up a bit?
Doctor: Excuse me?
Tick: Maybe give him a metal arm with a laser in it, or something.
Tick: Arthur is broken! Gimme two hundred cc's of tender loving care, stat!
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Tick: Say, you think you could soup him up a bit?
Doctor: Excuse me?
Tick: Maybe give him a metal arm with a laser in it, or something.
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Arthur: Yes. I'm anal retentive. Fine. Believe me, I would change that if I could.
Tick: Good Lord, man, retain that anus! One day its fruit may be the only thing that stands between us and total oblivion!
Tick: Good Lord, man, retain that anus! One day its fruit may be the only thing that stands between us and total oblivion!
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Tick: [holding up crossed fingers] We've been like this ever since — thick as thieves! Well... without all the stealin' and maraudin' and so forth.
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
[The Tick is on the phone with the Terror, a legendary supervillain.]
The Terror: Aw, leave me alone. I'm a hundred and twelve years old, I'm done.
Tick: Don't be an Adolf Quitler!
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Terror: You think you can take me, do ya?
Tick: You got that right, you big weenie.
Terror: Bah! I'll fold you into my wallet and spend you on a whore!
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Terror: That tears it! I'm gonna tuck you in for a dirt nap, you Betty!
The Terror: Aw, leave me alone. I'm a hundred and twelve years old, I'm done.
Tick: Don't be an Adolf Quitler!
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Terror: You think you can take me, do ya?
Tick: You got that right, you big weenie.
Terror: Bah! I'll fold you into my wallet and spend you on a whore!
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Terror: That tears it! I'm gonna tuck you in for a dirt nap, you Betty!
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Arthur: Giving the Tick the Terror's phone number was like giving a, a child a loaded gun — pointing at me!
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Arthur: We are not triumphant! All we did was crank-call an old man and-and give him a heart attack.
Tick: Wasn't Plan A, but it did the trick.
Tick: Wasn't Plan A, but it did the trick.
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Tick: When you get in bed with evil incarnate, it always steals the covers.
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)
Batmanuel: [With a scorpion on his chest.] Hello...I got the poison lobster here.
TV Show: The Tick (live-action)