Tag: cartoon network

“You can’t touch music… but music can touch you.”

From: Regular Show

Genre: Cartoons, Television

Who said it?: Mordecai

The story behind the quote: This week’s quote comes from the Cartoon Network original program, Regular Show. The show revolves around two best friends, a raccoon named Rigby and a blue jay named Mordecai. It generally follows their lives and misadventures with their other friends.

The quote comes from the episode, “This is My Jam“. The duo find an old cassette tape and, after playing it, the song gets stuck in their head. They eventually get the it out but the song then manifests in physical form as a giant cassette tape with arms and legs. Rigby tries attacking the song as he’s sick and tired of it. But when he tries to, he passes right through him while the cassette tape is able to slap him around. Mordecai then delivers the quote to explain why this is the case.

Geek wisdom: Physical things can affect you and so can emotional things. Things such as simply being with friends, being all by your lonesome, remembering things from your past and, yes, music can affect you despite not really interacting with you physically.

“To live is to risk it all. Otherwise you’re just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you.”

From: Rick and Morty

Genre: Television, Cartoons

Who said it?: Rick Sanchez

The story behind the quote: This week’s quote comes the absurdist comedy sci-fi animated show, Rick and Morty on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. It follows the adventures of Rick Sanchez, the smartest person(s) in the multi-verse and his grandson and hapless companion, Morty Smith.

The quote comes from the third season episode “Rickmancing the Stone.” Summer Smith is now joining Rick and Morty on their adventures and they managed to escape from some unknown deadly situation. Morty (still voiced by Justin Roiland here) is angry at Summer as she’s the reason why they were nearly caught. Summer retorts that Morty should take it easy. This is when Rick (also voiced by Justin Roiland here) delivers the quote.

Geek wisdom: Life is hard but to live is to try out new and different things before we eventually expire. Otherwise, what’s the point of living if you never get to live life to its fullest?

“Life is effort and I’ll stop when I die!”

From: Rick and Morty

Genre: Television, Cartoons

Who said it?: Jerry Smith

The story behind the quote: This week’s quote comes the absurdist comedy sci-fi animated show, Rick and Morty on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. It follows the adventures of Rick Sanchez, the smartest person(s) in the multi-verse and his grandson and hapless companion, Morty Smith.

The quote comes from the first season episode “Raising Gazorpazorp.” In the episode, Morty Smith accidentally sires a child with a sex robot. Rich Sanchez (still voiced by Justin Roiland here) then takes the sex robot to examine what it was designed to do to get more information on the child as it might become dangerous. Jerry Smith (voiced by Chris Parnell) then jokingly says it might become like the Insane Clown Posse, to which Rick insults Jerry regarding how old that reference is. It takes Jerry some time but he then tries to make a sly rebuff to no avail. His wife, Beth, then asks Jerry why he’s even trying when it’s so lame. This is when Jerry delivers the quote.

Geek wisdom: Although Jerry is a dullard, he is correct. Life is hard and we have to keep pushing and putting in the effort to make life work. All of this extra effort may work or it may not. But, ultimately, we still have to try.

“Old Dick may have gotten the formula right. But the one ingredient he forgot was ‘love'”.

From: The Powerpuff Girls

Genre: Television and Cartoons

Who said it?: Professor Utonium

The story behind the quote: This week’s quote is another submission from DJ Miller, who has helped us with a quote from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Kung Fu Panda, King of the Hill, Forrest Gump and Arthur. This time, the quote comes from the Cartoon Network show, the Powerpuff Girls.

The quote comes from the episode “Knock It Off.” In the episode, Dick Hardly, Professor Utonium’s old college roommate, creates knockoff versions of the Powerpuff Girls to sell to anyone who has enough money. The Powerpuff Girls try to stop his plan but are eventually captured and are slowly drained of their supply of Chemical X. Professor Utonium tries to save the Girls but Dick Hardly captures him as well. Even so, the Professor expresses his love for the Girls and they reciprocate. This leads the knockoff Powerpuff Girls created by Hardly to turn on their creator and free the heroes. After they all escape, the Professor delivers the quote.

Geek wisdom: It may take a Mom and a Dad to make a child, but the most important ingredient to give a child is love.

“We should never take things for granite.”

From: Rick and Morty

Genre: Television, Cartoons

Who said it?: Rick Sanchez

The story behind the quote: This week’s quote comes from Cartoon Network’s Rick and Morty, which is aired during their late night programming schedule called Adult Swim. The show follows the sci-fi misadventures of the nihilistic and cynical drunkard Rick Sanchez and his rather paranoid and nervous grandson Morty Smith. The show has become a huge hit due to its dark humor and creativity.

The quote comes from the episode “Morty’s Mind Blowers,” the 8th episode of the 3rd season. The episode deals with both Rick and Morty trying to recover their memories. One of the memories involves the duo escaping from aliens and taking refuge behind some blast doors. The two mention the people they’ve lost during this mission and this is when Rick delivers the quote, which causes Morty to chastise the smartest man in the multiverse for the gaffe as that’s not now the saying is supposed to go.

Geek wisdom: Even the smartest man in the multiverse can make mistakes. So take it easy if you make a blunder or two. Nobody’s perfect.

“Once you do the hard stuff, it becomes not that hard..”

From: Regular Show

Genre: Cartoons, Television

Who said it?: Rigby

The story behind the quote: Once again, I have to show thanks to DJ Miller as he managed to find another wonderful quote for the site. We really appreciate the assistance.

This week’s quote comes from the Cartoon Network original cartoon, Regular Show. The cartoon generally revolves around two best friends, a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby. Both of them work as groundskeepers for a local park and they, along with their friends, go on various misadventures.

The quote comes from the final episode of the seventh season, Rigby’s Graduation Day Special. Rigby, finally graduating from high school, is tasked to give a speech on the day that will be broadcast all over the world. This does make Rigby nervous as he doesn’t know what to say. After Mordecai admits he always felt good about himself as he was always better than Rigby and he was jealous his friend was doing something that makes him better, Rigby hits an epiphany and realizes what his speech is going to be about. Rigby says it’s easy to not study and not graduate from school and he basically only did it to impress a girl. He then states all the things he had to accomplish to graduate. This is when he delivers the quote.

Geek wisdom: We’ve all had to go through hard times and struggles. Once we get through them, however, things do become easier as all the hardship is past us. As long as we have people we love and care about with us, anything is possible.

“Yeah. True level, bitch.”

From: Rick and Morty

Genre: Television, Cartoons

Who said it?: Rick Sanchez

The story behind the quote: This week’s quote comes from Cartoon Network’s Rick and Morty, which is aired during their late night programming schedule called Adult Swim. The show was created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland and follows the sci-fi misadventures of the nihilistic and cynical drunkard Rick Sanchez and his rather paranoid and nervous grandson Morty Smith (both voiced by Justin Roiland). The show has become a huge hit due to its dark humor and creativity.

The quote comes from the episode “Morty’s Mind Blowers,” the 8th episode of the 3rd season. The episode deals with both Rick and Morty (voiced by Justin Roiland) trying to recover their memories. The duo are locked in a vault that has stored most of their memories they wished to forget (or, in some instances, were forced to forget). One of the “memories” has Morty trying to put up a shelf but Rick disparages Morty because he was using an ordinary level. Rick then creates a platform that is “true level” and Morty, as he steps into it, is so enraptured by the feeling. This is when Rick delivers the quote.

Geek wisdom: Science and our current knowledge of what is fact is constantly evolving. What you currently know may not be the truth or, at the very least, not the whole truth. You might have to keep an open mind to new thoughts and ideas.

“Don’t think about it!”

From: Rick and Morty

Genre: Television, Cartoons

Who said it?: Rick Sanchez

The story behind the quote: With a new season of Rick and Morty on the horizon, it seems like a good idea to put up one of the quotes from this hit Cartoon Network/Adult Swim show.

The quote actually pops up in the very first episode of the first season of the show. While being chased by intergalactic customs, Morty Smith inhales a gas which makes him cough up a living being that quickly goes from infancy to old age before dying. Rick Sanchez quickly tells Morty the quote.

The quote is then given once again in the episode Rick Potion No. 9. After escaping their reality where everyone has turned into “Cronenbergs” and replacing their doppelgangers in a different universe, Morty is horrified that they’re not doing anything to fix their world. Rick then asks him about the universe where Hitler cures cancer. Then he gives the quote.

Geek wisdom: The world and the universe is incredibly complicated and full of unknowns. You might want to dwell on your mistakes or what-could-have-been. But it’s much better to focus on what’s happening now and not think about the other possibilities.

“I always wondered how Plumbuses got made.”

From: Rick and Morty

Genre: Television, Cartoons

Who said it?: Morty Smith

The story behind the quote: This week’s quote comes the absurdist comedy sci-fi animated show, Rick and Morty on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. It follows the adventures of Rick Sanchez, the smartest person(s) in the multi-verse and his grandson and hapless companion, Morty Smith.

The quote comes from the second season episode “Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate.” While there is a story where Jerry Smith is brought to an intergalactic hospital, it’s mainly an excuse for Rick to watch some disconnected bits on his Interdimensional Cable box (and mostly for Justin Roiland to do some improv). One of the bits is a “How It’s Made” episode where it’s shown how a Plumbus is assembled. After the episode ends, Rick delivers the quote.

Geek wisdom: Even a man as intelligent and as learned as Rick Sanchez doesn’t know everything. He does realize that, even if he is the smartest man in the multi-verse, he can still learn new things. We are also the same way; we can always be open to learning something new each and every chance we get.

“It doesn’t matter if you have the beard on the outside. As long as you’ve got the beard on the inside.”

From: Dexter’s Laboratory

Genre: Movies

Who said it?: Action Hank

The story behind the quote: This week’s quote comes from the Cartoon Network original animated series, Dexter’s Laboratory. Dexter is a genius eccentric who loves building all sorts of fanciful inventions but his big sister DeeDee, always manages to wreck them. Even if he is incredibly smart, Dexter is still a kid and is still prone to do the things normal children do like watch cartoons and action shows.

Action Hank is an action hero on television in the world of Dexter’s Laboratory and is one of Dexter’s favorite shows. In the episode Beard to be Feared, Dexter decides to to grow a super rugged/strong beard just like Action Hank using his scientific skills and he does eventually team up with his hero. Just as a villain is about to use his beard to stab Action Hank, Dexter deflects it with his own synthetic beard. Action Hank thanks Dexter for saving him but Dexter sheepishly admits that his beard isn’t natural like Action Hank’s. This is when Action Hank delivers the quote.

Geek wisdom: We do live in a superficial world where we concern ourselves with outward appearances. It’s become so easy to give snap judgements on our first impressions with people without trying to dig deeper. We won’t really know a person well until we do so and, honestly, that’s what matters.