History Quotes / Technobabble

->'''Doctor:''' Looks like a spatio-temporal hyperlink.\\
'''Mickey:''' What's that?\\
'''Doctor:''' No idea, just made it up. Didn't want to say "Magic Door".
--> -- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Girl in the Fireplace"

--> -- '''[[ColonelBadass Colonel Tigh]]''', ''BattlestarGalactica''

--> -- '''[[TheJoker Joker]]''', ''[[{{Series/Batman}} Batman]]'', though probably a {{Mondegreen}}

'''Fry:''' Like a balloon, and... something bad happens!

''([[BeatPanel beat panel]])''\\

--> -- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Blink"

--> -- '''[[Music/{{Voltaire}} Voltaire]]''', "The USS Make Shit Up"

--> -- '''TheFlash''', ''[[JusticeLeagueCrisisonTwoEarths Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths]]''

--> '''Joss Whedon''', on making ''TheAvengers''

--> '''Joss Whedon'', on making ''TheAvengers''

-->--''BatmanBegins''

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->'''Fry:''' Usually on [[StarTrek the show]], they came up with a complicated plan, then explained it with [[PhlebotinumAnalogy a simple analogy]].\\

->"''Some of us don't speak StarTrek.''"

--> -- ''BuckGodotZapGunForHire''

->"''A little {{technobabble}}'s good for the soul.''"
--> -- '''Jack Harkness''', ''Series/{{Torchwood}}.''

--> -- '''Jack Harkness''', ''{{Torchwood}}.''

-->--''AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''

--> --''{{Futurama}}'', "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"

--> -- ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', [[RunningGag Repeatedly]]

--> -- ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya''

-->--''{{Futurama}}'', "Overclockwise"

-->--''{{Futurama}}'', "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch"

--> -- ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]''

--> -- ''LittleMosqueOnThePrairie'', "Swimming Upstream"

--> -- '''{{Voltaire}}''', "The USS Make Shit Up"

->'''Fry:''' Usually on [[StarTrek the show]], they came up with a complicated plan, then explained it with [[PhlebotinmAnalogy a simple analogy]].\\

--> -- ''DoctorWho'', "The Girl in the Fireplace"

--> -- '''The Doctor''', ''DoctorWho'', "Blink"

-> '''Galatea:''' Impossible! I've quantum destabilized the [[TazMania blah blah blah yakkedy shmackedy blah blah]] [[DoctorWho polarity of the neutron flow!]]

->'''Fry:''' Usually on [[StarTrek the show]], they came up with a complicated plan, then explained it with a simple analogy.\\

'''Fighter:''' First, it'd be nice if we knew what any of this stuff meant or did!

-->'''[[{{Batman}} Bruce:]]''' Was I supposed to understand any of that?\\
'''Fox:''' Not at all. I just wanted you to understand how hard it was.
-->--''BatmanBegins''

->"'Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle.
->"'No, no! the adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an impatient tone; 'explanations take such a dreadful time.'
-->--''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''

-> Activate the supersonic deccelarating contrarotating turbines vertically, we're getting a little too close to the Sun. Depress the aerothermic thermoreceptors! Accelerate the isothermal axio tractor beam value of parametres! Invert the compressor radio ratio. Energize the tandem of elerons vertically while I turn up this interplanetary microphone.
--> -- [[TheJoker Joker]], ''[[{{Series/Batman}} Batman]]'', though probably a {{Mondegreen}}


-> The early attempts to construct a sufficiently robust spiral decommutator failed largely because of lack of appreciation of the large quasi-pietic stresses in the gremlin studs; the latter were specially designed to hold the roffit bars to the spamshaft. When, however, it was discovered that wending could be prevented by the simple addition of teeth to socket, almost perfect running was secured.\\
The operating point is maintained as near as possible to the HF rem peak by constantly fromaging the bituminous spandrels. This is a distinct advance on the standard nivelsheave in that no drammock oil is required after the phase detractors have remissed.
--> -- '''Description of the fictional Turboencabulator'''

--> --''{{Futurama}}'', Where No Fan Has Gone Before

-> '''Doctor:''' ''(avoiding technobabble)'' It is my timey-wimey detector. It goes "ding" when there's stuff.
--> -- ''DoctorWho'', "Blink"

->'''[[ColonelBadass Colonel Tigh]]:''' No "if"! I want a definitive answer, no more of your weaselly technobabble!
--> -- ''BattlestarGalactica''

->And I say
->Bounce the graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
->That's the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
->The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
->Because if we find we're in a bind, we'll just make some shit up.
--> -- "The USS Make Shit Up", Voltaire

-->--'''The Mock Turtle''' and the '''Gryphon'''; ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''

->"A little {{technobabble}}'s good for the soul."
--> -- Jack Harkness, {{Torchwood}}.

->"Some of us don't speak ''StarTrek''."
--> -- TheFlash, ''[[JusticeLeagueCrisisonTwoEarths Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths]]''

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Fry: Of course! It's all so simple!\\

--> -- The Flash, ''Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths''

-> '''Galatea:''' Impossible! I've quantum destabilized the [[TazMania blah blah blah yakkedy shmackedy blah blah]] [[DoctorWho polarity of the neutron flow!