My Favorite Martian (TV Series)

That Little Old Matchmaker, Martin (1963)

Ray Walston: Uncle Martin

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Uncle Martin : Tim, your life hasn't come to an end just because some new girl at the newspaper won't go out with you.

  Tim O'Hara : Uncle Martin, this isn't just "some girl," this is Cynthia Parker! Why, she is the most wonderful, the most marvelous, why, the most gorgeous...

  Uncle Martin : And the most unattainable. You earthlings confound me. The minute you can't have something, that's the very thing you must have. We have a saying on Mars: "the forbidden fruit is the sweetest."

  Tim O'Hara : We have the same saying here.

  Uncle Martin : Well, I'm sure we had it first.

• Uncle Martin : Tim, you mustn't let this become an obsession. After all, Cynthia Parker is not the only girl in the world. You've got to remember there are plenty of other fish in the sea.

  Tim O'Hara : I suppose you're right. Well, I guess I'll just have to brainwash myself.

  [closes eyes in concentration] 

  Tim O'Hara : There are plenty of other fish in the sea. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. There are plenty of other fish in - oh, ohh, ohhhh.

  Uncle Martin : What is it?

  Tim O'Hara : When I was down at the sea, I just saw Cynthia Parker. She's in a bathing suit.

• Tim O'Hara : Well, you're the Martian. You're supposed to be smarter than I am!

  Uncle Martin : I know. It's this living here on earth. It begins to rub off on one.

• Uncle Martin : Yewww!

  Tim O'Hara : What's the matter?

  Uncle Martin : What some people have going on in their heads! "Scooby-doobie-doobie, rebop-rebop."

  Tim O'Hara : Why that sounds like the trumpet solo from Dizzy Gordon's "Honky Tonk Blues." It's a gas.

  Uncle Martin : Well, I knew it wasn't music.