MEERKAT MANIA!
Meerkats are all the rage it seems! The following quotes reflect meerkat mania in pop culture.
RESCUE ME/FX – Season Four (premiere)
“I've had blackouts, and she's had to piece the night back together for me. So that particular night I was drinking seltzer and she was drinking white wine. And after the conversation went south, she said she wanted to go inside and watch this television show about weasels-- meerkats. Meerkat Manor.
So we went inside, and next thing you know we're watching this show, and the narrator is--he gives the meerkats' names. So there's this meerkat named Shakespeare, and he gets bit by a scorpion, and there's some question about whether or not he's gonna make it back to the home base, you know, the place where they--where the rest of the meerkat tribe is. And I was really worried about the guy, Shakespeare. He's--he was looking pretty bad. And the next thing I know I'm laying in the sand, and I can hear people screaming, and…” – Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
“This doesn't add up, Mr. Gavin.” – Interrogator #1
“I’m sorry.” – Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
“Your story. According to the facts we have in front of us, there were signs of an accelerant.” – Interrogator #1
“I don't know anything about accelerant. “ – Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
“You co-signed a fire insurance policy on the house and a life insurance policy on Mrs. Keith two weeks before the fire.” – Interrogator #2
“No, I didn't. I’m telling you. I think I would remember. So—“ – Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
“You don't remember starting the fire?” – Interrogator #2
“How the hell can we expect you to remember signing God damned policies?” – Interrogator #1
“I didn't start the fire, OK? Listen to me.” – Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
“We know you're a drunk with a very convenient drinking problem.” – Interrogator #2
“It's a disease, ok?” – Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
“So is cancer. You want to blame cancer for the fire?” – Interrogator #2
“Tell the truth, Mr. Gavin.” - – Interrogator #1
“I'm telling the truth.” – Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
“No, you're not.” – Interrogator #1
“Yes, I am. I am telling the--” – Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
“No, you aren't.” – Interrogator #2
“I'm telling the truth, OK? We were inside. I was on the couch. She was in the easy chair. We were watching the meerkats, ok? – Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
RESCUE ME – Season Four
“I remember being pissed off, and I remember watching the meerkats.”- Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
“You were more interested in the meerkats than you were in my feelings.” Sheila Keefe (Callie Thorn)
“That’s such a bunch of bull…”- Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
“Anywho, we watched the meerkats, for I don’t know, 45 minutes or something. I wasn’t really paying attention…” Sheila Keefe (Callie Thorn)
RESCUE ME/FX – Season Three
“Wanna go watch Meerkat Manor?” – Sheila Keefe (Callie Thorne)
“Yep.” – Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary)
(Brought up in conversation on the August 29, 2006 airing of Rescue Me)
BROTHERS & SISTERS/ABC
“What the hell are we watching?” – Nora (Sally Field)
“Meerkats.” – Kevin Walker (Matthew Rhys)
“These meerkats are wearing no clothes. Give me the clicker!” – Nora (Sally Field)
“Ok! Fine! But no cooking programs!” – Kevin Walker (Matthew Rhys)
“Give me the clicker!” – Nora (Sally Field)
(Said in dialogue in a Fall 2006 episode of Brothers & Sisters)
JEOPARDY/Syndicated
Category: What’s on the Tube (for $800)
Answer: This cable channel’s Meerkat Manor has been billed as All My Children Meets Wild Kingdom.
Question: What is Animal Planet?
(Question in Celebrity Jeopardy! November 2006)
THE CLASS/CBS
“Hey.” – Kat Warbler (Lizzy Caplan)
“Turn on the TV!” – Ethan Haas (Jason Ritter)
“Is this that stupid Animal Planet thing again? I do not care about the meerkats!” – Kat Warbler (Lizzy Caplan)
“Just turn on channel 9. You’re not gonna believe it!” – Ethan Haas (Jason Ritter)
(Said in dialogue in the November 27, 2006 episode of The Class)
ELLEN/Syndicated
“Now is this something you know about her..that she thinks you look like a particular animal?” – Ellen DeGeneres
“Well it’s come up a couple of times. We were working together for two weeks I think. And we had a story about a meerkat. Do you know what a meerkat is? – Matt Lauer
(Ellen shows a picture of a meerkat)
“You have to have a picture of a meerkat. And, somehow, in the middle of the show is a fairly serious story. The meerkat was missing. I thought it was somewhat tragic. And she (Meredith Viera) said and by the way, you look like a meerkat. And, I thought, that’s not really nice.” – Matt Lauer
“Well put it up and drop it really fast.” – Meredith Viera
“I have seen you stand that way, Matt… I have seen you…” – Ellen DeGeneres
(Ellen shows a picture of a meerkat; Matt stands and poses like a meerkat; the camera compares the picture and Matt together on one screen, showing the resemblance)
“Look, it’s similar!” – Meredith Viera
TODAY SHOW (June 21, 2007)
“Don’t start on me, ok? First, it was a meerkat…”- Matt Lauer
“Well, he’s very cute.”- Meredith Vieira
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