Firefly

Firefly (2002)

21 quotes from season 1

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Jaynestown - S1-E4

[About Jayne's statue.]
Wash: I think they captured him. Captured his esscence, you know?
Kaylee: He looks kinda angry.
Wash: That's kinda what I meant.

Out of Gas - S1-E5

Mal: Which one do you think tracked us?
Zoe: The ugly one, sir.
Mal: ...Could you be more specific?

Objects in Space - S1-E10

Jayne: I don't like the idea of someone hearing what I'm thinking.
Inara: Nobody likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.

Out of Gas - S1-E5

Mal: Well, what do you think?
Zoe: You mean you paid money for this? On purpose?

Our Mrs. Reynolds - S1-E3

Mal: Now, you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell... But if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you.

Serenity (1) - S1-E11

Shepherd Book: Captain, do you mind if I say grace?
Mal: Only if you say it out loud.

Ariel - S1-E8

Mal: Next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.

The Train Job - S1-E1

Mal: You know, they tell ya to never hit a man with a closed fist, but it is, on occasion, hilarious.

Shindig - S1-E6

Inara: I like watching the game. Like a lot of situations, the key seems to be giving Jayne a heavy stick and standing back.

Shindig - S1-E6

Warrick: You didn't have to wound that man.
Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.

Safe - S1-E7

River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be but they forgot. Now they see sky and they remember what they are.
Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?

Shindig - S1-E6

Mal: [Standing over defeated opponent] Mercy is the mark of a great man. [Stabs him]. I guess I'm just a good man. [Stabs him again] Well...I'm all right.

Jon Sandys

Bushwhacked - S1-E2

Commander Harken: I notice your ship's called Serenity. You were stationed on Hera at the end of the war. Battle of Serenity Valley took place there, if I recall.
Mal: You know, I believe you might be right.
Commander Harken: Independents suffered a pretty crushing defeat there. Some say that after Serenity, the browncoats were through. That the war ended in that valley.
Mal: Hmm.
Commander Harken: Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of.
Mal: May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

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War Stories - S1-E9

Mal: I know it's a difficult mission, but you and I...have to get it on.
Zoe: I understand. We have no choice. Take me sir, take me hard.
Jayne: Now something about that is just downright unsettling.
[Mal and Zoe awkwardly lean in towards a kiss].
Wash: [dragging Zoe away] We'll be in our bunk.

Jon Sandys

Our Mrs. Reynolds - S1-E3

Preacher: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell. It's a place they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Serenity (1) - S1-E11

Zoe: If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.

Jon Sandys

Out of Gas - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: In the flashback where Mal and Zoë meet Jayne for the first time, every close-up of Mal and the one close-up of Zoë shows their hair blowing in the wind. But in the shots of them together, their hair is completely still.

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Out of Gas - S1-E5

Trivia: Wash sets up a big red button for Mal to push to call back the shuttles if help arrives. He tells him "When your miracle gets here, just hit this button". After the show got cancelled, Alan Tudyk sent the button to Joss Whedon with the same message enclosed.

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Chosen answer: One of the premises of the show is that the two major Earth societies that survived, and ultimately merged, were the Chinese and Americans. As a result the common language includes much Chinese. Clothing, signage, and building designs also have a heavy Chinese influence.

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