Lost in Space Quotes

  • Judy Robinson: Who was it that said, "Those who can't think, fight"? I think it was me.

    [walks away]

    Major West: [to Prof. Robinson] That's one cold fish I'd like to thaw.

    [Judy returns]

    Major West: [to Prof. Robinson]

    Judy Robinson: Oh, I won't be home for dinner tonight, *Dad*.

    [Judy walks away. West stares at John, who also walks away]

    Major West: It's gonna be a *long* flight.

  • [Why the others should believe his warning about the spiders]

    Dr. Zachary Smith: Trust me, Major. Evil knows evil.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: I'm a doctor, not a space explorer.

  • Major West: You know, I'm thinking this is your "kiss for luck" situation.

    Judy Robinson: Thinking. Not your strong point, is it?

  • Penny Robinson: Never love anything, kiddo, you will just end up losing it.

  • Major West: 8 years of flight training. Navigational holographics online. 50 combat missions. Course confirmed for slingshot exit of the solar system. Just so I could take the family camper on an interstellar picnic.

  • [to her diary, about Major West]

    Penny Robinson: Ouch. Could he be cuter? I don't *think* so.

  • Robot: Will Robinson! I will tell you a joke! Why did the robot cross the road? Because he was carbon bonded to the chicken!

    Will Robinson: We've got a *lot* of work to do.

  • Robot: It sounds like old morse code.

    Will Robinson: What does it say?

    Robot: Danger, Will Robinson, danger.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: Black was always my colour.

  • Major West: OK, last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: Like the drip, drip, drip of blood...

    Major West: You really need to shut up.

  • [Launching the Jupiter-1]

    Major West: And the monkey flips the switch.

  • Penny Robinson: [to her diary] On this eve before she is torn from all she knows, kidnapped, hurled into deep space against her will, what thoughts fill the mind of the young space captive?

    Will Robinson: Will there be boys on Alpha Prime? Whatever will I wear?

  • John Robinson: There's a lot of space out there to get lost in.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: Give my regards to oblivion.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: You'll forgive me if I forgo the kiss, my sleeping behemoth. But the time has come to awake.

    Robot: Robot is on-line. Reviewing primary directives. One, preserve the Robinson Family. Two, Maintain ship systems. Three

    Dr. Zachary Smith: What noble charges my steely centurion. Sadly I fear you have far more dire deeds in store for you.

    Robot: Robot is on-line. Reviewing primary directives. Two hours into mission destroy Robinson family. Destroy all systems.

    Dr. Zachary Smith: Now that's more like it. Farewell my platinum-plated-pal. Give my regards to oblivion.

  • Robot: Destroy Robinson family.

  • Major West: What about you, Doc? Is there some lucky little nerd you left behind?

    Judy Robinson: I've spent the last three years training for this mission. I'm trying to save the planet. I haven't had time for fun.

    Major West: If there's no time for fun, Doc, then what are we saving the planet for?

  • [as Will looks for parts to Robot's body]

    Will Robinson: Relax, Robot. I'm going to build you a new body. Mom always said I should make new friends.

    Robot: Oh, ha ha.

  • Penny Robinson: Let's see, do I spend my last night on Earth watching Mom and Dad pretend not to be fighting, or blow ten years worth of allowance at the mall? You do the math.

  • [the Robinson family shares a tender moment of love as they are reunited]

    Major West: You know, the planet IS breaking up around us.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: [reprogramming the future Robot] Let's try this again, shall we? You are the puppet, I am the puppeteer. Do try to get it right this time...

  • [Major West arms the Proteus' reactor to explode, to kill the Space Spiders]

    John Robinson: What are you doing?

    Major West: You never leave an enemy stronghold intact.

    John Robinson: Major, stop.

    Major West: One of your father's first rules of engagement.

    John Robinson: That's a direct order.

    Major West: I hate spiders.

  • [the Jupiter II is hurtling towards the Sun]

    John Robinson: We're caught in the sun's gravitational pull. We're headed straight for it.

    Major West: Oh, really? Is that what the big round ball is?

  • Major West: It's working.

    John Robinson: What?

    Major West: If we can't go around the Sun, then we go straight through it, using your hyperdrive.

    John Robinson: If we engage the hyperdrive without a gate, we could be thrown anywhere in the galaxy.

    Major West: Anywhere but here.

  • Major West: I'm going to try to break us out of the atmosphere.

    John Robinson: No, we don't have enough core material for that.

    Major West: Well, maybe if we catch one of the thermal...

    John Robinson: No, it won't work. I *know*. We have to go... down. Through the planet as she's breaking up. We can use the planet's gravity...

    Major West: What?

    John Robinson: To throw us ut the other side and back into space!

    Major West: That's insane!

    John Robinson: I don't have time to argue.

  • Penny Robinson: Here we go again.

  • Maureen Robinson: Am I interrupting something? No really, I think you two should go ahead and slug it out. I mean, here we are on an alien world and you boys want to get into a pissing contest? Please, go for it. I'll have Judy down here in a heartbeat to declare you both unfit, and I'll take over this mission. Now I don't want to hear another word from either of you, is THAT clear?

  • Penny Robinson: This mission sucks. I don't wanna leave early. I don't wanna go at all.

    Maureen Robinson: We will discuss this at dinner.

    Penny Robinson: For the last three years, I've missed everything. Training. So I can spend the next ten years missing everything else. I'm not staying home for dinner. I'm going out to see my friends.

    Maureen Robinson: Penny.

    Penny Robinson: I'm going out to... say good-bye to my entire life.

    Maureen Robinson: Penny I need you here tonight.

  • Penny Robinson: We're lost, aren't we?

  • John Robinson: Have you noticed, you take to opposite position to whatever I say?

    Maureen Robinson: Of course I do, we're married.

  • Maureen Robinson: NOT another word. Better. Now if you've finished hosing down the decks with testosterone, I suggest you come with me. I may have found a way to get us off this planet.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: Sarcasm is the recourse of the weak mind.

  • Major West: If this is all a dream, why can't there be more girls?

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: Never fear, Smith is here.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: I loathe children.

  • Monster Smith: You should have killed me when you had the chance.

    John Robinson: You know, you're right. I couldn't kill the man...

    [takes out on of Will's science fair plaques as an improvised weapon]

    John Robinson: But I can kill the monster!

  • Monster Smith: Haven't you made the doorway... too small?

    Older Will: Not for me. But then, I'm not going, am I? The spiders didn't kill the girls. It was you. I just didn't let myself see it. You kept me alive because you needed me. Because I could build this for you.

    Monster Smith: Poor, poor boy. Did you think that I would let you go? After all that I have become? Look at me. I am no mere man.

    [He takes off the clothes covering him to reveal a spider/human figure]

    Monster Smith: I am a god. Within these eggsacks lives a monster race of spiders. We shall descend upon helpless Earth. An entire planet on which to rule. An entire planet on which to feed! Time to die, *son*.

    Older Will: I'm not your son!

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: [to the Robot] Unhand me, you mechanical moron.

  • Will Robinson: Oh, shit.

    Dr. Zachary Smith: A boy of your intelligence should never swear... Oh, shit.

  • [Will, through the robot's holographic interface, sees the spiders eating the other injured spiders]

    Will Robinson: Eww. They eat their wounded.

  • Will Robinson: [speaking through Robot] Mom says to get the hell outta there!

  • Maureen Robinson: Get the hell out of there!

    Will Robinson: [speaking through the Robot] Mom says to get the hell out of there.

  • Maureen Robinson: [after will alters holographic projection of his principal, making her look like a gorilla] No more monkey business!

  • [after attacking Dr. Smith]

    Monster Smith: I never liked me anyway.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: You can't do it can you? You can't kill the man without becoming the monster.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: Oh, be still my foolish heart.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: It's the world behind the world Dr. Robinson. Lie once, cheat twice, and everything becomes clear.

  • Major West: [just before the spaceship explodes] I'm sorry.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: Major West, I highly recommend you never breed. That, by the way, is my medical opinion.

  • Reporter #1: Professor Robinson, how do your children feel about traveling into space for the next ten years?

    John Robinson: They couldn't be more excited.

    [next scene]

    Penny Robinson: This mission sucks!

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: [to Will Robinson] Let me tell you a lesson about life, kid. There are monsters everywhere... I know, I am one.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: Something you should abide by on this world or any other, never trust anyone. Especially me.

  • [First night on an unknown unfriendly looking planet they crashed on]

    Maureen Robinson: Good night, John.

    John Robinson: Good night, Maureen.

    Will Robinson: Good night, Judy.

    Penny Robinson: Good night, Will.

    Judy Robinson: Good night, Penny.

    [pause]

    Major West: You guys have got to be kidding.

  • Will Robinson: [to Penny] Do they have a name for what's wrong with you?

  • Will Robinson: Can we cut back on her air supply so she's not so annoying when she wakes up?

    Penny Robinson: Does he have to wake up at all?

  • Maureen Robinson: Get the hell out of there!

    Robot: [being controlled by Will] Mom says, get the hell out of there!

  • Will Robinson: [after seeing the old ship 20 years into the future] Oh shit!

    Dr. Zachary Smith: A boy of your intelligence should never swear.

    [Smith sees the old ship]

    Dr. Zachary Smith: Oh shit. Indeed.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: Nothing good can come of this.

  • [last lines]

    John Robinson: [before the Jupiter goes into hyperdrive] Initiate now.

    Will Robinson: Cool!

  • Major West: [West assembles his gun as the spiders are attacking] A million bucks worth of weaponry, and I'd trade it all back for a lousy can of Raid.

  • Major West: That's Sedition Technology!