Hercules (1998–1999)

Tate Donovan: Hercules, Additional Voices

Photos 

Quotes 

• Parenthesis : For generations we've used the oracular reading of oxen guts to predict our student's careers, or lack thereof.

  Hercules : Eeeyugh. Couldn't you use some sort of aptitude test instead?

  Parenthesis : We tried that. The oxen guts were more accurate by 72%.

• Hercules : Zeusapalooza? This is not dad's style at all.

  Cassandra : This isn't anyone's style.

  Icarus : Woo! Bring on the big Z, baby!

• [At the retirement home, Adonis has one of the boarders cleaning his feet] 

  Hercules : Adonis, aren't you supposed to be helping him?

  Adonis : Oh, but I am. I'm giving him gainful employment. Does wonders for the self esteem.

  Hercules : His, or yours?

  Adonis : It's a win-win.

• Daedalus : Behold, the fundamental machine: the lever. Sublimely simple. Say it with me.

  Hercules : I got it.

  Daedalus : No, say lever! Never mind. Here's a working model. As my close personal friend Archimedes once said, "Give me a lever long enough, a fulcrum high enough, a place to stand, and I'll kiss you on the nose." He was a strange man.

• Icarus : Herc, you need a guy who's in the know, someone who can plug you to the epicenter of the chic Greek elite.

  Hercules : Gee, that'd be great!

  Icarus : Yeah, wouldn't it? I'm not that guy.

• [Jason has found the Golden Fleece and is rubbing in on his hair] 

  Jason of the Argonauts : How's my hair? Black as pitch?

  Hercules : Ah, no. Sorry.

  Jason of the Argonauts : Oh well. I hear some fellow Grecians are working on a formula for that, anyway.

• [Hercules and Adonis are trying to impress Circe] 

  Adonis : First of all, look at this tan. Have you ever seen such a beautiful sight?

  Hercules : Yes, as a matter of fact, on Mount Olympus. That's my home, you know. Or it will be, once I achieve my fullest potencial.

  Adonis : Yes, and you will live there with all your elf and pixie friends. Right, Hercules? What fun!

  [Whispering to Circe] 

  Adonis : He's crazy.

• [Hercules has been tied to a target by Ares and launched into the air. Ares' arrow splits the target in two, leaving Hercules with two 'wings'] 

  Icarus : Flap, man! Flap!

  Cassandra : Yeah, *that'll* work!

  Hercules : Wow! Is this what it was like to fly, Icarus?

  [Ares shoots the "wings" off him and Hercules flaps his arms desperately in the air for a few seconds before plummeting down] 

  Icarus : Yeah... that was pretty much it. Course, I got more sun.