Quotes / Explosive Breeder

They won't stop breeding!

— Notch, after testing a failed breeding mechanic.

"Chicken sandwich and coffee. This is my chicken sandwich and coffee. I want these things off the ship! I don't care if takes every man we've got, I want them off the ship!"

— Captain James T. Kirk, holding up a plate and cup covered in tribbles, Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Trouble with Tribbles"

"With an almighty roar Koloth swung his bat'leth down upon the hideous creature, splitting it in two! But no, his blow had missed, and the cursed tribble had simply given birth once more!"

— "Fire Songs of the Great Tribble Hunt!" compiled and translated by Ambassador K'Ehleyr.

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH THE XIV appears on the viewscreen holding a round furry animal. He speaks with an archaic English accent and more pauses than James T. Kirk.
ATTENBOROUGH: This...rather likable creature...is a tribble. While...undoubtedly appealing to humans...it nevertheless represents a major...
Attenborough pauses in confusion, as he's inexplicably holding two tribbles.
ATTENBOROUGH: Err...a major...ecological hazard. For the tribble...reproduces faster...
Four tribbles are jostling for position on his hands.
ATTENBOROUGH: Ahh faster than...than any other species...
Attenborough's hands are a blur of motion, as he frantically juggles half a dozen tribbles in a vain effort to stop them breeding.
ATTENBOROUGH: In existence! In short...they spend their entire lives...either eating or...or...AAARRRRGH!
By now Attenborough is buried under a huge mountain of tribbles.
ATTENBOROUGH (muffled): Or having sex!

— Hardcore Entertainment presents "Seven Does Voyager"

Take a pair of rabbits who;
Get stuck on each other and begin to woo;
And pretty soon you'll find a million more rabbits who;
Say "I love you."

— Professor Wagstaff; Horse Feathers

"It seems like Mr. and Mrs. Bunny have been practicing their multiplication tables!"

— Edd, Ed, Edd n Eddy

Eggman: I told you I only needed two rabbits!
Orbot: We did only capture two rabbits.
Cubot: Yeah, a boy rabbit, and a girl rabbit!
Eggman: (thoroughly disgusted) Ugh… sheesh!

— Sonic Seconds Volume 7

"War? Good. That means more food for my family. All 78 million of them. That's a lot of mouths to feed, Highness."

— The Bug, Men in Black

"...about 8,000 years ago a major change occurred — the agricultural revolution. People began to give up hunting food and settled down to grow it. Suddenly some of the risk was removed from life. The chances of dying of starvation diminished greatly in some human groups. Other threats associated with the nomadic life were also reduced, perhaps balanced by new threats of disease and large-scale warfare associated with the development of cities. But the overall result was a more secure existence than before, and the human population grew more rapidly. Around 1800, when the standard of living in what are today the DCs [developed countries] was dramatically increasing due to industrialization, population growth really began to accelerate. The development of medical science was the straw that broke the camel's back. While lowering death rates in the DCs was due in part to other factors, there is no question that "instant death control," exported by the DCs, has been responsible for the drastic lowering of death rates in the UDCs [underdeveloped countries]. Medical science, with its efficient public health programs, has been able to depress the death rate with astonishing rapidity and at the same time drastically increase the birth rate; healthier people have more babies"

— Paul R. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb

"I'm cute, I'm furry and I make 500 babies a year!"

— Rodney the guinea pig, Dr. Dolittle

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