That's my story. And what's the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.
— Spike Spiegel, Cowboy Bebop, "Toys in the Attic"
What is it? If it's a temporal multiplexer I've got to warn you, last time we had one in here Mo had to beat the fridge contents to death with a cricket bat — she was most annoyed —
— Bob Howard, The Fuller Memorandum
Jon: I wonder if I should clean out the refrigerator.
Garfield: The bacon is grazing on the lettuce and he asks if the refrigerator needs cleaning
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Garfield: The bacon is grazing on the lettuce and he asks if the refrigerator needs cleaning
.— Garfield
Do you know what happens to half-eaten German sausages when you leave them out for 3 million years?...Your sausages, Dave, now cover 7/8 of the earth's surface.
— Holly, Red Dwarf
Once, you bought a pork pie. You left it overnight because you weren't very hungry. You left it for a week because you were busy. You left it for a month because you're lazy. You left it for a year because you were scared. You're fighting The Thing from the Back of Your Fridge.
— A Random Encounter from Improbable Island
Doc: Aw, you big baby, it's not that bad. Heck, this won-ton is still good...
Roger: 'Not bad?!' The egg salad's grown mandibles!
Roger: 'Not bad?!' The egg salad's grown mandibles!
Mandy: What are you doing?
Fox: [holding a sword and glaring over the top of a shield] The dishes.
Fox: [holding a sword and glaring over the top of a shield] The dishes.
Oil-black dream stuff. Modified flesh. Neon mushrooms. Reminds me of my fridge.
— Kirsten Geary, The Secret World
Was this really his fridge? Where was the curdling milk struggling out of the top of its carton? Where was the strange smell that sent his stomach on a loop-de-loop and was impossible to track down? Where was his spare pair of trainers? He usually kept them in the ice compartment to cool down. There was nothing in the ice compartment except a varied selection of delicious-sounding ice-creams, and, for the first time in history, some ice. What was ice doing in the ice-making compartment of Lister's fridge? And where was that indefinable green mush in the salad tray? The one that resulted from decaying vegetables blending together so it was impossible to tell where the lettuces ended and the cabbages began.
— Red Dwarf: Better Than Life
In the very back of most refrigerators is a bottle that's been there 5 years, possibly longer. You no longer know what is floating in its murky depths of yuck, and you'd never eat it, but it stays there. Brooding. Mutating. Waiting.
