Quotes / Tested on Humans

Chase: Fetch some clamps, Keeler.
Keeler: You can't! It's inhuman!
Chase: I don't care. I must know what happens when a Krynoid touches human flesh.

— Doctor Who, "The Seeds of Doom"

"A good wine's value is measured by its vintage. The number of years it took to ferment. Vertigo is measured in lives. 56 people died to perfect this high. Believe me when I say that they did not die for nothing."

— The Count, Arrow, "Vertigo"

"There are several efficient methods for killing a man were you to find yourself without a weapon. The edge of your hand, against your adversary's Adam's apple. This will crush his windpipe, causing strangulation and death. [demonstrates on a volunteer, then realizes what he's done] Shit! I need another volunteer!"

— Instructor Jenks, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, by Chuck Barris

(John Crichton has strapped on a personal forcefield generator)
John: Someone shoots me, and I'm protected.
D'Argo: Well I think we'd better test it. (raising his Qualta rifle) Do you have any, ah, small appendages you don't need?
John: Small?
Noranti: (patting John's behind) Shoot him in the buttock! That's big!
John: Hey! You know what? Don't touch my ass! That's sexual harassment! (he turns back to find D'Argo drawing a bead on his bum) Whoa! No! We are not shooting THE BUTT!
D'Argo: Okay...
John: THE BUTT is off-limits! Try the... heel or... Why don't we shoot you? You got a small appendage!
D'Argo: Shoot ME? (fires at John's kneecap—the pulse bolt is absorbed)
John: Son-of-a-gun, it works...

— Farscape, "Lava's a Many Splendored Thing"

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