Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko

Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (renamed Gex 3: Deep Pocket Gecko for the Game Boy Color version) is the last in the trilogy of Gex video games. Below is a list of quotes from the game, many of which are references to a certain aspect of television culture.

Gex

When hitting enemies, eating flies or getting hit

• Good, good, good!
• What's for dinner?
• A McFly meal for me, please!
• Another bug in the gut♪.
• I'm a sucker for bugs!
• Let's get it on.
• I know what you're thinkin': it's TAIL TIME!
• Taste my tail!
• Lock and load, little lizard!
• SOMEBODY'S gotta do it!
• That is one powerful piece of machinery!
• My tail doesn't like you!
• I am the GREATEST!
• Now cut that out!
• Karate chop!
• Shee-whack!
• My tail says "hello!"
• How do ya like me NOW?!
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
• Mmm- TVs instead of potatoes!
• Ahh, I'm getting a little turkey-neck.

When entering a level

• Lock and load.
• Lock and load, little lizard!
• It's tail tiiiiime!
• Let's get it on!

Holiday Broadcasting - Totally Scrooged

• The ice planet Hoth. The Rebels are there.
• I'm freezing my tail off here...
• Cold blood, cold weather. Bad combination!
• I feel like the freshmaker!
• And a-one, and a-two, you're a candy cane and dancing!
• We've knocked down the generator Lord Vader, you may start your landing.
• I wanna lick it, but my tongue'll get stuck!
• (imitating an old man) Where's that Wonka man?!?
• (imitating Jack Skellington) Christmas Town? I'm Jack Gexxington from Halloween Town.
• DUUUDE!
• Oh, Hermie, I wanna be a dentist.
• Note to self: don't lick any flagpoles.
• Dancing candy canes. How fruity.
• Colder than a witch's thing in a brass whatchamacallit.
• Colder than a supermodel's stare at an all-you-can-eat buffet!
• Luckily, I'm wearing my performance fleece.
• Donner party, for twenty. Donner party, for twenty.
• My favorite holiday, Halloween.
• This place is colder than Eva Gabor's wig fridge.
• (imitating Johnny Carson) It's like the inside of Santa's head - after an eggnog bender!
• Somebody tell Jackie Brown I found her hat!
• They're sweet! They're minty! They mambo!
• (when fighting the evil Santa) If you're Santa, then I'm a 6 foot tall lizard-- wait a minute...
• Mr. Wonka! Veruca stole a gobstopper!
• (as Captain Picard) Number One, program the Holodeck for something WARM!
• (Again, as Picard) My nipples feel like snowpeas! Make it warm, Number One!
• This outfit is snug in all the wrong places, prrr....
• I'll show you who's naughty and who's nice!
• My Name is Daryl, this is my other brother, Daryl

In the snowboard part of this level Gex can say the following:

• (sarcastic voice) Oh, great, another snowboarding game.
• Where's the handbrake on this thing?
• Check me out, I'm EXTREEEME!
• Hey! I'm snowboarding here!
• WARNING, yellow patch, WARNING!
• (Singing) Let's go snowboardin' now, everybody's learning how!
• (in a Staten Island accent) How can you surf, if you don't like water?

Mystery TV - Clueless in Seattle

• I feel like Lester the mo-Gexter.
• I look like Holmes, but I feel like Colombo.
• All this fancy stuff and no TV?! Savages!
• Granny? Jethro? Uncle Jed?!
• Where is Alicia Silverstone when you need a real clue?
• This is one ritzy joint... for a video game.
• Ah yes - the mystery of the two-brimmed hat.
• The evidence is overwhelming... I'm not wearing pants!
• (with childish voice) Now I will tell you the origins of the Universe.
• I've deduced... that my shorts are too tight... and I like it!
• With this raincoat I make a perfect Sherlock Holmes... or a flasher.
• With my trusty magnifying glass, I can now spend the entire day burning ants!
• God bless the British, and their love for itchy wool!
• (when playing bear head minigame) If these aren't fleas, I'm gonna have to buy more "special" shampoo!
• (imitating Sean Connery) Goldfinger's Fortress, this is not!

As DracuGex, the following can also be said by Gex:

• I'm suddenly very thirsty... for blooood...
• The flying part's cool; the undead part sucks.
• Very scary, 'eh kids?
• (imiatating Count von Count) For some reason I feel like... COUNT-ING, ha, ha! One... two... three...
• Hold the garlic.
• KOLCHAK, THIS MAN THINKS HE'S A VAMPIRE!!!

Tut TV - Holy Moses!

• Nothing that attracts the ladies more than a dirty daidy.
• I always say - the headress makes the man.
• (imitating C-3PO) Well, I'm not going that way - it's much too rocky! This way is much easier!
• (imitating Bugs Bunny) Here we are! Pismo Beach and all the clams I can eat!
• (imitating C-3PO) A transport? I'm saved. OVER HERE!!!
• (imitating Luke Skywalker) Uncle Owen, this R2 has a bad motivator.
• When this level is over, I am selling this hat.
• A headress, a diaper, and I'm good to go.
• (Singing) There's a place in France where the ladies where no pants!
• (Singing) Midnight at the Oasis...
• Dog-headed gods and the women who love them, on the next Jerry Springer!
• This place is drier than Lynda Tripp's sauna pants!
• I'll kidnap all the oceans of the world, Underdog!
• Uh, is this one of those "pyramid schemes?"
• (imitating Liberace) I wish my brother Moses was here!
• I'm a bad man, i have poopy pants

Army Channel - War Is Heck

• You're the only one, Gex.
• HOGAN!!! Forty days in the cooler!!
• INCOMIIIING!!!!
• The Pentagon spent 25 million dollars for this one level??
• Note to self - Don't get killed in big, loud war.
• This was the '60s had runnin' high - of course, I've had sideburns and bellbottoms...
• Sur-prise, sur-prise, sur-prise, surprise.
• Where are you from, son?...Texas!!?...HO-LY--!
• The first word out of your filthy sewer will be "GEX"!!
• Gooood morniiing, Menlo Park!
• Do these boots come in red?
• I can accessorize this! A handbag, some buttons, a bauble, a bow!
• This helmet is gonna muss my hair....
• Nothing like army clothes for total comfort.
• He-hey, where's the flee to Cananda level?
• Hey, no kidding, did I miss the "Make love, not War" level?

Western Station - The Organ Trail

• Do you feel lucky, punk?
• Youuu TRY IT!
• Go ahead... make my lunch.
• (with a mexican accent) I could use a siesta!
• I can tickle?!
• Howdy! There's some doodie.
• There's GOLD in them there teeth!
• Geckos gotta know his limitations.
• Rollin' rollin' rollin', rawhide!
• Boxcar Willie is my favorite hobo.
• YEE-HAW, LITTLE DOGGIES!
• Saddle up, Hombre.
• Extra, I'm a-fixin to rescue you.
• I'm going to find Billy Crystal's smile.
• Well, little lady....it's me and a donkey.

Buccaneer Program - Cutcheese Island

• I wanna be a pirate.
• We'll follow you, creature.
• Iceberg, DEAD AHEAD!!
• Crank up the Gilbert and Sullivan, dude.
• Issac! The leado deck is filthy!
• I get sea sick... hold the game still!
• Extra, I'll be savin' ya any minute. Soon as I poke out me eye and saw off me leg!

Mythology Network - Mythstories

• Toga, toga, TOGA, TOGA!
• Hey... are you guys playing cards?
• *barking*
• Wormer? Dead! Niedermayer. Dead!
• Move over, Argonauts. Here come the Gexanots!
• I...am...Gexicus!
• I am Judah ben Gex.
• Look at the little soldier.
• (as a female tour guide) Welcome to the Sultan of Brunei's bathroom.
• Heavens to Loverboy! An 80's Flashback!
• (Imitating John Belushi) I'm a Zit! Get it?
• Is it columns or pillars? It's all Greek to me.
• Clash of the Titans! What a movie!
• (Cutely) Aw! Look at the little soldier!

Fairytale TV - Red Riding in the Hood

• I'll climb it, but I'm not gonna like it!
• Hey, good thing I brought some beans
• Fe, fi, fo... forget it.
• (as a female tour guide) And, on your left, Aaron Spelling's broom closet.
• Ugh, I feel like hocking a loogie.
• (Singing) 'Scuse me while I kiss the Opal Program Sky!

'Anime Channel - When Sushi Goes Bad

• (Imitating an Alien) Take me to your lizard.
• (Singing) I am Robot, Hear me roar.
• What if I have to go potty?
• Hey! I'm in George Jetson's colon!
• {Imitating Buzz Lightyear) To infinity and, uh...
• Schoolgirls?! Why did it have to be schoolgirls?!
• Extra, We're needed!
• I'm outta here!
• My job here is done! . . . Engage!

Gangster TV - My Three Goons

• Time for Gex to clean up the city.
• (Godfather-esque) I'm making them offer they can't refuse.
• (imitating Al Pacino) I'm OUTTA ORDER! YOU'RE OUTTA ORDER!! THIS WHOLE LEVEL'S OUTTA ORDER!!!
• Do I amuse you? Like a clown?
• It's like a friggin' fugazi in here!
• Hey! Yo! My friggin' name is friggin' Donnie Brasco!

Superhero Show - Superzeroes

• This city is a jungle... but a square one with no plants!
• I'm your friendly neighborhood super-gecko!

In chicken costume, Gex can say the following, too:

• Wasn't the SuperGUY costume available?
• Who are you calling chicken?

Space Station REZ - Rez-raker

• Houston, we got a problem!
• This is gonna cost NASA a fortune!
• Skylab, we were all so worried about you!
• What a bunch of space junk...
• One small step for Gecko!
• So much for Satellite TV.
• I love a good Kubrick movie....

Alfred

• Don't worry, Gex, you can still save her, but my television teleporter doesn't have enough power to Rez's secret lair. You'll have to travel around the broadcast first.
• Welcome, sir. Please come on in. Entering the training area should allow you to brush up on your skills.
• Press the attack button to tail-whack those hideous dummies.
• Sir, jump forward onto the paw targets.
• To tail bounce, press jump again once in air to reach higher grounds.
• Press crouch while running to perform a deadly karate kick.
• Sir, it seems you can tilt your view using the shoulder buttons.
• I do believe that it's time to start the game now.
• Bouncing on presents seems like a good idea to me, sir.
• Those statues look like switches to me.
• Pressing duck once in air will cause one to glide.
• Sir, try standing on a magnified glass icon and looking around you.
• Fleas, sir! Ugh! Kill 10 of them beggers before time runs out!
• Bubbles, sir. How pretty. Pop 5 of them before time runs out.
• Hurry sir! Tail-kick 7 pool balls before time runs out.
• Mummys and secrets - it appears that they go hand-in-hand.
• Back in '42, we used machineguns to shoot the searchlights, sir.
• The donkey's user manual says it can climb steep hills.
• The donkey's a wild one, sir. It could even head butt!
• Whoa, sir. Them treasure chests contain treasure!
• Sir's tail and TNT barrels - always a useful combination.
• It can be rewarding to ride the Wall of Death, but please be careful.
• Sir, 100 fly coins in a level earns you an extra remote.
• 25 paw coins adds an extra hit point to your health, sir.
• Sir will be able to spend these bonus coins in the bonus games in the Gex cave.
• If sir must eat flies, I suggest using the tounge button.
• Dress as Hercules to push and break certain columns.
• Oh, well done, sir.
• That was amazing, sir! Well done.
• Sir, this is impressing me more and more every day.