"My work here is done..."

November 21, 2008 2:29 AM

"My work here is done." He/she said at the end of every episode, as they walked away to the next challenge... It could have been the A-team, but it's too lonely, or Knightrider but it's too morose; it sounds so familiar, but I cannt find anything about it. I'm starting to think I'm just imagining it, maybe it's a TV show which should have been made, but never was...

Hive mind! Somewhere in the collective memory there must be some record of this?

posted by BadMiker to media & arts (8 comments total)

Some googling seems to indicate that it was the Lone Ranger....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=Qro&q=%22my+work+here+is+done%22+lone+ranger&btnG=Search
posted by eb98jdb at 3:18 AM on November 21, 2008

I too would like to know if it is one of those real or imaginary lines as I seem to use it at the end of far to many social occasions.

Leonard Nimoy says 'My work is done here' it at the end of the Marge vs the Monorail episode of the Simpsons which may have put it into common useage..?
posted by i_cola at 3:18 AM on November 21, 2008

This Usenet message from 1996 may offers some insight.
posted by Mo Nickels at 6:22 AM on November 21, 2008

Pretty sure you're thinking about The Lone Ranger. It was right about the time he'd give someone a silver bullet.
posted by willmize at 7:10 AM on November 21, 2008

Niecy Nash on Clean House always says "our work here is done."
posted by jgirl at 7:56 AM on November 21, 2008

I don't know, but Tyres says that at the end of the Spaced episode where they all go clubbing.
posted by runtina at 8:58 AM on November 21, 2008

If I remember correctly, somebody says it at the end of UHF too, but I imagine it's a reference to something else.
posted by juv3nal at 11:06 AM on November 21, 2008

Probably not what you were thinking of, but I believe the Wonder Pets say the following at the end of each episode:

LINNY
Our work here is done.

TUCK
To the Flyboat?

LINNY
To the Flyboat.

posted by lowlife at 5:34 PM on November 24, 2008