Comments on: "My work here is done..."

Question: "My work here is done..."

BadMiker — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:29:00 -0800

"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?

By: eb98jdb

eb98jdb — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:18:32 -0800

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

By: i_cola

i_cola — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:18:47 -0800

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..?

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:22:44 -0800

This Usenet message from 1996 may offers some insight.

By: willmize

willmize — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:10:11 -0800

Pretty sure you're thinking about The Lone Ranger. It was right about the time he'd give someone a silver bullet.

By: jgirl

jgirl — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:56:57 -0800

Niecy Nash on Clean House always says "our work here is done."

By: runtina

runtina — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:58:58 -0800

I don't know, but Tyres says that at the end of the Spaced episode where they all go clubbing.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:06:26 -0800

If I remember correctly, somebody says it at the end of UHF too, but I imagine it's a reference to something else.

By: lowlife

lowlife — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:34:30 -0800

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.