1 Try dogpile.com and do the search. There is a ton of stuff. Just don't have time to go thru them all right now.

2 I'm afraid to ask what you're up to now...

3 Beavis & Butthead. It's one of my favorite sayings from that show. What do I win?

4 Another favorite: "It's a poodle. Better put it on 'delicate'" (from the Washing the Dog episode)

5 It's a variation on a quote from every old movie involving a sheik and a captured princess or slave girl... "Have her washed and brought to my tent". In more recent times, legend has it that supposedly on her 40th birthday Cher saw hunky 22-year-old bagel-boy Rob Camilletti for the first time and said, "Have him washed and brought to my tent." Oops, found this... your version is referenced here: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=796741

6 I think I said that. Last night at Madfish Willie's????

7 Alex thinks it's from Sparticus. I know it's from some Hollywood epic, and Beavis and Butthead used it more recently. Personally, my favourite line in Sparticus is Olivier to Tony Curtis when he asks him if he prefers "oysters or snails" while they're in the bath together :-)

8 LeeAnn - Your link catches it exactly. Dysfunctional Family Circus is where I first saw it. From Googling, I know it was also a Beavis & Butthead thing, but it just really sounds like a quote from some movie or another. Alex may be right about Spartacus, although Google offers nothing with "Spartacus bathe her"

9 If it's Spartacus, it isn't necessarily a "her". However, http://www1c.btwebworld.com/quote-unquote/p0000046.htm also lists it unsolved. I think a British audience would get Spartacus. Just to put some kind of date on it, a 1995 episode of Xena Warrior Princess, "The Prodigal", apparently uses it as a late addition to the script (that is, an online version of same comments that the line is missing),; someone in Google Groups in 1994 claims that the previous Fall a friend reacted to a good-looking man, "Yum. Have him washed & brought to my tent. I'll bring the butter.", and Cher is said to have used it at her 40th birthday party, which would've been May 1986, and, well, it /was/ her birthday. It also is reported to occur in a 1987 country-ish track "Sympathy for The Mekons" by The Mekons. I mention this because "to go commando" meaning "not to wear underpants" is claimed as originated by _Friends_, the TV show, and it isn't, although that's where many people heard it first. I would guess Rudolph Valentino or Richard Burton - the 19th century one - or indeed a sword-and-sandal or Arabian Nights movie. Hmm. Henry V, William Shakespeare: KING HENRY: Know'st thou Gower? FLUELLEN: He is my dear friend, an please you. KING HENRY: Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent. Nah...

10 "Bathe her and bring her to me" is spoken by Edward G. Robinson in the 1956 version of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments." The Beavis and Butt-Head episode featuring this line has, if I recall, a number of other lines from the movie.

11 I love it when butthead says, "This is the greatest thing i have ever seen"

12 I love it when butthead says, "This is the greatest thing i have ever seen"