I was babysitting in an earthquake once. At the commercial (yeah, I'm from LA!), I went upstairs to check on the kids, but they slept through it. Then again, since it hadn't been bad enough to interrupt Star Trek, I figured it was minor enough so they would. (New episode of TNG, in fact.)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"