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I’m so happy that one of my favourite shows is starting back up this week. I’m going to miss Stargate: SG1, but at least we still have Stargate: Atlantis to keep us happy! So I thought it might be fun to post thirteen of my favourite Atlantis quotes featuring Rodney McKay. For those of you not familar with the show, Rodney is a brillant scientist, who is a cocky jerk…and Canadian to boot! I hope you enjoy.

1. Carson Beckett M. D.: He fainted.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Oh there’s gotta be a better word.
Carson Beckett M. D.: Faint is a proper medical term.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I passed out from… manly hunger!

2. Dr. Rodney McKay: I’m sorry. It’s just… I react to certain doom in a certain way. It’s a bad habit.

3. Dr. Rodney McKay: I built an atomic bomb for my grade six science fair exhibit.
Lt. Aiden Ford, USMC: They let you do that up in Canada?

4. Dr. Rodney McKay: I’m picking up a strange reading from right over there.
Maj. John Sheppard: Define strange.
Dr. Rodney McKay: [pause] You don’t know what strange means?

5. Dr. Rodney McKay: [the team is trying to come up with a solution to a problem while being very short on time] You’re right. If only we had a magical tool that could slow down time. I foolishly left mine on Earth – did you bring yours?
Dr. Zelenka: You know, you’re not pleasant when you’re like this, McKay.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I’m always like this.
Dr. Zelenka: My point exactly.

6. Dr. Rodney McKay: Seriously, am I the only one creeped out by that guy?
Maj. John Sheppard: They’re politicians, Rodney – they’re all creepy.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Margaret Thatcher wasn’t creepy. OK – well, maybe a little. In fact, she was like an aunt of mine – same hairstyle, facial structure, only my aunt was much taller, and remarkably hirsute. Oddest thing: she had to shave twice a day.

7. Dr. Rodney McKay: Look, the first siege of Atlantis lasted for years. I mean, with only one functioning Zed P.M, we can’t expect to hold on that long.
Col. Steven Caldwell: Can we submerge the city again?
Dr. Rodney McKay: [sighs] It’s a city, not a yo-yo.

8. Dr. Rodney McKay: You’re referring to the ship you just shot down! One that doesn’t stand a hope in hell of ever flying again.
Torrell: The ship that you’re gonna fix, yes.
Dr. Rodney McKay: What am I, MacGyver? Fix it with what?

9. [Sheppard is giving McKay flying lessons, and they get into an argument]
Maj. John Sheppard: This is why parents get someone else to teach their kids how to drive.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I’m both insulted and touched by that.

10. Carson Beckett M. D.: [sighs] We believe ATA or Ancient Technology Activation is caused by a single gene that’s always on. Instructing various cells in the body to produce a series of proteins and enzymes
[McKay is staring at syringe]
Carson Beckett M. D.: that interact with the skin, the nervous system and the brain. In this case we’re using a mouse retrovirus to deliver the missing gene to your cells.
Dr. Rodney McKay: [Looking worried] A mouse retrovirus?
Carson Beckett M. D.: It’s been deactivated.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, are there any side effects?
Carson Beckett M. D.: Dry mouth, headache, the irresistible urge to run in a small wheel…

11. Dr. Rodney McKay: All I know is that she’s not who she’s pretending to be.
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: And you know this because…?
Dr. Rodney McKay: What, I’m not allowed to have intuition?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: You? No.

12. [Sheppard and McKay whisper while spying on a Wraith in disguise]
Maj. John Sheppard: That’s her!
Dr. Rodney McKay: That’s the Wraith?
Maj. John Sheppard: Yeah.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Wow… She’s hot! I mean seriously hot!
Maj. John Sheppard: Rodney, you’re drooling over a Wraith!
Dr. Rodney McKay: I know, I… disgust myself sometimes.

13. Carson Beckett M. D.: You have a date, Rodney? With a woman?
Dr. Rodney McKay: It is simply two adults sharing some friendly… Yes, with a woman!