Ice TV - Best of

If a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to hear it, who hits the jackpot?

– Presenter Nathan Rarere

The Bing Wheel. The Bing Wheel wasn’t mine, it was obviously Bing’s, but I made sure that he became famous.

– Jon Bridges, playing a marketing mastermind, explains his latest product the Bing Wheel, in part 1

Seriously, it was so good. It was that job that you look back on and say “Ugh, that was the best job of my life." And the reason it was, partly, was because of the dudes I got to do it with.

– Petra Bagust reminisces about the Ice TV days, on her podcast series Grey Areas, 7 April 2022

Hello, New Zealand!

– The band Hanson

Come on, Nathan! Think of the King!

– Presenter Petra Bagust gets Nathan Rarere to try Elvis Presley's 'Fools Gold' sandwich, in part three

You kind of want to do a little look, just a little look, not the stare, not the stare! Never stare. Remember the rule — if you stare, you're outta there.

– Presenter Nathan Rarere on 'flirty eyes', in part two

In the first year of Ice TV, I was a bit of a control freak about my ideas. So, I had that one where I was like “No, I’ve thought of this whole sketch, I know how it’s gonna work down to the second. So I need to be in control." Which must have been a terrible person to work with! But Jon and Petra were nice about it and let it go.

– Nathan Rarere on lessons learned from the Ice TV era, in an interview for 2019 TV series Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy

It was one of the first times when you could actually give a camera to the talent, and they could film something. Before that the technology wasn't up to it. So we would run around with these cameras, film stuff ourselves, and with a little bit of hesitation and mistrust from the powers that be at the network and the editors ... we'd ended up putting that stuff on TV.

– Ice TV presenter Jon Bridges, in an interview for 2019 TV series Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy

In America, there was a way of saying "How far did you get last night?" which was based on baseball. Which was, first base would be the kiss, second base would be copping a feel… ha, should I go on?

– Musician Meatloaf, in part five

The other primates, he said, only mate when they're in season, certain times of the year. But humans mate all year round. Morning, noon and night, the whole time — excerpt when the rugby’s on — and we’ve developed complex coital rituals to go with it.

– Presenter Jon Bridges on zoologist Desmond Morris saying humans are the sexiest creatures alive, in part two

Oh yes, hundreds of virile young men and women gather at the gym in the name of fitness. But actually, a lot more is happening, because it's at a place like this that we display the parts of our body that are built to attract the opposite sex.

– Presenter Petra Bagust at the gym, in part two

People would say to me, “Why would you want to film yourself live?" and I’m going "Why would you ask me such a stupid question?”

– Meatloaf on making music videos, in part five