Soft Eyes

The Wire 4×2

Det. Leander Sydnor: Lester, tell me the thought hasn't crossed your mind that some kinda shit could blow back on us, man.
Det. Lester Freamon: Do you know what Theodore Roosevelt said about hunting grizzly bears? The thrill is in overcoming your own fear.
A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: What was the thrill for the bear?

A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: And the thing that I resent most, that he's not just playing the system, he's playing me! Like I'm part of the problem.
Maj. Cedric Daniels: You were gonna hold back the paper for Davis and Krawczyk, right?
A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: Only until the primary was over.
Maj. Cedric Daniels: And now you feel guilty about it... Did he do that thing where he stares at you over the top of his reading glasses? You know, with that look that says, "I'm the father you never had, and I don't want to be disappointed in you ever again."
A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: It's not funny, Cedric!

Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: You can't tell nobody. Swear to me you won't spread this around.
Det. Ellis Carver: And he saw you?
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Yeah, he saw me. Carv, I'm fucked in the ass with a pineapple on this.

Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: Tomorrow night... I will kick his ass. But the next morning, I still wake up white in a city that ain't.

Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: I think he's pretty mad. I mean, Major, I only took this detail to try and make sergeant on this list.
Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek: Kid, you made sergeant already. Shit, if Royce gets re-elected, you'll be a lieutenant in two years and a major in four.

Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek: You go back down to the hall. You act like it never happened. You shut up. Say nothing to no one.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: But the mayor, he's gonna...
Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek: He's gonna watch and see how you carry it. And, kid, you're a fucking rock. When the mayor looks in your face, he knows he can trust you with this. And I'll bet in a couple of weeks, he comes asking, real friendly-like, "What are you looking to do with the department? With your career?" He's interested in you. But he doesn't mention no blow job, and neither do you. Uh-uh. It just lays there like a bad pierogi on the plate, both of you pretending it ain't there.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: What if he screws me over? Bounces me to a midnight shift?
Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek: He does that, you will talk.

Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek: What I wouldn't give to be in your shoes right now... Kid, careers have been launched on a hell of a lot less. Just shut up and play dumb.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: I can do that. No problem.

State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: If some federal motherfucker comes through the door, I say, "Hey, it's all in the game." But a city police? Baltimore City? Hell, no! Can't be happenin', 'cause I know I have raised too much goddamn money for the mayor and his ticket. Hell, no! Ain't no soul in the world that fuckin' ungrateful!

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Ah, man. Better to be lucky than to be good.

Mrs. Anderson: Mrs. Scott?
Perlene Scott: Same as last year, double space. Language Arts. We grade a lot of papers. It doesn't make them write any better, but it saves my eyesight.
Mrs. Anderson: Demonstrate it for them. Some of them think double space means more space between words.
Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: I'd have thought by eighth grade...
Mrs. Anderson: Rule of thumb here, Mr. Pryzbylewski, never assume. Explain what you want them to do, have them do it, then explain again. With time and patience, they'll get it. Mrs. Shapiro?
Rachel Shapiro: It's easier to keep track of lab work if we all use the same heading. Upper right-hand corner, above the first blue line, name, date, and class number, in that order?
Mrs. Anderson: Mr. Pryzbylewski, do you have anything you want addressed?
Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: Can we have them not chew gum?
Mrs. Anderson: They won't do it in Ms. Sampson's class, but in four years, I have not been able to stop them. You can try, but first year, it's best to stick with basics. In team rules, we can only go with what we can all enforce.
Rachel Shapiro: Also, keep your windows closed. Makes them drowsy, and drowsy's good.
Mrs. Anderson: There's a lot to learn. But for now, build in lots of activities in your lesson plan, you can't have enough.
Perlene Scott: You keep them busy, you keep them off-guard.
Grace Sampson: You need soft eyes...

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Paraskevidekatriaphobia

Inside No. 9 (8×3)

Gareth: Well, I wanted to point out to Dermot O'Leary that a study conducted in 1993 by Scanlon, Luben, Scanlon and Singleton concluded that the risk of hospital admission actually goes up by as much as 52% on Friday the 13th, so, you know, get your facts right and stop broadcasting such irresponsible crap!

Sue: I don't know if you want to hear this now, but your flush is broken, by the way.
Gareth: Yes, of course it is!
Sue: What with that and the lock, well, they say bad luck comes in threes.
Gareth: What's number two?
Sue: Your flush is broken, by the way...

Gareth: Just do it! I don't need any more bad luck today.

Johnny: You don't believe in all that Friday the 13th stuff, do you?
Gareth: Yes, of course I do! Look where I've ended up - trapped in a toilet with you two.
Johnny: But that's got nothing to do with the date. It's just circumstance.
Gareth: Oh, so says Mr. Shoes On The Table! You're inviting bad luck.
Johnny: From who, though?
Gareth: The universe! I opened the door and, boom, utter chaos!
Johnny: That's a very negative attitude, if you don't mind me saying.
Gareth: Tell that to Jesus, crucified on so-called Good Friday, after the Last Supper where there were 13 guests.
Sue: I didn't know they had Fridays in them days...

Gareth: You're all talking like what I'm saying is irrational, but it isn't! As I just explained in there!

Dana: It's taking over our lives. Every Friday the 13th, three times a year, you are obsessed!
Gareth: I'm not obsessed. And it's not three times a year. It's twice this year, twice next year and one time the year after that.

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Rogue Agent (2022)

Alice Archer: There's a trick that spies use. He told me they learn it on their first day of training. If you want to make an instant connection with someone, look into their eyes, just long enough to register their eye color... He said it works every time.

Alice Archer: He said that espionage is storytelling. And everyone has a story they want to be told.

Alice Archer: In that world, duplicity is a necessity... The greater the ruse, the bigger the risk. His world was thrilling and mysterious. But it came at a cost... A cost to him... and to others.

Alice Archer: Anyone who entered that world left behind the lives they had before. People they once were. That was the price they had to pay.

Alice Archer: And you weren't tempted by the military life yourself?
Robert Freegard: No, God no. No, at the end of the day, put on a uniform, you gotta be prepared to... pull the trigger and end someone's life. I just don't think I could do that.

Robert Freegard: If someone wants a luxury car, they're looking for an idea of themselves. They're searching for a dream.

Robert Freegard: What about you? Do you like what you do?
Alice Archer: Mmm... Um... "Like..." is a pretty strong word.
Robert Freegard: So why do you do it?
Alice Archer: Well, uh... I mean... it's... it's my job, you know?

Phil: Just a standard check? Credit histories, mortgages, and spouses?
Alice Archer: Thank you.

Jill Jones: Do you believe in God, Miss Archer? And the devil?
Alice Archer: I, uh... I don't really think about it.
Jill Jones: Well, I do. I believe that some people have been put on this Earth to be the agents of one or the other. Robert Freegard is such an agent, and he's not the Lord's.

Phil: I was a copper for 18 years. When you're doing that job, you deal with three types of people. Mad, sad, and bad. "Mad" are people with everyday mental health problems. They get in trouble without wanted to. "Sad" are people who've had shit lives. It's obvious why they end up criminals. Those two are your vast majority of perpetrators, but... "bad" is a different story. Sociopaths, psychopaths, fantasists, manipulators. They spend their entire lives destroying other people. They're smart, they're always one step ahead, and they all have one thing in common.
Alice Archer: What's that?
Phil: They can't change. They do what they do again, and again, and again, and they never, ever stop. The only thing you can do is try to stay as far away from them as possible. The last thing you wanna do is ever see him again.

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Boys of Summer

The Wire 4×1

School Receptionist: You tell them, I ain't even gonna try to pronounce it.
Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: Roland Pryzbylewksi. Everyone just calls me "Prez". ... New in math. I won't have my certificate until next year but they said I'd be getting classes because of staff shortages?
Assistant Principal Marcia Donnelly: Jesus. Lambs to the slaughter here.

Former Mayor 'Young Tony': You know what I think, Tommy? No matter what, you got your name out there and it'll help you down the road if you ever want to step up to the legislature. But as one paisan to another, the day of the white mayor is over.

Theresa D'Agostino: One man's shithead's another man's vice president.

Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: You think they'll vote for the white guy?
Norman Wilson: Black folk been voting white for a long time. You come correct, we listen. It's y'all that'll never vote black.

Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: I don't have your vote, Norman? You're my deputy campaign manager and I don't have your vote.
Norman Wilson: Last white man I could vote for was Bobby Kennedy and you ain't no Bobby K.
Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: I thought you just said...
Norman Wilson: I was speaking in general about the kindly nature of black folks. In particular, I ain't all that kindly.

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A New Weather Girl and a Stay-at-Home Coddler

Young Sheldon 6×19

Mandy: I want a career.
Georgie: Well, I-I happen to think motherhood is a career.
Mandy: Hmm. What about fatherhood? You have a job.
Georgie: That's different.
Mandy: Why?
Georgie: Because. There's lots of reasons.

Mandy: So you just get to have a job and a life, and I have to stay home with the baby?
Georgie: Or I have to have a job and you get to stay home with the baby. It's all about perspective.

Sheldon: Yes, is this the Columbia summer science honors program?... My name is Sheldon Cooper, perhaps you've heard of me... Well, now you have.

Mary: Shelly, how bad could it be? You started college when you were 11.
Sheldon: Well, it was impressive when I was little and cute. But now that I'm old and cute, it's just not the same thing.

Mandy: I can't find anything to wear for my interview.
Connie: Well, let's see... Hmm. That's pretty cute.
Mandy: "Can't find" was code for "can't fit into."

George: Someday [Sheldon's] kids are gonna tell him he's ruinin' their lives.
Mary: You think?
George: If he has 'em, they're gonna say it. So probably not.
Adult Sheldon: Joke's on him. I did have kids. And joke's on me. They say it all the time.

Pres. Hagemeyer: Sheldon... I haven't had my coffee yet.
Sheldon: I thought you might say that.
Pres. Hagemeyer: Thank you.
Sheldon: I'm not a coffee drinker. I hope you like seven sugars.

Georgie: All right, no one else is touchin' my baby's head... for free.

Dr. Sturgis: Trying to solve unified field theory?

Sheldon: Yes. Who needs a summer program if you can solve what Albert Einstein couldn't. Let's see Caltech say no to this.

Adult Sheldon: Mandy was proving that new mothers could do anything anyone else could do. In fact, they could do more, like make their own milk, right there, on camera...

Sheldon: Heidelberg, Germany?
Dr. Linkletter: A summer program 5,000 miles away. Only a fool would say no to that.
Sheldon: Well, that would certainly help my grad school applications.
Dr. Sturgis: Yes, and they're doing exciting work on superstrings.
Sheldon: Fantastisch. That's German for "fantastic."
Dr. Linkletter: Ich helfe dir beim packen. That's German for "I'll help you pack."

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Departures

The White Lotus 1×6

Tanya MacQuoid: Sorry, that chaise is taken... But you're a very pretty man.

Dillon: Is this like a kamikaze situation? Are you gonna take me down with you?
Armond: What do you care? You make shit money. They exploit me. I exploit you. Crash and burn, Dillon. Better at your age, before you've wasted your entire life.

Olivia Mossbacher: I'm not my parents, Paula.
Paula: But you are. Actually, you are. And you think you're like this rebel, but in the end... this is your tribe. Your family, the people here.
Olivia Mossbacher: That's really manipulative, Paula. You're the one who stole, yet I'm the bad guy?
Paula: Don't give me that. You've stolen, too.
Olivia Mossbacher: What did I steal?
Paula: Well, I guess it's not stealing when you think everything's already yours. Just stop pretending to be my friend. I'm just some prop you use for some weird cred.

Armond: .... That was the best seating ever.

Greg: Don't be surprised if I suddenly just drop dead. Death doesn't have to spoil everything, right?... Enjoy your life till they drop the curtain.
Tanya MacQuoid: Well... I've had every kind of treatment over the years. Death... is the last immersive experience I haven't tried.

Belinda: You want my advice? I'm all out.

Rachel Patton: Everything's fine. I'm happy, promise. I'll-- I'll be happy.

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Mother's Ruin

Inside No. 9 (8×2)

Harry: No. D'you know what? I don't want to do it.
Edward: Harry... Harry!
Harry: Let's just consider what might happen.
Edward: We're just gonna ask her one little question, then we're done!

Harry: That's not good. Red wine on a wood floor? That'll be a deep stain.

Reggie: What a bloody ding-dong's going on 'ere?
Harry: It's-it's just red wine. But it'll come out if you use a bit of baking powder.

Reggie: We should feel honoured, Franny. Looks like we're in the presence of two giants of the detective genre. Mr Sherlock Holme and Miss Marples under our very roof.
Frances: I prefer Father Brown.

Harry: And there was I worrying about the red wine stain.

Frances: Yeah, Reg, listen, that woman on the beach said that I was on the cusp of a life-changing event. Said I needed to protect meself.
Reggie: She was just trying to rent you an umbrella!

Frances: I'll deal with that mess later. I'm gonna catch up on Women Who Kill.

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The Auguries

Westworld 4×1

Man in Black: Forever... in my experience is a little bit longer than most people expect.

Man in Black: This is America. Everything here is for sale.

Man in Black: You ever hear the one about the missionary who tried to negotiate with the tiger? He told the tiger he could eat most of him, but he had to stop when he got to his head... You and your friends in the cartel or whatever the fuck you're calling yourselves these days sell me this lump of concrete, today.
Hugo: Or?
Man in Black: Or you give it to me for nothing. Tomorrow.

Man in Black: Door number two, then. Mañana.

Maya: I have a dilemma. Which would you choose? White or black?

Jo: Man, seven years ago, it would've just been robots working the holiday, but... lucky for us, they're all scrap metal now. Least the riots ensured our job security.
Caleb: That wasn't exactly the point of the riots.
Jo: Yeah, 'cause the riots had no point.
Caleb: They won us our freedom.
Jo: Sure, but from what? Ourselves? Hey, man, the way I look at it, that Incite machine that they blew up didn't tell us who we could be, it told us who we already were.

Maeve: Now be a dear. Close your eyes, won't you?

Maya: And remember, smile. You have to at least try.
Christina: Do I? I mean, even if by some miracle we're right for each other, shouldn't it be natural and easy?
Maya: Are you kidding? Take a look at this world. Nobody wants easy or natural. Art is a lie that tells the truth, honey.

Christina: I mostly write non player characters.
Henry: What's that?
Christina: Background characters that interact with the players on their journeys. Not as high-profile as programming the leads. But it's just as important.
Henry: For most players, the background characters are just cannon fodder.
Christina: ... I'm not doing it for the players, I'm doing it for myself.

Henry: You sound depressed. There's tabs for that. They'll fix you right up.
Christina: What if I'm not the one that's broken? What if it's the world that needs fixing?
Henry: There's tabs for that feeling, too.

Caleb: Well, you know the best way to keep watch at night is to turn the lights down around you and light up...
Frankie: Light up the perimeter.
Caleb: That way, no one can see you, but you can see.
Frankie: See everyone.

Uwade: We've been through this. You just need to take deep breaths. Calm yourself. The past is in the past. Nothing is going to hurt you except your own mind.
Caleb: I'm sorry.

Maeve: Hello, darling.

Caleb: You know, I thought... I was sure I was never gonna see you again.
Maeve: And yet here I am, disposing and dismembering just like the good old days.

Caleb: I always knew this day was coming. As soon as you stop running, everyone else starts to catch up.

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What an Unseasonal Delight

Avenue 5 (2×2)

Ryan Clark: So, burn or starve?
Billie McEvoy: Well, it's nice to have options.
Ryan Clark: You know, I think I preferred it when it was chicken or fish.

Herman Judd: How can we accidently fly into the Sun? ... I've blocked out that fiery disc of shit with nothing but a parasol on a beach. I beat it then... and I'll beat it again.

Herman Judd: I just wanna outlive the Sun, Matt, is that too much to ask?

Matt Spencer: I need you to say no...
Herman Judd: Okay.
Matt Spencer: ...when I ask you, "Are you afraid of death?"
Herman Judd: N... no?
Matt Spencer: Great, but when you say "no," I need you to believe in it. Okay, so, are you afraid of naps?
Herman Judd: No. No, I love naps.
Matt Spencer: Well, death is just a long, beautiful nap. So, you are afraid of naps?
Herman Judd: No.
Matt Spencer: Are you afraid of long naps?
Herman Judd: No.
Matt Spencer: Are you afraid of death?
Herman Judd: No... Wait. Um...
Matt Spencer: Congratulations. You're ready to die!

Gimpymanhand: The Sun is made of gas. They might just pass through it. Science.

Doug: Houston, we have a pregnant.

Karen Kelly: Oh, my goodness. Human beings. Just feel and smell so good...
Frank Kelly: Karen.
Karen Kelly: Don't "Karen" me!

Karen Kelly: Frank is kinda like a sausage. He's very palatable, but you just don't know what he's full of.

Herman Judd: Relax. Three hundred is enough for all of us plus a couple of decoys in case people try to kill us while we flee.
Ryan Clark: No, no, no, it's... it's... it's children, sick, the elderly, right?
Matt Spencer: And the only survivors will be the infirm and the juvenile.

Ryan Clark: You know, I always thought that it would make a sound when you hit rock bottom, but... apparently not.

Doug: Hey, you know. Earlier you said that you were five months pregnant. I could swear it was four.
Mia: Okay, Doug. Do you love me?... No, it's okay. It's not a trap.
Doug: Then yes.
Mia: I need to tell you something.

Herman Judd: Sorry, sorry. Honestly, I hate being saved first. It's company policy. I'll... I'll be voting against it at our next AGM.

Mads: Are you cutting me loose? I hoped that...
Herman Judd: Hope? Oh, buddy, you gotta bury that fucker at birth. Otherwise, you'll never find true happiness-- No, that's bullshit, isn't it?

Herman Judd: I'm just saying there's a... a bright side. A... A sunny side. Oh, God damn it! Why is language taunting us?

Billie McEvoy: Listen up, everybody, in 60 seconds, we will be approaching and passing the apex. And if we make it past that, we might just be okay. and if we don't, see you in the next life... Who am I kidding? There is no next life. This is the fucking endgame. So, good luck, everybody. Oh, God. As if I believe in luck. I absolutely don't. It's just... I'm gonna stop talking now.

Herman Judd: I don't know where all this anger's coming from. I mean, would you really have wanted me to be out here? In a way, I just saved your best friend... Me.

Herman Actor: These science numbers are too damn high, Captain.
Ryan Actor: I get the strangest feeling that however hard I try to imagine space. It is, in the end, imagining me.
Iris Actor: Only two things are limitless. Imagination and space.

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The Lotus-Eaters

The White Lotus 1×5

Kitty Patton: I don't think it's the most romantic hotel in Hawaii, do you? It's perfectly fine, but are you finding it very romantic?

Nicole Mossbacher: Paula, are you feeling better? Your migraine?
Paula: Yeah. Much better. Thanks.
Nicole Mossbacher: Is that why you couldn't stay for dinner last night?
Olivia Mossbacher: Paula was disturbed by the entertainment.
Nicole Mossbacher: The hula dancing?
Mark Mossbacher: Oh, y-- you're allergic to fire?
Olivia Mossbacher: It bothers her to watch Hawaiians have to dance for a bunch of white people.
Nicole Mossbacher: Oh. I think it's just a way for them to honor their culture. And they seemed to be having a really good time.
Mark Mossbacher: Look, obviously, imperialism was bad. Shouldn't kill people, steal their land, and then make them dance. Everybody knows that... But it's humanity. Welcome to history. Welcome to America.

Mark Mossbacher: I mean, what are we gonna do, huh? Really. Nobody cedes their privilege. That's absurd. And it goes against human nature. We're all just trying to win the game of life. How are we-- how are we gonna make it right? Hmm? Should we give away all our money? Would you like that, Liv? Hmm?... Yeah, that's what I thought. Mm-hmm. M-- maybe we should just feel shitty about ourselves all the time for crimes of the past? Wear a hair shirt and not go on vacation?

Belinda: I think you might be getting ahead of yourself a little, you know? Maybe he likes you.
Tanya MacQuoid: Yeah. He likes the first layer... But what about the second layer and the third layer? And then every step along the way, you know, I have to worry about, you know, is he gonna like the next layer, you know? And then I get all afraid, like, you know, how much do I wanna show him? You know, is he gonna be repulsed? Or is he gonna be alarmed? And at the core of the onion, Belinda... is just a straight-up alcoholic lunatic.
Belinda: That-- that's not true.
Tanya MacQuoid: No, it is. It is. And I just wanna show my hand. I don't wanna play poker anymore. I just wanna skip all the layers, and just go straight to the crazy, and just like, you know, let the chips fall where they may. And, you know, just show him, just show him the core of the onion.

Kitty Patton: I just think you should feel great.
Rachel Patton: Yeah, but what is the reason? Like, why am I here?
Kitty Patton: What do you mean? Well, you're very magnetic, and you're so beautiful.
Rachel Patton: You're making me sound like a trophy wife.
Kitty Patton: Well, what's so wrong with that? A trophy shines. It's a source of pride. A trophy's made of gold. You know, it's not the worst.

Kai: I don't steal from people, you know?
Paula: They stole from you. They stole all of this from you. You know that.
Kai: But it's different. It's-- It's different people.
Paula: No, they're the same people. They're all the same people. Don't you see they're all the same people? All of these people, at some point, have stolen from someone like you. And they don't need it. They won't even miss it. They have all this money, and they don't even know what to do with it. And then there's someone like you who's struggling.
Kai: I know, but--
Paula: That's not right.

Olivia Mossbacher: I love how you drive us on these family outings, but you spend the entire time on your phone.
Nicole Mossbacher: It's a work e-mail, honey... Oh, I know it's just so pathetic having a job that pays for the vacation.

Kitty Patton: Just be happy.

Tanya MacQuoid: You need to go.
Greg: What? Why?
Tanya MacQuoid: Well, you know, eventually, you're just gonna leave. So I think we should just cut to the chase.

Armond: Sometimes, just watching them eat every night makes me wanna gouge my eyes out. The Lotus-eaters.
     "Hateful is the dark-blue sky,
     vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea.
     Death is the end of life.
     Ah, why should life all labor be?"
Belinda: Yeah...

Rachel Patton: I think I've made a terrible mistake...

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Little Green Men and a Fella's Marriage Proposal

Young Sheldon 6×18

Mandy: WHAT?!.. What?

Connie: So, when's the wedding?

Mary: Let me ask you something...
Sheldon: Answers are my thing. Go for it.
Mary: Do you really believe in all this space alien stuff?
Sheldon: Well, it's simple probability theory. There are over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy. So it's likely that a few of them could support life, or even technological civilization.
Mary: And did Jesus die for their sins as well?
Sheldon: You have your stories, I have mine.

Mary: George, wake up. Watch Star Trek with your son.

Connie: You reject a guy's marriage proposal, they tend to take it personal.

Dr. Linkletter: Sheldon, searching for life on other planets isn't serious science. Leave that to the tinfoil hat brigade.

Sheldon: How can you just dismiss a line of inquiry out of hand?
Dr. Linkletter: Sheldon, sometimes I say no just for kicks. This time it's for your own good. Scientists who pursue little green men get laughed at.

Dr. Sturgis: We'll be mocked by physicists, engineers, even mathematicians. And they don't just say you're an idiot... they prove it.

Sheldon: President Hagemeyer, we have a problem.
Pres. Hagemeyer: What now, Sheldon? The Yoo-hoos in the vending machine aren't cold enough?

Pres. Hagemeyer: I'm just the president. Use of the telescope has to be... approved by a science advisor.
Sheldon: Is that true?
Pres. Hagemeyer: Does it sound true?
Sheldon: I suppose it does.
Pres. Hagemeyer: Then I suppose it is.
Sheldon: Why did I even come to you?
Pres. Hagemeyer: Remember that next time.

Sheldon: Don't think of it as me walking away, think of it as you being left behind.
Dr. Linkletter: I'm okay with that.

Sheldon: Thank you for helping me on my journey. But you're like a rocket booster that must be discarded for me to reach escape velocity.
Dr. Sturgis: I understand.

Meemaw: I think you know what you have to do...
Missy: What if it's one of those times where I actually have to make the mistake to learn from it?

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Murder Mystery 2 (2023)

Murder Mystery (2019) <<

Nick Spitz: Do you not wanna do this anymore?
Audrey Spitz: I do. I wanna do this. It's just… It's all we ever do is talk about work. Do you know any couples who also work together that actually get along?
Nick Spitz: Billie Eilish and Finneas.

Audrey Spitz: Remember what happened last time we went on a getaway?
Nick Spitz: Yeah, some people died.
Audrey Spitz: Not s... A lot of people.
Nick Spitz: You think five people dying's a lot?

Audrey Spitz: I have to tell you, Paris is my favorite city in the world.
Claudette Joubert: When was the last time you were there?
Audrey Spitz: Hmm. Oh, I've actually not been there. But I just know from the movies and from the pictures and...

The Maharajah: You guys are happy, right?
Nick Spitz: Us? Are you kidding? Without her, I would not be happy. With her, I'm the happiest... She makes every decision for us, and I'm fine with that.

Nick Spitz: Okay, so listen.
Audrey Spitz: Yes, honey.
Nick Spitz: We got good cheese. We got free iPhones. I'm happy with everything.

Connor Miller: You need to keep him calm, keep him talking. We need at least...
Nick Spitz: Forty-five seconds. I know. It's not my first rodeo, pal.
Connor Miller: You've done hostage negotiation?
Nick Spitz: I'm married to this lady. Everything's a negotiation.

Nick Spitz: Sweetheart, you're not just a mass murderer. You're an axe murderer!

Audrey Spitz: Oh my God, you're so big!
Nick Spitz: That's what you said on our honeymoon, but like then, we gotta keep trying.

Nick Spitz: It's all good, babe! Nicky Two Guns in the house!... Did I hit anything?
Audrey Spitz: You got the detonator thingy, honey!
Nick Spitz: Okay, good! That's what I was aiming for!

Audrey Spitz: What's the first thing you wanna do?
Nick Spitz: I wanna kiss you!

Nick Spitz: Are you shitz-ing us right now?

Audrey Spitz: Let's just have a civilized conversation.
Helicopter Pilot: See you never, Shitzes!

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Rick: A Mort Well Lived

Rick and Morty 6x2

Roy: You guys keep thinking I'm a religious leader. This isn't a religion. This is actual truth. I'm a scientist in real life, but this isn't real life, this is a video game. Y-Y-You at least understand that much, right?

Roy: Everyone here, everyone in this world [is my grandson] but me. You're all my grandson, your name is Morty, you're stuck in a video game, and I'm here to get you out.

Roy: Jesus! Yes! Every single one of you is one five-billionth of Morty. All of you, collectively, are Morty.

Rick Sanchez: It's a small group of alien terrorists. Just do a "Die Hard."
Summer Sanchez: What does that mean?
Rick Sanchez: Sneak around, use air vents. You've never seen "Die Hard"?
Summer Sanchez: I'm 17. No, I've never seen fucking "Die Hard"!
Rick Sanchez: Well, neither did the guy in "Die Hard," so you're nailing it! Good luck!
Chans: Check the hostages. Make sure nobody else here is doing a "Die Hard."

Roy: Look. I feel like every time I explain this, I lose followers, but this isn't a religion. And while I do have a message from a world beyond this one, and I do need the entire world to hear my message, what I do not need is any more songs about it. Not in this genre. I'm an old-school hip-hop man, and no, that's not an invitation for you to try it because I'm just gonna say it, we're missing the mark on diversity.

Roy: There isn't even a God in the real world, you fragmented putz. There's extra no God in here.

Summer Sanchez: I got your walkie talkie. Bitch.
Chans: Are you doing a "Die Hard"?
Summer Sanchez: Maybe. Are... you? Also?
Chans: More or less. And my associate, Frank?
Summer Sanchez: Uh, your associate Frank is definitely not doing a "Die Hard." You might even say he's doing a Die Easy. Because I killed him and it wasn't difficult.

Chans: Tell me. What do you know about "Die Hard"?
Summer Sanchez: What do you care? You writing a book about "Die Hard"?
Chans: As a matter of fact, I've written several. Every sentient civilization across the galaxy eventually develops the same myth...

Chans: She threw her walkie talkie away! She hates "Die Hard"! Which makes her the ultimate McClane. Forget everything you know about "Die Hard" and just go shoot that bitch!

The President: Thank you for meeting with me, Mr. Roy. Half the country hangs on your every word. Heck, most of the world. You're, like, uh, kind of a pope, I reckon.
Roy: I... I'm not a pope because it's not a religion. We're literally in a video game.

The President: So you want every single person on a spaceship. But you got a bunch of holdouts. Maybe people that prefer their leaders a little more elected.
Roy: Right. Your voters. People that like being told what to do, but don't like admitting it.
The President: Yeah, not sure I'd put it that way.
Roy: I'm sure you'd put it a stupid way.

Marta: Y-you're fine leaving 8% of me to die?
Roy: It's not your finest 8%, Morty. And 8% of anything is expendable. 8% of pizza is crust. 8% of the Snyder Cut was Batman dreaming.

Marta: Rick, I'll get every single part of me to get on every ship and go with you.
Roy: Good.
Marta: But you have to tell us you love us.
Roy: ....
Finland PM: I mean, at this point even if he said it, what... what... what's with the pause?

Chans: Why aren't you shooting higher?
Winslow: I don't wanna shoot the glass. Because...
Chans: You don't have to not do things that were done in "Die Hard." You can shoot the glass. Shoot the glass! Throw grenades! Do everything! Just kill her!

Chans: Why are you here, Miss Die Hard?

Marta: I won't lie to you. You're dying, Dad. And we're... not leaving the video game. We're... We're gonna live our lives out here.
Marta's Dad: What? Why the fuck?!
Marta: Why? It's more real here.
Marta's Dad: The hell it is! My liver hurts! I'm old here! I wanna be a teenage boy! I want to jump around and do homework and jerk off all over the place.
Marta: But, Dad, that's... We would've been one tiny part of that. In here, we get to be who we really are.
Marta's Dad: Yeah. Great. Dead. I get to be a dead father.

Chans: I must say I admire you, Ms. Die Hard. You were a genuine McClane... a most worthy Yankee doodle ruffian. But now it's all come to an end... And the quarterback, as they say, is toast.

Chans: I don't suppose you have a gun taped to your back.
Summer Sanchez: What the hell does that mean?
Chans: It's how "Die Hard" ends. Doesn't matter now.
Summer Sanchez: "Die Hard" tapes a gun to his back? That's the end of your perfect movie that you've patterned your whole criminal life after?

Summer Sanchez: Yiiiiiiiiiii... ippppppeeeeeeeee...
Chans: Oh.
Summer Sanchez: ...dippee doo, baby!

Rick Sanchez: Classic "Tower Man." Almost too on the nose. Right, Morty?
Morty Sanchez: Sure. I mean, whatever you say, Rick. Y-You know best! I trust you implicitly.
Summer Sanchez: Is he all right?
Rick Sanchez: Oh, yeah, he's fine. Got him all out, every last piece...

Warehouse Worker 1: Hey, is anybody that wants this later gonna be able to...
Warehouse Worker 2: Huh? Oh, yeah, everything's cataloged and tracked. People got the wrong idea from the size of the space, but it's all supported digitally.
Warehouse Worker 1: So I can put it anywhere. Here's fine?
Warehouse Worker 2: That's as fine as anywhere else!

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Recentering

The White Lotus 1×4

Paula: And now you work for the same assholes that stole from you?
Kai: When my brothers found out that I took this job... they were so pissed. But I gotta make a living, you know?

Paula: She's tricky.
Kai: Isn't she your friend?
Paula: Yeah, she's my friend. As long as she has more of everything than I do. But if I have something of my own, she wants it.

Tanya MacQuoid: When I saw my mother's ashes hit the water, you know, I just, uh... It just reminded me of... of, you know, sprinkling fish food in an aquarium. And I was just like, "Oh, my God," you know? Am I feeding my mother to the fishes? You know? And is that what she would've wanted?...

Nicole Mossbacher: I don't think you appreciate how tough things are for kids like Quinn right now.
Olivia Mossbacher: Why? Because of the Asperger's?
Nicole Mossbacher: He doesn't have Asperger's, Olivia. But he is a straight, white, young man. And nobody has any sympathy for them right now. And I just feel like we should. Yeah, in a way, they're the underdogs now.
Paula: Go on.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, for instance, young guys like Quinn, who are just getting out of college, I don't care how incredibly impressive they are, it is almost impossible for us to hire them.
Paula: Well, isn't that because up until now, they're the only people that you've ever hired?
Olivia Mossbacher: Yeah, don't you have enough of them on staff?
Nicole Mossbacher: Trust me, I get it. I'm just saying, I understand how guys like Quinn can feel a little alienated from the culture right now.
Olivia Mossbacher: Mom, cringe.
Nicole Mossbacher: And I don't think it's fair to him.
Olivia Mossbacher: Mom, cringe.
Nicole Mossbacher: Olivia, he's my son, okay?
Paula: I think he's gonna be okay, Nicole.
Nicole Mossbacher: Thank you, Paula.
Paula: .....
Olivia Mossbacher: Okay. Paula's meds are missing. And so we need to go find them. It's urgent.
Nicole Mossbacher: She's not gonna have like a seizure or something?
Paula: If I keep sitting here.

Mark Mossbacher: Buddy, Quinn, yesterday... I think I said some things that I probably shouldn't have.
Quinn Mossbacher: Like what?
Mark Mossbacher: Well... I don't really remember exactly what I said, so...
Quinn Mossbacher: You said having sex with mom was like eating a plate of live worms.

Mark Mossbacher: Quinn, look, okay, that's not because of your mother. Your mother is beautiful. Like, I'm lucky. I mean, the truth is... Do you wanna know the truth?

Mark Mossbacher: Man... in the moment... you're like this... You're a monkey. Like possessed. You'd do anything to get your rocks off. And then, later, you regret it. And you do regret it.

Mark Mossbacher: There's the man, and there's the monkey. And somehow, you gotta be man enough to face down the monkey.

Olivia Mossbacher: Mom, good news. I'm looking around the hotel, and it seems like all of the white, straight men are doing just fine. They're still thriving.
Nicole Mossbacher: Point taken. I just think it's funny that now it's okay to reduce everybody to their race and gender, but isn't that the kind of thinking that we've been fighting against all these years?...
Mark Mossbacher: I agree. I mean, for years, I was the good guy, you know? I was the one in the room, saying, like, "Hey, that's not cool," to all the chauvinists and bigots. But now I'm the bad guy, or at least, I shouldn't say anything on account of my inherited traits. I mean, why do I need to prove my anti-racist bona fides? It seems wrong.
Paula: It's someone else's turn to eat.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yeah. It's not all about you, Dad. It's time to recenter the narrative.
Mark Mossbacher: That's fine by me. I don't wanna be the center of the narrative. Believe me. Let's center the narrative around, uh, Paula.

Olivia Mossbacher: Okay. What do you know about her?
Mark Mossbacher: What do you mean?
Olivia Mossbacher: Do you know anything about Paula?
Mark Mossbacher: I know that she goes to college with you. And that she's a very intelligent and appealing young woman.
Olivia Mossbacher: But you've never really asked her one thing about herself.
Mark Mossbacher: Well, we're not on a job interview. We're on vacation. So... I mean, besides, what do-- What does Paula know about me?
Paula: Your balls are swollen.

Mark Mossbacher: It goes both ways. I mean, when has Paula ever asked me a question?
Paula: I could ask you a question.
Mark Mossbacher: Okay. Cool. Shoot.
Paula: What do I stand for?
Mark Mossbacher: What do you stand for?

Rachel Patton: I really wanna get a job.
Kitty Patton: No. Why would you do that? Honey, no. Why would you wanna do that? That doesn't make any sense.
Shane Patton: Uh-uh.
Kitty Patton: You don't need to do that. Why--
Rachel Patton: What do you mean? Why not?
Kitty Patton: Well, it's just limiting. You can do so much more by being on boards and hosting events... things like that. And the good part is, you don't have to answer to anybody.

Tanya MacQuoid: What was the thing that made you wanna dedicate your whole life to activism? Was it one incident that was especially brutal?
Greg Hunt: I-- I don't understand. What do you mean, "activism"?
Tanya MacQuoid: Yeah. Black Lives Matter.
Greg Hunt: Black Lives Matter? I'm not... I'm not involved in that.
Tanya MacQuoid: You're not?
Greg Hunt: No.
Tanya MacQuoid: Because you-- Yeah, you said BLM.
Greg Hunt: Yeah. That's the Bureau of Land Management. I have like 300 rangers across ten states that report to me.

Mark Mossbacher: See, this is the same old tribal thinking, replacing the old hierarchy with a new one. It's like...
Nicole Mossbacher: My feeling is most of these activists, they don't really wanna dismantle the systems of economic exploitation, not the ones that benefit them, which are all global, by the way. They just want a better seat at the table of tyranny.
Olivia Mossbacher: Hmm, no, that's just you, Mom.
Nicole Mossbacher: And what's your system of belief, Olivia? Not capitalism. Not socialism. So just cynicism?

Quinn Mossbacher: What does it matter what we think? If we think the right things or the wrong things? We all do the same shit. We're all still parasites on the Earth. There's no virtuous person when we're all eating the last fish and throwing all our plastic crap in the ocean. Like a billion animals died in Australia during the fires. A billion. Where does all the pain go?

Armond: Listen. I'm obsessed with you. I wanna get you naked.

Rachel Patton: Shane, wait-- what-- we're in the middle of a fight!
Shane Patton: We have the rest of our lives to fight.

Olivia Mossbacher: Why'd you leave?
Paula: Watching all the Hawaiians have to dance for all these white people that stole their islands... it's depressing.
Olivia Mossbacher: I'm sorry my family's so defective. I'm not like them. I'm your friend.

Shane Patton: Dude's going down. You are fucked now, bro.

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Mission Accomplished

The Wire 3×12

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: BNBG.
Det. Vernon Holley: Big negro, big gun.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I caught him, Bunk. On the wire. I caught him. And he doesn't fucking know it.

Slim Charles: Don't matter who did what to who at this point. Fact is, we went to war, and now there ain't no going back. I mean, shit, it's what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight. Det. Lester Freamon: How'd he take it?
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Like Stringer was kin.

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: This is Stringer's?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Yeah... Who the fuck was I chasing?

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Hey, Cheryl... My guess is she's picking up a prisoner. I spoke to her about ten minutes ago... Yeah, well, they make you check your stuff. Cellphone, money, weapon... She'll call when she gets the message.

Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: I heard the Vanguard met. Heard they voted to have a civilian review board look at it.
Det. Lester Freamon: It wasn't unanimous, and there were people there speaking for you.
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: I heard that too... So, six out of ten black officers think I'm just an asshole racist.
Det. Lester Freamon: On the other hand, four out of ten think you're just an asshole.

Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: ... And did so without properly informing his superior officers and without regard to the criminal statutes he was sworn to enforce, thereby disgracing himself and his command.
Acting Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: Is any of that subject to any contradiction or argument whatsoever, Major Colvin?
Maj. Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: No, sir.
Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: No argument at all, Bunny?
Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: Not much you can say, is there? Not to real police.
Maj. Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: Get on with it, motherfucker--

Acting Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: Any way you can tie your case to this mess with Colvin? Make it like what he was doing led to your thing?
Lt. Cedric Daniels: I don't see it.
Acting Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: Well, it's good work nonetheless, Major Daniels.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I guess I finished something today.
Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell: A case?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: More than that. It's like everything I poured into a glass came out the bottom. And I just kept on pouring, like the thing had a hole in it, you know? The things that make me right for this job, maybe they're the same things that make me wrong for everything else.

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Casual Friday

The Office 5×24

Michael Scott: Well, I guess the first order of business is to welcome back me and Pam and Ryan.

Michael Scott: When I needed salespeople for my new paper company, everyone here turned their back on me. Am I going to ask them to beg for forgiveness? No. Am I going to ask for a big, crying apology? No. Am I going to ask them to slit their wrists for me? No. I just want a tiny, microscopic version of that.

Angela Martin: The man is wearing sandals! I don't need to see Oscar's toes at work. Gross! I mean, he looks like he just got off the boat.
Toby Flenderson: Can't you just not look at his feet?
Angela Martin: Excuse me? Oh! You're so educated, aren't you, Toby? So trained to deal with a hysterical woman! I don't want to look at his feet! Do your job!

Creed Bratton: It's crazy, what's going on out there today, huh?
Jim Halpert: I know. Yeah, it's kinda...
Creed Bratton: Sometimes it's best just to stay out of it.
Jim Halpert: That's true. That's right, yeah.
Creed Bratton: Want to play a game?

Meredith Palmer: What? What's wrong with my outfit?
Toby Flenderson: You might consider pulling it down a touch. It's riding up a little high.
Meredith Palmer: Bunch of prudes. You know, Oscar's allowed to wear sandals, but I'm not allowed to wear open-toed shoes? Is that how it goes?
Toby Flenderson: Meredith, your boob is out.
Meredith Palmer: Fine.
Oscar Martinez: Damn it, Meredith, where are your panties?
Meredith Palmer: It's casual day! Happy?

Jim Halpert: I'm just hiding out until all this stuff blows over. With Creed. Playing chess. At work. He's winning.

Michael Scott: No matter how I look at this, I am in the wrong. And I have looked at this thing like 100 different ways, from my point of view, from their point of view, 98 others, and bottom line, I am in the wrong. I'm the bad guy.

Michael Scott: So, from the bottom of my heart to the top of my heart, I am sorry.
Dwight Schrute: Are you giving us our clients back?
Michael Scott: If we could just focus and go down the line, and everyone would say, "Apology accepted," I think we would all feel better, and then we can break out my gift to you, complimentary white chocolate bark.
Stanley Hudson: Nobody likes that stuff, except for you.
Michael Scott: They wouldn't make it unless people liked it.

Creed Bratton: So, hey, I want to set you up with my daughter.
Jim Halpert: Oh, I'm engaged to Pam.
Creed Bratton: I thought you were gay.
Jim Halpert: Then why would you want to set me up with your daughter?
Creed Bratton: I don't know.

Michael Scott: I have a very difficult decision to make. It's like last week I was at the video store. Do I rent Devil Wears Prada again or do I finally get around to seeing Sophie's Choice? It is what you would call a classic difficult decision.

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Don't Worry Darling (2022)

Jack: Please don't get hysterical.

Dr. Collins: What is it that you brits say? Ah! "Keep calm and carry on."

Frank: I'm sorry Bunny didn't believe you. But then again, you didn't believe Margaret, so... Why should anyone believe you?

Frank: No great man has changed the course of history without being pushed to the limits of his potential. And you push me. Yeah... I do hope you keep going. And yet, here you are. Preparing dinner. Like a good girl.

Alice: There is beauty in control. There is grace in symmetry. We move as one. There is beauty in control. There is grace in symmetry. We move as one...

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Chapter Eight: Papa

Stranger Things 4×8

Vecna: There's nothing to be afraid of. Is there, Nancy?... Why don't you take a seat?

Jim Hopper: Guess you got my message, huh?
Joyce Byers: Oh, no, I just have always wanted to visit the Soviet Union. With Murray.

Mike Wheeler: Well, once we save her, El, we should stop on the way back. El could make us, like, super rich, and we'd never have to work. We could just play D&D and Nintendo for the rest of our lives.

Dustin Henderson: It'll be like slaying sleeping Dracula in his coffin.

Joyce Byers: You okay?
Murray Bauman: Okay? I'm great! Whoo! Oh, nothing like a little prison escape to get your day started, am I right?

Joyce Byers: So you can get us out.
Yuri: For a glass of water and hot steam bath and five-inch stack of American dollars, Yuri will fly you to moon.

Dmitri Antonov: You make another demand, you double-crossing mudak, I'll decorate the roof of this van with your brains.
Yuri: Why so angry, comrade? Rough couple of days for you, I'm sure. But now you are free. Everything works out. Happy ending for everybody. No?

Joyce Byers: Okay, what is the furthest Katinka has ever flown?
Yuri: For me, she is still a virgin... Uh, not real Katinka. Goodness, no. That Katinka, no. But this Katinka, pretty much unspoiled.

Joyce Byers: How long's that gonna take?
Yuri: Five minutes. Five hours. Five days. Who knows? And when we do get the call, assume the KGB will be on the other line, listening to everything you say. So, I suggest talking in code. Say the wrong thing and they will be on us like flies on shit. Welcome to the Soviet Union.

Eddie Munson: How's she feeling?
Dustin Henderson: Light. But durable. Deadly. But reliable.

Dr. Martin Brenner: I've only ever wanted to help you. To protect you. Everything I did, I did for you. I need you to understand. Please tell me you understand. Please.....
Eleven: Goodbye, Papa.

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Mysterious Monkeys

The White Lotus 1×3

Mark Mossbacher: Can we not, please? Uh...
Olivia Mossbacher: Even if he wasn't a top, it doesn't mean he was femme. He could've still been butch, Dad.
Paula: Maybe he was a bossy bottom.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yeah, maybe Grandpa was a power bottom. Does that make you feel better?
Mark Mossbacher: No. That makes me wanna throw up.
Olivia Mossbacher: Dad, you don't wanna say that.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, he can say whatever he wants. You know, if he's having a negative visceral reaction to his father having gay sex, it's valid. It's fine.
Olivia Mossbacher: Well, it comes off as homophobic.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, it's not.
Olivia Mossbacher: Well, that's how it comes across.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, luckily, he's in a safe space and he's here with our family so he can come off however he wants.
Olivia Mossbacher: Up to a point.
Nicole Mossbacher: Or what? You'll cancel him? Dox him? Sic the K-Pop fans on him?
Olivia Mossbacher: See what I have to deal with?

Nicole Mossbacher: Well, you're not sleeping out there again.
Olivia Mossbacher: Mom, he likes it. He's communing with nature.
Nicole Mossbacher: It's funny how you're able to have so much compassion for all these groups of oppressed peoples you don't even know, and yet not for your family.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yep, okay.
Nicole Mossbacher: Who actually know you and love you. Your generation's only sacred value. Biting the hand that feeds you.

Mark Mossbacher: What is real? Like, what... You know? What's real? Are you gay?
Quinn Mossbacher: No.
Mark Mossbacher: Hey. 'Cause if you are, it's okay. Just, like, be real.
Quinn Mossbacher: I am being real.
Mark Mossbacher: What's real is... like, gay, straight, whatever, we're just monkeys, we're just fucking monkeys.
Quinn Mossbacher: Yeah?
Mark Mossbacher: Yeah. Yeah, we're just animals. I mean, you know, we wanna be, like... superheroes and respectable fathers and pillars in our communities, whatever, but-- but in fact, we're just monkeys... living in our own little monkey pods, driven by base instincts to create these hierarchies and hump each other.

Mark Mossbacher: I thought I knew my father, you know? I only knew the part that he wanted me to see. He hid the monkey, and that screwed me up, Quinn.
Quinn Mossbacher: You think that's what did it?
Mark Mossbacher: Yeah, definitely. Hey, I thought-- My whole life, I thought I was the flawed child of an icon. Like, I put him on this, like, enormous pedestal. Meanwhile, like, he's off in some bathhouse on the DL, getting manhandled by some... like, random dudes... Wow. Oh, I wish I had known.

Mark Mossbacher: But after a few years, it doesn't matter how much role playing you do or, like, toys you buy or porn you watch together, whatever, sex just turns into, like, a-- You know like when they do one of those food challenges on a reality show, you know, where they gotta, like, eat like a bowl of live worms, and you just got-- you gotta psych yourself up for it. You're like, "I can do this. Just hold my nose and, like, suck it down as fast as I can so I don't gag."
Rachel Patton: Yeah...
Mark Mossbacher: But it's natural. I mean, it'd be weird if it didn't fade, you know.

Olivia Mossbacher: You're addicted to porn.
Quinn Mossbacher: No, I'm not.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yes, you are.
Nicole Mossbacher: Don't sex shame him. Boys are sex shamed all the time now. I mean, I know it's very in, but it's not okay... What?
Olivia Mossbacher: You sex shame Dad.
Nicole Mossbacher: I do not.
Olivia Mossbacher: Okay. Whatever gets you through the night.

Nicole Mossbacher: When you're young, sex is powerful and intoxicating. And as we mature, it gets demystified. You realize there are more important things to focus on.
Olivia Mossbacher: Like what? Zooming with China?
Nicole Mossbacher: Like holding onto whatever shreds of dignity you still have.

Shane Patton: Why would he be gaslighting you? This has happened before. Like, people have been coming for me my whole life. I'm just playing the hand I was dealt. Like, yeah. It's a great hand. And that's not my fault.

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A German Folk Song and an Actual Adult

Young Sheldon 6×17

Georgie: Remember, it's always four claps. Never three, always four.
Meemaw: You know who claps three times? Yankees.
Georgie: And as Texans, we always remember the Alamo.
Meemaw: Otherwise, we might as well just live in Oklahoma. Blech.

Georgie: It ain't a big deal.
Meemaw: What do you mean, it's not a big deal? You're gonna be 18. You can legally buy me cigarettes.
Mandy: And CeeCee's excited her dad's gonna be an actual adult and she doesn't have to change the subject every time his age comes up.

Mandy: You miss being 18?
Meemaw: No, pretty happy where I am right now.
Mandy: Yeah, me, too.
Meemaw: I'm lying.
Mandy: Yeah, me, too.

Sheldon: I know a way for you to watch whatever you want.
Missy: How?
Sheldon: Your imagination.
Missy: That's stupid.
Sheldon: Did you know there's a German folk song about it?....

Mandy: Hey, I was thinking about doing something nice for Georgie's birthday.
Meemaw: How nice? 'Cause I'm all set with great-grandchildren for now.

Brenda: Oh, I got you coffee. Don't worry, it's not the sludge we serve. I got it from the 7-Eleven on the corner.

George: Well, whichever one it was, I'm on your side. Screw Brenda.
Mary: You don't even know what happened!
George: You're right. Sorry. What happened?

Missy: What else happened?
Sheldon: Oh, they're also planning Kelly a surprise birthday party.
Missy: Well, that's why they got quiet.
Sheldon: How could you not get that? No one said it out loud.
Missy: You have to pay attention to how they're acting. Their faces and body language.
Sheldon: You mean for subtext?
Missy: Yeah, subtext.
Sheldon: I hate subtext, I prefer text.
Missy: Then just listen to the music. If it's sad, they're sad. It's happy, they're happy.
Sheldon: Interesting. So the music's like a cheat sheet to help read social cues?
Missy: Exactly.
Sheldon: Look at that, spring break and I'm still learning.

Mary: ... George said he was on my side, but if he was really on my side, he wouldn't say he was on my side like he had to calm down a crazy woman!
Mandy: You know, I can just buy Georgie a cake.

Connie: What happened?
Mary: You don't want to know.
Connie: Sold.

George: What you watching?
Sheldon: Beverly Hills 90210.
George: Isn't that Missy's show?
Sheldon: Yes, I'm trying to do a better job of picking up on the characters' emotional states. So, for example, this scene seems like it's about expired food, but thanks to the ominous music, I can tell it's about Kelly's eating disorder. Give it a try.

Mary: Do you even think about how your actions affect other people?
Brenda: Love it. Keep it coming.
Mary: You couldn't hang on to your crappy husband, so you tried to move in on my crappy husband!
Brenda: Good, good. That hurt, but good.

Mandy: Happy birthday.
Georgie: There is something else you could do for my birthday...
Mandy: I had a baby two weeks ago. No.
Georgie: Not that.
Mandy: Then what?
Georgie: ....

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