I know no one's going to respond to this, or probably even read it, but here goes. Molly and the David Straithern character are being seated in a sushi restaurant.
"How do you do your squid?" Strathern asks the waiter.
"Fine, thank you," the waiter replies, then exits.
"Did he just think I called him 'Your Squid'?" Straithern asks Molly.
Well, maybe you had to be there.
Although I've only seen a fraction of the episodes of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, my favorite dialogue from the series, so far as I've seen it, is an exchange between Moss (the David Strathairn character) and Molly that goes something like this:
Moss: You have nice feet.
Molly: Thank you.
Moss: You have nice ankles.
Molly: Well, they're right above my feet!
"Life is...rich" - Molly
shareI never missed an episode but now it's not on the air anymore, no reruns, no video, no DVD...! HELP! Has anyone got videos they would share with me? I'd be glad to pay! [email protected]
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FWIW, I remember that line frequently whenever I go to a Chinese restaurant or go eat sushi. :-)
shareI thorougly enjoyed the episode when Molly imagined what it would be like to meet Nate's mother. She imagines herself arriving in a quazi jazz club with all the too cool 'brothas' slapping each other 5 and calling each other 'cat' and constantly referring to "the man". At a certain point, Molly, dressed in a transparent raincoat and carrying a bundt cake or jello mold or something innocently says, 'would it be possible for me to meet this 'man' because I really need a job' ... she's whiter than white with her bangs and flip, she mentions that she sings... so, in the room of soul folks, with Nate's mother, looking like Billy Holiday, Molly gets in from on the crowd and belts out the theme from "Tammy" ... then wakes up from her day dream!
we do need access to this show.
if you want to get a taste of who molly would have been as a teenager in the 90s ... rent "My So Called Life" (well, it's not exactly NYC ... but they are both loveable red heads!)
That is my absolutely favorite scene as well from that wonderful show. I can't hear the intro to "Don't get around much anymore" without thinking about that scene.
shareAmazingly, when I saw the title of this thread, having seen every episode at least three times, it was "How do you do, Your Squid" that popped into my brain first! In fact, I burst into laughter out of nowhere in the car the other day thinking of this line...and SOOOO frustrated that NO ONE ON PLANET EARTH would get it except the rare Molly watcher, none of which I know.
Every character a gem. The "shoe incident" wonderful. Also, when Moss is working in the other new chain bookstore, there is an overhead announcement that goes something like "Moss Goodman, please report to the Paranormal Section"...it was much funnier. Too bad it's NOT ON DVD.
How do you DO, Your Squid?
Jay Tarses is a genius. And he also helped give me another HUGE favorite of mine, The Bob Newhart Show. Similar vibes, if you consider the different eras.
If crap like Mary Kate and Ashley are everywhere, why not a simple DVD collection of one of the greatest shows on television???
I agree--this show was awesome! Great memories, every one.
Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Texas Longhorns--GO BUCKS!!!
I think my favorite line was in the second season premiere, when Nina's apartment was robbed. It was Nate's first episode, as he was the cop investigating the robbery, and Molly was introducing him to Nina:
MOLLY: "This is Detective Nathaniel Hawthorne."
NINA: (deadpan) "Hello. I'm policewoman Elizabeth Barrett Browning."
I also really liked the end of Mom's voice-over at the beginning of the first episode on Lifetime.
MOM: "Now, let's sit back and see if anybody watches basic cable." or something similar....
There were so many great lines. I really liked the voice overs at the start of each show. The one I remember most is when Molly's father died and Molly's mom was standing at the grave side: "He will be missed, but I will miss him most of all, as he was my man." Even as a teenager it made me cry.
sharereally you could pick any episode and there would be great lines. my faves came from the episode where molly was reading a poem she wrote to davey, her doorman:
Molly: So, what do ya think?
Davey: It's amorphous, if you want to know the truth. You see, it fluctuates between your erotic and your grotesque, without being one or the other. And those thighs, what do they represent: passion, sterility, parental influence, sexual repression, what? Now I'm gettin' a whole bucketful of mixed messages there, and I think on the whole, it could be crisper and meatier.
Molly: You mean like bacon.
Davey: Oh, hey, if it was like Bacon it'd be fine. He was a homo, you knew where he stood. No, yours ain't neither fish nor fowl.
Molly: (sighs) [As the elevator approaches, but does not reach, the ground floor] Are you ever gonna learn how to land this machine?
Davey: Don't transfer your anger, it's immature. Just bend your knees. Oh, I like that "piecemeal, oatmeal" part. Yeah, that was good.
you could also ask people what their favorite episode title was.
my favorite: "Here's why they call the little one a jingle and the big one the blues"
Probably "They're stealing the bric-a-brac!" uttered by Molly's mother at the reception following Molly's father's funeral.
That was the very first episode of MD that I ever saw, and that started my MD addiction.
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