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Favorite Lines?

posted 18 years ago by geek_spice
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All --

I enjoyed this sitcom so much when it was on the air. Even the toned down later seasons, I still tuned in and laughed. While the later seasons weren't as funny as the first season, I still enjoyed them.

Anyway, I was wondering if you all had any favorite lines (or scenes) that you wanted to share...

My favorite is the time when Dexter is cooking behind his counter and his arm is in a sling. The two stupid cops (Hampton and Eggers) are sitting down and start conversing with Dexter. Obviously, I'm paraphrasing...

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Hampton: So, how'd you hurt your arm? Were you playing basketball?

Dexter: What, the only way a black man can hurt his arm is if he's playing basketball?

Hampton: Sorry, Dexter. So, how'd you hurt your arm?

Eggers: Yeah, were you putting up a hoop?

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Hilarious. I laughed for hours with that one.

[–] slathrop73 17 years ago

My favorite is a scene in which John is riding the subway and is sitting across from some young punk with leather and a multicolored mohawk. John just sits staring at the kid until the kid says:
Punk: "What are you staring at? You never did anything crazy in your life?"
John: "Actually, yes. About 20 years ago I had sex with a parrot. I'm jsut wondering if you might be my son."
Absolutely floored me.

Another one is where Hampton and Eggers are talking to Dexter and Hampton tells Dexter he's in trouble for beating up a "pip".
Dexter: "You mean a perp?"

Hampton: "No."

John: "A pimp?"

Hampton: "No, I mean a pip. You know like Gladys Knight and the Pips? I didn't recognize the guy until later."

John: "Hampton, could you possibly be the worst cop in the world?"

Hampton: "Not as long as there's an LAPD!"

The timing was great since this was right around the time of the Rodney King beating.
The show was definitely way ahead of its time and NBC execs were complete idiots to screw with it until they finally killed it!

[–] paultbaker 17 years ago

I think it was in the pilot episode where John hangs up a sign he says he found in an antique store;
"This Is A Dark Ride",
and says something about how he thinks this should hang at the end of the birth canal.
Smart, dark, and funny!

"Film is a mosaic of Time."
-A. Tarkovsky

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[–] geek_spice 17 years ago

How about when Carly was doing her taxes, and under occupation, she said she was an "organist"?

Unbelievably clever.

[–] MitchHellman 17 years ago

I remember an episode when John meets his long-lost son. At the end of the show, the two of them start playing Monopoly, only some of the pieces (like the top hat, the Scotty dog, etc.) are missing, so John offers substitutes including a crack vial and a dead cockroach. As the final credits are rolling his son says, "Hey, I found the top hat!" John replies, "Put it on the cockroach."

[–] zerofilms 17 years ago

Man, it's been so long since I've seen this show and I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembered it so fondly. But one of my favorite lines:

Sleazy Cop: "You're a hooker? Any special rates for cops?"
Carly: "Yeah. The price is always one dollar more than you got."

And:

Steve Hitler: "Yes, it's Steve Hitler. My wife, Edy..."
John: "Wait. Steven n' Edy Hitler??"
Steve Hitler: "I know. We laugh about it all the time."

[–] mingo-2 17 years ago

Mine is when John and his long lost son are conparing sex to pizza. John tells his son he shouldn't hire carly because instead on getting his "pizza" delivered like Domino's, he should learn to make his own pizza, with sun dried tomatoes and...ect. John's boy looks at him and says "Dad, you have no idea how hungry I am"

[–] negrosuave57 17 years ago

During a episode that touched on a bout of impotence by John Hemingway, Dexter asked Hemingway what impotence was like. Hemingway's reply was "It's like trying to shoot pool with a rope."

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[–] JazzMan599 16 years ago

Two.

The Pilot, when someone comes out of the men's bathroom, disusted by the stench, and complains to the Gene, the janitor.

MAN: Have you seen what the men's bathroom looks like?
GENE: I don't go in there.

The episode where Oscar the Hobo finds the abandoned baby in the dumpster, and Officer Eggers runs off with it.

OFFICER HAMPTON: Someone call the police.

[–] empath69 16 years ago

It didn't stay on the air because its gritty, dark theme didn't click with the 'feel good, rainbows and lollipops' crowd, and then when the producers tried to 'lighten up' the show in subsequent seasons, they alienated the few fans they did have. (myself included)

I'm trying to remember John's little speech at the end of "There's a Mister Hitler to See You" about how he HAD to give the neo-nazis a bus for their rally...

...then he slams a big screwdriver into the counter and says something like "...but that doesn't mean I can't poke a hole in the gas tank!"

^_^

The whole pizza-sex analogy scene was great, as was John getting a lift with Dexter - best of that was the 2nd trip shown during the end credits. XD

Yeah, too edgy at first for broad acceptance and thus big success, and then when it was 'cleaned up' for mainstream, it lost its teeth. :(

[–] bizerta 16 years ago

Alison LaPlaca just had a guest spot on Boston Legal where she flirts with John Larroquette. Didn't Alison break the 4th wall with come comment to John, like, "yeah, but I've been in four(?) failed sitcoms", or something to that effect. Does anyone remember which episode and what the context was.

[–] boohbah 16 years ago

John: Make me feel better, tell me your hopes and dreams
Carly: That's number six I get two-hundred dollars for that
John: You get two-hundred dollars for telling people your hopes and dreams
Carly: Yes, but I eat a banana while I do it.

The subtle humor this show had was great, and I'm surprised as some of the stuff they got away with on network television.

[–] charleskane77 16 years ago

My favorite exchange was between Dexter and the Bum

The Bum asks for a dollar and Dexter says "The last time I gave you a dollar you called me 4 times from the payphone."

The bum replies "Everybody loves irony, but nobody wants to pay for it."

[–] batleft 12 years ago

It was after a character in the ER tells Allison she's funny and she replies, "Yeah. Hard to believe I've been in 6 failed sitcoms."

[–] stuka9 8 years ago

Oscar, after seeing Dexter in a white sheet: "My god, they´ve integrated the Klan"

[–] GreenInkBrigade 8 years ago

Officer Hampton, after being told that eating so many donuts is going to kill him, "The whole world is armed and dangerous. I'd rather be taken down by a doughnut than by a twelve-year-old crack dealer with an automatic."

That was back when the show was still allowed to be dark.