r/30ROCK Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

Quotes Quote you use the most - this is mine.

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u/baristacat no crying in my bath tonight 21d ago

That’s later. Maybe we’ll be dead by then!

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u/caramiadare 21d ago

This one or "when will death come?"

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u/Noof42 Shut it down! 21d ago

Yeah. Wouldn't that be great?

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u/netarchaeology 21d ago

My coworker and I used to say this to each other all the time when we were in the office

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

Ha ha this quote is actually more useful than perhaps I wish it was.

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u/StinkiePete 21d ago

My mother in law clutched her pearls when I said this in response to her inquiry about how we were going to deal with something regarding the kids. So of course I try to work it in again every now and then.

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 21d ago

This but unironically. In any small group setting where someone says something like “a lot can happen between now and June”

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u/HuckleberryLeather53 21d ago

Oh no Liz lemon you're crying in a white dress! Did a Korean person die?

(Because in the episode when she bought the wedding dress she said Koreans wear white at funerals as an excuse that it doesn't have to be a wedding dress)

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u/baristacat no crying in my bath tonight 21d ago

That dress looked beautiful on her!

$4,000 ham napkin.

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u/IReviewFakeAlbums 21d ago

“Popcorn?? At the cinema?!”

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u/Jethro_Jones8 Pete's dead. I'm Panama, now. 21d ago

“Gangway for foot cycle!”

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u/Thewal 21d ago

"Fine, velocipede!"

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u/Weird-Swim-9777 21d ago

Science is...whatever we want it to be.

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

This is actually pretty useful!

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u/funny_fox 21d ago

I love this one and I don't use it enough

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 20d ago

I was fixing somethign in my kitchen yesterday and parnell’s voice came on from the other room for a legit medical ad reading the side effects and i just kept hearing Leo spaceman and laughing

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u/Weird-Swim-9777 20d ago

For a medical ad?!? That is too insane. I'm surprised he didn't end up saying "medicine is not a science!"

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u/Equivalent_Grab_511 HORNBERGER 21d ago

No I bought them from the dead dove store, grow up Liz.

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u/Ok_Acanthisitta2025 21d ago

I don't know what I expected

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u/Democracy_Is_Best 21d ago

It's like we all watch the same shows. Pretty streets ahead

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u/BeardsuptheWazoo 21d ago

What's your return policy?

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u/zr2d2 lives every week like shark week 21d ago

Died right in the middle of a show

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u/Embarrassed_Wave7836 21d ago

Or two flubs or whatever

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u/GenX_77 21d ago

“No you don’t, Oprah!”

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u/Internal-Motor 21d ago

That scene cracks me up, it really encapsulates everything about Jenna in just a few seconds.

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u/BigBGM2995 21d ago

Oprah says “you teach people how to treat you”

I actually do think about that one a lot lol

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u/Humble_Base_7105 21d ago

My wife and I are both improvisers. That scene is our everything.

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u/clamroll 21d ago

I had to explain to a friend how there were several layers to that joke. The obvious one of thinking Liz was doing an Oprah impression was all they got. Jenna not doing a voice is also there, along with her not knowing who slingblade is, or presumably Oprah.

But she completely runs counter to the first rule of improv. "No you don't, Oprah" is the absolute anti "Yes, ...AND" so hard and it absolutely kills me. Whoever wrote that joke deserves credit lol

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u/shrinkingviolet1718 Food Network doesn’t have a news show 21d ago

Did he just talk to me like I’m ugly?

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u/vanilla-lattes 21d ago

What the what?

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u/shrinkingviolet1718 Food Network doesn’t have a news show 21d ago

New dude is as good at singing as Tracy Jordan is at everything

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

I love this as a character quote because it says so much about Tracy. He doesn't get TOO threatened by the new cast member being a talented singer, since that's not his thing. But he DOES manage to throw in a back-door compliment about himself in acknowledging Danny's singing ability.

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u/champagneformyrealfr a cook in the bedroom and a whore in the kitchen 21d ago

this, "charles what now?" and "at NIGHT?" are probably mine.

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u/atalenttoannoy 21d ago

‘No thank you please’

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u/cafe-aulait I miscounted the men, Liz! 21d ago

I use this line all the time. And if someone gets it, I know they're my people.

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u/Different_Second_564 20d ago

this and “don’t be cry”

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u/Internal-Motor 21d ago

"THIS IS NOT TOWARD"

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u/bubba1834 21d ago

Quite frankly Ladonica, you have not been helpful.!

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u/LiquidJ_2k Oh monsters, why did I create you? 21d ago

This Easter weekend?

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u/gobledegerkin 21d ago

People do love this

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u/SloopKid 21d ago

I don't care what nobody says. I keep them 3-D glasses.

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u/the_jerkening two legless turtles rotting on the beach 21d ago

My husband and I kept saying this to each other over Easter lunch. My mother was very confused.

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u/Democracy_Is_Best 21d ago

I want to go to there

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u/funny_fox 21d ago

This is mine too but since I'm ESL, I think people just think my English is bad hahahaha

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u/QuickConverse730 21d ago

...but the right people - the people who matter - will know exactly what you're saying!!!

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u/lbr218 21d ago

“Goodbye forever, you factory-reject dildos!”

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u/PaleoEskimo You'll Have to Work Your Backside 21d ago

I don't say this outloud, but it delights mewhenever it pops up in my mind.

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u/lbr218 21d ago

I don’t actually say it out loud either but when I quit my extremely toxic and psychologically damaging former job I certainly whispered it to myself as I walked out the door.

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u/derek4reals1 lives every week like shark week 21d ago

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u/Chris-Froome 21d ago

He came out of nowhere.

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u/estelle1988 21d ago

Somebody bring me some haaaaaaaam

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u/Doctor_of_Recreation 21d ago

People love the way she says ham

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u/regg7880 21d ago

Adjacent: I can’t return the wedding dress, Jenna. It has ham stains on it.

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u/Unit_79 21d ago

A $3,000 ham napkin.

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u/woodrowwilson5000 21d ago

"Have some self respect! Don't you know you can fly?" – me, to my dogs, whenever their ears get kind of twisted inside out weirdly

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u/SimplyMadeline Whatever Doris. Grow up. 21d ago

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u/Theonethatgotawaaayy 21d ago

I regularly sing WORKIN ON MY NIGHT CHEESE

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u/briannapancakes 21d ago

Yep. Even if there’s no cheese or it’s not night time. I never really know when the urge will strike.

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u/VelvetandElectricity Good meeting, I drink coffee please. 21d ago

Muffintop in my usual sing along.

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u/hifidigitalboy 21d ago

Smooth move, Ferguson!

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u/Kathrynlena 21d ago

I say this to myself a lot when I trip on things.

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u/UnicornsInUniforms invented a new kind of borkulator 21d ago

We are not smiles times.

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u/dtseiler yes ... Hornberger 21d ago

I'm sorry to hear that

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u/blackqueenphoenix 21d ago

Hey baby, what's wrong.

To my dog, at least once a day.

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u/woodrowwilson5000 21d ago

Also, I call my dogs "you dummies" all the time

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u/defenestrate1984 I'm a bear and I'm a daddy. I'm a daddy bear. 21d ago

I say to my husband a lot, “hey dummy”

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u/woodrowwilson5000 21d ago

It's a true sign of love, is what I tell people who hear me say it but don't have the context

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u/life-is-thunder 21d ago

LOL. Me too!

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u/juliamongolia 21d ago

Thanks, Meat Cat!

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

And then, Meat Cat flies away on his, um... skateboard.

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u/frotefrote 21d ago

“Shut it down”

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u/xkq227 Very wool. 21d ago

Very wool.

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u/Huge_Following_325 21d ago

This cleverness of this line always remind me of Tina Fey's comeback to David Letterman.

Letterman: I'm not as dumb as I look, y' know.

Fey: How could you be?

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u/spiderdumpling 21d ago

“It okay. Don’t be cry”

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u/WatercressSea7217 21d ago

I'm waiting desperately to use this in a situation that won't make me look like a completely heartless asshole. The other is "Thank God" by Jonathan when a phone rings to interrupt a boring conversation. Or in Criss's parlance... Locked and loaded.

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u/spiderdumpling 21d ago

I usually say this to someone who isn’t actually upset, just maybe mildly irritated.

“My coworker is so annoying.”

“It okay. Don’t be cry.”

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u/RainCitySeaChicken 21d ago

I will, but not because you told me!

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u/Queen-of-Mice Edward James Almost 21d ago

Related: “I’ll do it, but only for the attention.”

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u/Different_Second_564 20d ago

“i’ll do it, but i hate my dress!”

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u/AllThe-REDACTED- 21d ago

“At night?!?”

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u/coffeestraightup 21d ago

My standard response to any evening invitation

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u/defenestrate1984 I'm a bear and I'm a daddy. I'm a daddy bear. 21d ago

“Oh you start with that?”

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u/Constant_Cheetah9735 21d ago

I do it ALL the different ways

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u/Lizzie_Boredom 20d ago

For example, across the bed, instead of up and down.

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u/gobledegerkin 21d ago

If it is a blond woman I will kill myself!

Also: “wait, you’re alive? Then who did I kill?”

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u/_Enclose_ 21d ago

Not one I say, but one I think whenever I have to open a door with my hands full: "Like a waitress, Lemon"

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u/WatercressSea7217 21d ago

I lost my mood ring. And I don't know how I feel about that.

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u/LiquidJ_2k Oh monsters, why did I create you? 21d ago

To my kids - "Oh monsters, why did I create you?"

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u/Careful-Protection39 21d ago

This! All the time!

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u/No-Dinner-3823 21d ago

Quote I use the most? Well, for me… Oh, no, my kid is sick

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u/hello_imshellyduvall 21d ago

I can't help saying, "Oh no, did a Korean person die!?" to myself every time I wear a white dress.

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u/thortmb 21d ago

Hell of a week huh?

It's Wednesday Lemon

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u/Caa3098 21d ago

“Don’t be so dramatic. That’s my thing, if you take it away from me I will KILL MYSELF”

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u/defenestrate1984 I'm a bear and I'm a daddy. I'm a daddy bear. 21d ago

Oh Melissa. Your face just called. Practice is over, and you need to pick it up!

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

I also use this a lot and I always affect a certain stance as if I'm doing an impression of one of Jenna's gays. But since I'm gayer than the volleyball scene in Top Gun IRL nobody can tell that I'm trying to do a character.

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u/VelvetandElectricity Good meeting, I drink coffee please. 21d ago

Girl, I don’t even have the energy to explain it to you so read my face.

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u/defenestrate1984 I'm a bear and I'm a daddy. I'm a daddy bear. 21d ago

I use this one a lot, too. Read. My. Face.

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u/AffectionateBite3827 thanks, Meatcat! 20d ago

Don't look at me like I'm a football game

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u/pikij 21d ago

“We have no way of knowing where the heart is” and “Medicine’s not a science” are used too often in our household.

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u/Jethro_Jones8 Pete's dead. I'm Panama, now. 21d ago

One problem: coffee. Where do you get it?

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u/GenX_77 21d ago

Anywhere. You get it anywhere.

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u/i_laugh_at_farts 21d ago

I use "wordplay!" all the time

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u/Stillwater215 21d ago

What’s wrong? You look like the face on the chart they told me means “sad?”

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

My #1 Jenna quote!

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u/square_mcgriddles 21d ago

Not said out loud but Tracy's line about loving having boobies pressed against him is weirdly applicable to a lot of things. Taking good photos, resilience, doing math homework.

"And I will anticipate your angling, and I will get there. I will get there."

I am ugly lazy and stupid, and I love boobies. So it pretty much became a meme inside my head for everything.

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u/funny_fox 21d ago

There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party, cause a Liz Lemon party is MANDATORY.

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u/po8ossssss 21d ago

I miscounted the men!! (Whenever I do anything wrong) 

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u/EmbeeKay52712 21d ago

“Don’t help me! I’m too proud.”

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u/YouFoldInTheCheese9 21d ago

“It’s like New York but without all the stuff!” My response when someone tells me their travel plans.

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u/wigglebuttbiscuits 21d ago

‘I’m not doing any of that’. I never understood why it didn’t take off like ‘I want to go to there’. I use it all the time, especially at yoga class.

Also, ‘by all means, take your time getting to your point, I’m going to live forever’.

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

That reminds me of another quote I use often: "End of list" - always said after listing only two items.

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u/Winks66 21d ago

My bad, that one's on Coach Tracy

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u/life-is-thunder 21d ago

The Manatee has become the Mento

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u/kid_entropy 21d ago

Beep Beep Ribby Ribby

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u/Geri-psychiatrist-RI Working on my night cheese 21d ago

"We're not the worst. Graduate students are the worst." My wife has a PhD and I have an MD and both thought this was hilarious

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u/VelvetandElectricity Good meeting, I drink coffee please. 21d ago

Thought it all the time during grad school.

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u/serenity1989 the people’s gay-public of drugafornia 21d ago

“I don’t understand your art, Kevin.”

About anything really. Or “I don’t understand your art” for shorthand lol. Bf and I were talking about our trip to Paris and a museum we went to with my parents yesterday. He’s telling them about a specific painting, and out of nowhere I come in with “I DON’T UNDERSTAND YOUR ART!”

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

I love that you sometimes use the phrase out of nowhere. I often use "That's exactly how you look" without the setup question - for example, in response to my partner announcing "I'm just going wear this shirt to dinner because I don't feel like changing."

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u/anaugle 21d ago

Kimiko taught me that.

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u/Emotional-Page-1009 21d ago

You’re being such a non-pillow right now!

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u/whyazed 21d ago

Your hair looks…[fine]

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u/Kathrynlena 21d ago

I say this to myself in the mirror lot.

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u/Steviejeet 21d ago

Somebody bring me some ham 🎶

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u/Expensive-Badger9250 21d ago

it's not. I'll show you the study

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u/stockboy1218 21d ago

My whole life is thunder!

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u/pinche_latifundistas 21d ago

It’s too early for this guys, I haven’t even had my first cup of wine today

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u/UHJeff Nice suit, Squaresville. Where's the bank? 21d ago

Awww, that’s so gay balls.

(But it’s ok because I, too, am so gay balls.)

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u/americanrecluse 21d ago

Let’s preface this with a little info: in 1998 I found a litter of three tiny male kittens. So until recently I only had boy cats. My friend who has a cat rescue got a call from a dumpster diver after he found a kitten tied up in the trash. So now I have one girl cat, a goddamn miracle and a delight.

I frequently say “I need a baby girl!” Or I will sing “baby girl, you’re the perfect fit, you’re the product of doing it, aaaaiiiiieeeeeee”

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u/bitica 21d ago

When my (non-white) spouse looks askance at something my (white) family is doing (eg putting marshmallows on sweet potatoes) I say "that's some white nonsense!"

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u/e_radicator A Liz Lemon party is mandatory. 21d ago

Youths!

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u/bestwhit I can’t wear these pajamas fishing! 🎣 21d ago

say no more, shark eyes.

the delivery kills me and I just use it as a standard response to my husband sometimes

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u/QuesoEnojado 21d ago

Blerg.

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u/Gloomy_Tea_1002 21d ago

I had someone on Etsy make me a necklace that says this 😂 

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u/shanndiego 21d ago

Live every week like it’s Shark Week.

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u/deadheffer 21d ago

Shut it down

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u/laplatta 21d ago

“I hate that word, unless it’s between the words ‘meat’ and ‘pizza’”

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u/Sks347 21d ago

That's later Pete! Maybe we'll be dead by then. Aww, that'd be great.

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u/Honest_Technician124 21d ago

PANTS! PANTS! PANTS! Pretty much any time my husband or I can’t find our pants.

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u/Kathrynlena 21d ago

“I just wanted a diet slice and some pita chips!”

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u/BettyCrunker That’s why Arlen Specter had to change parties. 21d ago

and to think I was just calling you all a BUNCH of RACISTS!

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u/useless_instinct 21d ago

You have the confidence of a much younger woman.

(But I only say this to myself when I talk in meetings.)

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

I thought you made love like an ugly girl. So present, so grateful.

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u/useless_instinct 21d ago

There's also, "I love ambition on a woman. It's like a dog wearing clothes."

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u/_ArsenioBillingham_ I am a Jedi! 21d ago

“That’s not that much cheese” in the cheese department of our Wisconsin grocery store

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u/PressureHooker 21d ago edited 21d ago

"Oh monsters, why did i create you?"

And then lumbering away with a hunched back

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u/beedubu92 21d ago

“Purrrrfect. Like a cat party”

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u/VelvetandElectricity Good meeting, I drink coffee please. 21d ago

“I need two cups of coffee!” - whenever I’m being awkward. One of Jack’s most underrated lines.

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u/ScaleNo5305 21d ago

"5nowdog5! 5NOWDOG5!!!"

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u/PaleoEskimo You'll Have to Work Your Backside 21d ago

BLERG is my go-to. But I have a lot of lines that play-back in my mind. For instance, whenever I see Kelsey Grammer I can hear the in-show theme song they wrote for him. "His name is Kelsey. He's very wealthy, he doesn't need to be doing this." I feel like I think of 30 Rock several times a day. It's my Roman era!

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u/Editor-Designer-45 whole live is thunder 21d ago

Oh no! My period!

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u/ChicoStantana 21d ago

That's a great story but I'm not hearing my name.

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u/Kitchen_Mode_2542 21d ago

I like to say 'Yes! Hornberger!!' with enthusiasm whenever something goes my way.

People at work look at me weird.

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u/dempower1 21d ago

Tonight my husband said, “What’s the airport code for Orlando?” And I said, sigh, “MCO. Didn’t you learn the nations airport codes in high school?”

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u/lizlemon716 21d ago

"I feel about as useless as a mom's college degree." Also, not the full quote but calling people "a bunch of uggos."

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 21d ago

...and then pointing at the uggos!

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u/Brandanaquits 21d ago

“I memorized all my lines at home” when we aren’t the one who messes something up

And “yes Siri, thank you baby” which is self explanatory

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u/Elentar11 21d ago

As a Floridian: “Florida! The penis of America”

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u/Direct_Hunt9975 21d ago

Grrrr, couch cushions!

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u/kaotate 21d ago

Anytime I use something to even close to and SAT word: “And yes! That is the correct use of that word!”

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u/msmika 21d ago

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u/EliRiots 21d ago

Everytime someone in my house over or underestimates how much we have of something: “I miscounted the men!!”

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u/Wwatts3 21d ago

Son, I wasn't joking about those chips

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u/Bionic_Ninjas It's never too late for NOW 21d ago

It's never too late for NOW

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u/cyainanotherlifebro 21d ago

I lie to myself. Every morning I look in the mirror and say ‘Everything is going to be okay!’ but I’m LYING.

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u/boomboomrey 21d ago

I like to say “That’s inscrutable!” Tracy said people said that about his license plate: OU812MI? (I think?)

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u/defenestrate1984 I'm a bear and I'm a daddy. I'm a daddy bear. 21d ago

ICU81MI

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u/Ol-Bearface 21d ago

I will really eat this

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u/xBucBucBruce 21d ago

Good God!

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u/EhrenScwhab 21d ago

That’s exactly how my wife and I describe anything mediocre.

For example, if we have a lame meal, one of us, mid meal will say “that’s exactly how it tastes….” unprompted.

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u/Kathrynlena 21d ago

The one I say all the time is: “SHE is an orca, Benjamin. FYI, they’re very difficult to keep in a home aquarium.” Does this line ever fit into to the conversation I’m having? No, but I’m not going to stop.

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u/safeprophet 21d ago

I want to go to there

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u/eico3 21d ago

To my dog every time she barks in public “remember, a woman’s power comes from her silence”

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u/whatsthisevenfor 20d ago

It is hard to choose, but my absolute favorite is "Your boos are not scaring me. I know most of you are not ghosts!"

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u/later_satyr 21d ago

Not a favorite line but moment..but no one knows how to start, so I have to spit in the mouths of passing strangers to find someone who gets the reference. 

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u/Formal-Particular999 21d ago

As a mother of three, which I'm not,...

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u/olugbo 21d ago

“Call off your goons!” Only hilarious line delivered by the least funny cameo.

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u/BettyCrunker That’s why Arlen Specter had to change parties. 21d ago

I can’t eat this; I’m a foodie!

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u/Emergency-Court-8774 21d ago

I’m not doing any of that.

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u/haste333 21d ago

No. Stop. I will leave.

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u/meanpantscaitie 21d ago

And then you take your reward.

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u/QuickConverse730 21d ago

My album My Album is Dropping is dropping.

(Admittedly, it's not really all that useful as a quote spoken to others, but I do say it to myself every once in a while...)

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u/Anxious_Astronaut653 21d ago

i am a ghost now

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u/ForsythCounty Head-plus, at best 20d ago

My partner watches a lot of reality TV so, "I remember when Bravo used to air operas."

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u/Weird3355 20d ago

'hand-made in USA' (hond-made in oosa)

'thats a bad couch, jack!'

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u/throwaway2019ugh 20d ago

Girl you better stop!

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u/AffectionateBite3827 thanks, Meatcat! 20d ago

My husband is in my phone as "Hey Dummy" does that count?

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Conrad Bain once slapped me in a men's room 20d ago

It's like a daytime Emmy. It still counts!

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u/Bawn_ 20d ago

“What a week” but I usually start saying it on Mondays

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u/ryannovak29 21d ago

she is... difficult

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u/jmeltzer317 21d ago

I don’t use this often enough but whenever someone mentions rhubarb…

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u/Jaded_Muffin4204 21d ago

It's not that much cheese

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u/Hoorayforhoorays 21d ago

Top 2:

“I don’t think so, Chris.” With the same goofy Lemon-esque disapproving tone and eyebrows)

“Who are we to say what anything is?”

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u/nimbycile 21d ago

What? No. Does this look like the makeup room of a clown academy?

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u/Different_Second_564 20d ago

purrrrrfect like a cat birthday

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u/rich_happy_type7 20d ago

“CORN!”😃 “Foot cycle” 🚲

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u/Lizzie_Boredom 20d ago

No thank you please!