8. All Our Vice (Abbott Elementary, S03E05)

Stray Observations

• Doomcore ♫: The Beatles – "Twist and Shout" (True Detective, S04E06)
• </True Detective, S04>
• "However good a shot you think you are, you could have killed Teresa, and trust me, I don't think you could have lived with that."
  "You don't know what I can live with."
  "No, what I meant, Henri, is that I would've fucking killed you." (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
• "Aren't there are plenty of your fellow patriots in Argentina that you can write angry manifestos and compare kill lists with? Leave me to enjoy my cognac and foul cheese in peace?" (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
• "You sound like a leaflet someone dropped from an airplane." (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
• "The child was born in Algeria, which makes him a French citizen."
  "Or an Algerian, depending on your point of view."
  "He was technically born in France."
  "One would have to practically break one's spine to get into that particular position." (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
• "Philippe made the mess. I just tried to clean it up."
  "You pick up vomit with a teaspoon, you make a bigger mess."
  "What a swell metaphor."
  "I read a lot of E.E. Cummings. A small constabulary on the ass end of a giant hole is no match for the big guns elsewhere." (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
• "One doesn't go to bed one person and wake up another just because one says so."
  "You mean people are simpler than they think? I had no idea."
  "I mean people know what they want. The rest is justification. Take you, for example… You wanna be left alone. You live in a quiet little village where the locals know just enough about you to leave you be."
  "You've read my mail."
  "And yet, sadly, our pasts are portable." (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
• </Monsieur Spade, S01>
• "I think the brain and the balls are related. If you take a magnifying glass and you put it on your balls, it's the same pattern as the brain." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
• "My point is lemons are a fungible citrus." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
• "You tell him about the Postmates dinner?"
  "I did."
  "What'd you tell him? You just went like this. You didn't do anything."
  "That's the sign for 'Postmates dinner.'" (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
• "Every Black person you meet, you say 'brother' to? 'Hey, brother'?"
  "You say 'brother' and you give him one of those right there."
  "Uh-huh. Yeah. You too?"
  "Respectful nod."
  "A nod is like our aloha."
  "I don't do a Jew nod."
  "You know, you guys got that song already, 'Hey, Jew.'" (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
• "All Black balls are like this." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
• Larry watching Live By Night (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
• "Where did you even get a cigarette?"
  "Yeah, what you, a French child?" (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
• "Oh, it's nice to meet you, Jessica."
  "Jessca. There's no 'I.' Jess…ca." (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
• "Hi."
  "Hmph. Bet you are." (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
• "Now, I admit that it make you look cool. But it make your breath smell like stool. And that's poop." (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
• "Pay attention so you don't die." (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
• "Okay, alright… It just seems like most drugs aren't that bad."
  "Fine, you can smoke a little! Just don't do opioids!"
  "My grandfather's on opioids."
  "Drugs from a doctor are okay."
  "My mom's on Valtrex."
  "That's fine. Your mom has herpes." (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
• "Exile makes sex more felt." (Feud, S02E05)
• "He ran!" (Avatar: The Last Airbender, S01E02)
• </Avatar: The Last Airbender, S01>
• </Expats, S01>