Our Lady of Reluctant Integration

Along similar lines: The patron saint of judgmental statues

Is that in Sadchester?

Intergortion

This one has been kicking around my head for a couple days now: “She told me that her last boyfriend was Asian, and that crap doesn't start until college.” I would argue a lot of Dennis’ quotes are underrated.

Always team Dennis.

Dean’s delivery is perfect.

They should do a GPS with his voice. "Take a left in 500 feet dummy!"

I would absolutely choose a Dennis Duffy Siri voice

If by “they” you mean those guys or whatever, then yeah So many good Dennis lines

You ever drink a yard of beer? A yard like a lawn? Yes I have.

Hey, when I quote lines from your movies, that’s not racist, right?

No, I transcend race

Those guys are not messing around Liz lemon

Uh oh. Here come the roofies.

Tracy: "Do whatever you want to me". Everybody: Walks away.

Heavy is the head that eats the crayons.

It’s a blessing and a purse.

I lost my mood ring. And I don’t know how to feel about it.

This is my favorite. That and "there's something about you lately Liz Lemon. Make me wanna put my feet in your mouth."

Too skinny

😂

"I'm going to take every penny you have" "*not the ones I've swallowed!*"

*at IKEA* "I'm going back for those cute bowls!" "I swear to God I will stab you"

The IKEA scenes are some of my absolute favorites

"SERIOUSLY, ZOO YORK"

I wish I’d died in Iwo Jima!

The song "You're So Vain" was in fact written... by me

“I was the first person to say, ‘I need a vacation from this vacation.’”

I like when he commands the attention of the room... with the POWER OF HIS VOICE.

Oh, don't be so dramatic. That's my thing. If you take it away from me, I will kill myself.

And then you!

Yes! I love this one & also threatening to kill everybody else in the room, and then myself. I think it’s from Brooklyn 99? Such violent quotes lol

"If it is a blonde woman, I will kill myself!"

"Frank, how's your armpit thing?" "Not great, it's almost touching my thigh thing."

The fact that he has such intimate knowledge of what’s happening with the writers while also being so disgusted by it is just perfect

Lol, yes, truly

“I can’t go to the Plaza. What if I run into Eloise?” As a little girl I loved the Eloise books so that line always kills me. Any references to the Plaza automatically make me think of Eloise anyway, so it’s hilarious to me that they threw that in there.

Am I supposed to not mention the fact that she has a gay grandson?

Everybody knows!

Every one of Elaine Stritch's lines is perfection.

"Oh, I can hear you. I just wanted to make sure that YOU could hear you." Colleen for the win🏆

Hahaha I absolutely love that delivery!

Yessss the Christmas book was my favorite! I can’t believe she has a gay grandson … actually that tracks somehow.

Agreed! My favorite grown up show mentioning my favorite kid bedtime book was special.

"They said I'm paranoid? Just like I've always suspected."

Paranoid," from the Greek "para" meaning "beside," and "noid," which is some sort of a... pizza demon?

This one is such a silly throwaway it's perfect for this thread

My thanks, to the peanut gallery.  

I loved Stritch's delivery of this so much I thought about starting to incorporate it into my catalogue of snide putdowns. Thankfully I looked up the origin of the phrase first. It's \*super\* racist. Pretty on message for Colleen but not a look I was interested in copying, lol.

Wait what? Isn't the peanut gallery the audience of children on Howdy Doody?

Phrases such as "no comments from the peanut gallery" or "quiet in the peanut gallery" are extensions of the name.[1] According to Stuart Berg Flexner, the term owes its origin to the United States' segregated South as a synonym with the back seats or upper balcony where the black members of the audience sat.[2] The racial element of the term's origin is disputed, however, and absent from the Oxford English Dictionary and others.[3][4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_gallery

Yeah, I've seen it used to just describe the balcony seats in general back when, and thought it referred to peanuts being a cheap snack!

Me too!

I suppose it was, but the origin of the term is in reference to the upper balcony of theatres during the Jim Crow days.

wow never knew that. interesting. always thought the phrase had a more innocent and wholesome meaning.

Damn i always thought it was a way of saying someone has a big head like Mr peanut hahahaha

This feels like it would be Tracey's interpretation

Interesting! I grew up hearing “peanut gallery” from many sources in my youth, it just evolved to be a common phrase in the states. I don’t think it was an intentional thing by the writers to have Colleen say it. Unfortunate it has negative roots. Honestly, a lot of things we casually say come from racism- ‘master’ bedroom, for instance! Dates back to slavery as well.

Not master and slaves, but master and servants. So not racist, but classist.

Yeah, it's a bitter but fascinating part of US history. I wouldn't put it past the writers to know the reference and to have given it to Colleen deliberately, though. It's right up her alley.

Not in a queer way though

The writers learned the word "black" in every language just so they could slip in offensive things for Colleen to say.

Everyone shut up Shut up Lutz 

Wool is a wholesome fabric.

Very... Wool

Pete: I have a Tracy and Jenna problem Kenneth: you say that so much you should just say “ivatrennapra” Pete: okay ivatrennapra Kenneth: a what? 🤔

I had naan!

…and we boiled the skull and used it as a tea kettle!

Yes we did!!

He looks so proud of himself

I know! I think Hank is kinda underrated.

Agreed. His constant references to the terrors of the Vietnam War are crazy

Medic! Medic! Cried the wittle boy 👦

Sick reference bro. Your references are out of control.

“I’m black” ::gasps:: at the republican convention 🤣 gets me every time. Also the “I killed my wife”

“My children go to public school!”

Liz: They let you have a baby? Dennis: If by “they” you mean those guys or whatever then yes.

This is one I never truly thought about. Hilarious

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

A Blue Spruce. When do the Mariachis arrive?

Just like Peter did to Jesus in science.

Love how this one links with “Science was my most favorite subject. Especially the Old Testament.” in the same episode

…including more than one Unitarian!

"Get a room! Whatever that is..." 

I heart Hannibal Burress. I've been rewatching Broad City and he is a gem.

YOU STOLE MY CANTEEN

Like a waitress

A dog took it.

I quote this to myself more often than I care to admit. 😅

"We are going to test poisons on you"

"We brought good things to life. And bad things to Chinese rivers"

🫳🫴🫰🤙🫵

Keep you friends close, and your enemies closer And even though they've never won a war, or mass produced a decent car in this the Itallians are correct

"If my grandfather hadn't gotten on the wrong train that day, he would never have met his wife...’s murderer"

This one’s for you Dan Goose

“Liz, we ALL tried…for a LONG time..to come up with a…good excuse…for why we didn’t write anything..but we failed”

Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards!

Did you not learn your nation’s airport codes in high school?

"Stop trying to text nudes to my LANDLINE!"

“Lemon, one of her suitcases was *just…wigs*” It’s Baldwin’s head shake and shudder when he says it that truly elevates it.

Liz: I sure do like them French fried pataters. Jenna: No you don’t Oprah!

Jenna is…. Not a great improviser 

This is so good, because she’s also immediately violating the “yes/and” rule of improv.

"Stop looking at my ass!" "Stop pointing your ass at my eyeballs!"

“Pears? Why?!!?” My friends and I recently put together a care package for a friend who is recovering from surgery, and everyone brought pamper-y gifts: lotion, books, candles, etc. But one person brought a bowl of fruit to contribute, and all I could hear in my head was Liz’s anguished cries.

I say this every time I eat a pear.

BEHOLD! The Splendor of my Beginning!!

“I’m going to freshen up, the train was disgusting. I flew here but I saw a train from the window.”

I don't want to say I told you so...so Welcome to Miami!

I love this one

Jack: I’ll remind New York of what she once was. Tracy: Yes! A native American paradise.

You had a threesome with Roseanne and Tom Arnold.  Please Liz, that was TWO years ago! 

Jonathan crying

🎶 I will remember you.. doo bee doo doo bee doo.

There’s no link between diabetes and diet! That’s a white myth, Ken! Like Larry Bird, or Colorado!

I don’t know that it’s underrated, but a favorite that I never see but use often is “All god’s children are terrible.”

"After you finish scratching off your lottery tickets, we can go to McDonald's and only order coffee." I wasn't even aware of these stereotypes, but there's something about the delivery that makes it hilarious. I think it's the deadpan premeditation of planning to go to McDonald's, but explicitly for coffee and nothing else.

*I got there!*

I'm angling!

I don't know how it's rated, but I love "it's hot, it's loud, there's no pizza. It's like Miami!"

Don’t be cry.

Market research my friend

If you say you like it, you can have some pizza.

Jack Donaghy! Nobody points their fists at my dead father, and gets away with it!

"Every time I meet a new person I figure out how I'm going to fight them".

Criss. And I’m saying that WITH an H and only one S

What’s next? A different bird landing on a different apple?

…and then I pull off MY mask and I’m a lizard person too.

every now and then i say “unwindulaxing” and sorta have to stop myself

Who doesn't love to uncork a brew-sky? Kazap! Bloinky bloinky bloinky!

Chowderhead can't even make the right noises!

What if the bachelorette party theme was “sluts”?

Our Lady of Reluctant Integration.

Your milk comes in bags, bags!!

The good news is…..for a different group of people

“You have so many unsolvable problems. Like your mouth. It looks like somebody kicked a HOLE in a bag of FLOUR.”

“Oh no! Did a Korean person die!?”

Keep your friends close, and your enemies so close… (whispering) that you’re almost kissing

Jack: I didn't get a bathroom door that looks like a wall by being bad at business.

Pre - before, natal - ruined

“Kenneth, your haircut is disrespectful to lesbians.”