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Episoden-Titel: Interesting people on Christopher Street

Später merkt man, dass das ein Zitat aus einem Song ist, der vorkommt:

(song while Midge walks to Christopher Street)
Here we live, here we love
This is the place for self-expression
Life is mad, life is sweet
Interesting people
Living on Christopher Street

MIDGE: If we had a sound check, we'd know if the mic is working.
BOISE: Mic works. The sound guy just wasn't behind the board yet.
MIDGE: And the curtain and...
BOISE: Same guy who runs the board runs the curtain.
MIDGE: Maybe we could get a different guy to run the curtain.
BOISE: What am I, the WPA? A fucking chicken in every pot?

(The Gordon Ford show in on TV)
GORDON FORD: Two years ago, you directed Vertigo, Terrific film. Last year, it was North By Northwest, which completely ruined my love of long walks through cornfields. Mission accomplished. ( laughter ) And now we have Psycho, which I understand is very scary. So, let me ask you, Mr. Hitchcock, because I'm curious: what scares you?
HITCHCOCK: Hard boiled eggs.

ABE: Why didn't you come get me?
ASHER: I could see you were busy typing... it looked important. Maybe you were tattling on a sick relative or ratting out your son for stealing a Necco Wafer when he was 12.

ABE: I have us all set up with Michael Kessler to deal with the FBI, so feel at ease. He's a great attorney. Best in the business.
ASHER: Sacco and Vanzetti had the best in the business, too. Must have been a great comfort as they sat in their electric chairs listening to their brains melt.

JOEL: You being Chinese... Yes, it will be a surprise. But trust me, it will not be their biggest problem.
MEI: No?
JOEL: You not being Jewish, that's gonna wake the neighbors.
MEI: Right. They don't want you with a gentile. And a Chinese girl is like a double gentile. Triple gentile. More. Basically, you're walking in with the Lawrence Welk singers.

FRANK: Ah, Shy Baldwin. He sings like an angel but sounds like a douche.
SUSIE: I don't want to talk about it.
FRANK: Well, he's Giancana's anyway, so we can't touch him.

MAN: You're a cop.
MIDGE: What? No, I'm not a cop.
(Pointing to her coat)
This is Dior!

ABE: Dorothy Parker never forgave you.
ASHER: Oh, Dorothy Parker never knew who I was. ( Abe laughs )
ROSE: Dorothy Parker had a crush on you, Asher. You boasted about it.
ASHER: Well, she did follow me into the men's room at the Algonquin once, but that was before the incident with the hat.

ROSE: Asher was a very good-looking young man.
ABE: Sort of a barrel-chested strongman type.
ASHER: I used to lift weights with Johnny Weissmuller. Tarzan himself. Is that meshuggeneh?

ASHER: No. No, it had to be '27, because that's when Rosie and I were seeing each other.
MIDGE: I'm sorry. One more time?
ROSE: More ancient history.
ASHER: She showed up for our first date with that Louise Brooks haircut. Remember? With the bangs?
ROSE: Unfortunately.

ROSE: Who did Delores marry after you, Asher?
ASHER: John Barrymore.
ROSE: I knew it was someone famous.

SUSIE: I wouldn't know what to do with this much space. I mean, there's only one of me, and I'm never home.
FRANK: What? You get another desk, add a settee, throw a Murphy bed in the back room, maybe a plant.

SUSIE: I got a shit ton of work to do on it, and I stopped counting the rats after it got into the triple digits, but the elevator fucking works, there is a bathroom, oh, and the view. Did I tell you about the motherfucking view?
(…)
Oh, the view alone says "big cheese."

ALFIE: No, I'm just here to... ( guy hits him )
SUSIE: Hey! You're shooting fish in a barrel!

MIDGE: Now hold on to your Great Gatsbys, guys, 'cause here comes our salute to the Roaring '20s!

ABE: Asher walked into the building. I didn't go inside the building. I stayed outside.
MICHAEL: We don't need to Martha Graham this whole thing, right? With the precise choreography?
ABE: I'm under oath, so I'm being accurate.

ABE: I didn't know he was going in to commit an act of arson. You should write that down.
ASHER: Well, why did you think I was going in? To admire the portrait of Warren G. Harding?

ROSE: Abe, I told you I went out with Asher.
ABE: You did not.
ROSE: I did! 20 times, at least!
ABE: Rose, I admit that sometimes I don't listen to you, but this time, I was listening to you when you did not tell me that you schtupped my best friend.

ABE: Yeah, while you and Rose and her Louise Brooks harlot hair were catting about, Delores made it very clear that she wanted me badly.
ASHER: Delores wanted everybody, Abe! Eugene O'Neill, Aaron Copland, Tarzan, Josephine Baker.

ASHER: I need a pen!
ABE: Do not get a pen!
ASHER: Up yours, Abe!

JOEL: Working in a strip club just seems like a step back.
MIDGE: Many famous people got their start in strip clubs. Lenny worked at strip clubs.

JOEL: Mei.
MEI: Hi.
MIDGE: What's up, Doc?

MEI: Well, I'm gonna be in your office, so, uh... ( stammers ) That's all, folks.
MIDGE: What was that about?
JOEL: What? You started the Looney Tunes thing.