Every Day Quotes

  • Garrett: [to Ned] You're not nearly as boring as you pretend to be.

  • Ernie: You were never able to take criticism either.

    Jeannie: I think it depends on how it's given.

    Ernie: There's no easy way to give it. It's like medicine. You just take it... if you really wanna get better.

  • Ethan: Will everybody at the prom be gay?

    Jonah: Yeah. That's why they call it the gay and lesbian prom, moron.

  • Ned: I don't want you dancing with college kids. Period.

    Jonah: What are they gonna do? Rape me?

  • Jonah: I'm not interested in being with someone who's older. I... I just wanna dance with other people who are gay.

    Ned: I think I'd rather talk about the smell of pee.

  • Garrett: What about anal? My straight friends tell me anal's the new oral.

  • Garrett: Bestiality, the final frontier.

  • Garrett: There is nothing unrelatable about sex with animals. I know a lot of people who've done it.

    Brian: Sex with one's dog is the new sex with one's cat.

  • Ned: [to son chatting the on the Internet] You're not talking to people you don't know, are you?

    Jonah: Uhh, you mean potential pedophiles?

    Ned: Mm-hm.

    Jonah: Just ones that live around here.

  • Jeannie: Ned...

    Ned: I think he should change, or he can't go.

    Jonah: This is what people wear to a dance.

    Ned: Why don't you just go in a jock strap?

    Jeannie: You're being ridiculous.

    Ethan: You can sort of see the outline of your penis in those.

  • Ned: Did that sweater look that gay on me.

  • Ned: I better go pick Jonah up before someone else does.

  • Jeannie: I can see that what's happening here is a huge downer for you. You can add it to your list next to gay son, sucky job and wife who's over forty.

  • Garrett: Are you done?

    Ned: To a crisp.

  • Ernie: They're good, your boys. They're beautiful.

    Jeannie: I'm very lucky.

    Ernie: Sometimes luck has nothing to do with it.

  • Ned: You look good.

    Jeannie: I feel old.

    Ned: But you look good and that's the main thing.

  • Garrett: And even cable isn't ready for cannibalism yet, but I do think a good flambe penis story you can put in on children's television, somewhere.

  • Jeannie: [after Ernie has berated Ethan and forced him to leave] He's just beginning it, Dad. It's a very difficult piece.

    Ernie: [Angrily] If you learn it wrong, it's twice as difficult.

    Jeannie: He's playing for enjoyment. He's not planning on being a professional.

    Ernie: Well, the, guess it doesn't matter how he plays. You were never able to take criticism either.

    Jeannie: I think it depends on how it's given.

    Ernie: There's no easy way to give it. It's like medicine. You just gotta take it if you want to get better.

  • old woman at retirement home: Are you moving in, Hon, or just visiting?

    Ernie: We're all just visiting.

  • Jeannie: [Talking about Ernie on the phone] No, he's not dead. He lives in New York.

  • Robin: [Asking about Ned's home situation] Two kids?

    Robin: Three. My father-in-law's the youngest.

  • Jeannie: [Epeaking about Ernie] I don't even like him.

    Ned: You're a good daughter.

    Jeannie: I'm a guilty daughter.

  • Ethan: Is Grandpa Ernie gonna eat every meal with us?

    Ned: Only if he's good. If he's bad, we force him to eat in his own room - excuse me, your room.

  • Jeannie: [Solicitously at the dinner table] Do you want some salad, Dad? You must be hungry; you haven't eaten all day.

    Ernie: [Sourly] I need my shit kit.