Justified has the best dialogue of any show I’ve ever seen.
I’m not saying it’s the best show (although it’s one of my favorites), or that it has the best writing and characterization (although they are excellent) - I’m saying that word for word, its dialogue is simply unparalleled.
“I’ve got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.” — Blackadder
Or Blackadder: Baldrick, I have a very, very, very cunning plan.Baldrick: Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?
My wife and I occasionally quote these lines - she doing a perfect Comic Book Guy in a Korean accent.
Skinner’s mother: Sunsets. Thank god there is only one of these a day.
Comic Book Guy: Could it be any more orange.
From Friends in the episode where the guys and girls have a bet to switch apartments:
Ross: What is Chandler Bing’s Job?
Rachel: Oooh. Oh gosh. It has something to do with numbers…
Monica: It has something to do with transponding…
Rachel: Oh! Oh! He’s a transponster!
Monica: That’s not even a word!
I haven’t read all of these so not sure if it has already been mentioned.
The episode of Seinfeld where they’re staying at a friend’s home on the coast. George goes swimming in the cold water and is concerned that his new girlfriend saw him naked after the cold water caused shrinkage. The guys ask Elaine if women know about shrinkage, and she says, - “It shrinks?! Why does it shrink? I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things.”
Monica is fed up with the gang’s comments about her choice of romantic partners and calls them out, one by one.
“Fine but. . .married a lesbian…left a guy standing at the altar.. fell in love with a gay ice dancer… threw a girl’s wooden leg in a fire…lives in a box!”
Speaking of Nina Van Horn, there was an episode of JSM that was like an “A&E Biography” episode. Somewhere near the end they ask all the interviewees to describe Nina in one word. Don Henley (of The Eagles) says “[Something]… no, [something else]. Is there a word that means both? I’ll bet the Germans have one.”
My problem is that I can never remember what the two words were, which is part of what makes it such a great quote. Somebody help me out here?
Yeah I’d say for recent shows it’s between this and something from Bojack Horseman . Though of course “recent” is a relative term, I was going to say “in the last five years” but it turns out somehow neither of these shows are from the last five years