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Susan, just say it once.
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No. Just one time.
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No. She's not gonna do it.
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Come on, just one fuck.
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Nah, she doesn't want to go to hell.
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Come on, Susan.
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I can express myself without that kind of language.
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Thank you.
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Come on, we got a bet going.
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Just one time.
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What's the bet?
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Oh, that Ted can get Mom to swear.
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Oh, wow, so fucking adult.
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Hey, we're at dinner.
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Just say shit.
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Shoot.
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Just give us the finger.
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There's your finger.
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Say Polack.
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Ted, really?
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It's not a race.
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You can say it.
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Yeah, it's just a bunch of guys.
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Okay, just eat your supper, fellas.
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She's not gonna swear, man.
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I win.
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Ah, fuck.
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Pay up.
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Thank you.
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Wait, you're not wearing pants.
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Where'd you get this?
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Don't you worry about where I'm keeping stuff.
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I was so fucking hungry.
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I was so hungry, too.
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It's so weird.
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You know what?
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This is like the perfect food for the perfect night.
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Yeah, like, who invented food?
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That guy rocks.
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Well, if I knew you guys were gonna get so gussied up, I would've made something fancy.
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No!
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Ma, this is perfect.
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This is perfect steak-ums.
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The perfect steak-ums.
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It's right here.
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Just, just feel it.
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Ah.
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I can feel your love in this, Ma.
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I'm so happy you love it so much.
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Jesus, you guys are acting like it's today's special illegal seafood.
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It's fine.
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I think it's delicious, Suze.
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Can you guys believe that we're just, like, we're sitting here and we're, like, having an experience and experiencing reality all at once?
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Hey, Susan, Susan, I just want to say, you have found your haircut.
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What, you think so?
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Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
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You could ride this to 70 and you'd be fine.
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Well, I just took a picture of Tipper Gore into the salon and I said, now, I know it can't be like that, but try to get it as close as you can, and so...
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Well, uh...
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Typical, I should bring in a picture of you.
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Stop it.
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This night.
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Is there a fucking gas leak or something?
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Everyone, Maddie and I have some news.
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Oh, man, it finally happened.
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Look, I'm sure this was a tough decision to make, but there's no sense in postponing the inevitable.
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You know what?
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Not every marriage is meant to last forever, and at a certain point, you're just throwing good years after bad.
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We're going out to dinner.
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Hey, that's one of my favorite meals.
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We're gonna go out, we're gonna have a nice romantic evening tomorrow.
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Just the two of us, just because.
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And we're gonna have a lovely time.
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That's right.
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My wife deserves a night out just for being her.
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We're gonna have a great meal, and it's gonna be terrific.
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Jesus, take it easy.
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What?
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I'm fucking happy.
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It's gonna be a great night.
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You know, I wonder if years from now, we'll find out this was all just one big, long heart attack.
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Hey, Matty, a Jew, a Polak, and a black guy walk into a bar...
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My fucking God, really?
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Hey, watch the language.
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Hey, tell your stupid truck that.
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He's telling racist jokes.
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I'm not racist.
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The punchline wasn't gonna be about the black guy.
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It was gonna be about the Jew.
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And to a lesser extent about the Polak and a little bit about the black guy's penis.
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See?
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The point is, none of them knew how deep the water was.
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Ow!
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Hey!
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This is assault!
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I'm being assaulted here!
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So much for the non-violent left!
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It's Christmas Eve.
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Can't we just have a nice dinner together?
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Yes, we can.
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It's a beautiful ham on Susan.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, everything looks really great.
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Thank you, girls.
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Thank you.
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You want some of this?
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Yes, please.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey!
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What?
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We gotta say grace.
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Thank the Lord.
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You're welcome.
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Fine.
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Dennis, would you like to do the honors?
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Absolutely.
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Bow your heads.
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Dear Lord.
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Yes.
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Thank you for this food.
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No problem.
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And for these blessings.
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Any time.
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Make us thankful on it.
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And may we serve you mashed potatoes.
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And what the fuck?
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You wanna say grace?
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I'd feel like an asshole.
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Amen.
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Oh.
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That was just beautiful, Dennis.
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Look at all these welfare queens.
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See?
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That's the problem with this country.
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Everybody expects everything handed to them on a silver platter.
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Hey, guys.
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Um, can I talk to you about something?
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You want a tuna sandwich?
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No, I'm okay.
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Um...
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It's about John.
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Uh...
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I think he might be on the verge of...
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Well, I think he's interested in becoming sexually active.
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What do you mean?
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Well, I don't really know how I can be clearer than that.
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Have you guys ever talked to John about sex?
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Of course not.
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He's only 16.
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Talking about sex is rude.
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So you're going to rely on a gym teacher and a horny teddy bear?
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I mean, how do you expect him to learn what he needs to know?
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When you get drafted, they show you a film.
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Look, I get it can be an awkward conversation, but it's really important.
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Tony Randall was in it.
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You're absolutely right, Blair.
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You know what I'm gonna do?
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I'm gonna clip an Ask Beth from the Globe, and I'll slide it under his door.
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Guys, there's nothing shameful about human sexuality.
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You've never been in a strip club when the lights come on. And neither have I.
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Maddie, this isn't a joke, okay?
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He needs to know this stuff.
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Look!
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I'll talk to him when the time is right.
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And I'm telling you, as somebody who knows him really well, it's the right time, okay?
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I think you're trying to avoid an uncomfortable conversation, and honestly, that's selfish of you.
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All I'm trying to do is eat my lunch here.
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Jesus.
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Your period coming in or something?
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I...
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What?
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Forget it.
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Coming in?
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Like it's my fucking adult teeth?
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Forget I brought it up.
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Fuck, it sounds like you need the talk, not him.
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Do you have any idea how a period actually works?
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I know enough.
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No one's ever explained it to you, have they?
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I tried once, but Maddie said it was too close to the holidays.
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Oh, my God.
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Aunt Suze, think about your son.
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All right?
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Don't you want John to grow up to be a sexually healthy adult?
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Blair!
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Language!
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My parents never talked to me about sex.
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I figured it all out on my own, and I'm doing just fine.
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We'll talk to John.
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Maddie, honey, that's your fourth beer.
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Yeah, I had a shit day.
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Yeah, four's like a Boston one.
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He's okay.
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I'm sorry your day was hard, honey.
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Yeah, well, sorry doesn't fix the car.
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What happened to the car, Dad?
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Whole rear fender got smashed.
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Well, how bad is it?
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It's gonna be at least 400 bucks.
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Who hid it?
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I didn't see.
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But I was parked outside the Hong Kong buffet.
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So, do the math.
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I'm sorry.
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What?
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I'm just saying.
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Wow, that is such complete bullshit.
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Hey, we're at dinner.
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It's a bullshit stereotype.
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Tell that to my car.
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Swear to God, this whole household is so goddamn backward.
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Ted has used two derogatory terms this afternoon, and then there you go, topping it off with that ignorant comment.
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I said midget.
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What was the other one?
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Yeah, I don't know.
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You're living in my house with my family, eating our food and drinking our milk.
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Tough shit if you don't like it.
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That's just.. that's great.
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I'm so glad you don't count me as a member of the family, Uncle Matty.
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Maybe Polak?
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No, couldn't be that.
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That one's fine.
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Claire, you are absolutely a member of this family.
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Maddie, tell her you're sorry. Of course he won't.
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Because if he did, he'd be admitting I'm right, which would also be admitting he is a classic Boston racist.
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I'm not a racist!
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My favorite movie is Rocky!
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How the fuck does that make you not racist?
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Uh, Apollo Creed is in the movie. So? So?
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He's a black guy who wins against a white guy.
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Oh, my God.
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I mean, it's assuming you count Italians as whites, which I mostly do.
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Of course, you know, they weren't white up until the 1960s.
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They got a big bump after Korea.
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And it wasn't so much they got more white, the Cubans got more black, but I was okay with that too.
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Isn't this the toast that got you kicked out of Ronnie's wedding?
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Again, I was explaining why it was okay that he married an Italian.
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Jesus Christ, you are literally proving my point.
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You are a raging fucking racist.
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Hey, we're at dinner.
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Sarah and I are a couple.
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Called it, Johnny.
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Motherfucker.
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Man, I thought we were gonna do this on January 3rd.
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Wait a minute.
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You, the two of you?
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Oh my god.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey, hey, hey!
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What the fuck is this?
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What are you gonna do about it?
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You're gay?
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Fluid.
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What the hell does that mean?
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It means that I'm attracted to personalities, regardless of their gender.
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Oh, Jesus Christ.
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You're attracted to personalities and you picked her?
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Hey!
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Oh, fuck you, you've met six people.
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It's that college!
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It's that college!
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Oh my god.
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Susan, what am I always saying?
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College turns people gay.
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College turns people gay!
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Absolutely right!
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Out there on the lawn every weekend tossing the frisbee around.
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How the fuck is frisbee gay?
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It's a sport where nobody wins!
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It's only about the fun! So what?
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And what's this?
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What's this?
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Doing this all the time, huh?
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That's not a man's sport.
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You might as well be on a balcony waving goodbye to your lover.
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Making those clap catches like your front row at Elton John.
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Oh, the clap catch.
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You have clap catch and your wham-o frisbee.
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You know why it's called wham-o?
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You turn around, you bend over to pick up your frisbee and wham-o!
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Oh, you know what?
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You wish you were a frisbee, you little shit.
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It's going really good, Blair.
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We had a great time on our first date.
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Even the hospital was fun.
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Yeah, they're gonna fuck for sure.
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I mean, unless, you know, the timing's off.
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What do you mean?
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Well, I mean, you know, if she's gotta make a period.
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What?
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You know, if it's that time of the week.
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Okay, so what?
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So what if she gets her period?
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Well, like, you can't have sex then, right?
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Like, I heard that if you have sex while a girl's doing a period, then you could go back in time.
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I think I just went back in time.
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Does any male in this house actually even fucking know how it works?
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Well, do you?
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I do not.
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I actually have no idea.
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No. Yeah.
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I actually was always kind of curious.
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There's like a little tube, right?
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Yes.
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A tampon.
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Oh, yeah, I know that word.
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I know that word.
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Is a crampon also something?
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A crampon is used for rock climbing.
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It's got nothing to do with periods.
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Oh.
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It's weird that it has the word cramp in there, though, yeah?
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Two completely different things.
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But you can see why I thought...
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Okay, you want to make jokes?
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You want to fucking learn something.
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I wasn't making a joke.
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I didn't know about the rock climbing.
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God!
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How's it work?
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Give me your best guess.
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You put the tampon inside.
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Genius.
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Yes.
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How?
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You swallow it.
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You use the applicator to insert it into the vagina, And then you remove the applicator by pulling it out.
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And this happens all the time?
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Once a month for just a few days.
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Is it shorter in February?
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You wanna get fucking wet?
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No, no, no, I'm good, I'm good.
What Speaking Skills Can You Build with This Video?
This lively family dinner conversation is perfect for practicing casual fluency—a key milestone for real-world English. Whether you’re prepping for IELTS speaking practice or just want to sound natural with friends, the dialogue teaches you to handle interruptions, use humor, and respond quickly. It’s also a great fit for the shadowing technique: repeating lines aloud to mimic rhythm and tone. Try pausing the video, then speaking along—you’ll notice how native speakers shorten words (“gonna,” “wanna”) and stress emotions like frustration or playfulness.
Phrase Bank: Reusable Lines from the Dialogue
- “Don’t you worry about where I’m keeping stuff.” (Casual way to avoid a question)
- “This is like the perfect food for the perfect night.” (Expressing enthusiasm for a moment)
- “Who invented food? That guy rocks.” (Playful exaggeration)
- “If I knew you guys were gonna get so gussied up, I would’ve made something fancy.” (Hypothetical regret with humor)
- “You’re acting like it’s today’s special illegal seafood.” (Sarcastic comparison)
Fix Your Weak Spots: Rhythm and Intonation
The video’s chaotic energy highlights a common challenge: speaking with natural rhythm. Notice how short phrases like “Pay up” or “Ah, fuck” are spoken with sharp, sudden stress, while longer sentences (“I can feel your love in this, Ma”) flow more smoothly. To practice, use a shadowing app or shadowing site to record yourself repeating the dialogue—compare your version to the original. Focus on matching the speed and pauses, not just the words. This isn’t just about pronunciation; it’s about sounding like you’re part of the conversation. For IELTS speaking practice, mastering this rhythm helps you sound more confident, even in unscripted moments. Remember, learning English with videos like this isn’t just about words—it’s about capturing the feel of how people talk.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.