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Near Dick Experience

‘Near Dick Experience’

Season 4, Episode 22 -  Aired May 18, 1999

Dick feels left out when Sally, Harry and Tommy have a near death experience that gives them a new outlook on life.

Quote from Sally

Man: Thank you, miss Sally.
Sally: Oh, please. Your patheticness has shown me how fortunate I am, so for that, I thank you.

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Quote from Harry

Harry: A chandelier fell on Harry, but who walked out?
All: A.J.
Harry: That's right. Let me break it down for you, people. Have any of you ever felt like a slave to your job?
All: No.
Rico: Sometimes I do.
Don: Come on, Rico.
Rico: I do.
Don: Stop planting ideas in his head, Harry.
Harry: The name's A.J. And I don't plant ideas. The seeds are already there. The seeds of your dreams. I just bring 'em on out into the sunshine.

Quote from Harry

Harry: Well, let's take you, Don. You're a cop. You carry a loaded gun.
Don: Yeah.
Harry: But you're not superbright, now, are you?
Don: No- Wait a minute!
Harry: Not bright, loaded gun... you'll be lucky if you see 30.
Don: Ha. I'm way past that now.
Harry: No, Don! This is not who you are! This is not your life.
Don: It isn't?
Harry: No. What do you know about a place called Bhutan?
Rico: I think they shut 'em down for serving dog.
Harry: No, Rico. It's a kingdom in the Himalayas. They speak Tibetan and value a little thing called self-realization. Would you like to realize yourself, Don?
Don: Well, it sounds good in theory.
Harry: Then go! Go to Bhutan! Follow your destiny!
Rico: I'm going to Bhutan!
Don: Rico! We were supposed to go to Cocoa Beach!

Quote from Tommy

Alissa: Okay, Tommy, I'm really sorry. I never meant to hurt your feelings, you know. It's just that we're so young. We have plenty of time.
Tommy: It's all right. I mean, you can't understand where I'm coming from 'cause you haven't experienced what I've experienced, so... Now, why don't you try some perfectly ordinary peanut brittle?
Alissa: Tommy, that's a can full of fake snakes.
Tommy: What are you talking about? It says peanut brittle right on the front. Listen. [clunking] When you shake it, it sounds like there's peanut brittle inside. Go ahead.
Alissa: All right. [opens can]
Tommy: Aah! Snakes! They're gonna kill you! All right, well, what if those were real?
Alissa: Well, I would hope you wouldn't have offered them to me.

Quote from Tommy

Tommy: But the point is that there's deadly peanut brittle out there for everybody.
Alissa: Yeah, I know, peanut brittle and chandeliers everywhere, and that's why I have to marry you.
Tommy: Yes! Good, I'm glad you're coming around.
Alissa: No, that's not what I was saying.
Tommy: Look, I love you. Don't make me cut your brake lines.
Alissa: Okay, now you're threatening me?
Tommy: No! No, no. No, no, no, no. I I just want you to be sufficiently scared so that you understand that- That every moment of life is so precious, and--and every moment that I'm not with you, you know, it's like a moment wasted.
Alissa: Okay. That's really sweet.
Tommy: So you'll marry me?
Alissa: No.

Quote from Don

Don: Hi, guys. I just came to say good-bye.
Harry: Where you going, Don?
Don: The name's not Don. It's Skip. And I'm going to Bhutan!
Harry: No way!
Sally: What?!
Harry: Why?
Don: Self-realization.
Harry: Oh. Yeah.
Sally: Are you sure this is what you wanna do, Don?
Don: I'm sure I spent $4,000 on a package deal.
Tommy: Well, when are we gonna see you again?
Don: Maybe never. Maybe in three weeks. Probably in three weeks.

Quote from Dick

Mary: Dick, stop what you're doing right now! I don't care about your adrenaline high! I want to live! I want to live!
Dick: You'll live like never before. Imagine tasting a blueberry for the first time... every time! Forward!
Mary: You're not taking me with you!
Dick: There we go! The gaping maw of the unknown! I'm one fingerhold away from death and thus life!
Strudwick: [walks down steps on the rock face] Hi, guys. I left the watermelon in the car.
Mary: Stupid. I'm coming with you.
[A group of girl scouts walk down the steps, followed by a women on crutches]
Dick: No!

Quote from Tommy

Alissa: Yes!
Tommy: What?
Alissa: The answer is yes.
Tommy: Did I ask you a question?
Alissa: You asked me to marry you.
Tommy: Oh. Right. Wow! All right. Well, um, that's super-duper then.
Alissa: You were just so intense. I couldn't get what you were saying out of my head, so I asked my mother, my priest, Allison, Kristina, and Brittany, and they all said no, but- But I say yes!
Tommy: W-w-w-wait. You didn't listen to your mother? I mean, I don't know if I can marry a girl who doesn't listen to her mother.
Alissa: Tommy, are you telling me you've changed your mind?
Tommy: No, hardly. I'm just saying that we have to carefully consider-
Alissa: You've changed your mind.
Tommy: Yeah.

Quote from Tommy

Alissa: I'm an idiot. You know, this is why I said no twice.
Tommy: No, but, Alissa, I-
Alissa: But then I started thinking, you know, about how much I like you and how great we are together and how I'd never want to lose that. And sure, it's impulsive, but some of the greatest things you could do in life are impulsive, and, I mean, think about it, Tommy, we could wake up every morning together in each other's arms forever. God, I'm a moron!
Tommy: Alissa, will you marry me?
Alissa: No!

Quote from Dick

Dick: M-Mary, are you all right?
Mary: Yes.
Dick: Oh, my God. That train could have killed us. We were inches away from death!
Mary: Look what you did to my car!
Dick: But we're alive! Mary, we're alive!
Mary: Dick, do you smell gas?
Dick: Yes. I feel like I'm smelling it for the first time. We're alive!

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