Tommy Quote #157
Quote from Tommy in Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man
Tommy: Hey, guys. Look what I found in the basement. Hogans, eh?
Dick: Tommy, you can't be serious.
Tommy: Well, actually, Dick, I've been thinking about it for a while. And, you know, uh, this was never my dream job.
Sally: So are you gonna go back to the home planet?
Tommy: Nah. So drafty there. There's that film in the air, you know. I like it on earth. There's, uh, women, gravity. It's nice. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go to the park. Feed some ducks.
3rd Rock from the Sun Quotes
‘Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man’ Quotes
Quote from Harry
Sally: I cannot believe this! I've never heard of anybody retiring in the middle of a mission before! Can he do this?!
Harry: It happens. But it's rare. Sometimes it's unavoidable. But it happens. But it's rare.
Quote from Mary
Mary: Well, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a singer. You know, a torch singer, like Peggy Lee or Ella Fitzgerald. I even had a stage name picked out. Marlena Albrecht.
Dick: Marlena.
Mary: A smoky room a martini in my hand spotlight, just me, center stage.
Dick: With a hep cat backing you up on a standup bass. [mimicking bass]
Mary: I'd wear gloves. Long, black gloves.
Dick: I'd have an opium problem.
Mary: Slap that bass!
Nina: You are some messed-up White people.
Quote from Tommy
Tommy: All right. That's it. I can't take it anymore. I want back.
Dick: Well, I thought you liked Eagle Vista.
Tommy: No. You know what? They keep the TV too loud, it's too hot, everybody's on drugs. It's just like a rave but without the babes.
Sally: But you seemed to be having so much fun.
Tommy: Oh, I was atrophying. It made me feel like an old man.
Dick: But that's what you are.
Tommy: Yeah, but that's not how I feel. At least I didn't until I retired. This is what retirement does to you. It makes you old.