Jacob Quote #151
Quote from Jacob in Story Samurai
Jacob: Yeah, I want to sell cereal, but my tiger dad wants me to stay in the forest.
Gregory: Is he using a cereal mascot to describe racial discrimination?
Janine: Mm-hmm. That's what he's doing.
Gregory: Okay.
Jacob: I was born to help make a balanced breakfast. These stripes are feeling like prison bars!
[aside to camera:]
Melissa: [laughing hysterically] I'm sorry. I've just never been so inspired.
Abbott Elementary Quotes
‘Story Samurai’ Quotes
Quote from Janine
Janine: Look, Jacob, at the end of the day, I'm corny, and at the beginning of the day, too, but I don't care as much.
Jacob: Okay, but that is different, because you are African-American.
Janine: Dit-dit-dit! See, when you said "African," that's corny. It just is. Look, you are a white teacher in a Black school.
Jacob: I am not Hilary Swank in Freedom Writers.
Janine: You are Hilary Swank in Freedom Writers. You are Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds. You are Sandra Bullock in...
Jacob: In Bird Box?
Janine: In The Blind Side. [gasps]
Jacob: Too far.
Janine: Too far, I know. I'm sorry about that. I know.
Quote from Melissa
Melissa: Man, this double class is kicking my ass. I need my extra-large coffee mug.
Jacob: Did you read that article the other day about how matcha... Actually more efficient at awakening the nervous system than coffee?
Melissa: Oh, yeah? Was that in Who Gives A Crap Weekly?
Jacob: It was in The New Yorker.
Melissa: Oh, so Who Gives A Crap Biweekly
Quote from Jacob
Ava: Jacob, hair and makeup are ready for you.
Jacob: You know what, Ava? I don't think I'm going to do the performance, and, um... By the way, would a "corny" person stage a one-man show called The Color Urkel?
Ava: Did you do that? Then yeah.