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After the Fire

‘After the Fire’

Season 3, Episode 8 -  Aired November 16, 2011

After a neighbor's house burns down, Claire gets her relatives involved in a community drive to help the affected family. While they try to do some good, Jay throws his back out, Cameron drives into a sticky situation, and Luke and Manny play with a toy destined for someone else.

Quote from Claire

Jay: If I could only save one possession in a fire, probably my first set of golf clubs. My old man gave 'em to me.
Gloria: The engagement ring that Jay gave me that changed my life.
Mitchell: Lily's adoption papers.
Cameron: I was gonna say adoption papers. So I guess, then, I would say my mom's recipe book.
Phil: All our family photos. Which I keep on my iPad, so my iPad.
Claire: As long as I have my family, I wouldn't need anything else. [all groan] What?
Phil: You say something like that, it makes us all seem petty.
Luke: Yeah.
Claire: I know. I know. [all boo]

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Quote from Gloria

Claire: Dad, you're gonna kill yourself.
Jay: I got it! We're on a schedule here. I still have to pick up the truck.
Gloria: If you want him to stop lifting things, put all this in grocery bags and turn the TV onto a football game.

Quote from Phil

Phil: Oh, take this phone away from me.
Claire: Why? Two of our best brokers left to start their own agency, and the office gossip is flying. But I want today to be about the Rands And if I have this- Oh, my God! Those guys took two secretaries and the tube dude with them!
Gloria: Who's the tube dude?
Phil: You know, the blowy guy that attracts all the attention. This guy.
Gloria: Ah, si, I've seen him. He goes down over there, and then he shakes up. And goes down in there, and then-
Phil: You almost got it.

Quote from Cameron

Mitchell: Hi, hi, sorry. We would have been here sooner, but this one had a wardrobe crisis.
Cameron: You know, it's a somber occasion, and all my tops are too joyful.
Mitchell: You do not want our problems.

Quote from Manny

Manny: Poor Reuben, huh? Having to rebuild his whole life at age 12.
Luke: Yeah. That blows.
Manny: I know we're both shaken up, but let's watch the language.

Quote from Gloria

Gloria: Okay, put this in a safe place. It's for Reuben. It's one of those, um, how do you say again, the takka-takka-takka...
Luke: Is that the helicopter with the camera in it that you control with your phone?
Manny: The one I asked for?
Gloria: Okay, when your house burns down, you get one of these. No, don't burn your house down.

Quote from Luke

Luke: How lucky is Reuben?
Manny: So lucky.
Luke: You know what? I say we take this thing out and see how she flies.
Manny: I don't know. My mom got it for Reuben.
Luke: Oh, so now he won't even share his toys?
Manny: He never does.
Luke: Screw that guy!
Manny: Yeah! You're a terrible influence.
Luke: You need me.

Quote from Claire

Gloria: Claire, in case you want to add something, I put the box of dresses outside and this is the box of snicker snackers.
Claire: Mm. Thanks. Mitchell, we did have something to add to this box of, um, [as Gloria] Snicker snackers. What?
Mitchell: English is not her first language. She's just trying to help.
Claire: Mitchell, come on. You can't do that. You can't just change the rules. This is what we do. When Gloria says something silly, we innocently laugh behind her back.

Quote from Claire

Mitchell: What's the big deal? We're friends. I like Gloria.
Claire: Uh, it's no big deal. I have nothing against her, I just think- [knocks over box of knick-knacks] Oh! All right. So before you get all judge-y, I gave her that vase.
Mitchell: After I gave it to you.

Quote from Haley

Haley: You couldn't part with that T-shirt?
Alex: I love this shirt.
Haley: You know, you don't have to look the way you look. Amber Rand lost all her clothes in a fire, but she gets to build herself a new wardrobe. Let me burn your clothes.

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