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All Things Being Equal

‘All Things Being Equal’

Season 8, Episode 20 -  Aired May 3, 2017

When Gloria, Claire, Haley, Alex and Lily run into car trouble on their way to a women's march, they decide to fix the flat tire themselves. Manny is annoyed when Luke attends the rally and sees an opportunity to befriend a girl. Jay and Phil disagree over the staffing of their parking lot when the person Phil hired, Joan (guest star Niecy Nash), turns out to be a chatterbox. Elsewhere, Cameron is jealous at the budding friendship between Mitchell and Pam as she seeks help dealing with her newborn son.

Quote from Luke

Luke: It's funny. We've only been volunteering here at the women's march for an hour.
Manny: Five minutes.
Luke: But it already feels like I'm part of something big, something really special. Would you snap a picture?
Manny: So you can prove you were here and get school credit, and be home faster than the ink dries on that poster you just misspelled? "Women Untie"?
Luke: Still works.

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Quote from Luke

Manny: Luke, these women deserve our respect. They've had to overcome biases and challenges we've never had to face. They're the granddaughters of the suffrage movement.
Luke: Sitting through your little speech, that's suffrage.

Quote from Manny

Manny: Oh, my God. I-It's Danielle Pardo from calculus.
Luke: Who?
Manny: You wouldn't know her. You run in different circles. She's in honors classes and you, well, run in circles.

Quote from Gloria

Claire: You're watching strong women in action, Lily. When we put our minds together, there's nothing we can't achieve.
Gloria: This is too hard. Ugh. I give up.
Alex: Let's just get the manual.
Claire: Great idea. I like that. You see, Lily, there are no fairy tales, no damsels in distress. We are more than just a bunch of pretty faces.
Alex: There's nothing in the glove box but makeup.
Gloria: Ay, yeah, because the manual wouldn't fit with my emergency touch-up kit.

Quote from Haley

Haley: I would like to revisit Gloria's idea about giving up.
Alex: Oh, that's setting a great example. What do you think would've happened if Marie Curie had given up?
Haley: She wouldn't have died of radiation poisoning.
Alex: How on Earth did you know that?
Haley: You talk about her a lot. Until I saw her on that stamp, I thought she was your girlfriend.

Quote from Jay

Joan: Are you asking me not to talk to people? 'cause that [chuckles] is what I do. And Phil don't seem to have a problem with it.
Jay: No, but I do.
Joan: Well, to quote Sammy Davis Jr., "I got to be me."
Jay: Well, to quote Frank Sinatra, who I met once at a restaurant, "Get out of my booth."

Quote from Jay

Jay: What are you doing here? Where's Joan? You were supposed to handle it, but you didn't, so I had to take time out of my extremely busy day and try to straighten her out. But she didn't go along with the program, so she's gone.
Phil: You did this without talking to me? We're supposed to be partners.
Jay: We're gonna hire that Tibor guy. He barely speaks English, but there'll be no chattiness... although I did try that with Gloria, and eventually they watch so much TV they figure it out.

Quote from Jay

Jay: All right, everybody relax. Calm down! Calm down. Who drives the Prius? [all hands go up] With a "Whole Foods" reward card? [all hands remain up]

Quote from Lily

Gloria: The dashboard is going crazy.
Haley: It's a flat tire. Perfect.
Lily: I wouldn't know about "flat."

Quote from Phil

Phil: [aside to camera] Jay and I are partners in a parking lot. It's added a wonderful, new dynamic to our relationship. The first step was hiring someone to man the booth. We narrowed it down to the two candidates who applied.

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