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Basketball

‘Basketball’

Season 8, Episode 16 - Aired March 8, 2017

Phil is determined to redeem himself on the basketball court at the school's charity game, but he didn't count on being in the presence of NBA legends Charles Barkley and DeAndre Jordan. Gloria volunteers to sell food at the event when her school nemesis, Dr. Donna Duncan, shames her for not being involved. Meanwhile, Claire tries to cover up a work mistake from her father, while Jay is concerned that Joe doesn't have a healthy fear of him.

Quote from Jay

Jay: [aside to camera] I don't like to talk about it a lot, but I have a certain expertise in timber. Even blindfolded, I can tell a Galapagos teak from a Maltese cherry. Came in handy for a cop friend of mine. Helped him round up the Cedar Boys.

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Quote from Cameron

Cameron: You know, I'm glad we're doing this again.
Alex: Yeah, I think we just put too much pressure on it the first time.
Cameron: You know, humans aren't the only ones who respond badly to pressure. Did I ever tell you about the day without eggs? It was at the start of the Omelet Days Festival. Up with the sun, I grab my basket, into the hen-house I go. Thirty-four hens, nary an egg. I know, I know. My grandpa said it was the worst case of avian anxiety he'd seen since Pearl Harbor. That's when they had to take the radio out of the coop.

Quote from Jay

Joe: I spilled juice on the rug. Please don't tell Mama.
Jay: Don't tell Mama?
[aside to camera:]
Jay: What about, "Don't tell Papa?" A boy is supposed to fear his father. I shook in my boots around my old man, just like he did around his. To this day, I hear the crack of a Schlitz or smell some Singleton's Beard Tonic, and I'm sweating like a mob rat in Little Italy.

Quote from Phil

Phil: [aside to camera] One year ago today, I had the chance to be a hero. It was the annual high school charity basketball game, parents versus teachers. We were raising money for Mrs. Martin in the attendance office who lost her house in a mudslide. One minute it was present, the next it was absent.

Quote from Gloria

Dr. Donna: Gloria! What a surprise!
[aside to camera:]
Gloria: There's a mom at Manny's school that I've had some problems with. She's your typical blonde airhead Barbie doll doctor.

Quote from Cameron

[aside to camera:]
Mitchell: When Haley was 4, she and I had our first tea party, and since then, we've made it a tradition to meet for high tea once a year. It's a time I've really come to cherish.
[separately to camera:]
Cameron: I don't love the whole tea thing. Mitchell and Haley always come back giggling over shared secrets, and I feel left out. I once tried to start my own uncle-niece tradition, but...
[flashback:]
Alex: I'm not questioning the methodology behind accelerated mass spectrometry. I'm merely pointing out that it's not singular in its power to separate a rare isotope from an abundant neighboring mass.
[Cameron's cup overflows as he pours teas and listens to Alex]

Quote from Phil

Charles Barkley: Is this where we get our hand stamped? Sometimes I like to leave and come back to things.
Phil: Uh, why... why are you here?
DeAndre Jordan: Our agent's wife is a math teacher at the school. Let's go get our seats. We don't want anybody to block us.
Phil: Yeah, yeah. I... I get that. So, I'm playing in front of two NBA stars?
Luke: Plus, once people know they're here, the crowd will be like five times the size it was last year.
Phil: Well, we still live in a world with a fire marshal.

Quote from Gloria

Dr. Donna: Gloria? Is that you? My brain's having a hard time processing you in this context.
Gloria: Yeah, I came to sell my nachos to raise money.
Dr. Donna: How nice. Although, some people are saying it's too little too late, that you can't just show up and get credit for it. I think it's mean, but some people are saying it seems disingenuous.
Gloria: I just got here. When did you talk to all these people?

Quote from Cameron

[As Cameron shaves Mitchell's back]
Mitchell: This is only bringing us closer together.
Cameron: Uh-huh! Who'd you say normally does this?
Mitchell: Uh, this place near my old office. Lily in a pinch.
Cameron: Okay, well, I think that's it.
Mitchell: Oh, no, you have to go over it one more time.
Cameron: Okay, we're not painting a bridge.

Quote from Jay

Jay: [aside to camera] I was already suspicious of that wood, but then it kills a fish? Claire obviously bought some of that tainted lumber, and then she tries hide it? She must think I'm denser than a Ponderosa maple.

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