Mike Quote #473
Quote from Mike in Last Whiff of Summer
Frankie: You smell that?
Mike: I'm telling you, something's dead in this car. It goes away in the winter, but it reactivates in the summer.
Frankie: No, no. The grass, Mike. Fresh-cut grass.
Mike: If it's fresh-cut, you know it's not ours.
Frankie: Doesn't it just take you back, though? That's it right there. You know, it's just that thing, that feeling of summer that you can't describe, you know, "this." [sighs] We should have an amazing summer, Mike. Let's have an amazing summer.
Mike: Yes, let's, my darling. With our travel budget of whatever's in the couch cushions, the world is our oyster.
Frankie: Ugh. It's not just about money, Mike. I mean, don't you remember summer as a kid? Going to drive-in movies, playing ghost in the graveyard till your folks called you inside?
Mike: Oh, yeah. That was a real summer.
Frankie: Yeah.
Mike: I could kill a whole day just smacking a tennis ball against the house and lying on my back, in the yard, doing this... [uses a blade of grass as a whistle]
Frankie: Love that. Still can't do that.
Mike: Ah, it's not hard, Frankie. It's all in the thumbs. You gotta use your thumbs.
The Middle Quotes
‘Last Whiff of Summer’ Quotes
Quote from Frankie
Brick: Hang on. This is wrong. None of us are being fair to Mom here. Maybe if you made your case.
Frankie: Oh, please. I am not gonna make my case. [mouth full] Okay, fine. First of all, I'm the one that does all things kid-related. I sign all your permission slips, I run out and get you poster board, I clean that cesspool you call a backpack.
Mike: Frankie, don't do this.
Frankie: Oh, I'm doing it. Do you know all three of your heads were unnaturally large, thanks to your giant favorite parent over here's weird genetic quirk? And that after 27 months of carrying you people around, I can no longer sneeze or laugh or jump in the bouncy house without peeing?
Mike: They don't really need to know that.
Frankie: Okay. What about tonight? Who's the one that got us out of the house, that packed the blue bag full of tasty chicken, and searched the newspapers for the best park with the best view of the best fireworks, all so we could create one stinking memory of "this"? Well, if anybody's still confused, it was me. Me, me, me. So just lie down, stop talking, and start watching, because nothing says summer like fireworks!
[After the family lay down and stare up at the skies, fireworks go off in the distance behind them]
Frankie: Nobody... say... anything.
Quote from Sue
Sue: Dad, I know you're aware that since the incident at the drive-in, I've kinda been freezing you out.
Mike: Mm-hmm?
Sue: I guess I just sorta felt like Serpico when his toymaker friend betrayed him, you know, before the pogrom guys burned down the wedding.
Mike: Again, three separate movies.
Quote from Axl
Mike: I'm just saying, East Indiana State is closer. You gotta consider that. We still don't know how much they're gonna play you, but I like the package they're putting together.
Axl: [mouth full] I don't want to be closer. I wanna be as far away from you people as possible. It's like when Tevye decided his town was too small, so he went on the flying car to New York to become a cop.
Mike: You do know that's three separate movies?