Frankie Quote #1522
Quote from Frankie in Not So Silent Night
Frankie: Okay, people, you know the drill! Mike, you'll drop us off and park in the overflow lot. Axl, you run in and lay yourself across the pew, saving seats until Brick comes there with the coats, and this time, actually save the seats. Don't give it away to old people.
Axl: The guy was a World War II veteran! You say no to that!
Frankie: Oh, anybody can buy one of those hats and say they were in the war. Now, while Dad is parking and Axl and Brick are saving seats, Sue and I will sweet-talk the choir director to get a bead on whether they're gonna open the choir vestibule. If they're gonna open it, I will give a signal. We will split into two groups, grab the coats, and plow our way to the staircases.
Mike: I don't want to sit in the vestibule.
Frankie: If we get the vestibule, you're going in the vestibule. Oh! Damn it! Please don't let us end up in the second overflow room! [groans] [sniffs] Dirty. [sniffs] Dirty. [sniffs] Dirty. [sighs] You know, it's just not fair. The people who never go to church squeeze out the people who sometimes go to church.
The Middle Quotes
‘Not So Silent Night’ Quotes
Quote from Mike
Frankie: No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Mike?! They're gone! They're gone! Every picture we've taken for the last seven years is gone!
Mike: What are you talking about? You have backups, don't you?
Frankie: No, they were on the computer, and now they're gone! Listen, I keep hearing about a cloud. Do we have a cloud?
Mike: Just the black one over our heads.
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: Oh, God, could I have thrown it away when we did that spring cleaning a couple years ago? That would be so typical of me! Other people have a system, and I don't have a system, and now it's gone!
Brick: Mom, it's not your fault.
Frankie: Yes, it is. This whole damn house is just a system failure. That computer has not been backed up for 67 weeks! I just kept hitting, "Remind me later." Everything here is "Remind me later." We live a "remind me later" life. Oh, my God, what is wrong with me?! I can't store pictures properly. I don't appreciate cat perfume from my children. I have got to do a better job!
Sue: It's okay, Mom! I found it! I found it! It was in the garage!
Frankie: Oh, thank God! [rummages through the box] Old People magazines? [wails] No! [cries] They're gone! [crying] Everything is gone! It's as if we never existed! Oh, sure, I kept two copies of the John Travolta Look Who's Talking edition but not our family memories!
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: You know, ever since this fell in the toilet, it's running slow. Seriously, it's 6:00?
Mike: I checked the kitchen clock.
Frankie: Oh, that's the dog clock. It's always set an hour ahead so I can give Doris her flea medicine. She stays on central time. Trust me, it makes sense.
Sue: Uh, no, that's not ahead anymore, remember? You had me change it back because it kept making us early.
Frankie: So, what time does the microwave say?
Sue: Same as always. That one only always says 2:00.
Brick: No, you got to know how to read it. Just 1, 2, and 3 are 2:00. The sixes and zeros work, and the second time it flashes 2:00, it's really 4:00.
Frankie: Will someone just tell me what time it is?! Is it dog time or microwave time or toilet time?
Mike: Let's just get out the phone book and call time.
Frankie: Nobody calls time, grandpa. Nobody's called time since time started.