Frankie Quote #1803
Quote from Frankie in Fight or Flight
Frankie: Oh, I am just so proud of him, Mike. I don't think I've ever been more proud. What an amazing kid we've raised. [sighs] I want him out of my house.
Mike: Well, that was a short love affair.
Frankie: No, I love him, but he needs to get a job and move out. If he doesn't, I'm gonna kill him or me or both of us. I got used to him not living here. I like knowing that when I open the cereal box, there will actually be cereal in it. I-I like it when there's no dirty socks on the table or on my bed or in the fridge. That one was on purpose. It had to be.
Mike: Well, that's not gonna happen, 'cause we're gonna have ground rules and he's gonna follow them.
Frankie: Yeah, right. We tried ground rules before. Remember how that worked out? Like when we drew up a contract that he had to take a bath every other day if he wanted TV.
Mike: Well, he was 5 years old. He signed his name with an X. I'm not sure it was legally binding.
Frankie: Well, we should've been more concerned that our 5-year-old could only sign his name with an X... and he's the one we read to.
Mike: Well, look, he's not 5 anymore. He's a man. And if we treat him like one, he'll act like one.
The Middle Quotes
‘Fight or Flight’ Quotes
Quote from Axl
Mike: What are you doing?
Axl: I'm packing my nunchucks for the trip.
Mike: Aw, that's great. The boy genius is packing his nunchucks. No one is letting you on a plane with nunchucks.
Axl: I believe you're thinking of toothpaste.
Mike: I'm not thinking of toothpaste!
Axl: All the stuff you know about air travel is what you've seen on the TV, but I'm doing the real thing.
Quote from Brick
Brick: I think I figured out what's causing my back problems. It's this chair you made me sit in.
Frankie: Made you sit in?
Mike: For years, you begged us to get you a normal chair.
Brick: Well, I have to listen to my body. Besides, I miss my old chair. I sat in it for as long as I can remember. It's like a trusted friend, a faithful comrade.
Mike: You don't have to write it a poem. It was a lawn chair.
Brick: Which happens to have been perfectly molded to my coccyx. [whispering] Coccyx. [normal voice] Wow, that's been a while.
Quote from Frankie
Mike: What's going on?
Frankie: Don't talk, just listen to me. You can talk after I get it all out, but you have to let me finish first. I love you and I support you and I back you on a ton of stuff, stuff that I don't even agree with you about, like that whole thing with Ron Donahue and the giant spatula. And the caves... nobody wanted to do that, and all these years, you won't let anybody buy drinks or snacks at the movies. And I always say, "Your father's right. These prices are crazy." But here's the thing... you can't get the Reese's Peanut Butter four pack at the grocery store. You can only get it at the movies, and so you pay a premium. And I think that's fair, but it's important to you, so I'm fine smuggling in crappy snacks. But I'm not fine with this. Axl needs to go to Europe. I'm not talking about letting him go. I'm saying he needs to go. This might be the only chance he ever gets. He needs to go, Mike. I will happily eat off-brand peanut-butter cups for the rest of my life, but he needs to go.