Frankie Quote #1505
Quote from Frankie in Thanksgiving VII
Sheila: And then I stirred the almonds into an earthen basin with flour and gum dragon and baked it in a wood-fired oven.
Woman: Oh. And how did you make the soup?
Frankie: Well... I threw some vittles in a pot, then I got some water from yon crick over yonder and poured that into a cotton gin. Then Paul Bunyan ate it and declared, "Soup is good food."
Sheila: Prithee a word, Abigail. Did you even read your packet at all?
Frankie: I skimmed it.
Sheila: Okay, since you're clearly unprepared, I'll do the talking, and you can go in the back and make the potato balls. Do you think you can do that?
Frankie: Potato balls? Really? That's gonna take forever. Why don't we just do mashed potatoes and take a rain check on the potato balls? Nobody will even notice. They're all looking down at their phones anyway.
Obadiah: Ladies. Your idle gossip is best saved for 'round the water pump.
Sheila: Ah, 'tis true, husband. Listen, sister. I don't care what kind of slipshod schemes you got under your bonnet to short-shrift our guests, but on my watch, we do things properly.
Frankie: Fine, fine, okay. Hey, but listen, is there a-an outlet by a pot or something, 'cause I'm down to 1%.
The Middle Quotes
‘Thanksgiving VII’ Quotes
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: Okay, look. The potatoes were still kind of hard. This can just be our little secret. Nobody out there needs to know. Believe me, two years ago when I worked the squash harvest, this thing was a lifesaver.
Sheila: [gasps] You've done this before?
Frankie: Look, if anybody sees me, I'll just tell them that my cousin from the Louisiana territory just invented it. The great inventor Hosiah... Newton-John.
Sheila: My soul would die at the thought of people getting anything less than the authentic experience they paid $8 for. They did not pay to have somebody cut corners.
Frankie: Well, guess what. Historically, I come from a long line of corner-cutters, so cutting corners now is actually me being authentic. So there.
Quote from Brick
Mike: See, in a real game, we don't see each other's cards, so you can pretend that you have a really good hand and the other guy might believe you and quit.
Brick: You mean lie? That doesn't seem very sporting.
Mike: Well, it's called bluffing, and it's part of the game. So, now I'm gonna deal a hand where I can't see your cards. So I'm not gonna be able to help you. You're on your own.
Brick: Ooh. [puts pretzels in the pot] I have a great hand. [whispers] I'm bluffing.
Mike: Okay, our problem here is that you have what we call a tell. And your tell is that you... tell.
Brick: Mm.
Mike: So we're gonna have to work on that. [Brick eats a pretzel] You're eating money.
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: All right, well, if nobody cares, how about we float Thanksgiving to December? Wait. That's too close to Christmas. Let's see. How about... January?
Sue: Can't. Our a cappella group is doing this big month-long tribute to the '80s... Duran Duran-uary. [laughs]
Brick: February's out. Cindy's got something big planned for Valentine's Day. What's a couples retreat?
Frankie: Okay, how about March?
Mike & Axl: March Madness!
Frankie: Okay, who's free in May?
Axl: Yeah, nothing good happens in May.
Sue: Well, except Mother's Day.
Frankie: Like he said, nothing good happens in May.