Mike Quote #1024
Quote from Mike in Fight or Flight
Frankie: Where are you gonna stay?
Axl: Don't know. We're just gonna buy a train ticket and figure it out on the way. I'm going to Europe. [laughs]
Mike: No, you're not.
Axl: What? Why?
Mike: You just graduated college. Now what you do is, you get a job and then you get married and eventually you have kids, and someday you'll tell them they can't go to Europe. That's how it works.
Axl: Dad, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Mike: Do you think companies close up shop in the summer and start offering jobs in the fall? All the people you just graduated with are gonna get the good jobs and you'll be left with whatever slim pickings there are in September, when you get back from flouncing around Europe.
Axl: [scoffs] I won't be flouncing.
Mike: Flouncing, traipsing, gallivanting... all that European stuff, it's not what people do when they graduate.
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 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.
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.