Shadowing Practice: My favourite line from every episode of BoJack Horseman - Learn English Speaking with Video
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That's right, sweetheart.
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He died of a broken heart, because you didn't appreciate him enough.
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And now, he's gone forever.
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We might have gone too dark on that series finale.
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In the 90s, we laughed at your antics.
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Oh, how we laughed.
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Ha ha ha, we chortled in rapturous glee.
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But when you deny the dibs called by our men and women on the front lines, that is a sick joke, sir.
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A sick, sick joke indeed, and you'll forgive me if I chortle no longer.
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For to me, there is nothing the least bit funny about stealing a meal from Neil McBeal, the Navy SEAL.
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You want me to put it out with my boob?
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Uh, what?
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Your boob is a very impractical way to put out a fire.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber has to be a real hot penis about everything.
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Oh, Andy.
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Fool me once, shame on you.
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But teach a man to fool me, and I'll be fooled for the rest of my life.
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Anyway.
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Aw, thank God you're here, Dee Dee.
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Pops is wicked departed.
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That's not true.
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I can express feelings.
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Nothing on the outside, nothing on the inside.
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So, one minute I'm making a movie with Cate Blanchett, next I hear she's doing a picture with Cameron Crowe about mixtapes.
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As I said to Ed Porter at the premiere of The Great Train Robbery, Ah!
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The train's coming right at me!
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What the hell is going on?
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Herb's done really well for a guy you dicked over.
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Oh, no!
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That's enough out of you.
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Stay out here and turn this car around around in case we need to leave in a hurry.
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Hooray!
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A task!
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You know, sometimes I feel like I was born with a leak, and any goodness I started with just slowly spilled out of me, and now it's all gone, and I'll never get it back in me.
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It's too late.
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Life is a series of closing doors, isn't it?
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Don't be sad.
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Good horsey.
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It actually feels kinda nice.
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Hey, Wayne, you still work for BuzzFeed?
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Um, yes.
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Cause I got something that's gonna get you a shit ton of hearts, or digs, or smileys, or whatever the hell you measure your journalism with.
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I feel like we can beat this font.
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Ah, Copper Plate.
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A font for the truly modern man.
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Ha!
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No. There you are, Verdana.
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Thought you could hide at the end of the alphabet, did ya?
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Oh, Comic Sans, you drunk.
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Go home.
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310!
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I just spent six hours playing with fonts?
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Holy shit!
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Holy shit!
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Okay, chalk it over with your husband.
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I gotta go get my whiskers trimmed.
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I run into walls for days, but I look hot.
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Sabrina, you and Olivia and Ethan are the best things that have ever happened to me.
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And if it took your parents dying for you to be part of my life, well, then I'm glad your parents died.
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Oh, you don't mean that.
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No, I do.
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I'm glad your parents are dead and are never coming back.
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Well, when you put it that way, I guess I am too.
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What happened to Laura?
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Assistants are like Belushi brothers.
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The good ones leave too soon and the bad ones never go away.
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So, these two were so consumed by greed that it destroyed them.
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You know, I came here today to blow up Disneyland.
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You what?
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But now I realize I don't need to take down capitalism.
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Capitalism sows the seeds for its own destruction.
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It's a snake that eats itself.
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It's only a matter of time.
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I guess it was just easier to believe
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that you killed him for his book than believe that he just died.. for nothing.
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There is no shame in dying for nothing.
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That's why most people die.
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Mr. Peanutbutter, you know I love you and think you're a good dog.
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Yes, you are.
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Yes, you are.
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And I love your cute, funny face.
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Don't worry, though.
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We'll bring your daughter home, dead or alive.
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Alive!
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Alive!
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We're the LAPD, ma'am.
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We'll probably make the right call.
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Wait, wait, wait!
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Team players wanted?
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Oh, I'm such a good team player, I make all the other team players look like garbage!
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Guys, earlier some general asked me if it was a go on that thing we talked about and I said yes,
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and he said God help us all and left the room.
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Now I'm not sure that was the right answer.
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Hello, I am Mustache Todd, like regular Todd, but with a mustache.
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Listen, Boo-Boo, I didn't graduate first in my class from a prestigious university, rise through the ranks at an elite news organization, win a well-known award, never ever be sick at sea,
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and also my name is Mia McKibben so that I can deal with your nonsense.
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But I knew my life was empty.
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At night I heard the cries of children sick and dying, and I would scream into the night, SHUT UP!
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SHUT UP CHILDREN!
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But the phantom cries would not abate!
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You know, the sound guy's wife works with at-risk teens, and I was like, yeah, that's okay, but compared to what my wife is doing, your wife is bullshit.
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And he had to agree with me, because I am his boss.
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Where the hell are you?
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Tohsuka.
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Tohooka?
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Tohsuka, New Mexico, outside Santa Fe.
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Are you tough, stupid?
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Huh?
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Copernicus is a fraud!
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A fraud?
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Me?
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How?
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Huh?
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It's a symbol for rebirth.
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I'm not interested in being rebirth, thank you.
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I'm still recovering from being birthed the first time.
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Let's see what the suits have to say.
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Bet they're gonna want to bland it up.
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Make it appeal to middle America.
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Ugh, that's the worst part of America.
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Other than the bottom and the top and most of the sides.
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A lot of these fancy kids have fancy parents who are Oscar voters.
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If I want to get nominated, I gotta rub elbows and whatever the non-denominational word for schmooze is.
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It's hobnob.
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I can't just go to Cannes?
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You can not.
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Apparently, the French people do not care for you ever since you said that thing about them in the press.
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Hey, I stand by my critique of Sartre.
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His philosophical arguments helped many tyrannical regimes justify overt cruelty.
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Also, the French smell and I hate them.
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You actually got me three dates?
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I was joking!
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I'm sorry.
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I sometimes have trouble reading tone.
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One time I spent 45 minutes at a fascinating lecture at the Apollo Theater before I realized it was a comedy routine.
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George sucks.
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What does everyone love about him?
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He's not a god.
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He's just an old guy who loves pranks.
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Sure sounds like God.
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Okay, what is going on here?
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Why would you...
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I don't even...
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Literally nothing going on.
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No, something's going on.
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I've got a nose for news.
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And in this case, new is the Greek letter representing the variable for what is going on.
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So let's solve for new, shall we?
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Oh, he's probably just razzing you.
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But he's a good dog.
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All bark, no bite.
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Oh, sorry, that's a Labrador expression.
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I guess in human terms it would be he's all talk and no shooting you with an assault rifle.
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Is that what you think humans do?
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Am I wrong?
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Keep driving, keep driving, girl don't turn that car around Break your part and if needed to fix other people
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Just keep on driving away Ugh, who do they write these songs for?
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Don't go back to the restaurant, Princess Carolyn Just keep driving away Ugh!
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Now let's get you out there.
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Yes, gotta get out there.
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Onto the stage.
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To announce the nominations.
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Just as soon as I- Oh my god, is that Bradley Cooper?
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Bradley Cooper?
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We love him for some reason. Where?
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Let's go, Ty!
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We have to do Bojack!
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It's too perfect!
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I don't know.
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There's that old saying, liquor before beer, never fear, don't do heroin. Who could that be?
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Pizza?
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Katrina, you're not pizza.
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Ugh, this fight again.
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Hooray!
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Ha ha!
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Oh no!
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Oh!
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Oh man!
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I was hoisted by my own petard!
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The one petard I thought would never hoist me!
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Well, I'd love to stay, but I must be going.
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As a modern American man, I am woefully unprepared to manage a woman's emotions.
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I was never taught, and I will not learn.
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Take care, you two.
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I know, it's confusing.
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I have eight dads.
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How'd that happen?
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Test tubes?
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No, I was adopted.
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Oh, of course.
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By eight men in a committed gay polyamorous relationship.
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Less of course.
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But ever since I was a baby, people always said I looked like BoJack Horseman.
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That's a terrible thing to say to a baby!
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Mark my words, the only fracking that's going to be happening is in this bedroom.
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Alright, guy.
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I'm gonna drill you deep and fill you with a mysterious substance that scientists still don't quite understand the ramifications of.
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This isn't sexy for me.
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Oh, and I'm being told by our producers that we have a breaking news alert.
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There has been another mass shooting.
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I am totally unqualified to cover a news story this important, but as a straight white male, I will plow forward with confidence and assume I'm doing fine.
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Elton, you have to play this wedding.
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Hey, we want one of those Stranger Things kids to be the ring bearer.
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They're still little, right?
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You're gonna do a duet with a hologram of Nat King Cole.
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Or if that's cost prohibitive, Lisa Left Eye Lopez.
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Puberty?
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Can't we give him something for that?
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Great!
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Fabulous!
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I will no longer be shackled by the civilized society of the above ground.
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This is underground, and the only law here is flame.
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The fire wants not for justice.
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The fire wants not for reason.
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The fire desires only to be fed!
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Feed the fire!
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The fire is my new god!
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Oh, God!
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Um, I'm so sorry, Mr. Peanutbutter, but the tide has turned, and I side with the fire now.
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I got this one thing.
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I don't know, it might be pretty dumb.
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You bite your tongue.
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Yes, bite it all the way off!
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All your ideas are beyond terrible.
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Well, in that case, I guess I must have terrible business instincts.
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You do!
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Because I want to hear it.
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They say the devil's in the details, so let's summon the devil.
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Judah, you'll never guess who I just ran into.
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No, I won't.
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Very astute, ma'am.
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It was Charlie Witherspoon.
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Mm-hmm.
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Char-ly-wither-spoon.
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Okay.
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How does that make you feel?
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That very short story makes me feel nothing, but I don't think it's your fault.
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I often have trouble engaging with narratives.
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Before Woodchuck, the hands belonged to one Ernest Contralto, a criminal.
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The man was a pedophile murderer.
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Well, if you gotta murder somebody...
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No, Tom.
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Not a pedophile dash murderer, a pedophile slash murderer.
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Oh, no!
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The way you said slash was very scary.
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Stop!
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Stop!
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Why are you doing this?
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Beatrice, remember what we say about crying?
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Crying?
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Crying is stupid.
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Oh.
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Hey, buddy!
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Uh-oh.
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She had a long day of drinking, and I figured she shouldn't drive herself home.
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Good thinking.
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Yeah, I was totally right, too, because she crashed her car.
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What?
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Probably should have said something, but...
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Ugh, Todd, your good-hearted naivete has once again conspired with outrageous happenstance to completely dick me over.
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Have you tried just talking to the showrunner?
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In my experience, I found it's best to shoot straight in the boardroom and on the driving range.
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I gotta check.
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It's Susie and HR's birthday, and if I don't show up to these things, people talk.
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You know what I mean?
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I never do!
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Where is my content, Diane?
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I need words for my website.
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There are words on the website now, but I need younger words, newer words, fresher words to feed the insatiable beast.
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Okay, okay, I'll write something while I'm here.
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Love it!
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Be that beast, girl!
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Bye!
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I was trying to understand how someone could be like you, so I did a little research.
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Did you know that a computer can do more than just find porn?
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I use my laptop to flatten pie dough.
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Okay, so, pop culture inherently normalizes things, and that power works both ways.
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It can normalize things for good, like how dancing Ellen makes middle America less afraid of gay people, but it could also normalize things for bad, like what Jack Bauer did for torture,
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or what Jimmy Fallon did for lip-syncing.
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And finally, the cousins.
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I slept with all of them.
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Wow.
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I'm just kidding.
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I'm from North Carolina, not Tennessee.
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I used to be on this TV show called Horsin' Around.
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Seriously though, hold your applause.
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Well held.
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I haven't been able to visit, but everyone in my family goes to that farm eventually.
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Oh, dude.
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Your mom's dead.
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What?
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No. She's at a farm after a prolonged bout of Parkinson's.
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A farm where they don't have telephones or the internet and oh my god, she's dead.
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My mom is dead!
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Whoa.
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Oh, they're there.
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Okay, I've scoped out the party, and I've yet to see a single mummy.
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As Margaret Thatcher's children often asked, Is mummy coming to see us?
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And as their nanny always replied, Not tonight.
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Thank God.
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You okay?
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You look like you've just seen a Ghost in the Shell screening, and you're Scarlett Johansson's publicist.
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I want to be on top of you.
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There's no one on top of me.
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I'm CEO of this company.
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That's my favorite position.
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Well, you can't have it.
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It's mine.
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Give it to me.
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You want to be tantamount to this catamount?
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You've got balls, I'll give you that.
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I am a horny robot!
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For my job, yes, you've been quite clear.
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It's been six months since the missiles hit.
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The air is thick with the stench of death, and the hospitals are delivering some very wacky babies.
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But finally, they reopened the yogurt land near me.
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Uh, Henry Fondle is a sex robot, and he should not be a CEO of any company.
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When you say sex robot, you're speaking metaphorically, right?
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No. Thank you.
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Now if you'll kindly direct me to my room, I would like to begin the process of healing, so I can finally stop hurting the people around me, dipshit!
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Is it weird I haven't picked a name yet?
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Ah, don't worry about it.
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My parents didn't name me until I was four, and I turned out great, right?
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Come on.
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Right?
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Listen, I gotta go.
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Bye!
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Wait, what about Lucretia?
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So you were saying your wife went missing in this wheat field?
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Oh, there she is!
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I would be delighted.
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Wait, it's not the Chicago Baby Humans game, is it?
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It's just a mascot.
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And there goes Wah Wah, the baby human, stumbling around like the furless, featherless dolt he is.
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What's he got there?
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Don't drink that poison, you crazy human!
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We don't drink poison!
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Diane, he's not a literal human.
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Wah Wah is a tribute to your proud human heritage.
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I'm very flattered.
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At least it wasn't with someone I know.
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It was Diane.
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Diane, the nice lady from the Chew Toy Store?
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Diane, my ex-wife?
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That's so much worse!
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You are a bad dog!
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I'm a very good assistant, and I can be very discreet, whatever you need.
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Mark Terry used to dress me in the outfit Natalie would drown in and scream at me for hours on end.
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It was very therapeutic for him, and I didn't mind because he wasn't screaming at me.
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He was screaming at death.
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Stars really are just like us, huh?
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Well, that was a bust.
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Okay, this time, you're Diane, and I'll be Jorge.
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Todd, get in the trash can.
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I know I'm a disappointment to you, but I do not live in a trash can, Jorge, and I haven't for several years now.
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Hey, get up!
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Hey!
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Oh shit, it walks already?
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She started a few days ago.
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Oh.
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It's okay.
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She sucks at it now, but she'll get better at it.
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Ugh, Maximilian Becks.
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I may lack your nose for news, but I've got an eyeball for a highball.
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Why, this man couldn't string together two clauses without ending on a preposition.
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I don't know what you're referring to.
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You could fill a library with all the things you don't know.
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In fact, they do.
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They call them libraries.
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Guys, we're trying to work here.
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Sorry about that.
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We're doing LSD research in the room next door.
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Come on, Mr. Phillips, time to go.
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The Frazzleberries taste like Panazzoberries!
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Yes, Mr. Phillips, everything tastes like something.
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Are you, uh, you know, one of those stupid pop culture analogies I'm always doing?
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Because you're charming at first, but eventually enough already!
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What happened?
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He was getting off a phone call.
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I had some constructive criticism about his play.
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I tried to compliment Sanders by starting with some praise, but he passed out.
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Just goes to show, you never know how much time you have with someone.
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So you should always say the bad stuff first.
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Bojack, your play sucked.
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Todd, I keep hearing about this new girlfriend of yours.
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When do I get to meet her?
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You can probably take this part of the conversation elsewhere.
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I'm right this way.
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We should go on a double date with you and Pickles.
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Pickles and I are putting our relation on a brief hiate at the Moe, but as soon as she returns from her work trip, uh, excuse me, I'm receiving a text message,
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and it appears we have broken up forever.
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Judah, I need your advice.
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I'm trying to throw a sophisticated adult party to impress my parents, and I have no furniture or sophisticated adult friends.
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I'm alarmed.
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Do you not consider me a sophisticated adult, or do you not consider me a friend?
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Judah, this is no time for one of your famous Judah tantrums.
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Fair.
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His girlfriend looks nice.
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He seems healthy.
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W-what's his job?
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I think he runs a daycare, but he talks about the babies as if they're his co-workers, so it's impossible to know for sure.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, please!
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I'm not ready.
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I never got to direct my backdraft remake, Zach Braff's backdraft.
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I never finished my memoir.
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I started a Zach which started the whole world braffing.
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I never got to license the Zach Braff short-stacked breakfast attack at Shake Shack.
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Cash-strap Hash Brown fans who hashtag Zach Snacks get cash back fast with the Braff Bucs- ZAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I had this breakthrough recently.
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One day in therapy, I just blurted out, is my problem with women any movie directed by Christopher Nolan?
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Because yes, women are involved, but it's never really about the women.
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It's about me.
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That's actually somewhat astute.
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It occurred to me.
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Are my self-destructive patterns and unexamined cycles of codependency, the popular Jim Carrey character, The Mask?
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Because somebody stopped me.
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Are all of your breakthroughs phrased like that?
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Um, are all of my breakthroughs a British prog rock band from the 70s? Because yes.
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Ugh.
About This Lesson
This lesson focuses on practicing English through excerpts from the popular animated series BoJack Horseman. You will enhance your speaking skills, pronunciation, and comprehension by utilizing effective shadowing techniques. By listening to engaging dialogues that blend humor and emotion, you can improve your ability to express feelings and tone in various contexts. This practice will also be beneficial for those preparing for IELTS speaking practice as it exposes you to conversational nuances and unique expressions.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Broken heart - A metaphor for deep emotional pain.
- Chortled - A blend of chuckle and snort, used to express laughter.
- Sick joke - A joke that is offensive or in poor taste.
- Impractical - Not practical; not suitable for the situation.
- Closing doors - A metaphor for missed opportunities.
- Leaked goodness - A poetic way to express feeling depleted of positive traits.
- Task - A job or duty to be done, often used humorously.
- Comic Sans - Referring to a typeface commonly associated with informal or childish writing.
Practice Tips
To effectively utilize the shadowing technique with the learn English with YouTube content from BoJack Horseman, follow these guidelines:
- Listen attentively: Start each clip by listening without speaking. Focus on the pronunciation and intonation used by the characters.
- Repeat phrases: Use a shadowing app or a shadowing site to replay sections. Try to imitate the actors' emotions and expressions. Pay attention to their speed and inflection.
- Break it down: If certain phrases are difficult, break them down into smaller parts. Shadow short clips first before attempting longer dialogues.
- Record yourself: After shadowing, record your attempts. Compare your pronunciation and tone with the original to identify areas of improvement.
- Practice regularly: Consistency is key. Dedicate time each week to practice different segments and phrases from the series for varied exposure and learning.
Utilizing these techniques will not only enhance your English speaking but will also make learning enjoyable. Engaging with relatable content like BoJack Horseman can significantly help in understanding colloquial speech patterns and humor.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.