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  • Everyone (except Chloe) snarking on Sam's show "J.T. Lancer" when it comes on.
    Sarah: (in deep voice) Say, baby, let's eat.
  • The whole scene of Nick interviewing himself.
    Nick: (pretending to be interviewer) Then, in 1972, you returned to the University of Michigan to enter the doctoral program in psychology, but you just couldn't finish that dissertation?
    Nick: (as himself) I could have, I chose not to. I'm not hung up on this completion thing.
    • Even better when Harold walks in on it:
    Nick: Harold, we're on the air!
    Harold: Oh! Sorry.
  • This conversation between Harold and Karen while they're stoned:
    Karen: I know that Richard (her husband) will always be faithful to me.
    Harold: That's nice. A little trust.
    Karen: (shakes her head) Fear of herpes.
  • Sam walks in on Nick watching a movie on TV in the middle of the night:
    Sam: What's this?
    Nick: I'm not sure.
    Sam: What's it about?
    Nick: I don't know.
    Sam: Who's that?
    Nick: I think the guy in the hat did something terrible.
    (shot of TV shows a man being thrown through the glass window of a door; all the people on the TV screen are wearing hats)
  • Sam, Harold, Meg, Michael and Karen are sitting around talking.
    Sam: In Hollywood, I don't know who to trust. I don't know who likes me or why they even do like me.
    Harold: Well you don't have that problem here. (Sam smiles) You know I don't like you.
    Michael: Me neither.
    Meg: Ditto.
    Harold: So relax.
    Sam: Assholes!
  • Sam trying and failing to leap into his car like he does on his TV show
  • Michael's summation of funerals and wakes:
    Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.
  • After the bat is discovered in the attic:
    Meg: I'm going to wash my hair and puke.
    Michael: Puke first.
  • A meta example, but seeing 6'2" William Hurt, who is normally easily the tallest man in any film he is in standing next to 6'4" Jeff Goldblum is always shockingly funny.
  • When getting everyone's shoe sizes to get them shoes from his store:
    Harold: Feet grow as you get older.
    Michael: I wish everything did.

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