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  • The fashion industry being a World of Snark.
    • Miranda dismissing her staff's (not-so-bright in this case) ideas.
    Miranda: Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.
  • Emily, stressed and ill, gets tired of Andy talking:
    Emily: I am hearing this (opens and closes thumbs and fingers) and I want to hear this (closes them).
    • Even funnier that Emily Blunt improvised the line having heard it in a supermarket from a mother to her young daughter.
  • Miranda dismissing the weather in Miami as a drizzle just as the window lights up with lightning and gyrating palm trees.
  • Some of Miranda's ridiculous demands.
    Miranda: Find me that piece of paper I had in my hand yesterday morning.
  • Andy takes her very first phone call on the job and gets hung up on when she asks how to spell 'Gabbana'.
  • Any time Emily's frosty aloof exterior cracks. Two notable times are seeing Andy after her makeover and when Andy tells her how thin she looks.
  • Lilly insisting she cannot accept the $1900 Marc Jacobs bag while she is busy filling it with stuff from her current bag.
  • Nigel thinks that the quality of one's social life is inversely proportional to the quality of one's career.
    Nigel: Let me know when your whole life goes up in smoke. Means it's time for a promotion.
  • Eventually even Andy gets into Deadpan Snarker territory.
    Nigel: But we're not expected until Tuesday. Did she say why?
    Andy: Yes. She explained every detail of her decision-making. And then we brushed each others' hair and gabbed about American Idol.
    Nigel: I see your point.
  • The dig Miranda gets at Rupert Murdoch for how many papers her personal life helps him sell.
  • Emily somehow knowing that Miranda is calling for Andy when she actually calls for "Emily".

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