Oscar: Well, you do the best with what you have. I have lemons, I make lemonade.
Michael: That's a very positive attitude.
Oscar: But I hate the lemonade business, I hate the grind! You have to grind so many [bleep]ing lemons!
Michael: You're not a very metaphorical person, are you?
Michael: That's a very positive attitude.
Oscar: But I hate the lemonade business, I hate the grind! You have to grind so many [bleep]ing lemons!
Michael: You're not a very metaphorical person, are you?
— Arrested Development, "Whistler's Mother"
"When Life hands ya lemons and tells ya ta make lemonade, give 'em back ta Life. Tell Life ta make its own damn lemonade. Den give Life a kick in da plates! Watch Life cry like a glitch! Say, how d'ya like dose lemons, Ay, Life?! How 'bout some sugar with dat lemonade, Ay?! You ain't handin' nobody lemons no more, are ya, Glitch?! Yeah, don't go lettin' Life frag you over; if Life's a glitch, you're gonna go frag it! With its own damn lemons!"
— Roleplayer of Whirl
When life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon.
— The Scholar, Sentinels of the Multiverse
When life gives you lemons, you pray that you don't die.
The Wolf: You see, Twitchy, you get lemons, you get lemonade...
[screen goes black, then performs a Gilligan Cut to reveal that the Wolf and Twitchy are walking through a waterlogged, bat infested cave]
The Wolf: ...and then that lemonade turns bitter, and ferments, and turns to pig-swill. Never trust a bunny with directions, Twitchy.
”When freaky aliens give you lemons, make freaky alien lemonade!”
—Hades, Kid Icarus: Uprising
Josie: When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, and when the going gets tough—
Melody: The tough makes lemonade!!
Melody: The tough makes lemonade!!
"When life hands you lemons, make lemonade? No. First you roll out a multi-media campaign to convince people lemons are incredibly scarce, which only works if you stockpile lemons, control the supply, then a media blitz. Lemon is the only way to say "I love you", the must-have accessory for engagements or anniversaries. Roses are out, lemons are in. Billboards that say she won't have sex with you unless you got lemons. You cut De Beers in on it. Limited edition lemon bracelets, yellow diamonds called lemon drops. You get Apple to call their new operating system OS-Lemón. A little accent over the 'o'. You charge forty percent more for organic lemons, fifty percent more for conflict-free lemons. You pack the Capitol with lemon lobbyists, you get a Kardashian to suck a lemon wedge in a leaked sex tape. Timothée Chalamet wears lemon shoes at Cannes. Get a hashtag campaign. Something isn't "cool" or "tight" or "awesome", no, it's "lemon". "Did you see that movie? Did you see that concert? It was effing lemon." Billie Eilish, "OMG, hashtag...lemon." You get Dr. Oz to recommend four lemons a day and a lemon suppository supplement to get rid of toxins 'cause there's nothing scarier than toxins. Then you patent the seeds. You write a line of genetic code that makes the lemons look just a little more like tits...and you get a gene patent for the tit-lemon DNA sequence, you cross-pollinate...you get those seeds circulating in the wild, and then you sue the farmer for copyright infringement when that genetic code shows up on their land. Sit back, rake in the millions, and then, when you’re done, and you’ve sold your lem-pire for a few billion dollars, then, and only then, you make some fucking lemonade."
— Roderick Usher, The Fall of the House of Usher
