“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
-Lawrence Walsh, Chinatown [1974]
GEORGE: Salsa is now the number one condiment in America.
JERRY: You know why? Because people like to say “salsa.” “Excuse me, do
you have salsa?” “We need more salsa.” “Where is the salsa? No salsa?”
-Seinfeld [1992]
“Hey, hey! Stop fuckin’ with Korean Jesus. He ain’t got time for yo problems. He’s busy with Korean shit!”
-Captain Dickson, 21 Jump Street [2012]
“May I ask, do you have any dishes that play with time? The concept of time?”
-Keanu Reeves, Always Be My Maybe [2019]
“In a tiny way, I almost feel responsible. I’m the one who sent him to Thailand in search of low-cost whistles, filled his head with pseudoerotic tales of my own Opium excursions… plus, I gave him some phone numbers of places he could score near the hotel.”
-J. Peterman, Seinfeld [1998]
“He was Vietnamese, so it was spelled ‘Ph,’ but still that’s pretty jarring to see on a drivers license.”
-Officer Michaels, Superbad [2007]
Dev: “You see The Social Network? Max Minghella plays an Indian guy. He’s white. They browned him up.”
Ravi: “No no, I read he’s 1/16th Indian.”
Dev: “Who cares? If you go back far enough we’re all 1/16th something. I’m probably 1/16th black. You think they’re gonna let me play Blade?”
-Master of None [2015]
“A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man’s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.”
-His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama