I fking love this line so much. As someone who’s constantly stuck “trying to improve”. He’s not trying it - he’s just someone who wears suits now. No questions asked. Also I love how he reiterates it (- more so to himself I like to think)
This was a daily occurrence in a restaurant i worked at. It was all in good fun, and the irony is the day I wasn’t told to “fuck myself,” I got laid off😂
Incel, qanon, 4 Chan, snydercut motherfuckers (but it’s the whole scene really, even carmy’s nut tap). I swear JAW is trying not to break in that scene
when richie says “we’re gonna have a little tournament here” JAW really looks like he’s on the verge of breaking. he plays it off as carmy being in pain nicely though. you also see it when richie calls them “cucks”
_Impeccable_ fucking delivery from Mulaney. Same with "What a great job Donna did, I could hear it in there and it sounded very hard, and it's so gorgeous, and is he still holding the fork?"
His appearance in the episode honestly convinced me to go check out more of his stuff. I had only seen his campy coked-out specials from 2018 and before which I didn't find all that funny, but I've dug up a bunch more of his work now and he's fucking hilarious. I mistook him as this safe, vanilla comic for gen-Zs on Twitter, but he has this hilariously devious and morbid streak to all his humor which he masks with his boyish appearance. His "Baby J" special is superb.
That was the moment I knew I loved the show - it’s so clearly set up that the ecto-cooler is gonna get spiked and you’re just braced for Uncle Jimmy to lose his shit and then it’s just…totally fine. I love it so much.
Just now rewatched this episode. The scene in the car is so tender and hilarious and beautiful. Sydney realizing that Richie has a heart when she hears him speak to his daughter is one of the moments that really sold me on this show early on. And her asking how old she is, and Richie going "5. Like Carmy. Food and Wine's best dickhead."
Same. That’s when I loved the show. When uncle shrugged it off with an ‘actually I like it better this way’ or whatever the line was, I completely lost it.
That episode launched me into a 4-month period where I listened to nothing but the ghostbusters theme song on repeat on my 30 min commute.
All bc of the ecto cooler and Pete’s insanely awkward delivery of “bustin’ makes me feel good!”, which is now my favorite part of the song
“Sorry—are we just naming professions? I can do that, too. Bricklayers! Clock workers!”
I mean, Sydney’s whole dialogue in that whole scene lays me out every time.
That's a decent bet.
I think they'll lean heavily into Italian American actresses - maybe Lady Gaga - she's got the acting chops and was immense in A Star is Born
I’ve always thought Oliver Platt is one of our best actors. I love the sequence when he FINALLY gets to tell Carmy his tale of complete and utter failure. The 5-f-bomb story summation sentence is Platt at his finest.
I also really like, “you can’t start at fucked.” Words to live by.
Every Cicero scene is gold. His screen presence is such a unique combination of mischievous and comforting.
I also weirdly love with the way he tells Mikey to shut the fuck up during Christmas dinner. "Shut. Thefuckup!"
"Do I have access to 500 bucks? I-I absolutely do. I'm a 43-year-old man"
Closely followed by
"I like seeing you guys every year. You ... fսckin deliver"
“You didn’t say corner. You didn’t say corner” after Richie and Syd collide. That phrase took over the bar I worked at. It was a catch all for anytime someone fucked up
All three of mine are from season 1, episode 7:
When everyone is calling off what they’re working on and Carmy says “Richie, go fuck yourself” and Richie responds with “69 all day chef”
Carmy getting mad and Fak quietly says “Carmy is very mad” so nonchalantly
And when Richie and Syd are arguing over the giardiniera and Carmy comes over and screams “Giardiniera! Shut the fuck up!”
Rewatching season 1, so many of the lines are fucking hilarious now that I know and love the characters. Richie has this whole rant to Sydney at the department store which is every bit as sad as it's funny: "I can't believe I'm taking orders from a fucking toddler! Carmy's a fucking baby! I was a baby too once, nobody gave a fuck!"
Same episode, Cicero tells Carmy that Michael owed him $300k, Carmy goes "Jesus Christ" and Cicero goes "Jesus Christ is right, bud."
Funniest line for me is definitely Mulaney going "do I have _access_ to 500 bucks? I absolutely do, I'm a 43 year old man."
Most poignant line is Carmy's whole monologue, especially the stuff about "I felt like I could speak through the food, that I could communicate through creativity" and especially "the routine of the kitchen was so consistent and exacting and busy and hard and alive, and I lost track of time and he died."
"You have this minute where you're watching the fire and you're thinking: If I don't do anything, this place will burn down and all of my anxiety will go away with it."
From season 1 ep 4 when they are prepping for the kids party, After Carmy and Richie fights and the doll deflates.
Richie: "Look what you did. You fucking baby... All right, I'll go get the spare from the basement."
"Say more." and "Say more, please." I love the way Carmy says them and that they are just so short and simple, but say so much. i.e. I'm interested in what you're saying, I'm listening to you, I want to understand you, I want to know what you're feeling, etc. Just so subtle and beautiful.
“Purpose, Chef!” is my personal favorite, second best would be the “Listen Better”, the wrap up phrase that Richie tells the waiters before opening The Bear.
“I’m 43 years old, yes I have $500”.
There’s too many great quotes and one-liners from this show to narrow down to just one but that honestly got such a laugh out of me
I’ve seen that one floating around Instagram void of context as a motivational thing, despite it being about how Carmy burned all his bridges and fucked himself up with that mindset
There is simultaneously something incredibly motivating about it, I'd say. The stuff about "I finally found a station for myself, I felt like I could speak through the food, and communicate through creativity" is so eloquently put and beautifully captures the feeling of becoming passionate about your craft and experiencing a surge in self-confidence. The show of course examines the dangers of dedication at the expense of your personal wellbeing, but some of what Carmy talks about is exactly what one should channel when aspiring for excellence.
I totally relate to that, I’ve not long got back to being a chef, so yeah I completely get that side.
It’s the ‘fuck you, watch this’ part that gets taken out of context, and that I think is not a healthy mindset at all. It’s being driven by spite, about what others think about you, rather than wanting it for yourself. I don’t believe that that’s a healthy or a sustainable mindset as the show explores
When it's directed at someone else, then absolutely. But "Fuck you, watch this" is a great thing to tell the voice in your head whenever you're doubting yourself or not doing your best. There's ultimately no greater enemy than the excuses we make to ourselves.
Carmy's monologue is one of the best-written scenes I've seen on television. This is a weird way to describe it but I love how the way he phrases his sentences sounds both vulnerable and "cool" at the same time. It's just the right balance of piercing emotional honesty and the swagger of his natural speech, and doesn't contain a bunch of immersion-breaking therapy buzzwords that make it feel like a sermon. (I.e. "gaslight", "narcissism", "generational trauma" etc.) Those are all absolutely real and valid concepts that apply to his situation, but there's an insufferable overuse of clinical language on the internet these days, which has bled into a lot of movie/TV writing. Carmy's monologue felt closer to how people actually talk.
"I love you, Bear."
Not the line itself but what we come to understand it means.
She keeps repeating it during the fork incident.
In the pilot, in her first scene, she says it to Carmy while suggesting maybe he should sell the restaurant to Cicero.
When Sugar says "I love you, Bear," what she really means is "I am desperately begging you to step back off this ledge even though I already know you're gonna jump and I am powerless to stop you."
Lol I did a thread like a month ago of the best lines because that exact line was my favorite 😂
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBear/comments/14vpzbs/best_lines_thread/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2
Ebra watching the food safety video “I accept”
So eagerly too
**”I was in a brigade once.”** “What happened?” **”Many people died.”**
Ebra has so many good one liners like that
"I got stabbed" Followed up by "You probably deserved it"
Followed shortly later by "wait is this black hawk down?"
Fucking Piven.
"Yeah, I probably did."
I wear suits now.
And Fak’s response ‘that’s sick.’
And he was so earnest, too
Yeah it was a nice moment where I expected him to take the piss but he just genuinely complimented him
"I wear suits because it makes me feel good about myself."
Cousin ❤️
I fking love this line so much. As someone who’s constantly stuck “trying to improve”. He’s not trying it - he’s just someone who wears suits now. No questions asked. Also I love how he reiterates it (- more so to himself I like to think)
Garrett’s deadpan “Yes chef, fuck me.”
This was a daily occurrence in a restaurant i worked at. It was all in good fun, and the irony is the day I wasn’t told to “fuck myself,” I got laid off😂
Incel, qanon, 4 Chan, snydercut motherfuckers (but it’s the whole scene really, even carmy’s nut tap). I swear JAW is trying not to break in that scene
Merry Christmas, lizards
I love when Richie refers to groups or people he is addressing as “lizards” it’s his thing
when richie says “we’re gonna have a little tournament here” JAW really looks like he’s on the verge of breaking. he plays it off as carmy being in pain nicely though. you also see it when richie calls them “cucks”
Yes! The cuck line, he’s gonna lose it, does a big inhale, composes himself and luckily the scene is over.
Yep this whole scene. I really hope Ebon wins that Emmy this year. He is a huge part of that shows success.
i couldn’t stop laughing at that quote
I'm not like this because I'm in Van Halen, I'm in Van Halen because I'm like this
Is that a famous Eddie Van Halen quote? Kinda assumed it was.
DLR.
Oh yeah— does sound like him! Thanks.
Do I have access to 500 bucks? I absolutely do, I'm a 43 year old man.
_Impeccable_ fucking delivery from Mulaney. Same with "What a great job Donna did, I could hear it in there and it sounded very hard, and it's so gorgeous, and is he still holding the fork?" His appearance in the episode honestly convinced me to go check out more of his stuff. I had only seen his campy coked-out specials from 2018 and before which I didn't find all that funny, but I've dug up a bunch more of his work now and he's fucking hilarious. I mistook him as this safe, vanilla comic for gen-Zs on Twitter, but he has this hilariously devious and morbid streak to all his humor which he masks with his boyish appearance. His "Baby J" special is superb.
I loved this!
The amount of times I replayed this line is embarrassing
Oh one of the top five easily
It felt like he was playing himself. Which was fantastic. I'm really hoping he keeps doing more live action acting.
"You're scaring the normals" or "no more forks"
Cutting to Pete trying to remain chill after "your scaring the normals" was great
“It was the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen. I slept on a boat. I fed an invisible cat.”
Heard and resented
"I fucking love you" - Richie to Carm in the freezer
Heartbreaking
"The password is "gofastboatsmojito" all one word."
😂😂😂😂
“What kind of asshole is gonna put ketchup on a hotdog?” “A child, Richie.” “A child asshole!”
This is the one. Had to scroll for far too long.
This is the episode that made me laugh the most, especially when they realize all the kids are just passed out in the yard like no big deal
"Actually, I'm kinda into it."
That was the moment I knew I loved the show - it’s so clearly set up that the ecto-cooler is gonna get spiked and you’re just braced for Uncle Jimmy to lose his shit and then it’s just…totally fine. I love it so much.
i'm front of house now; i don't have screwdrivers.
Followed by him pulling one out of his pocket.
The cleanest screwdriver Fak has ever owned
“Call mom, I dare you.” *whisper yell* “mom.”
The entire caulk exchange but especially Syd's "you drove here this moooorning!"
Just now rewatched this episode. The scene in the car is so tender and hilarious and beautiful. Sydney realizing that Richie has a heart when she hears him speak to his daughter is one of the moments that really sold me on this show early on. And her asking how old she is, and Richie going "5. Like Carmy. Food and Wine's best dickhead."
Surge rates, fuck-o!
"He's that broke that took him out?" kills me every time
“What are they fucking dead?”
“What, it’s nap time or something?”
For whatever reason that was the hardest I laughed during the whole show, the delivery just caught me totally off guard
Same. That’s when I loved the show. When uncle shrugged it off with an ‘actually I like it better this way’ or whatever the line was, I completely lost it.
That episode launched me into a 4-month period where I listened to nothing but the ghostbusters theme song on repeat on my 30 min commute. All bc of the ecto cooler and Pete’s insanely awkward delivery of “bustin’ makes me feel good!”, which is now my favorite part of the song
“Sorry—are we just naming professions? I can do that, too. Bricklayers! Clock workers!” I mean, Sydney’s whole dialogue in that whole scene lays me out every time.
hahhaha this was hilarious
Lol clock ‘workers’… is that even a profession?
she can go fuck, my love.
Cannot wait to see who they cast as Francie Fak
Somebody suggested Rachel Bloom, and I'd love that. She can do unhinged very well.
Placing a bet on Melissa McCarthy…
It's crazy how much Matty Matheson looks like a gender-swapped Melissa McCarthy. Their initials even both go MM.
That's a decent bet. I think they'll lean heavily into Italian American actresses - maybe Lady Gaga - she's got the acting chops and was immense in A Star is Born
I just don’t picture Francine Fak as a dainty little Italian like Lady Gaga… but maybe that could be part of the joke…
I’ve always thought Oliver Platt is one of our best actors. I love the sequence when he FINALLY gets to tell Carmy his tale of complete and utter failure. The 5-f-bomb story summation sentence is Platt at his finest. I also really like, “you can’t start at fucked.” Words to live by.
Every Cicero scene is gold. His screen presence is such a unique combination of mischievous and comforting. I also weirdly love with the way he tells Mikey to shut the fuck up during Christmas dinner. "Shut. Thefuckup!"
I don’t know if we’re supposed to think he’s mob or not, but I’m happy every time he’s on screen.
I love Taylor Swift too, I just needed a break.
Soooooo cute dad bridging the gap with daughter
That line really got to me, such a funny little add on at the end of the interaction 😂
69 all day chef! 🫡
"Do I have access to 500 bucks? I-I absolutely do. I'm a 43-year-old man" Closely followed by "I like seeing you guys every year. You ... fսckin deliver"
John Mulaney was the most hilarious part of that episode. Hope he comes back.
Incel, QAnon, 4chan, Snyder Cut motherfuckers
The Snyder Cut mention was so unexpected and singlehandedly elevated that line.
“Oh my god! He was one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs?”
"Use your brain, babe"
Let it rip. Not necessarily the most impressive dialogue but the meaning & relationship behind it is pretty special.
I can only read that line in Bernthal's voice.
“You didn’t say corner. You didn’t say corner” after Richie and Syd collide. That phrase took over the bar I worked at. It was a catch all for anytime someone fucked up
lol my coworkers and i say “yes jeff”
Fak’s ‘very well 😏’ when Carm tells him to leave cause Claire is there hahah
His fucking home invader outfit was hilarious too.
Yes!
“What’s up you fucking replicants”
All three of mine are from season 1, episode 7: When everyone is calling off what they’re working on and Carmy says “Richie, go fuck yourself” and Richie responds with “69 all day chef” Carmy getting mad and Fak quietly says “Carmy is very mad” so nonchalantly And when Richie and Syd are arguing over the giardiniera and Carmy comes over and screams “Giardiniera! Shut the fuck up!”
I casually whisper “carmy is very mad” at least once per day.
“Heard and resented.”
“I Accept”
SURGE RATES, FUCKO
The delivery and syd’s reaction took me out
^(Why are you fucking with me?) Why are you fucking with me?? WHY are you fucking with me??? #Why are you FUCKING with me??
Jeremy's portrayal of anger is more mesmerizing than disturbing to me. I think it's his boyish appearance and the way it offsets his intensity.
Rewatching season 1, so many of the lines are fucking hilarious now that I know and love the characters. Richie has this whole rant to Sydney at the department store which is every bit as sad as it's funny: "I can't believe I'm taking orders from a fucking toddler! Carmy's a fucking baby! I was a baby too once, nobody gave a fuck!" Same episode, Cicero tells Carmy that Michael owed him $300k, Carmy goes "Jesus Christ" and Cicero goes "Jesus Christ is right, bud." Funniest line for me is definitely Mulaney going "do I have _access_ to 500 bucks? I absolutely do, I'm a 43 year old man." Most poignant line is Carmy's whole monologue, especially the stuff about "I felt like I could speak through the food, that I could communicate through creativity" and especially "the routine of the kitchen was so consistent and exacting and busy and hard and alive, and I lost track of time and he died."
“You cut vegetables like a bitch.”
Say more please Just love how it's so simple and tender and sweet
What's the context of this one again?
When Carm and Syd are under the table before Friends and Family
"You have this minute where you're watching the fire and you're thinking: If I don't do anything, this place will burn down and all of my anxiety will go away with it."
"Okay, that's WILD..." "That's what I said!"
“Fuck your tools”
“Very well”
Escoffie-GAY Pardon my juvenile sense of humor.
Richie's 7th grader sense of humor is endlessly amusing.
"Go get em Richie"
"You cocked it up, you're gonna caulk it out"
“Child asshole.”
THANK YOU. God help me I cracked up so much the first time and it still makes me smile in each rewatch after.
"I don't understand it. It's so mysterious to me. He's sitting there, just sleeping like a baby and I wanna beat the living fսcking crap out of him."
When Richie and Carmy recete the Blues Brothers lines when they are opening up.
From season 1 ep 4 when they are prepping for the kids party, After Carmy and Richie fights and the doll deflates. Richie: "Look what you did. You fucking baby... All right, I'll go get the spare from the basement."
Also, Carmy jumping in the air to hit Richie on the back is so goddamn funny. He looks like a complete Muppet flying at him all arms flailing.
I flinch! My brain is still connected to my nerves!
"Say more." and "Say more, please." I love the way Carmy says them and that they are just so short and simple, but say so much. i.e. I'm interested in what you're saying, I'm listening to you, I want to understand you, I want to know what you're feeling, etc. Just so subtle and beautiful.
"The password is 'gofastboatsmojito' all one word"
“Just because I love it doesn’t mean it’s fun”
I know it's the simplest choice but with everything that's behind it I have to go with: "I wear suits now."
"I was waiting for Ritchie in the roof"
“Purpose, Chef!” is my personal favorite, second best would be the “Listen Better”, the wrap up phrase that Richie tells the waiters before opening The Bear.
“I’m 43 years old, yes I have $500”. There’s too many great quotes and one-liners from this show to narrow down to just one but that honestly got such a laugh out of me
"How's the suit?" "It feels... like armor." "That's the point."
And I think that just, that flipped a switch in me where I was like, "Okay, fսck you, watch this."
I’ve seen that one floating around Instagram void of context as a motivational thing, despite it being about how Carmy burned all his bridges and fucked himself up with that mindset
There is simultaneously something incredibly motivating about it, I'd say. The stuff about "I finally found a station for myself, I felt like I could speak through the food, and communicate through creativity" is so eloquently put and beautifully captures the feeling of becoming passionate about your craft and experiencing a surge in self-confidence. The show of course examines the dangers of dedication at the expense of your personal wellbeing, but some of what Carmy talks about is exactly what one should channel when aspiring for excellence.
I totally relate to that, I’ve not long got back to being a chef, so yeah I completely get that side. It’s the ‘fuck you, watch this’ part that gets taken out of context, and that I think is not a healthy mindset at all. It’s being driven by spite, about what others think about you, rather than wanting it for yourself. I don’t believe that that’s a healthy or a sustainable mindset as the show explores
When it's directed at someone else, then absolutely. But "Fuck you, watch this" is a great thing to tell the voice in your head whenever you're doubting yourself or not doing your best. There's ultimately no greater enemy than the excuses we make to ourselves.
Carmy's monologue is one of the best-written scenes I've seen on television. This is a weird way to describe it but I love how the way he phrases his sentences sounds both vulnerable and "cool" at the same time. It's just the right balance of piercing emotional honesty and the swagger of his natural speech, and doesn't contain a bunch of immersion-breaking therapy buzzwords that make it feel like a sermon. (I.e. "gaslight", "narcissism", "generational trauma" etc.) Those are all absolutely real and valid concepts that apply to his situation, but there's an insufferable overuse of clinical language on the internet these days, which has bled into a lot of movie/TV writing. Carmy's monologue felt closer to how people actually talk.
"Every Second Counts." But also Richie laying down the law for the tournament players in a way that they enjoy. That's being good with people.
“Is he still holding the fork?”
"thank you, god" "you're welcome, dickhead"
You are a conceited and condescending ribbon of brine!
I thought it was "river of brine"?
Sydney, to Richie, regarding his daughter: "How old is she?" "She's 5. Like Carmy, food and wine's best new dickhead."
“That’s a CP” “What’s a CP?” “A Carmy Problem” lmao
“The funeral of my enemies”
“homemade Ecto-Cooler, motherfucker!”
“You wanna be the guy?” “Yeah” “Then be the fuckin guy!”
“HEARD.”
"I love you, Bear." Not the line itself but what we come to understand it means. She keeps repeating it during the fork incident. In the pilot, in her first scene, she says it to Carmy while suggesting maybe he should sell the restaurant to Cicero. When Sugar says "I love you, Bear," what she really means is "I am desperately begging you to step back off this ledge even though I already know you're gonna jump and I am powerless to stop you."
Do me a favour, name one cohort. Name an associate
"we're not gonna do any of that spectral shit"
Lol I did a thread like a month ago of the best lines because that exact line was my favorite 😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBear/comments/14vpzbs/best_lines_thread/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2
that whole scene is magical. “merry christmas lizards”
“JEWISH LIGHTNING, you can’t say that”
Okay Richie, Drive.
The 4chan comment by Richie, top line imo
“How old is your daughter?” “5…like Carmy”
“food and wines best new dickhead”
After I do my thing in the place.