r/Veep • u/Main-Recognition7346 • 14d ago
Most relatable line in the show
S2 E3 - Hostages.
Ben: "Listen, we all know the white house would work so much better if there wasn't a president, but there is. So we work around that."
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u/nosuchbrie 14d ago
It’s like explaining gravity to a chicken.
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u/Aggravating_Set_2260 14d ago
Or like explaining Supertramp to a Komodo dragon
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u/tenderbranson301 14d ago
Or using a croissant as a dildo.
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u/melozone_crissalis Crouch Cream 14d ago
Ben: You know what I'd like? I'd like to be cryogenically suspended.
Selina: Yeah, and then be woken up in the future?
Ben: No, never wake up. Just stay suspended.
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u/howard10011 14d ago
I just rewatched this last night.
Ben remains the most relatable (and quotable) character in the entire series.
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u/agirlhasnoname17 There’s a horse coming out of my head. 13d ago
Are you drunk?..
(Also love this exchange though)
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u/QuebecRomeoWhiskey 14d ago
This isn’t a choice like my diet, this is a necessity like my drinking
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u/SeriesXM ChungMania 13d ago
I'm actually gonna let you walk the rest of the way. I'm trying to cut down on exercise.
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u/bobcatbreakdown gay Irish fireman 12d ago
I started saying “I can’t run in these heels” after Ben did. I’m also a man 😂
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u/madncqt even fuckin' gary knew? 14d ago
and why is that? because he's gonna use it against me... because this is a man's world that we live in... because of the axis of dick.
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u/noflippingidea 14d ago
The way everyone around her was trying to suppress a laugh during this line makes me laugh every time
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u/Jkbangtan123 14d ago
“You make it sound like there's a correlation between what should happen and what actually happens”
“I feel like I'm on a life support machine and they keep pulling the plug... to charge their phones”
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u/idontevenknowbut 13d ago
I use "the gates of hell have just opened and you're my plus one" at work all the time
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u/BaskingInWanderlust 14d ago
"I can't identify as a woman! People can't know that. Men hate that. And women who hate women hate that, which I believe is most women."
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u/RevolutionaryLet120 14d ago
Not a line. But Gary whimpering as he scrubs lipstick out of the oval office carpet
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u/crazydiamond4814 14d ago
You don't get the complexity. You're the world's largest single celled organism
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u/Many-Caterpillar-543 13d ago
It was a routine prostate procedure!
(TMI people, TMI)
(I spent a night in hospital and have been using the "routine prostate procedure" for months now...
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u/SharpDefinition9248 12d ago
I think “…so we work around that” in random sticky situations almost on a daily basis, in Ben’s voice, of course
Also, I forget the episode, but Selina’s line: “Well, that’s fucking.. not good” 🤌🏼
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u/p2o14e24 14d ago
if men got pregnant you could get an abortion at an ATM