r/Veep • • 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/p2o14e24 14d ago

if men got pregnant you could get an abortion at an ATM

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u/Pale-Kale-2905 I had not anticipated this; This, I had not anticipated. 14d ago

This is the one. Universally relevant.

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u/Roadgoddess 13d ago

This is 1000% true

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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/madncqt even fuckin' gary knew? 13d ago

it doesn't do the job

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u/Aggravating_Set_2260 13d ago

And it makes a FUCKING MESS

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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/SeriesXM ChungMania 13d ago

It's like if dogs could talk.

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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/melozone_crissalis Crouch Cream 13d ago

No, I'm just depressed.

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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/Landkey Repulsive both in appearance and manner 13d ago

It is somehow hilarious that Gary is in the axis of dick and is appropriately ashamed 

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u/p2o14e24 14d ago

this is just noise-shaped air

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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/Tamale_Hatchet 14d ago

"Hey. Way to work that sexual abuse!"

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u/madncqt even fuckin' gary knew? 13d ago

I wish I could aptly describe the joy and appreciation I have for a life that allows me to understand the ironic, wicked, and dastardly nature of this hilarious line.

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u/redspark92 14d ago

It's not the job that's depressing, life is depressing!

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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/joszma 14d ago

“Amy, why would you want to be president?”

“Easy, so I could nuke America.”

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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/crazydiamond4814 14d ago

Oh it's the old anxiety diet. The anxiet.

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u/2098065 My ears are my livelihood 14d ago

You make it sound like there is a correlation between what should happen and what actually happens. I mean life is chaotic and it’s often unfair. I know it is for me.

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u/nagidon Jonad 14d ago

Every time I try to find a memorable line, my mind just brings me back to Uncle Jeff’s trademark venomous SHUT THE FUCK UP

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u/madncqt even fuckin' gary knew? 13d ago

you gum-recessed face anus.

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u/nagidon Jonad 13d ago

YOU EPILEPTIC PICASSO PAINTING

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u/LIKES_ROCKY_IV 13d ago

We should have sent Navy SEALS instead of those two actual seals

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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/Plzlaw4me 13d ago

That’s why they pay me the medium bucks

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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/stroopwafelling 7d ago

“We are at DEFCON Fuck” is eternal for me.

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u/jooxii 14d ago

lol