(Unfortunately, I just couldn't get all of Duff's stories and anecdotes. As they rely heavily on Mr Pinsent's delivery anyway, I suggest you try to get ahold of an episode or two and watch 'em in all their televised glory.)
Colleen: Parker? Turn
around.
Brett:
What if you shoot me?
Colleen: I'm unarmed.
Brett: Yeah, don't kid
yourself.
Colleen: Some dumb hockey
player told you about love.
Brett: Colleen, Howie Morenz is...one
of the all-time greats, that's for sure.
Colleen: Interesting.
Brett: Plus he's
dead.
Colleen:
I see. And he was...dead...when he...spoke?
Brett: Uh, yeah, yeah, he
was.
Colleen:
Good. I'm just gonna go now. Nice and quiet.
Colleen: Duff! You're
all right!
Duff: Fit as a fiddle and ready for love.
[Colleen hugs him]
Duff: Now, don't take that
the wrong way just 'cause I've got the pj's on under the
greatcoat.
"I wouldn't count him out. He had hair like a dead man, but he has loads of energy." --Duff, re: Brett
Colleen: You still have your
pajamas on!
Duff: Big talk for a girl with her stockings in her
pocket.
Michelle: All that sex must've
wiped your memory.
Brett: What sex?
Michelle: With Colleen.
Brett: Oh, please.
That's the most outrageous thing I've ever heard.
Michelle: You didn't come home, you're
wearing the same suit--you've got your tie in your pocket--and you've got the
vacant stare of a guy who just had sex all night. I'm assuming it was with
Colleen, unless...it was with someone you're not in love with?
"What would I send if I'm in love with someone but I don't actually like them very much?" --Brett, deciding on roses for Colleen
"Canada is all right in a be-polite, have-a-donut, spell-colour-with-a-'u' kind of way..." --Brett
"I need to be in a country where talent gets you more than murderous tax rates." --Brett
"I'm trapped, Rose. I am trapped in this giant, empty, pointless country." --Brett
"Something wrong with the way I dress now, Ms Feelings-In-A-Freezer?" --Brett to Colleen
Brett: So!
Ms...Veins-Of-Ice-Water. What's it gonna be?
Colleen: Well, Mr
Refugee-From-A-12-Step-Programme...
"I let you down? What about you? Where were you when I needed you? Mr Sleepy was in a coma!" --Brett to Duff
Gov't Lackey: I'll thank you
not to patronize me, Mr McArdle; I am an employee of your federal government, I
am not an idiot.
Colleen: Interesting distinction.
Brett: You broke into my
house?
Renata:
Looks like it.
Brett: How'd you do that?
Renata: Hey, I did go to Catholic
school.
"Mr Parker, you are not built to be crazy and homeless, and that is where you are heading." --Renata
"There is your desk, there is your phone, there is your stupid water bottle, and you'd better come up with something good because I did not come back here to work for a guy with a mocha-java jones and a Tommy Hunter obsession, do I make myself clear?!?!?" --Renata
"Who can get you out of a Brett Parker contract better than Brett Parker? Come on, I know me like the back of my hand." --Brett to Shaky Al
Duff: Have you met the
government man yet?
Colleen: Yeah. She's a woman.
Duff: Of a
sort.
--re: SM3 Regan Sexsmith
Mark: Wisdom from the New Age
girlfriend.
Todd: Yeah... You know, she's an ancient soul. She's got a young
body--a really good, young body--but she's an ancient soul.
Mark: Everything's going to
hell.
Todd: Oh,
speaking of Satan, Parker's looking for you.
"Rose, four new push-up bras are not a change. They're a man." --Renata to Rose after a major shopping spree
Harry: My knee's
a-quiver.
Brett: Well, it's holding up that head of yours. What does that
thing weigh now, forty-five, fifty pounds?
Colleen: I don't know if you
comprehend how things work around here. Duff McArdle didn't go to business
school; he doesn't follow Robert's Rules. He communicates one-on-one; he
either shouts over the roar of the smelters or he tries to sneak in a word
between Euchre hands at lunch. That's the kind of man he is and that's how
things run around here.
Sexsmith: Yes. Well, that must change, if for no other reason than
Euchre, Bridge, Whist and Hasenpfeffer are not to be played during work
hours.
"My girlfriend...says I waste too much of my spiritual energy searching for a matriarch. I guess it's true, sometimes...I mean, once I had to help look for my grandma when she walked away from the Eventide Home..." --Todd
Colleen: What are you doing,
Duffer?
Duff:
Playing Euchre. A memo came down the pipe from SM3 saying as how it wasn't
allowed, so I wasted no time in putting together a foursome.
Duff: When you think about
what happened to my good friend Bailey Merkin...
Colleen: What happened to
him?
Duff:
Nothing of significance or interest throughout his entire life! Now what
are the odds of that?
"Shouldn't you be at the steel mill cooling down the slag or something?" --Brett to Colleen
"It is not your money. It is government money; it does not truly exist." --Sexsmith to Harry
Harry: Where are you
going?
Brett:
Hm? Oh, I just thought you might blow, I didn't want to get any on my
suit.
Harry:
You've been sadly misinformed, Mr Parker.
Brett: Aw, you're not gonna
blow?
Renata: She is shy and
moralistic, and you--should I just skip the details?
Brett: I'd be happy with
that.
Renata: Do you want to know
what else love is?
Rose: Yes, if it gets me to the bathroom, yes.
"Brett Victor Parker?...You're under arrest, Mr Parker, pending extradition to the United States. Put down your purse, please, sir." --Police Guy, come to take Brett to jail
Rose: Who do they think he is,
Creepy Carpus?
Renata: Who was Creepy Carpus?
Rose: Oh, just some famous Canadian
gangster.
Renata: Now there is a phrase you don't hear every day.
Mark: You're supposed to be my
agent!
Brett:
That's right. That's what I am, that is exactly what I am, I'm your
agent. I'm not your dad, I'm not your friend, I am your
agent. I don't get you into Heaven, I just get you all the
money.
Mark: So
you're totally empty.
Brett: Completely hollow, yes I am. And that is why I'm great,
Mark. That is why I'm great! I am completely hollow, and that's why
I'm great!
Brett: Don't tell me--you went
to hell for being hollow, right?
Ghost of Eddie Shore: Oh no. No.
No one starts out being hollow, son. But you'll go to hell for making
yourself that way.
Rose: Did you call him a
name?
Todd:
Hey, look, hockey players call each other names all the time!
Rose: Did you use a racial
term?
Todd: I
don't know, I mean no, I mean--I just wish I'd called him a [bleep] [bleep]-ing
mother [bleep] [bleep] greasy-haired hippy from the wrong side of the tracks
mother [bleep] like I usually do, and then nobody'd be
upset!
"If we don't get money soon, IKEA is gonna send some Swedish goon over here with an Allen key to take apart the furniture." --Brett
Brett: What am I supposed to
say to her, then? 'Hey honey, he's no good for you, he's just like
me'?
Renata: It
has the ring of truth. --re:
Michelle and Hudson
Brett: Are you really married
to my daughter?
Hudson: Yes.
Brett: Oh, God. Well, eat less meat then, or get more
insurance. My God, that steak's as big as your head.
Brett: You have a very dark
and cynical streak, you know.
Renata: I was young and hopeful when I
came to work for you.
"Well, I'll, uh--I gotta go to Copps. I'll give you a call from there and we can compare notes; find out if any of that really happened." --Brett to Renata after being flabbergasted by Battleship Russell
Todd: I usually watched hockey
or He-Man or Julia Child.
Mark: Julia Child.
Todd: I like
food.
Brett: If you worked at the
Derby, at least they'd be able to pay you--[sigh]--which is more than I can
do.
Renata:
Okay, you know what? Don't try for inadequacy. It's not in your
range.
Brett: What is wrong with you,
it's like we're breaking up or something.
Renata: That is exactly
right.
Brett:
Newsflash, we are not a couple!
Renata: Think again!
Brett: Okay, we are a couple,
but apparently I've been sleeping through the sex.
Renata: I hurt my
hand.
Brett:
How'd you hurt your hand?
Battleship: On Rockman's
jaw!
Todd: You think?
Hudson: No, Todd, I don't
think, I never think. Eats up my reaction time.
George Carney: So Harry Strand
is just crazy, is that it?
Brett: Like a rat in a coffee
can!
Brett: There are plenty of
things to live for.
George: Name one.
Brett: Name one, fine, okay, you got,
uh... [pause] Yeah, darn it, eh?
George: Don't look down. Here,
look at me.
Brett: No, I can't do that.
George: Look me in the
eye.
Brett: No,
I've got issues with that.
"He tells me about being empty. Warns me about being empty. Tells me I'm going to hell, basically." --Brett, re: the Ghost of Eddie Shore
"You're here because you think hockey's going downhill? Lots of sports are going downhill! Take skiing. For example." --Duff to George
"He says he can't dream anymore, something like that. Try to get him to see how lucky that makes him." --Brett to Renata, re: George
Brett: Okay. All right, fine,
I'll be like George, then. Hamilton wins, I love Colleen, Calgary wins, I love
you.
Rose: You
bastard. You know Hamilton's gonna win.
"Now there's a good solid foundation for a marriage: proving Dad wrong!" --Renata to Michelle
"Uppercase! It's uppercase!!!!" --Harry, going nuts
Brett: Gimme my
crayon!
Renata:
I realize this is sort of like telling a horse to be a cat, but Mr Parker--grow
up!
Brett:
Could I please have my writing utensil?
"Harry--my Deputy Minister of Love!" --Sexsmith
"I'm here to open negotiations with you. If you want to gloat for a little while, I'll go wait in the hall." --Colleen to Brett
"It's Tic Tac Toe, coach. I like to have games against myself, see who wins. I'm about even..." --Todd
"Oh, it's never really good-bye. Your dedicated governmental officials appear in every facet of life in this country, helping the people to better themselves through our wisdom and control, ensuring peace, order and good government. We will always be with you." --Sexsmith's Farewell
"Did it ever occur to you guys that you might have to spell things out for the mortal guy?" --Brett to the Ghost of Jacques Plant
Brett: Renata! Do you know
what the best thing about me is?
Renata: Never mind the best thing, I'm
still trying to find a good thing.
Brett: Well. Don't strain
yourself.
Renata: No no no...excellent personal hygiene. I like that about
you.
Brett: I
am a great lateral thinker.
Renata: Okay, but I'm sticking with the
hygiene thing.
"The case law is obscure. Those are my five favourite words in the English language, by the way: the case law is obscure." --Brett
"I spent two days in Chalk River. That's where I learned to eat skunk." --Duff
Brett: Miss
Personal-Issues-Leak-Into-Her-Writing.
Rose: Mr
Evil-Seducer-of-Innocent-People! He does, he does seduce innocent
people...
Brett: Hey, refresh my memory,
okay, some guy marries your teenage daughter, you're allowed to chop his arms
and legs off, that's legal, right?
Renata: Only in the
Yukon.
Brett: Miss
Wouldn't-Know-Fairness-if-it-Grabbed-Her-by-the-Butt.
Rose: Oh, and what would you know about
fairness, Mr Treats-People-Like-Compost! What?? He does, sometimes, treat people
like compost!
Colleen: Well, aren't I the
perfect date. We don't make out, but you get to watch
hockey.
Mark:
The perfect Canadian date.
"The tentative title of my little docudrama here is 'How the Team President Sapped the Captain's Strength Just Before the Big Game!'" --Brett, blackmailing Colleen with her relationship with Mark
"'Fifteen Years of Clean Living Blown in a Single Night of Dirty Love with the Bottle Blonde That Is His Boss!' That'd be a good title, too." --Brett, still blackmailing Colleen
"Colleen, if I really thought about myself, I would walk into the lake until I drowned." --Brett
"Talking to Parker about belief is like talking to a blind man about a rainbow." --Duff
Duff: Alphonse. That was
my father's name.
Shaky: Al?
Duff: No. Fonse.
"Looking out over that football field, snow coming down like promises from the NDP..." --Duff
Colleen: I am five foot six.
All my life I wanted to be 5'10", but I'm not, and there's nothing to be done
about that. Now you're standing here, telling me that you wish you were,
what--simple? Easy? Honest?
Brett: Yeah, all that, I
guess.
Colleen:
Well, you're not, and you never will be.
Brett: Hey, you dance with the
lady who brung ya.
Rose: Even if you're at the ballet and the lady can only
clog?
Brett: Hang on, I'm on the
Internet here.
Renata: What for? You're psychotically impatient, and you have no
interest in pornography.
Brett: Are you really in
bed?
Colleen:
Forget I said that.
Brett: What are you wearing?
Colleen: I will see you at the
office.
Brett:
I am seeing you right now.
Mark: We're looking for a guy
you're helping.
Dr Tocket: I help no one. Help comes from within.
Todd: His name is Harry
Strand.
Dr
Tocket: Him I'm helping.
Colleen: I can't let you have
your way.
Brett: You did once. For an entire night, if I recall.
Harry: I have learned that as
badly as I abused you, my abuse of myself was far worse.
Todd: Can you really go blind from
doing that a lot?
Brett: Do you actually think
I'm gonna let you get away with this, Ms Poison-in-a-Power-Suit?
Colleen: Oh, I already have,
Mr Crooked-as-a-Rug-in-a-Windtunnel.
Duff: All right you two, cut the sweet
talk.
"The whole thing fell through after that unfortunate incident with Sharon, Lois and Brahm at Millhaven." --Duff
Brett: I've got it, you'll
kill me. How are you gonna do that, anyway?
Colleen: We're in the States, they hand
out guns in breakfast cereal.
"We're happy!" --just on principle. :)
"She's printed this vicious rumour that is bound to infect the minds of the gayers--the players." --Brett, being Freudian
Brett: Say something to me
that sounds remotely like a woman talking to her lover.
Colleen: Okay. [sultry voice] I know
who the mole is.
Brett: No, that's not gonna cut it--'I know where the mole is',
that's got potential...
Brett: What is your thinking
here, exactly?
Colleen: My thinking on this exactly proceeds thus: Oh my God, what are
we doing, if anyone finds out I'll die.
Brett: You're kinda like my
conscience or something...
Renata: Mr Parker. I'm nothing like
your conscience. For one thing, I exist.
"I also hope you realize that sexuality is not a black and white issue. It is in fact a continuum. In fact it's very much like a rainbow, containing all colours and all hues. And each and every one of us must find his or her own place on the rainbow, and it is not up to any of us to decide if someone else's place on the rainbow is good or bad. This is my place. [points to air] It's a fun place." --Harry
"One in every ten guys is gay. We got...twenty-something guys. So you do the math. [pause] No, I mean, you do the math, I'm not good with numbers." --Todd
Renata: Rose was upset about
men... She just kept on saying, 'All the good ones are gay, all the good ones
are gay.'
Brett: I'm not gay.
Renata: She said the good
ones.
"I like you a lot, maybe more than you deserve. But you have got to learn that the sun does not come up in the morning just to keep your butt warm!" --Renata to Brett
"Okay girls! Let's let 'em know in New York that we are fabulous!" --Mark to the team
"We're gay as hell, Parker, and we're gonna kick some butt!" --Mark, again
"You were all over that puck this morning like a Liberal on a vote." --Duff to Mark
"Hud, this is exactly why I married you, because I find constant frustration very, very attractive." --Michelle
Brett: Why don't you just go
ahead and print that Brett Parker is a miserable, unscrupulous son of a bitch,
thank you very much, and then you can be done with it.
Rose: Because, Parker, we only print
the news.
Renata: You wreck him, you
wreck Michelle.
Brett: No no, I wreck him, and I save Michelle from a life with a guy
who is just--
Renata: Like
you?
--re: Hudson
Brett: I could use a ghost
about right now.
Duff: I don't know if 'use' is the right word, is it son? Not when
you're talking about ghosts. Or people, for that matter.
Brett: I am nothing like him
[Hudson].
Michelle: Yes you are. And the two of you together make
maybe one man.
Brett: This wasn't personal.
It was just business.
Rose: You can't possibly believe that.
Brett: I can believe whatever I need to
believe. It's this wonderful gift that I have.
Reporter 1: Will McLeod be
ready for game seven?
Brett: You can bet your pension on it.
Rep 2: But the doctors have banned him
from playing--
Brett: I didn't say you'd win, I said you could bet.
Rep 3: Why would you lie
about this?
Brett: Why do you guys ask questions you already know the answers
to?
Rep 3: Are
the Steelheads finished?
Brett: Hey! What is the matter with you
people? You just witnessed a miracle out there! I know you're sad that Toronto
didn't win, and you're the Canadian media, so God knows nothing's ever good
enough, the bottle of rye's always half empty, but the Steelheads just
WON!
Duff: This doesn't change my
perspective on things.
Samantha: Which is?
Duff: Oh, a hell of a lot of things at
once. Filled with delight and utterly sad. A bit like watching Lucien Bouchard
drive your brand new car over a cliff.
Renata: I don't want to be
anywhere near Mr Parker.
Duff: If I had a nickel for every woman
who's said that to me, I'd have two nickels.
"French cook, Italians paint, Canadians play hockey." --Brett
"I'm just standing here hoping like hell that somebody gets to understand someone today. 'Cause I don't understand anybody, nobody understands me, it's a lousy feeling." --Brett
Duff: No talking during the
anthem.
Mr
Hartman: Oh, I didn't recognize it.
Duff: You didn't recognise
it?!?!? If we lose, he dissolves us; if we win, he can't touch us. Would
that be correct?
Colleen: That would be correct.
Duff: Good. Coco? Throw this man out of
the box!!
"Big...big eye in the sky...big blue eye, watching over all of us...which is MORE THAN THE REFEREE HAS, YOU BLIND MORON!!!!!!!" --Harry, being "wily"
Duff: You've had enough of
Parker?
Colleen: Yeah, I've had enough of Parker.
Duff: Well, sometimes I feel as though
I've had enough of oxygen, but there's not much I can do about it.
Renata: You did a good
thing.
Brett:
You sound surprised.
Renata: Well, maybe I am.
Brett: Well, maybe you should
be.
Brett: You here to judge me
for going too hard, that kinda stuff?
Ghost of Brett's Dad (Vic): Why would I
do that? I turned you into this.
Brett: Well then, no wonder you're in
hell, huh?
"If you have what you love and you are where you want to be--don't move. You stand still. That's paradise." --Ghost Vic
Ghost Vic: Time to wake up,
Brett.
Brett:
No. I don't want to wake up.
Ghost Vic: Sure you do. You have people
to love, you have things to be. You can't do that if you're
asleep.
"Come on. Wake up. Be still." --Ghost Vic
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