Production assistant: Excuse me sir, no flash photography please. For the safety of our actors.
Bystander: Actors? They’re Muppets!
–Muppets Movie Set, Park Slope
Production assistant: Excuse me sir, no flash photography please. For the safety of our actors.
Bystander: Actors? They’re Muppets!
–Muppets Movie Set, Park Slope
Girl: I had a wonderful childhood. (looks at photos of a child)
Boy: Yeah? I fuckin’ had to listen to Tim Curry narrating nursery rhymes… That’s terrifying.
–Pier 92
Astoria girl #1: Ohmigod! I’m going to dinner with my hot guy friend tonight! His picture is on Facebook, I’ll show you!
(shows friend photo)
Astoria girl #2: Oh, I know him, I used to have sex with his roommate!
–Astoria Park
Salesgirl #1: My friend totally looks like George Costanza.
Salesgirl #2: Wow.
Salesgirl #1: Except picture him 20 years younger.
Salesgirl #2: Okay.
Salesgirl #1: Oh, and with hair.
Salesgirl #2: Uh huh.
Salesgirl #1: And his hair is blonde.
Salesgirl #2: Right…
–Rothman’s, 17th & PAS
Overheard by: shopper
Guy: We’re not friends on Facebook.
Girl: But how do you see my pictures?
Guy: Well, there’s some of your photos that are private, and others that are public. When I go to your page, which is often, I can just search through those, or go to your friends’ pages. A lot of them don’t have private pictures.
–Starbucks, Union Square
Overheard by: Randy
Girl on phone: Well then, riddle me this, smart guy: why’d I wake up naked?
–Smith & Sackett, Cobble Hill
Overheard by: Swimfan
Girl: Oh my god! I can’t wait to see them naked!
–Elevator, Times Square Arts Center
Overheard by: Natalie
Museum worker: And then I woke up buck naked in a hotel, and there were pictures of me all over the room.
–Museum of Art and Design
Guy: No, I will not do it in here again. Just because I’m wearing nothing under my jacket, doesn’t mean I’m going to flash a crowd of people in every store we enter. I’ve done it three times already. Get your rocks off some other way.
–Columbus Circle Mall Escalator
Overheard by: Martin
Drunk girl at NYU protest: I don’t even know why I’m here, I just want to take off my clothes!
–NYU Kimmel Center
Overheard by: Lilo
Girl on train: Oh, hi! I didn’t recognize you with your clothes on.
–A Train
Overheard by: Don’t even wanna know
Girl on cell: So I’m gonna be naked, but that’s okay, I’ll be wearing rollerblades.
–N 4th & Bedford Ave
Yuppie #1: So Sarah Palin came into my office for a photo shoot the other day.
Yuppie #2: Really? Is she hot?
Yuppie #1: She is so fucking hot.
Yuppie #2: But politically she’s a dolt.
Yuppie #1: Oh, of course.
–MoMA
Overheard by: The Phantom of the Art Museum
French tourist, after discussing America’s faults in the world, to American man: Can you take a picture of us with the Statue of Liberty in the background?
American man: Ain’t she a beautiful bitch?
French tourist: Why do you say “bitch”?
American man: Well, she’s French. Welcome to America.
–Staten Island Ferry
Flirtatious girl, about photo in fashion magazine: Do you think she’s hot?
Embarrassed boy: She’s quite attractive.
Flirtatious girl: Do you like her tits?
Embarrassed boy: Turn the page, please.
Flirtatious girl: Would you bang her?
Embarrassed boy: I would.
–Lincoln Center
Overheard by: Sunny
Two young boys: Take our picture! Take our picture!
Woman: Maybe if you’re good and take a bath together later I’ll take a picture of you in the bath.
–Central Park
Overheard by: ben-head
Hat Tip 🎩 to The Marketing Scientist