One Liners from the Legitimate Wednesday

Student, about her play: I want the audience to enter through the vagina before they sit down.

–NYU

Guy to younger girl, at intermission of Spring Awakening, right after sex scene: So you had to choose this? We couldn’t have gone to see The Little Mermaid?

–Eugene O’Neill Theatre

College student: …exactly how you’d expect a college rendition of The Vagina Monologues to go.

–NYU

Black guy on cell: It doesn’t mean I’m gay because I’m going to see a play. (pause) It’s for a class… There’s nothing wrong with wanting to see a play.

–Union Square

Overheard by: erkala

20‐something guy to friend: Picture it; Fishsticks: the musicical!

–63^rd St & Broadway

Posted on February 8, 2023
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The Island of Dr. Wednesday One‐Liners

Man on cell: Was there a lot of bleeding? [unintelligible reply] Well, was it four sheep or five? [reply] We have to find a way to separate the cows from the sheep.

–Elevator, 56^th & 8^th

Drunk girl, yelling: All I want is a llama! Another cocktail and a llama!

–Terminal 5

Dude: So you’re enjoying acting, LA, monogamy, horses?

–Cafe Esperanto

Chick to friend: I don’t care how well you clean it, I am not doing shots out of that alligator!

–TriBeCa

Overheard by: lalala

Swanky pin‐stripe suit on cellphone: The little shit will definitely get approved. He’s as healthy as a French gay ox.

–51^st & 3^rd

Overheard by: IG

Young black dude: You know the movie The Lion King? Yeah The Lion King! …You know, the one with all the tigers.

–4 Train

Overheard by: BQM lady

Man: Manatees are the most peaceful creatures in the world… They get hit by motor boats!

–Astor Place

Posted on July 5, 2022
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If the Wednesday Fits, One‐Liner It

Young thug to friends: Stop, stop, stop! Stop, seriously, stop. C’mon, I’m not kidding! Seriously. I have shoe phobia!

–Metro‐North Rail

Guy with shoe in hand, catching up to woman who lost it: Here you go, Cinderella!

–Manhattan Mall

Overheard by: thorn

Manager of ladies’ shoe store: It’s easy to close. You put the hooker boots – all this hoochie stuff, with the hooker boots, you put the flats with the flats, you put the day shoes with the day shoes. Now, Narnia over there is another story…

–Macy’s

Overheard by: Sarah R

Chick to guy: If you buy me Jimmy Choos, I’ll have your baby.

–Rockefeller Center

Overheard by: Lets hope she’ll have the baby anyway…

Four‐year‐old girl stepping out of taxi: Mommy, can we go online to buy shoes today?

–Upper West Side

Overheard by: …wow.

Posted on May 24, 2022
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Wednesday One‐Liner: The Musical

Girl to class: I love classical music! I listen to the Bambi soundtrack all the time!

–Curtis High School, Staten Island

Guy in lobby, at intermission: Hands down, the best band I’ve ever seen in concert… Hootie and the Blowfish.

–Jazz at Lincoln Center

Guy on cell: I guess they’re musicians. They put bitches ahead of practice.

–79^th St b/w York & 1^st

Overheard by: Queixa

Gay man to another, walking out of a bank: I mean, if you listen to like, one Sade song every six years, it’s okay.

–15^th St & 8^th Ave

Lesbian: Fuck her! All she wants to do is stay home and sit in the kitchen and drink beer and listen to Melissa Etheridge! Fuck her! She can take a cab home!

–Staten Island

Overheard by: Kateri

Straight girl with a seat at the piano: No, I’ve never been here before, but I’m actually having a good time. I mean, I don’t know most of these songs, but earlier he was playing The Sound of Music, and I was rocking out to that.

–Marie’s Crisis Piano Bar

Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster

Crazy old cat lady to guy who just shut off obnoxiously loud music in next lane: Why’d you shut it off? I liked that song!

–Marathon Parkway & Northern Boulevard

Posted on September 13, 2017
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Wednesday One‐Liners: Fact or Fiction?

Guy: It’s like August: Osage County, but with zombies.

–Manhattan Theatre Source

Overheard by: Emily B.

Girl: You know what they say: two in the bush, one in the wizard.

–Dorm, Pratt Institute

College student: Ghosts? They’re like VT!

–186^th St & Amsterdam

Black female suit on cell: Yeah, well you betta hope Tinkabell comes along… Or whoever the fuck it is who grants you ya damn wishes!

–Penn Station

Overheard by: emily d.

Annoyed man on cell walking down stairs: No, mom, I don’t know what werewolves eat! No, mom, I don’t! Mom, I can’t talk right now, I’m going into the subway!

–Union Square Subway Entrance

Overheard by: Masked Avenger

Posted on May 19, 2016
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Just As Well – I Heard That Show Was Floundering

Woman #1: You should have seen it, over at The Little Mermaid, there were all these kids outside, just bawling.
Woman #2: Really? Is it that bad?
Man: No, they couldn’t get in. Stagehands’ strike.
Woman #2: Oh.

–Parking Garage, Lincoln Center

Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster

Posted on July 3, 2015
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Oh Deer

Girl #1: A fawn is an animal? I was just guessing.
Girl #2: Yeah, it’s a small deer, like Bambi.
Girl #1: Bambi was a fawn?! I thought he was a cantaloupe!
Girl #2: You mean an “antelope”!

–Union Square Food Emporium

Posted on June 27, 2015
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Wednesday One‐Liners’ Monogrammed Towels Say “W.O.L.”

Preppy teenage boy on cell: I use the word “ex” as a coping mechanism. She can have her name back once I’m healed.

–Grand Central

Transvestite on cell: I’m changing my name from Angela to Rachel. Angela sounds very Disney. I don’t feel like Disney. I feel like a hard sound, like Rachel.

–Pelham Bay Park

Black guy: Shit be fucked up. Niggas got bitches’ names. Bitches got niggas’ names.

–26^th & 8^th

Overheard by: Withnail

Yuppie to another: You know, man, I think you say my name more than your wife’s.

–62^nd & 2^nd

Overheard by: The Vonz

Upper East Side girl, seriously: You know what the first thing I look for in a gentleman caller is? His name.

–89^th St & 3^rd Ave

Posted on May 5, 2015
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The Penises Get Mad When We’re Late

Girl: I’m really bad at observing people.
Friend: I love Sleeping Beauty.
Girl: I can’t write about art if it’s, like, asked by my teachers. That’s what I hate about this class. Last semester I had to reckon with a Louise Bourgeois essay… All her penises. Are you guys ready to go?

–Cooper‐Hewitt, National Design Museum

Overheard by: Alex Bailey

Posted on March 20, 2015
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…For When I Go Predator‐Trolling

Young Hispanic mother, on Disney princess dresses: So, sweetie, which one do you like the best?
Three‐year‐old girl: I like Jasmine’s.
Young Hispanic mother: Oh yeah, that one’s sexy.
Three‐year‐old girl: Seeeeeeexy.

–Prospect Park

Overheard by: Marina

Posted on December 30, 2014
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