Pop Culture

Professor guy: Does anyone know who the celebrity advocate is for sickle cell anemia? Come on people, you can’t be less hip than me.
NYU girl: T-Boz.
Professor guy: That’s right! T-Boz! From what group?
NYU girl: TLC.
Professor guy: Yeah, TLC! And in case you don’t know who they are…

He puts a picture of TLC on the overhea[r]d projector.

Professor guy: I actually have their CD. I put it on at home when I feel like getting jiggy with it. I thought we’d listen to it while you work. Not I Don’t Want No Scrubs, partly because I don’t know what that means.

–Silver Building, Waverly Place

Girl #1: …and I went on the American Nazi Party website, and it’s–
Girl #2: I know! It’s hysterical.

–26th & Park

Overheard by: Kevin Stone

Ghetto guy: Dat movie was da bomb.
Ghetto hoochie: Yeah guy, 10 thumbs up!

–City Cinemas Village East, 2nd Avenue

Overheard by: Faceman

Guy: You know that game, Operation–
Girl: Yeah, it’s in your pants!

–Luca Lounge, Avenue B

Woman: Nigga, where you goin’?
Boy: Mom, action figures!
Woman: Nigga, the action figures is right here!

–Toys R’ Us, Times Square