Student: Have you seen the show Freaks and Geeks?
Dean: Yes. It reminds me of all of you!
–Bard High School Early College
Student: Have you seen the show Freaks and Geeks?
Dean: Yes. It reminds me of all of you!
–Bard High School Early College
Woman: It’s so rare to see a happy, black couple these days.
–Nunya
Overheard by: Jason
Guy on cell: I want to do, like, a modern blaxploitation kinda thing.
–111th St & Broadway
Overheard by: Conrad
JAP on cell: Yeah, Flava Flav. The show’s called Flava of Love, it’s like The Bachelor for black people.
–J&B Coffee, W 3rd St & McDougal
Overheard by: amused black girl
Ghetto girl: I swear, I feel like motherfuckin’ Harriet Tubman. Shoot.
–Tunnel between F & 1 trains, 14th St
Guy: Hey, you guys like stand-up comedy? Take this flyer. What, you ain’t gonna take it? Is it ’cause I’m black?
–Times Square
Bimbette: I’m not racist, I talked to a black girl in the bathroom today.
–A train
Tourist #1: Isn't it smurf that when you talk like a smurf people still smurf what you want to smurf?
Tourist #2: What?
–Times Square
Professor: Do you guys watch American Idol? It's painful.
–Lehman College
Film student #1: It's kind of like Cloverfield meets The L Word.
–Waverly Place & Broadway
Valley girl wearing UGGs, pointing to Guggenheim: Oh! I think this is the building where Blair and Serena live!
–Outside of Guggenheim
Really effeminate 40-something man: I always pick up when he calls, and he was so mad I didn't this time… but I couldn't, because I was still in mourning over American Idol!
–114th & Broadway
Overheard by: Melissa
Queer to female friend: I was watchin' Oprah the other day. Oprah is legit! She had Christina Applegate on. You know, that girl from Married with Children and she was talkin' 'bout her breasts. She got breast cancer and they took both of them off! She had on of them lumpectomies.
–J Train
Guy: That's the new American dream–fuck up your life so much that you get your own tv show.
–Fundraising Walk, Battery Park
Overheard by: Harriet Vane
Dude: Her kids listen to nothin’ but classical music. Every time they turn on the radio: classical music, and they smart as hell. I said, “Don’t they watch no cartoons?!”. I turn on Cartoon Network, they got a woman wearing a bikini, turns into a superhero at night! That and Spongebob. And look at Beyonce! Everytime you see her, you see her skin!
–1 train
Overheard by: Josie
Bus driver: I have a headache.
Female passenger: It’s the color television. It messes with your brain and gives you headaches. I watch it wearing sunglasses so it doesn’t affect me.
–BX 12 bus
Fat tourist: A, I hate Spongebob. B, I’ll see you over the summer.
–R train
Overheard by: Laurea de Ocampo
Nanny #1: So, he is four years old and totally into Scooby Doo — games, toys, DVDs, vitamins, pajamas… He has everything.
Nanny #2: That is so cute.
Nanny #1: Not really. He always wants to be Daphne. And the worst part is that I always have to be Velma.
–A train
Overheard by: Jim
Teenage tourist: This is so cool! It’s like everything you see on TV but real!
–Times Square
Overheard by: scott
Teen girl #1: I feel like I need to expose you to some culture. Have you heard the latest Miley Cyrus?
Teen girl #2: That's not the kind of culture I want to be exposed to.
–R Train
