Girl #1: Where did you hear that? What news have you been watching?
Girl #2: Canadian.
–Duane Reade, 57th & Broadway
Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster
Girl #1: Where did you hear that? What news have you been watching?
Girl #2: Canadian.
–Duane Reade, 57th & Broadway
Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster
Tween girl #1: Oh my god! They, like, totally have TVs in the bathrooms here!
Tween girl #2: Oh my god! You can so watch TV while you are peeing or whatever.
Tween girl #3: Except it’s only, like, sports and stuff.
Tween girl #1: Yeah, I don’t really like sports. Except cheerleading. Is that sports?
–ESPN Zone, 42nd & Broadway
Girl #1: Don’t laugh while I tell you this! Channel Chris Parnell!
Girl #2: Ha, ha, ha!…I’m sorry, I have to pull a Jimmy Fallon.
–Banc Cafe, 30th & 3rd
Guy: Stop being such a Debbie Downer.
Girl: Stop watching such shitty tv shows.
–Q train
Woman on cell: Yeah, right! Like anyone’s gonna believe there are four SpongeBobs.
–Rockefeller Center
Guy: I looked for that Sopranos DVD set in the section you told me to, but it wasn’t there.
Store guy: Well, the computer says it’s in stock. But that’s one of our most shoplifted items.
–Borders, Time Warner Center
Woman: Don’t buy me no jewelry that’s on TV, Nigga! What’re you talking about?
–1/9 train
Girl #1: I don’t watch CSI, I watch Law and Order.
Cop #1 & #2: Yes!
Girl #2: Can you get us tickets?
Cop #1: Yeah, if you give us $100 each.
Girl #2: How long have you been cops?
Cop #2: 2 years.
Girl #1: Damn, the police on SVU are way more experienced. That show’s been running, like, 9 years.
Cop #1: Yes, but the cops on SVU are detectives.
–50th & 6th
Overheard by: Emma Marie
Dude: Are you suggesting MacGyver is my penis?
–F train
Overheard by: Giovanni Diaz
Guy #1: Dude, I know this is kinda gay, but I played The Sims last night naked and it was awesome.
Guy #2: Oh, that’s solid. I watch TV naked all the time. Not recently, though. I’ve been studying for my econ midterm constantly, and you can’t be naked in the library.
Guy #1: That sucks, ’cause it’s like…being naked just always feels better.
Guy #2: Totally. Ceteris paribus, I say, “do it naked.”
–Columbia University
