Woman on cell: Yeah, right! Like anyone’s gonna believe there are four SpongeBobs.
–Rockefeller Center
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
Teen girl #1: You ever watched My Super Sweet 16?
Teen girl #2: Yeah. Don’t you just hate those snobby rude girls?
Teen girl #1: No, it’s kinda cool how they can be rude to their parents and get away with it.
–Bx12 bus
HS boy #1: You probably never had Power Rangers as a kid.
HS boy #2: Uh, dude, we had TV in Canada!
HS boy #3: See man, this is what happens when you don’t live in
Scarsdale all your life. You learn stuff.
–1 train
Overheard by: Julia Kite
Woman: What are you waiting for?
Girl: We’re seeing Saturday Night Live.
Woman: Oh! When does it tape?
Girl: Today. Saturday. Live. Saturday…Night…Live.
Woman: Well, it could be a repeat!
Girl: Do you really think I would come here and sit in a studio for a repeat?
–GE Building lobby, Rockefeller Plaza
Overheard by: Shannon
Girl: I was afraid the cab driver wasn’t going to take us to Brooklyn!
Guy: I know, he seemed annoyed when we said Brooklyn.
Girl: I mean, on Sex and the City they could never get a cab into Brooklyn.
–F train