Master of None (TV Series)
Parents (2015)
Aziz Ansari: Dev
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Quotes
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Dev : The guy from the guitar place said you canceled the rest of your lessons.
Ramesh : Yeah, I tried it. I didn't like it that much. My fingers hurt when I held the strings.
Dev : What about your sad story about how when you were a kid in India, Thatha wouldn't get you a guitar?
Ramesh : I don't know. Leave me alone. Let me play my computer games, man.
[making excited noises]
Ramesh : Whee!
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Dev : Text from my dad: "Please come and fix my iPad. Now it won't stop dinging." Does your dad always text you to fix stuff?
Brian : I don't think my dad knows how to text. He also hates talking in person. He averages, like, three words a week.
Dev : Our dads are so weird. I told my dad I got a callback on The Sickening.
Brian : Oh, the black virus movie? That's great.
Dev : Thank you. I told *him*. He's like, "Uh, okay. Can you fix my iPad?" How about, "Hey, son, great work," or, "Hey, son, I'm proud of you"?
Brian : I have, I have never, ever heard my dad say the word "proud." It's always like, "That's it? So that's all you've done?" Like, if I went to the moon, he would honestly be like, "When are you going to Mars?"
Dev : Yeah. "Oh, Brian, you went to the moon? That's like graduating from community college. When are you gonna graduate from Harvard. AKA, go to Pluto?"
Brian : I just feel like Asian parents, they don't have the emotional reach to say they're proud or whatever. Have you ever hung out with a white person's parents, though? They are crazy nice. Yeah. I had dinner once with my last girlfriend's mom, and by the end of that meal, she had hugged me more times than my family has hugged me in my entire life.
Dev : Yeah, dude, most white families, they'd be so psyched to adopt me.
[cell phone honks]
Dev : Aw, shit!
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Dev : Ma, what about your first day in America? That must have been pretty exciting.
Nisha : No, I just got dropped off from the airport, and your father went to work. I didn't know nobody, and I barely knew your father. We had an arranged marriage. And I knew him only for a week or so.
Dev : What about that first day, though? Did you go out and explore the city?
Nisha : No, I sat on the couch and cried.
Dev : Well, that's really sad.
Nisha : [in Tamil] You asked!
Dev : Well, is there anything else you remember?
Nisha : Yeah, I was scared to answer the telephone because nobody would understand me because of my accent.
