3rd Rock from the Sun (TV Series)

Just Your Average Dick (1998)

John Lithgow: Dr. Dick Solomon

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Quotes 

• Tommy Solomon : [Tommy enters the room with his hair cut short]  Hey, guys!

  Sally Solomon : Who are you?

  Tommy Solomon : It's me, Tommy.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : You can't be Tommy. Tommy looks like a girl.

  Tommy Solomon : I went to Mega Cuts.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : If you're Tommy, answer me this. Are we or are we not aliens?

  Tommy Solomon : Yeah, Dick. We are.

  Harry Solomon : Tommy!

• Dr. Mary Albright : You and your family. I know you mean well, but sometimes it's like being around the Addams Family.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Well, I admit John Adams' views of a strong central government may have been ahead of their time.

  Dr. Mary Albright : That's not who I meant!

  Dr. Dick Solomon : John *Quincy* Adams? You're comparing me to that freak show?

• [Dick enters the office, soaking wet] 

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Damn that Channel 9 weatherman!

  Dr. Mary Albright : What? It's not raining outside.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : No, I cut through his yard and the sprinklers went off.

  [Nina enters and sees that Dick is wet] 

  Nina Campbell : Car wash again?

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Do you see any soap?

• Dr. Dick Solomon : [Dick is beginning to realise that his experiment to normalise his family - and become less "weird" - has failed]  This was a mistake. Becoming more average didn't make us more human, it made us less.

• Dr. Dick Solomon : [Nina finds Dick packing up all his bizarre knick-knacks as he has decided to become the 'average' American]  Just have them haul all this away.

  Nina Campbell : Are you sure?

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Yes, Nina, I'm sure.

  Nina Campbell : It's just that you're acting kinda strange.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Me? Strange? I'm textbook normal. If anyone is strange, it's you. You exercise too much, you drive a stick shift, you drink root beer. Oh, and you're black.

  Nina Campbell : What's strange about being black?

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Let's face it, Nina. Most white people aren't.

  Nina Campbell : But they want to be.

• Dr. Dick Solomon : So, suddenly I'm weird?

  Dr. Mary Albright : Not so suddenly, Dick.