Favorite Wings Quotes
Lowell: "How long has Helen been a hooker?"
Massive storm on the island, and the house Joe and Brian grew up in is about to fall into the sea. Roy's informing Joe the house was condemned by the town council and they're tearing it down -- says it's no big deal.
Joe: "It is a big deal, it's my old house!"
Roy: "Well you didn't see me cry when they tore down the house where I spent my childhood."
Joe: "That's because it was a House of Pancakes Roy, there's a chain of 'em."
That was such a funny exchange because Joe so rarely 'went there'.
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Wait a minute... who am I here?
You're absolutely right. Any time Daly got a great line like that it was amped up by the tiny shock of his character crossing his own boundaries.
Even though all of them were incredible of course, across the board I've always thought Weber was the funniest of all the actors; on top of the swift delivery skills he shares with the rest of the cast*, his physical humor was just incredible -- picture him doing that quick little jig in the episode where Joe's unsure about pretending to be injured... uggh, always gets me! But even though I think Weber was the funniest, I find Daly's little lines to be some of the best because it almost looks like it pains Joe to say those things.
* Speaking of delivery, picture Alex at the lunch counter and Helen behind it, going on about how desperate she is for a table at sold-out La Maison for dinner with Davis. Lowell gets on the lunch counter wall phone and calls La Maison to try to schmooze a table out of them by speaking French, and he's on hold...
Alex: "Lowell, I didn't know you were bilingual."
Lowell: "Oh I'm not. I'm just being friendly to the guy because I need a table."
This is the quick, subtle stuff that gets me time and again with this show... such impeccable timing and delivery from these people. (And the credulity THChurch exudes doesn't hurt!) So many others shows/casts try to pull this stuff off and it either lays there flat or is just so belabored.