Arts

Drunk chick: Hey, bartender! Did anyone ever tell you you look like Luke from Gilmore Girls?
Bartender: No. What’s Gilmore Girls?
Drunk chick: It’s a show on TV. You should look it up. [To guy standing next to her] Hey, you look like this guy in this porn I have!

Dickson Street
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Overheard by: laughing into my beer

Supporting actor: This is the first play I've been in where I didn't play a tree!

Orlando, Florida

Director: I feel like she’s staring into my soul.
Producer: It’s a good feeling, isn’t it?

35 West 4th Street
New York, NY

Overheard by: jen d.

Programmer #1: Do you watch Maggie and the Ferocious Beast?
Programmer #2: [Silence.]Programmer #1: Well, Hamilton is the pig. I don’t know his last name, but he’s the pig in the show.
Programmer #2: [Silence.]

100 Larrabee Road
Westbrook, Maine

Suit: The other way I learned it, from Schoolhouse Rock, is that the alligator is hungry and so wants to bite the larger one.
Woman coworker: Ohhh… I see. That would confuse me, because it’s got animals.

919 3rd Avenue
New York, New York

Overheard by: i guess graduating elementary school just was

Guy: I always thought we would go out Thelma and Louise style when we were both in our 90’s.
Girl: That sounds about right.
Guy: I’m going to move that up about 60 years if this meeting doesn’t end soon.

32 Washington Street
Indianapolis, Indiana

Overheard by: I agree

Co-worker #1: Okay, that’s it.
Co-worker #2: What? Tell me that song doesn’t make you want to laugh.
Co-worker #1: It makes me want to shoot someone, then laugh.

270 South Flower Street
Burbank, California

Overheard by: Eric Johnson

Ad rep #1: The best movie is on TV tonight.
Ad rep #2: What movie is that?
Ad rep #1: Gone with the Wind.
Ad rep #2: Is that the same as…? No, that’s A Walk in the Clouds.
Programmers: What?!
Ad rep #2: I got confused — they’re similar. Well, which one is Gone with the Wind?
Ad rep #1: It has Clark Gable.
Ad rep #2: Is that the guy that played Superman?

120 West 1st Avenue
Mesa, Arizona

Co-worker 1: …they’re always very nice people, though.
Co-worker 2: Who are?
Co-worker 1: Gay people. Very good linedancers.

Civic Drive
Greensborough, Melbourne
Australia

Asian coworker to black coworker: Why can’t you be like Akeelah in Akeelah and the Bee? She was black, but she could spell!

235 E 42nd Street
New York, New York