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Character Analysis

Gary Cole

Kent Davison

Played by Gary Cole

143 jokes across 45 episodes of Veep

WAR

56.5

Total Jokes

143

Avg Craft

7.4

Avg Impact

7.1

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Kent delivers 143 scored jokes across 45 episodes of Veep, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.1 on impact for a career WAR of 56.5. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Kent Lines

All Jokes — 136 total

S2E01

That and the big quake hasn't yet hit San Francisco.

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S2E01

Am I supposed to ask a question now? Oh, sure. If you want. Fire away. And what would that question be? Well, that question might be what do you think is the best reposition to take? And what would the answer to that question be? And the answer to that question would be standing right in front of you.

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S2E01

Why would anyone want to eat you?

8.08.0
S2E01

Yeah, it's the only thing I'd save if this building were on fire.

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S2E01

By definition, you should be at half the height of the president.

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S2E02

Hey, I heard you were doing Pilates. I didn't know you had a core. ( laughs ) I do and it's like steel.

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S2E02

Yeah? What are we doing? - Nothing. Until the numbers support intervention, doing nothing is the most positive thing we can do.

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S2E02

SM-17d. There's a lower case D. - Ah, apologies, sir. - Details are important. A misplaced decimal point can kill a diabetic.

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S2E02

Where do you live? - Nearby. Local ... to here.

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S2E02

Mike, the VP is voicing solidarity with the Jewish people in front of rotating pork.

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S2E03

Ben, it seems like you're ill-suited for your job and you should resign.

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S2E03

Any less and they will be flaccid and damp like a lady's hair in the rain.

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S2E03

even though my salivary glands are crying out to me like newly hatched birds.

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S2E03

Listen, we all know the White House would work so much better if there wasn't a President, but there is.

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S2E04

Would it be okay if I showed you some ideas I have regarding strategy? No time, Mr. Egan. They're mostly Flash based, but I put them on YouTube. I just said I had no time.

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S2E04

We're all being hit by deadlines, right, Mike? Yes, sir. They can swing around and smack you like a boom.

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S2E04

That's real man's sailing. Leaning out in the tack, your big man balls dipping in the salty sea.

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S2E04

I have no children and I wish for none, but she's my family.

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S2E04

This is the photograph? No, just wondering if you think this sweater goes with the dress.

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S2E04

That's how he looks. That's his face. Why didn't you just take the good one of me, Photoshop it in? I can't airbrush history, ma'am. I'm not Joseph Stalin.

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S2E04

This is imbecilic. You're right. It's asinine. No, keep smiling, Mr. Ryan. I'm smiling falsely. So should you.

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S2E04

Ma'am, your song last night made my lips curl. - Uh... ( laughs ) - Upwards.

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S2E05

Was that up in the hills or down in the valley?

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S2E07

Or he tried to fuck the bear. Like Grizzly Adams. / Enjoying yourselves? / We were. / Are you laughing at the violent death of a young man? / Yeah, pretty much.

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S2E07

Forgot my noise-cancelling headphones. Guess what I just heard. I'm not here. Ergo, my ears aren't here either.

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S3E02

Sue, apologies. We will continue our pleasant chat at a later date. Abortion calls.

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S3E02

I wonder who should be my campaign strategist in the next election. 'I don't know.'

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S3E03

Space is bold, but safe at the same time. There are no votes in space. There's nothing there.

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S3E03

Children are of no value. Forget child care.

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S3E03

If you don't like the reality, go live in Oregon and make quilts with my mother. She could use the help.

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S3E04

Dan-zibar, what's happening?

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S3E04

He just swallowed his phone in fear.

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S3E04

We could 'build' a consensus.

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S3E04

Our withdrawal from Afghanistan has been more 'momentarily' than this.

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S3E04

It was a masseuse. - That makes total sense now. - Who did you think it was?

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S3E04

Not to split hairs or anything, but it was a man. So, technically, it's a masseur, not a masseuse.

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S3E05

You are going to change America in a way that usually only war and fluoride can.

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S3E05

I have a sister who was... well, she didn't have the... it kind of all went wrong within the tubing...

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S3E06

Can you not hear me singing in the wires?

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S3E08

I've only ever used this voice, even as a young child.

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S3E08

Yeah, is there a smoking condom?

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S3E08

It could have been anyone. Could have been Ben. Yeah, I poked everything that moved back then.

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S3E08

We could lose to the whale from 'Free Willy.'

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S3E08

Holy crapcakes! They're loving her. I know. It seems every time she says 'repel,' she attracts more voters.

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S3E09

Kind of, in a way, and also not. And in a third way both.

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S3E09

Ma'am, we're America. We're always at war.

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S3E10

Kent: You might as well drive a suicide clown car into the fucking Lincoln Memorial.

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S3E10

Mike: She looks like she's in 'Flashdance.' / Kent: 'Thai lady-boy made head of sweatshop.'

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S4E02

This is about the brand image of Catherine Meyer, TM.

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S4E02

Catherine, America doesn't like you.

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S4E02

I wouldn't say hate. You just... polarize opinion with the bulk of it gravitating to this pole here.

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S4E02

You have sharp shoulders. This is like high school all over again. Yeah, sure, kind of, but much bigger.

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S4E02

Customary shortcuts to public affirmation are military service or childbirth. Okay, God, no, and, oh, my God, no, in that order.

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S4E02

Okay, well, then we go back to the idea of turning that frown into the inverse of a frown. Upside down?

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S4E03

I cannot endorse that message, but I do acknowledge it.

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S4E04

A speech is a speech. Phonemes connecting to produce meanings.

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S4E04

Ironically, the straight guy is very stiff around the gay guy.

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S4E04

Bill, of my various walking paces, I selected moderate to fast.

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S4E05

Your champagne's been laced with polonium. I mean, not really. It's just to lighten up the moment a little bit.

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S4E06

O'Brien just pulled a teddy bear out of the ruins of a house.

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S4E07

I like my bourbon like I like my women... 18 years old and wet.

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S4E07

You know, those kids have been dead for a while.

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S4E08

When was yours sent? When was yours sent? I asked you first.

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S4E08

No, mine was the master list. Your list was a sub-list. It was a sur-list, which means over-list.

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S4E09

Oh, that's... bravo, Bill. Subtly done.

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S4E09

Like a swan or Professor Hawking.

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S4E09

You haven't seen it, so forget it.

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S4E09

He's the bagman, yeah, but he's also the bad man.

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S4E10

That was the bad news, which in the end I didn't bear.

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S5E01

For the stress pimple? Ben gets those on his butt. She should see a doctor.

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S5E01

Actually, Wendy was keeping it a secret from me until today because I'm so bad with keeping secrets.

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S5E01

'Nev-add-a.'

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S5E01

It's called POTUS. Pimple of the United States. There are 220,000 followers as of five minutes ago. How many Twitter followers do I have? Approaching that.

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S5E01

I don't mean this to sound insensitive, but don't you think that mudslides are the funniest kind of natural disasters? I've always been partial to sinkholes. You know, ah! Those are hilarious. Nature's trapdoor.

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S5E02

Little known fact about the Nazis... their polling numbers within Germany, through the roof. Unbelievable numbers. Though also tragic.

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S5E02

The Jewish demo couldn't have been that good.

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S5E02

I don't care for movies.

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S5E03

Phones are hacked all the time to steal pictures of celebrities' penises and whatnot.

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S5E04

if you will, a 'death bump.'

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S5E04

Well, that is some wild and heavy stuff. / Indeed. / Yeah. I got some real soul-searching to do.

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S5E04

We lost the popular vote. / Oh, God.

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S5E05

CNN and Fox both say he's critical, but Fox says it with blonder hair and bigger tits.

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S5E06

Go to the ATM Monday and dust will come out.

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S5E06

Hanukah polls higher in Mecca.

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S5E06

That's Korean for 'I hate you.'

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S5E06

The country, not the musical.

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S5E06

We all called her a cunt.

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S5E09

Stalemate his endgame. Shades of Karpov versus Kasparov.

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S5E10

Out of how many? - 44. You were right ahead of James Buchanan, who many feel caused the Civil War.

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S5E10

Alternate timelines are a crutch for lazy sci-fi premises, e.g., 'Star Trek' with the exception of 'Deep Space Nine.'

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S5E10

Mike, she has the head circumference of a six-year-old. - I'm six.

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S5E10

Selina, good news. We found the missing Nevada ballots. You won.

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S6E02

That's a false equivalence, but I appreciate the sentiment.

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S6E02

Wives in this town make the social calendar. Mrs. Furlong likes inviting couples, not unregistered sex offenders.

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S6E02

Congressman, being a bachelor in this town means you're gayer than a TV evangelist.

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S6E02

statistically speaking, married politicians have more sex with more single women than single politicians.

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S6E02

We had to extend to the greater Baltimore, Arlington, Alexandria area to find them. Well, we got a 'maybe' in Delaware. She's waiting to see your hair grow back.

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S6E03

Mike, that is the kind of voting irregularity that we are here to prevent.

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S6E03

Murman's leading by more votes than there are people in the country. - Yeah, maybe he's bussing them in from Chicago.

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S6E03

It's now worth approximately $389,000. Way to go, ma'am.

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S6E04

when people think about what's wrong in Washington, they think of him and you

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S6E04

I set my watch back for Daylight Savings Time. You set your watch the wrong way. No, it's spring. I 'springed' backwards.

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S6E04

Plus-sized homunculus. A human-shaped creature of medieval legend that Paracelsus claimed was created from putrefied sperm.

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S6E05

So you don't scrape your head, you giant barbecue fork.

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S6E05

Well, ironically, I have bigger tits.

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S6E06

No, it sounds like a gay a cappella group.

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S6E06

Hamilton wasn't a president. ... Then why the fuck did they write a musical about him?!

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S6E06

All right, I need you and your buddies from the Island of Misfit Toys... Isle.

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S6E06

Could you tell the Colossus of Chodes that this is the exact same goddamn office, only three floors down with a shittier view?

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S6E06

Second goddamn floor, I can't even commit suicide.

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S6E07

Charlie, also played by Fred Gwynne. Season one, episode nine.

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S6E07

No, I'm bringing my jai alai instructor. - Female. - Ish.

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S6E09

The shutdown really hurt you in Massachusetts' anus. AKA New Hampshire.

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S6E09

It was you. How do you know, Kent? Were you at that summer camp?

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S7E01

Strategic Hypermetric Electoral Interactive Logistical Algorithm.

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S7E01

I like her more than I like the deaf girl. - Whatever happened to her? - The police have no leads.

7.27.0
S7E01

Actually, it's a synecdoche. - Technically, it's more of a goat rape than a clusterfuck.

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S7E02

Felix Wade's sexuality is the worst best-kept secret since Clyde Tolson's hysterical pregnancy. The man lives in a vast invisible closet.

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S7E02

That makes me moister than an oyster. / Plus or minus four points. / OK, still pretty moist.

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S7E02

In current gay parlance, Dan presents somewhere between a 'wolf' and an 'otter,' some would call a 'frost otter.'

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S7E03

The current version only asks for donations and, for some reason, deletes your address book. Technically, it's more of a virus.

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S7E03

Her records were sealed. She was 16. She accidentally hit him with her Volkswagen Cabriolet. She is an actual murderer?! Yes! Who drives an import!

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S7E03

Actually, he was decapitated.

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S7E04

Something that makes a NASCAR race look like a Jay-Z concert, you know? / Actually, ma'am, Jay-Z concerts are almost all white people. / Okay, well, right? I know.

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S7E06

Face to face, I can convince anyone of anything. - That's not true. - Incorrect. You're both wrong. - Both: You're right.

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S7E06

Are people actually laughing at that impression? - No. - Yes.

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S7E06

There's two things Americans don't like to see get hurt: animals, and white girls on spring break.

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S7E06

I haven't been funny since 1987.

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S7E06

I just wanna be president. Do you want six almonds? No!

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S7E07

Might want to double-check that penis. That's Kent's job.

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S7E07

Pretend to talk to me about numbers. - I was pretending. My favorite number is Euler's number.

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S7E07

Jonah was right. He was spectacularly right! And you know what that makes me, sister? - Spitty?

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S7E07

That's not fucking funny, Kent. - I haven't been funny since 1987.

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S7E07

Oh, my God! Oh, my God! He's having a heart attack! - Eighth time's the charm.

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S7E07

I honestly think I might be in hell. - No such place, ma'am. The concept of hell is a cultural memory of pre-Mosaic child sacrifice among proto-Judean peoples.

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S7E07

Oh, well, if I had a dollar for every 'Mother, I will never forgive you...' Bazillionaire. Correct.

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