S02E05 · SCENE 10/17 · 12:43
The Apartment · Comedy Club
Jerry Stand-up on Fathers

Jerry performs stand-up about fathers being intimidating creators of their own people.

12:43→13:56
in the episode · 1m 13s · S02E05

What happens

12:43–13:56

Jerry delivers a stand-up bit theorizing that all fathers are intimidating because once a man has children, he adopts a 'hell with the world' attitude, eating, wearing, and creating whatever he wants.

WhereComedy Club
DriverJerry
Positionact2 · callback
ThreadSuede Jacket Purchase

Key lines

from this scene
13:07

GEORGE: How we gonna get out of it? We say we're frightened and we have to go home.

13:33

Once a man has children, for the rest of his life his attitude is: "The hell with the world, I can make my own people.

13:43

I'll eat whatever I want. I'll wear whatever I want and I'll create whoever I want."

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Scene DNA

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deadpan0.8
social rule violation0.3
absurd0.2
monologue

Beats

13:33Father theory

Scene in the episode

12:43–13:56
A · Suede Jacket Purchase
B · Dinner with Alton Benes
C · Kramer's Dove Fiasco
D · George's Earworm

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