Mark: Can you smell this?
Darlene: I don’t want to smell it. It’s bad enough I have to eat it.

I remember visiting you guys at work and watching you robotically doing the same job over and over and thinking, “Wow, it must really suck to be an adult.” And it does.

Becky

The supervisor, Booker, he looked just like George Clooney…. I should have hit that until I broke it.

Jackie

It’s like living with bears. Yesterday, I put my plate down, went to get a napkin, and someone ate the meat out of my sandwich.

Louise

Do you know how long it’s been since I felt the sun on my face? I’m starting to look like a white guy. I could probably get a loan for a house right now.

Emilio

Darlene: Because if you get evicted, Dad, we get evicted. Now, we’re wasting time and we need money. Right now, Becky could be out there selling her body out on the street.
Becky: Thanks, it’s tough to keep in hooker shape.

Darlene: There’s not a lot of jobs out there.
Ben: Well, you could be a bouncer for one of those big box stores. They’re looking for greeters who will take down the customers who won’t wear masks.
Darlene: That’s not a job, I’d do that for free.

Becky: Why aren’t you trying to get another writing job?
Darlene: Because I’ve got 25 years of failure telling me that’s the wrong direction. When I moved back in with Mom and Dad, I didn’t think that I could go any lower, and then I chased this stupid magazine into the ground. I mean like, what is wrong with me? No one wants me to be a writer. Take a hint? You know, it’s like, if I’d done anything else I wouldn’t be standing on this line starting over.

Becky: Mom worked here. Maybe it will be okay.
Darlene: We’re supposed to do better than our parents. We’re not supposed to be going backward. We’re going to end up as immigrants on a ship back to Ireland.

Becky: At least Laverne and Shirley worked in a brewery and got to chug a beer every once in a while.
Darlene: Well, we get free travel size bottles which will come in handy if any other country ever lets Americans in again.

The Conners Season 3 Episode 1 Quotes

I remember visiting you guys at work and watching you robotically doing the same job over and over and thinking, “Wow, it must really suck to be an adult.” And it does.

Becky

Mark: Can you smell this?
Darlene: I don’t want to smell it. It’s bad enough I have to eat it.