3rd Rock from the Sun (TV Series)

Dick Like Me (1996)

John Lithgow: Dr. Dick Solomon

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Quotes 

• Dr. Dick Solomon : Please, Nina, we're discussing prejudice here, something you know nothing about.

• Dr. Dick Solomon : This is your field, you tell me. Out of all the possible ethnic groups, which one is the best?

  Dr. Mary Albright : Oh, no, there's no best. It's - it's all subjective.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Well, which do you find the most interesting.

  Dr. Mary Albright : Oh, there are so many. Ummm, I love the creative ambition of the Maori people, ahhh, the Polynesian culture with its joyous embrace of nature, ahhh, the quiet dignity of...

  Dr. Dick Solomon : [interrupting]  What's the sexiest?

  Dr. Mary Albright : [without thinking]  Italians... . Smoky, swarthy, gotta have 'em.

• [Dick realizes that his 'family' hasn't established their ethnicity, and doesn't know what they should be; Tommy tries out various identities at school without much success, until Mrs Dubcek assumes that, with a name like Solomon, they must be Jewish] 

  Tommy Solomon : This rules! I'm still a minority. Y'know, chicks dig minorities.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Who knew that Solomon was a Jewish name when we took it off the side of that truck.

  Harry Solomon : Go figure! Heh, we could've been the Wal-Marts.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : [beginning to weep with joy]  We're Jewish. I don't know what to say.

  Harry Solomon : Mazel tov!