Today's Special (2009)

Aasif Mandvi: Samir

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Quotes 

• Samir : I hired you to work here. I want you to work here. But you have to check with me before you go hiring people or firing people or buying live chickens.

• Samir : Dad, it's okay; he was a chef at a hotel in Mumbai.

  Hakim : Of course he was, and I am the bloody King of Sweden!

• Samir : You understand this wouldn't be a permanent position?

  Akbar : That's okay; I've never had a permanent position in my life.

  Samir : [ironically]  That's quite an accomplishment.

• Akbar : I was even engaged to the daughter of a wealthy nutmeg merchant; you wouldn't believe how good she smelled.

  Samir : Do you ever think about her?

  Akbar : Only when I drink eggnog.

• Samir : I don't know why I'm doing this. I'm a chef; I don't need to take cooking lessons from a cab driver.

• Hakim : [banging pot with a spoon]  Get up! It's time for namaz.

  Samir : Since when did you become religious?

• [last lines] 

  Samir : Let's go people - we are in the weeds!