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 Walmarts!

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

  Harry Solomon : Mazel tov!