TV shows

History professor, lecturing on the early 1900s: I mean, the problem of being the only person with a telephone is, well, who you gonna call?
Class, as one: Ghostbusters!
History professor: You kids scare me.

CU
Boulder, Colorado

Overheard by: They know their history, alright

Professor: And you go home and watch something dumb on TV, like that Tila Tequila show with the lesbians and the guys… I don’t understand who would want to date her anyway, she looks like a disease on legs.

Harbor College, California

60-year-old man #1: Do you get the Disney channel?
60-year-old man #2: I sure do!
60-year-old man #1: Do you ever watch Kim Possible?
60-year-old man #2: It's my favorite show!
60-year-old man #1: No way! Me too!
60-year-old man #2, attempting to sing: Call me, beep me, if ya' wanna reach me!
60-year-old man #1: (silence)
60-year-old man #2: I like the naked rat.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York

Overheard by: Bacon

Barista #1: Yeah, Joey does a great Tim Gunn impression. You should ask him to do it for you.
Barista #2: I will. So you really like Project Runway?
Barista #1: Oh my god, yes! Like, I should totally be on that show.
Barista #2: Yeah? Do you do fashion design?
Barista #1: Well, no. But I dress myself really well. And I have really good ideas. But I can't really sew or anything.

Starbucks
Fairborn, Ohio

Overheard by: Barista #3

30-something white guy on cell: It may be an all-time low, but I can successfully whack it to Telemundo.

Frisco, Texas

Chick #1: That's the best episode of SpongeBob ever.
Chick #2: I knooow!
Chick #1: It's like an orgasm!
Chick #2: No. (pause) No, it's not.

Littleton, Colorado

College girl: There, I’ve belittled and insulted The View without using the word “bitch” or the c-word.

Student Center, Montclair State University
New Jersey

Overheard by: …and that itself is a feat

Chick: I have found that half-cousin incest is hot, but only on soaps.

Michigan

Overheard by: Meister E

College student: Everything in life can be related back to Seinfeld. It's like the bible, except it won't fail you.

Hookah Bar
Washington, DC

Wife to husband while watching the news: Oh my god! Hahahaha, did you hear what they just said?
Husband: About how that guy “took it on the chin”?
Wife: Yeah, I can't believe they said that on the news!
Husband: I don't think that means what you think it means.
Wife: Oh.

Toronto
Canadia