Watching Studio60

As a follow-up to the recap, here is the second of three posts featuring memorable lines from the poker-themed 10th episode of Sports Night, “Shoe Money Tonight.”

Continued from Part 1.

Jeremy: We’re together every night anyways.
Natalie: At midnight! We go back to my place, or we go back to your place. We have a lot of sex. We watch the 2 a.m. wrap-up. We go to sleep. We come to work. What kind of relationship is that?
Jeremy: It’s working out pretty well for me.

Natalie: If, however, your arrogance extends to thinking you’re a better poker player than I am, you are welcome to join me at the card table so that I can wipe that smug smile off your face and teach you a lesson you so richly deserve.
Jeremy: Natalie, do you even know how to play poker?
Natalie: The guys at Sigma Kappa Pi let me play in their poker game any time I wanted. Now, why do you suppose that was?
Jeremy: ‘Cause you’re a knockout and your parents are loaded?
Natalie: ‘Cause I got game, baby.
Jeremy: Have you fallen on your head?
Natalie: Or are you just afraid I might humiliate you, and you won’t be able to go to Sundance with Judy the Ho?
Jeremy: I tell you, Casey, it appears some time has freed up in my schedule, and I just might be able to play cards with you after all.
Natalie: Rack ‘em up, Casey.
Jeremy: That’s pool, you mental patient!

Jeremy: Natalie, you owe me, like, $700,00. I’m basically your landlord at this point. Stop playing!

Natalie: (After Jeremy wins again) Of my entire roster of boyfriends — and it is, believe me, quite the lengthy list — you are my least favorite.
Jeremy: Hey, I’m just happy to be on the team.

Sally: You’ve got a little thing for Casey, don’t you?
Dana: I can’t tell you how little a thing I don’t have.
Sally: It’s okay. He’s very cute. Recently divorced, makes a ton of money, and I’m sure he’s got good contacts. You know, I don’t mind telling you, I could really go for him. We don’t even need to have a relationship — just the sex and the contacts.

Natalie: I know why you’re beating me so much.
Jeremy: It’s ’cause you’re not a very good poker player.
Natalie: That’s not why.
Jeremy: It really is.
Natalie: Or, isn’t it just possible that you’re sitting in the good chair?
Jeremy: No. What is possible is that the boys from Sigma Kappa Pi are a big honking bunch of losers!

Dana: What’d I miss?
Elliot: Natalie’s pretty much divested herself of posessions.

Dana: Isaac? Did somebody step on Isaac? Oh, no, there you are.
Isaac: You still work here?
Dana: I’ll never leave you, little buddy.

To be continued tomorrow.

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