We’ve all listened to someone explain something only to say, “The Simpsons had an episode on that” or “yeah South Park made fun of that concept.” Shows like this are full of deep quotes or subtle jabs at the state of society. We’ve compiled a list of some of the best from shows such as BoJack Horseman, Steven Universe, Family Guy, & more. Enjoy!
Stewie Griffin: Every hot girl who can aim a camera thinks she’s a photographer. Oooooooh, you took a black-and-white picture of a lawn chair and its shadow and developed it at Save-On. You must be so brooding and deep.
-Family Guy-
Todd Chavez: You can’t keep doing this! You can’t keep doing shitty things and then feel bad about yourself like that makes it okay! You need to be better! BoJack, just stop. You are all the things that are wrong with you. It’s not the alcohol, or the drugs, or any of the shitty things that happened to you in your career, or when you were a kid. It’s you. Okay? It’s you.
–BoJack Horseman–
Goth Kid: You just don’t know what real pain is.
Kyle: Oh, like you know what pain is! Go try living in a Third-World country, you little pussy!
Goth Kid: I’m not gonna live in a Third-World country with all the conformists.
-South Park-
BoJack Horseman: Okay, okay. Here’s the secret to being happy.
Diane Nguyen: Oh, I can’t wait to hear this.
BoJack Horseman: Just pretend you are happy, and eventually you’ll forget you’re pretending.
-BoJack Horseman-
Princess Bubblegum: All my jokes are cries for help.
-Adventure Time-
BoJack Horseman: You know what the problem is with everybody? They all just want to hear what they already believe. No one ever wants to hear the truth.
Diane Nguyen: I want to hear the truth. I don’t know if you want to tell it though.
-BoJack Horseman-
Cartman: This country was founded by some of the smartest thinkers the world has ever seen. And they knew one thing: that a truly great country can go to war, and at the same time, act like it doesn’t want to. You people who are for the war, you need the protesters. Because they make the country look like it’s made of sane, caring individuals. And you people who are anti-war, you need these flag-wavers, because, if our whole country was made up of nothing but soft pussy protesters, we’d get taken down in a second. That’s why the founding fathers decided we should have both. It’s called having your cake and eating it too.
-South Park-
Diane Nguyen: Well, that’s the problem with life, right? Either you know what you want and then you don’t get what you want. Or you get what you want and then you don’t know what you want.
-BoJack Horseman-
Squidward: And back to my depressing life of quiet desperation.
-Spongebob Squarepants-
Mr. Peanutbutter: The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn’t a search for meaning. It’s to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you’ll be dead.
-BoJack Horseman-
Wanda: How do you feel Timmy?
Timmy: I do not.
-The Fairly OddParents-
Janet Reno: People have it so good in America that they get bored very easily. And when they get bored they start protesting things.
-South Park-
BoJack Horseman: I keep thinking about all the things I never said because I was so sure there’d be other days to say them.
-BoJack Horseman-
Rick: I know, everyone wants people they like to be right, that’s why popular people are fucking dumb.
-Rick and Morty-
BoJack Horseman: Well, do you think I’m a good person? Deep down?
Diane Nguyen: That’s the thing. I don’t think I believe in “deep down.” I kind of think all you are is just the things that you do.
-BoJack Horseman-
Pearl: Humans just lead short, boring, insignificant lives, so they make up stories to feel like they’re a part of something bigger. They want to blame all the world’s problems on some single enemy they can fight, instead of a complex network of interrelated forces beyond anyone’s control.
-Steven Universe-
Princess Carolyn: People have short memories. It’s the best and worst thing about people.
-BoJack Horseman-
Kyle: I got news for you, Cartman! Everyone has anxiety! Everyone gets nervous! Everyone is afraid being around people! Everyone has the feeling they’d rather stay home alone. And you know what they do? They get over it. And they stop being a piece of shit!
-South Park-
Fuzzy Whiskers: I don’t know what to tell you. I’m happy for the first time in my life and I’m not gonna feel bad about it. It takes a long time to realize how truly miserable you are and even longer to see it doesn’t have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.
-BoJack Horseman-
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