Corner Gas (TV Series)

Whataphobia (2004)

Nancy Robertson: Wanda Dollard

Quotes 

• Lacey Burrows : Well Hank, fears are irrational. They don't have to make sense. Don't you guys have any?

  Brent Leroy : Fears? Not really. I mean just the standard stuff. You know: pirates, vampires, Sasquatch, intimacy, commitment.

  Lacey Burrows : [to Wanda]  What about you?

  Wanda Dollard : None come to mind.

  [Thinks for a moment] 

  Wanda Dollard : Being intimate WITH a Sasquatch.

• Brent Leroy : [eating some food that Oscar has actually cooked]  Hmm. It's, um, it's, er, what's the word I'm looking for?

  Wanda Dollard : [with a mouthful of food]  Repellent?

  Brent Leroy : Yeah, it tastes like bug repellent.

• Davis Quinton : Fear is natural. It's what makes us human. It's what separates us from the animals.

  Wanda Dollard : That and opposable thumbs.

  [beat] 

  Wanda Dollard : And pants.

  Hank Yarbo : Roller-blading.

  Wanda Dollard : Any kind of bipedal locomotion.

  Karen Pelly : We can make fire. Animals can't make fire.

  Hank Yarbo : Well, if you don't count dragons.

  Wanda Dollard : [Awkward pause]  Actually, there's a lot that separates us from animals.

  Davis Quinton : [dryly]  You had me at pants.

• Lacey Burrows : I'm afraid of balloons.

  Hank Yarbo : Afraid of balloons?

  Lacey Burrows : Uh-huh.

  Hank Yarbo : Wha... whoever heard of that?

  Brent Leroy : Wanda?

  Wanda Dollard : It's called globophobia. The persistent, irrational fear of balloons. It's more common than you'd think.

  Brent Leroy : It'd have to be.