Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series)
Everybody Hates Back Talk (2009)
Tichina Arnold: Rochelle
Quotes
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Chris : Mom, I didn't eat all the dinner by myself. I shouldn't have to clean it all up by myself.
Rochelle : I don't wear all the clothes, but I wash them by myself. I don't sleep in all the beds in this house, but I make them up by myself. I don't pee in all of the toilets in this house by myself!
Chris : Mom, Drew and Tonya sitting right there doing nothing. Why can't they help?
Rochelle : Because I told you to do it. Now I don't want to hear no more back talk. Now clean this mess up.
Chris : No. I'm not gonna do it.
Rochelle : Lord, please help me before I knock this boy's neck off. Eight, nine, t... ten!
Narrator : I wouldn't see a woman that perplexed again until Palin found out her daughter was knocked up.
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Rochelle : [to Julius] Well, while you were out taking your time sipping on coffee, uh, your son was here staging a coup!
Julius : A coup? What? Who, Drew?
Rochelle : Chris! I spent 20 hours of labor pushing out that big-eared boy and he turns around and does this to me?
Julius : Does what? What did he do? What did he do?
Rochelle : Oh, what? You're on his side now?
Julius : No, no, I'm just trying to find out what's going on.
Rochelle : Oh, what's going on, what's going on. Let me think about what's going on. Your son is trying to kill me. That's what's going on! I-I cook, I clean, I care for this family, and what do I get in return? Just a full-scale mutiny! Led by a child who I bore for a man who's supposed to love and honor and protect me! You know, I thought we were all in this together, but you know what? I'm finding out now that I'm just by myself!
Julius : Rochelle, what did he do?
Rochelle : I told Chris to wash the dishes and he told me, "No."
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Rochelle : [to Julius about Chris] So I thought you talked to him?
Julius : I did and he's got a point.
Rochelle : What?
Julius : Why should Drew and Tonya watch TV while Chris cleans up their mess?
Rochelle : I do not have to explain to him why I do the things that I do. If I want him to do something that I don't want the other kids to do, I probably have a good reason!
Julius : And do you have a good reason?
Rochelle : No, but that doesn't matter!
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Rochelle : [to Chris] What you think you're doing?
Chris : I'm making breakfast.
Rochelle : With my eggs?
Narrator : No, I bought the eggs and I bought the bacon.
Rochelle : Oh, well, you ain't buy that skillet, you ain't buy that fire, you ain't buy that spatula, you ain't buy that plate.
Chris : Next time, I'll remember to buy a paper plate.
Rochelle : Ooh! Next time? Oh, next? "Oh, next time, I'll remember to buy a paper..." No, next time, you need to remember. This ain't your kitchen! This ain't your stove, this ain't your floor, those ain't your frozen gizzards, that ain't your...
Chris : You say none of this is mine, maybe I should find someplace else to be.
Rochelle : Uh-oh! Did y'all see that? I guess he jumping bad now. You bad! I guess you Shaft! You's a bad mother... shut your mouth! No. Since you're so independent, so liberated, maybe you need to go live in the Statue of Liberty.
Chris : Fine. I'm leaving.
Narrator : I stood my ground and now I was gonna be standing out on the street.
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Tonya : Even though I hate Chris, I still wish he would come back home. I don't want him to get stabbed or shot or turned out or hooked on drugs.
Rochelle : Your brother is not gonna get hooked on drugs.
Drew : Actually, he probably will. Runaways tend to fall into dangerous situations pretty quickly and drugs and alcohol provide a sedative to the trauma and isolation.
