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  • Ed in general.
    • Ed trying to fix the milkshake machine.
      Ed: Strawberry Jacuzzi!
    • His first encounter with Kurt.
      Kurt: Man, this place is the most nauseating, pathetic hole I've ever seen. I mean, what kinda diseased maggot would even consider eating here?
      Ed: Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?
      Kurt: Hey, check it, boys! Right back there! (points at Dexter) It's the reject.
      Dexter: Hey, check it, Ed! It's the Mondo Idiot!
      Ed: Oh, nice to meet you, Mondo Idiot, I'm Ed.
      Kurt: Well, Ed, you better watch your butt, man!
      Ed: Okay.
      Dexter: Look, you got a purpose of being here?
      Kurt: Yeah, I do. I just thought you Good Burger losers should be aware that tonight's the grand opening of Mondo Burger. (Spatch growls) The second we open our doors, Good Burger goes in the grinder.
      Dexter: Again with this grinder! Look, man, you either order something or you can get outta here.
      Kurt: Yeah. Sure. You can take my order. I'll have the very last Good Burger to go. (takes a bite of the burger, slurps a soda then throws the cup on the floor as he leaves)
      Ed: (dizzy) I give up. There's no way a guy can watch his own butt.
    • "Is it because I'm black?"note 
    • Ed rollerblading to work at the beginning. Especially the part with the baby and the basketball players.
    • Ed's attempt to blow a kiss at Roxanne.
    • "Look! I'm Grape Nose Boy!"
    • When Ed delivers Shaq's Good Burger.
      Shaq: Little man, I ordered tomatoes on this Good Burger, I don't see no tomatoes.
      Ed: Well, hang on... (Ed pulls a couple of Hammerspace tomato slices from his shirt pocket, and slaps them on Shaq's burger) There, consider yourself tomatoe'd! Ha!
      Shaq: You're not like other people, are you?
      Ed: (Beat) No.
    • The scene where Ed pours the chemical into the meat supply and Mondo Burger becomes "a victim of its own foul play".
    • When Ed reads over Dexter's contract. He appears to be reading it over, going "mm-hmm" repeatedly, but then...
      "I know some of these words."
    • This legendary exchange.
      Customer: Excuse me. I ordered one Good Burger with nothing on it!
      Ed: But that's what I gave you.
      Customer: No, you gave me a BUN! Just a BUN! Look! There's no meat in here!
      Ed: But you said you wanted nothing on it!
      Customer: Yeah, well I expected a meat patty!
      Ed: Dude, a meat patty is something. You said nothing. Fizz, is a meat patty something or nothing?
      Fizz: Uh... Something?
      Ed: I win!
      Customer: All right, that rips it! I'm reporting your name to the manager!
      Customer: *huffs* I'll see you in Hell!
  • While Dexter is driving down the road after getting off of school, Ed comes rolling by on his rollerblades and into his path. This causes Dexter to slam hard on the brakes and go spinning, until his car slams into the car of none other than Mr. Wheat, his teacher.
    Mr. Wheat: Ah, ow! (fumbles with the airbag, then starts sifting his hands through his hair) My afro! My afro- (abruptly stops as he realizes who just crashed into him, slowly turns his head around to glare at Dexter)
    Dexter: (with an epic Oh, Crap! look on his face) Why?!
    Mr. Wheat: (speaking with utter Tranquil Fury) Ah, Brother Reed. You have messed up my afro.
  • Dexter trying (and failing miserably) to make a Mondo Burger.
    Griffin: Bun! Patty! Toppings! Sauce! Assemble!
    Bun! Patty! Toppings! Sauce! Assemble!
    Bun! Patty! Toppings! Sauce! (eyes Dexter struggling) As-sem-ble...
  • The end of Kurt's Mondo Burger orientation speech:
    Kurt: From now on, your LIFE is Mondo Burger! You can forget about your friends, you can forget about your family, because Kurt is now your mother and your father.
    Dexter: (Whispering to a girl next to him) Kurt must look awfully strange naked.
  • The first meeting between Ed and Dexter, who was trying to remember where he's seen Ed before.
    Dexter: I could've sworn I've seen you somewhere before.
    Ed: Hey, I know! Maybe I'm someone famous. Y'know, like a baseball player or a pretty nurse!
    Dexter: WHAT!? Man, what in the world are you talking about!?
    Ed: Okay, I give up. Who am I?
    Dexter: I don't know who you are or where I know you from or why you think you're an attractive nurse!
  • This exchange.
    Dexter: "Ed, I don't know how to say this..."
  • When Kurt tries to get Ed to work for him.
    Kurt: How does ten bucks sound?
    Ed: (rustling a $10 bill next to his ear) I don't know. It kinda sounds like... (imitates rustling)
  • Ed's extremely Limited Wardrobe. He wears his Good Burger uniform to bed and in the shower. And when he's on a date, he wears his Good Burger uniform with a tie.
  • When Ed asks why Mr. Bailey fired the delivery guy, he responds, "because the boy showed up to work without his pants!"
  • Nearly everything by Abe Vigoda's character, Otis.
    Otis: I need a hot Jacuzzi! *passes out*
    Troy: Who are you?
    Otis: Yer mama! Who are you?
    Otis: Could someone get me to a hospital? I think I broke my ass.
    Heather: They're coming! We'd better hurry!
    Otis: Don't have to tell me twice. *Supermans out window*
  • The Connie Muldoon sequence, as anyone who's worked in fast food service can tell you is not too far from the truth.
  • Dexter tries to play cards with three patients. But one of them keeps eating the cards, one keeps hitting his head with a ping pong paddle, and one keeps poking at Dexter.
  • When Dexter talks about his Disappeared Dad, Ed says, "I don't remember what my dad looks like either...but at least I get to see him every day".
  • "It's okay, people! HER BUTT...IS FINE!!!"
    • When Dexter accidentally hits Roxanne's leg, as he was trying to hit Ed's to keep him from telling her the secret recipe.
      Ed: What's wrong? Is it your butt again?
  • "I hate to do this, I hate to put a black man in jail!"
  • After Good Burger makes only $43 in a single day thanks to Mondo Burger's competition, Dexter asks Mr. Bailey if now would be a good time to ask for a raise.
  • The "Chariots of Fire" music playing during the slow-motion scene of Dexter and Ed running towards Shaq and hugging him. Bonus points for Dexter especially going from his usual savvy self to being like a happy six-year-old as he and Ed rush over.
  • When Kurt's Co-Dragons tear off Ed and Dexter's old lady disguises - and Ed is wearing lingerie underneath his.
  • When Ed, Dexter and Otis escape from Demented Hills, they decide to take an ice cream truck. Then comes all the flinging of various ice cream at the windshield of their pursuers to the point that it's become too thick to see out.
    • Ed seems to be enjoying himself throwing ice cream while naming the flavors.
  • Look carefully, and you'll see the ice cream truck is owned by the "O'Bese Bros".
  • "Kurt's going to jail, Kurt's going to jail, Kurt's going to jail, jail, jail..."
  • "En-JOY your car!"
  • Dexter's response to Mr. Bailey asking how long he's worked in fast food: "Nearly two days!"
  • The entire chase scene, which also includes some great lines:
    Ice Cream Man: Hey! What are you doing?!
    Otis: Stealing your truck!
    • Ed rocking out to the ice cream truck music, much to Dexter's annoyance, and later still gawking over the inventory.
      Ed: Look, Dex! Ice cream! They got fudgy pops! Monstercicles!
      Dexter: Ed, this is no time for frozen confectionary treats, alright?!
    • And Ed going berserk as he throws ice cream at the Demented Hills truck.
      Ed: HOW Y'ALL LIKE ME NOW?! I'M A DUDE, THROWIN' ICE CREAM! HERE'S SOME VANILLA! TAKE SOME CHOCOLATE! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDGE!!!
  • Dexter and Ed climb on top of the roof of Mondo Burger.
    Ed: It's easy! You just jump on the burger, jump on the fries, then you hop on the cup, and shimmy up the straw.
  • When a customer complains about getting a burger with literally nothing on it.
  • At one point, a dog runs up to Ed, who reads his barking as "Four clowns are stranded on the highway with a broken radiator". Dexter tells him not to be stupid and that the dog's just hungry, so they feed him a Mondo Burger, but when he refuses to eat it, they feed him a Good Burger, which is how they find something suspicious about Mondo Burger. At the end of the scene, Gilligan Cut to five clowns, standing by a broken car. Well, Ed was close.
    Clown: Where is that dang dog?

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  • After Dexter is evicted from his office, he tries calling his sister Charlotte and we get this exchange:
    (Dexter calls his sister on his phone)
    Charlotte: (excited) Oh, hey, brother!
    Dexter: Hey, sis!
    Charlotte: (bluntly) No. (Charlotte immediately hangs up on Dexter)
    Dexter: Hello? Hello?
    Dexter: (puts phone away and sighs) Guess I should've expected that.
  • At the Good Burger franchising party, Cecil McNevins tells Ed and Dexter that they'll be closing the flagship store now that MegaCorp owns Good Burger. Everyone first assumes that it's a party call before he clarifies and tells every Good Burger employee that they're all fired. Ed thinks this is another party call and keeps partying even after the music dies down. What makes it even funnier is that Ed 2 and a couple of patrons in the back are still dancing in the background! It takes everyone's startled faces for Ed, Ed 2, and the patrons to realize that they're really fired.
    Cecil McNevins: Now that we own Good Burger, we gonna make some new, exciting changes!
    Dexter: What kind of changes?
    Cecil: First of all, we shuttin' down this store! [laughs]
    Dexter: Oh, yeah, that's right! We gonna party all night! (turns to the crowd and chants) Shut it down!
    Everyone: (with Dexter) Shut it down! Shut it down! Shut it down! Shut it down!
    Cecil: [laughs] You guys are hysterical! I don't think you really understand. I'm really- I mean we're gonna close this place. You're all fired!
    (The music dies down as everyone is left dumbfounded at the truth while Ed, his son Ed 2, and a couple of patrons in the back keep partying)
    Ed: I like that, fired! Fired, heh! Fired, heh! It's hot! We're fired, we're fired! Oh, woo! (Ed 2 and the people in the back stop dancing in the background as Ed sees everyone's faces) Fired! Eh- Fi- (Ed realizes what Cecil means by "fired") Oh, you mean we're really fired.
  • During a somber moment where Ed mourns the loss of Good Burger, Ed has an Imagine Spot about other jobs he could take including a heart surgeon and an opera singer. You haven't lived until you've seen Ed attempt an opera rendition of "We're All Dudes."
  • In the aftermath of Mega Good Burger's downfall, Ed, Dexter, and Dexter's niece Mia enter the restaurant and see Katt being held by an Edamatronic with ketchup and mustard on her face:
    Dexter: Looks like you... Got a little schmutz there.
    Katt: Oh, do I?
    Ed: (singing) Katt got a little ketchup and mustard on her face! Do-do-do-do-do!
    (Dexter, Ed, and Mia start dancing as Katt watches in disbelief)
    Dexter & Ed: (singing) Katt got mustard and ketchup on her, Katt got mustard and ketchup on her, Katt got mustard and ketchup on her face! (Dexter and Mia start clapping) On her face!
    Katt: GET ME DOWN! GET ME DOWN! (grunts)

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