Stephanie: What did you do today?
Leonard: Well, I'm a physicist, so I...thought of stuff.
Stephanie: Is that it?
Leonard: Well, I wrote some of it down.
Rachel: ...just come by at lunch so that my boss doesn't see you, 'cause Kim will just freak out and she already doesn't like me very much.
Chandler: That's weird, I don't think my boss likes me either.
Monica: I don't think mine likes me either.
Ross: Maybe it's a universal thing.
Joey: Or maybe it's because you're all hanging around here at 11:30 on a Wednesday.
— Friends, "The One with Ross's Teeth"
"See, people at work have this very strange expectation that I... well, work."
— Barney, How I Met Your Mother, "Doppelgangers"
labor week in and week out, 3 days a week, 1 hour a day till the age of 45
"And by the way, how is it that Data, the guy who's basically third in command, has this much free time on his hands? Every damn episode he's rehearsing a play, performing a recital, learning about humor, or raising a cat. You name a mundane everyday activity, and he's probably off doing it somewhere on the ship. Does he do anything in between his brief shifts driving the ship, besides annoying people in his never-ending quest to become more human?"
The Janitor: I can help.
Carla: No, you have work to do.
(Both burst out laughing)
— Scrubs
Lois: Who's gonna run that deli you never go to?
Cleveland: When you sell Boar's Head, it pretty much runs itself.
— The Cleveland Show, "Pilot"
"Lisa, I bet you're wondering why Daddy's not at work again."
—Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, "Homer And Ned's Hail Mary Pass"
Homer: While you lounge around here doing laundry and putting up drywall, I'm at work busting my hump!
Marge: Oh, please! From what I hear, you waltz in there at 10:30, take a nap on the toilet, then sit around Googling your own name until lunch!
Homer: (gasp) Who told you that?!
Marge: You shouted it while we were making love!
— The Simpsons, "Mobile Homer"
Horace: Wesley, let me ask you something. What do you do for a living?
Wesley: Sir?
Horace: Oh, I know what it says on our office door. "Wesley Corman, DDS." But I see you so seldom around this office, I don't know, I thought perhaps, you'd taken up some other profession.
Wesley: I know. I'm sorry.
Horace: Which may not be a bad idea. Because as a dentist, you're a total incompetent. For five years now, you've been my son-in-law as well as the junior associate in my practice, and in both of those areas you've been a crashing failure.
Wesley: Sir?
Horace: Oh, I know what it says on our office door. "Wesley Corman, DDS." But I see you so seldom around this office, I don't know, I thought perhaps, you'd taken up some other profession.
Wesley: I know. I'm sorry.
Horace: Which may not be a bad idea. Because as a dentist, you're a total incompetent. For five years now, you've been my son-in-law as well as the junior associate in my practice, and in both of those areas you've been a crashing failure.
Sam: (on Rebecca) Looks like I'm not going to get any work out of her today.
Carla: She doesn't do anything around here anyway! And she doesn't start that until noon!
Carla: She doesn't do anything around here anyway! And she doesn't start that until noon!
