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** The fact that Nucky apparently memorized the exact date he parted with Lucy, so [[TheBabyTrap in case she showed up with a child she claimed was his]], he [[GenreSavvy would be able to rebut the accusation]].

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** The fact that Nucky apparently memorized was GenreSavvy enough to memorize the exact date he parted with Lucy, so [[TheBabyTrap in case she showed up with a child she claimed was his]], he [[GenreSavvy would be able to rebut the accusation]].accusation.
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** The fact that Nucky apparently memorized the exact date he parted with Lucy, so [[TheBabyTrap in case she showed up with a child she claimed was his]], he [[GenreSavvy would be able to rebut the accusation]].
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** The entire meeting between Nucky and Van Alden over the latter's baby with Lucy. "If there was ever a time..."

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** The entire meeting between Nucky and Van Alden over the [[spoiler:the latter's baby with Lucy.Lucy]]. "If there was ever a time..."
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-->''Esther''': There goes my dream.

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-->''Esther''': -->'''Esther''': There goes my dream.

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* The entire meeting between Nucky and Van Alden over the latter's baby with Lucy. "If there was ever a time..."

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* A ''lot'' of "Peg of Old".
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The entire meeting between Nucky and Van Alden over the latter's baby with Lucy. "If there was ever a time...""
** Nucky shows us a particularly entertaining way to get reporters off your back - get Jack Dempsey to (mockingly) demonstrate his left hook on them.
** Van Alden's underwhelming reaction to a screaming baby:
--->''That's an extremely penetrating sound.''
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-->'''Jimmy''': It's hard to believe that in a year and a half, things have changed so much.
-->'''Luciano''': Sure, Meyer started shaving.
** Van Alden's ''epic'' WTF face when Nucky suggests a Biblical name for [[spoiler: Van Alden and Lucy's baby girl]].
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-->'''Van Alden''': I am a married man.
-->''Esther''': There goes my dream.

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* The entire meeting between Nucky and Van Alden over the latter's baby with Lucy. "If there was ever a time..."
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* Van Alden's expression when he sees the flickering light after Agent Clarkson wakes up and talks to him, as if he just received a sign from Heaven.
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* Every single of Van Alden's interactions with Lucy in Season 2. "This is what the actors are supposed to say?", "Please speak up", "I brought lemons"... the list goes on and on.
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** It's also kind of funny (also in a dark sense) in that part of Jimmy's reaction is to the effect of "Wow, so this is how crazy other people think I am."
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* A really dark one is the "...''seriously''?" look on Jimmy's face when Manny Horovitz says he can't kill his [[spoiler: traitor]] associate, Herman, for conspiring with Nucky . . . because he's injured. Manny's a kosher butcher, of course.

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* A really dark one is the "...''seriously''?" look on Jimmy's face when Manny Horovitz says he can't kill his [[spoiler: traitor]] his associate, Herman, Herman]] for conspiring with Nucky . . . because he's injured. Manny's a kosher butcher, of course.

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* Arnold Rothstein's hilariously unempathetic reply when asked by Jimmie if he has children,“No, but I'm told they often say unexpected and amusing things.”

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* Arnold Rothstein's hilariously unempathetic unsympathetic reply when asked by Jimmie Jimmy if he has children,“No, but I'm told they often say unexpected and amusing things.”


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* A really dark one is the "...''seriously''?" look on Jimmy's face when Manny Horovitz says he can't kill his [[spoiler: traitor]] associate, Herman, for conspiring with Nucky . . . because he's injured. Manny's a kosher butcher, of course.

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** Remus and Nucky later have an angry conversation which is made humorous because of Remus' "quirk". It ends with Nucky saying, "Well, Remus can go fuck himself."

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** The scene in "Age of Reason" when Nucky's just about had it with George Remus:
--->'''Remus''':
Remus finds you petty and Nucky later have an angry conversation which is made humorous because of Remus' "quirk". It ends with Nucky saying, "Well, resentful.
--->'''Nucky''': Well,
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* Nucky's just about had it with George Remus in "Age of Reason".
-->'''Remus''': Remus finds you petty and resentful.
-->'''Nucky''': Well, Remus can [[PrecisionFStrike go fuck himself]].

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* Nucky's just about had it with George Remus in "Age of Reason".
-->'''Remus''': Remus finds you petty and resentful.
-->'''Nucky''': Well, Remus can [[PrecisionFStrike go fuck himself]].

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* Capone's nonplussed reaction to a ThirdPersonPerson.

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* Capone's nonplussed reaction to a ThirdPersonPerson.ThirdPersonPerson George Remus.
** Remus and Nucky later have an angry conversation which is made humorous because of Remus' "quirk". It ends with Nucky saying, "Well, Remus can go fuck himself."
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** Made all the funnier/more ironic by the fact that Nucky has to be a ''maximum'' of two generations removed from the Emerald Isle himself.
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* Nucky wishes Owen a top o'the morning, and says [[{{Oireland}} "That's what you people say, isn't it?" Owen replies in (friendly) SarcasmMode "Yes, and if you leave your shoes outside at night, we will fix them for you."

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* Nucky wishes Owen a top o'the morning, and says [[{{Oireland}} "That's what you people say, isn't it?" it?"]] Owen replies in (friendly) SarcasmMode "Yes, and if you leave your shoes outside at night, we will fix them for you."
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* Arnold Rothstein's hilariously unempathetic reply when asked by Jimmie if he has children,“No, but I'm told they often say unexpected and amusing things.”
* Nucky wishes Owen a top o'the morning, and says [[{{Oireland}} "That's what you people say, isn't it?" Owen replies in (friendly) SarcasmMode "Yes, and if you leave your shoes outside at night, we will fix them for you."
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* The Commodore's reveal of his newly dyed hair. "Did he fall into the shoe polish?"
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* Capone's nonplussed reaction to a ThirdPersonPerson.
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* Mrs. Van Alden looks very turned on watching her husband bust a restaurant that's selling liquor. Cut to a bed hammering against the wall...and zoom out to reveal Van Alden is showing her the mattress is busted.
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* Van Alden and his wife walking in on two agents wrestling in the office.
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-->'''Jimmy''': I wasn't ''going'' to but now you kinda talked me into it. '''''[BANG]'''''

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-->'''Jimmy''': Well, I wasn't ''going'' to but now you kinda talked me into it. '''''[BANG]'''''
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* Calpone eats an apple.

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* Calpone Capone eats an apple.
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* Calpone eats an apple.
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-->'''Jimmy''': I wasn't ''going'' to but you kinda talked me into it. '''''[BANG]'''''

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-->'''Jimmy''': I wasn't ''going'' to but now you kinda talked me into it. '''''[BANG]'''''
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* Perhaps one of the darkest funnies in recent television, near the end of the first season when Chalky has taken [[spoiler: two of the D'Alessio brothers]] prisoner. One starts getting lippy to Nucky and Jimmy...
-->'''Mook''': Fuckin tough guy huh, gonna shoot me for mouthing off?
-->'''Jimmy''': I wasn't ''going'' to but you kinda talked me into it. '''''[BANG]'''''
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* [[spoiler: The maid's]] explanation to why [[spoiler: she]] chose to poison the Commodore instead of outright killing him [[spoiler: "Because if I had used a shotgun, I'd have to clean up the mess myself."]]
* Van Alden's {{Oh Crap}} reaction when [[spoiler:Lucy walks into his office, which gets even worse when she reveals she's pregnant.]]

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* [[spoiler: The maid's]] explanation to why [[spoiler: she]] she chose to poison the Commodore instead of outright killing him him. [[spoiler: "Because if I had used a shotgun, I'd have to clean up the mess myself."]]
* Van Alden's {{Oh Crap}} reaction when [[spoiler:Lucy Lucy walks into his office, office [[spoiler: which gets even worse when she reveals she's pregnant.]]
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* "He says you should fuck your grandmother... with your faggot penis!" (After realizing that she understands Yiddish, Van Alden forces a middle-aged woman to translate the preceding into English for him, in front of her young son. Topped only by one of Van Alden's men correcting her - he specifically said "''little'' faggot penis.")

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* "He says you should fuck your grandmother... with your faggot penis!" (After realizing that she understands Yiddish, Van Alden forces a middle-aged woman to translate the preceding into English for him, in front of her young son. Topped only by one of Van Alden's men Agent Sepso correcting her - he specifically said "''little'' faggot penis.")
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* [[spoiler: The maid's]] explanation to why [[spoiler: she]] chose to poison the Commodore instead of outright killing him [[spoiler: "Because if I had used a shotgun, I'd have to clean up the mess myself."]]
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* Van Alden's {{Oh Crap}} reaction when [[spoiler:Lucy walks into his office, which gets even worse when she reveals she's pregnant.]]

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