Jen has been a big fan of Six Feet Under for quite a while. I’d caught an episode here or there, but never quite got invested in it. Mostly, I think, because I didn’t catch it from the beginning, and I wasn’t up to investing the time in catching up. But now, I find that R is a fan and has the first two seasons on DVD. Yay. 🙂

So after watching the pilot episode at his place over the weekend, I borrowed the rest of the first season from him. (“Great,” I said, as I put the DVDs in my bag to take home with me. “Because I need another reason not to get any work done.”) I watched two episodes last night, and this line from the third episode (The Foot) is quite possibly the best line of dialogue ever:

“I don’t understand kids. When I was her age, I never would have taken a…foot.”

Heh. What can I say? I’m a sucker for character-driven drama and clever writing. I’m hooked.