Episode Quotes
Jack: What is all the racket? For the love of God, it’s an indecent hour.
Emilia: It’s 4:00 in the afternoon.
Jack: Apology accepted.
Emilia: Franklin was born to British parents who clearly infused him with proper traits of ingenuity, self-discipline, and culture.
Jack: Oh, really? Well, let me ask you a question. If his parents were so thrilled to e a couple of English muffins, why were they willing to suffer a four-month-black-plaque-rat-infested ship cruise just to get the hell out of there?
Jack: Wait a minute. You can’t pass for a French soldier with those jubblies. You gotta hide them.
Emilia: It may surprise you to know, Jack, they’re not detachable.
Emilia: Ten of your American dollars says God is a woman.
Jack: Well, that explains why we’re always trying to please her and nothing we ever do is good enough.
Emilia: Jack, Jack, Jack, you must learn to think three-dimensionally.
Jack: Oh, I do. What are you, 36-24-36?
Ben Franklin: May I suggest that we make like shuffleboard players and get the PUCK out of here.
Jack: Anyone ever tell you you got a dirty mouth?
Blackbeard: Ya, your mother when I was showing her how to wax my plank.
Cultural References
(Referring to Benjamin Franklin.)
Jack: See, that’s why he’s on the c-note, baby.
The c-note, of course, is the hundred dollar bill. The problem is that Benjamin Franklin didn't appear on the hundred dollar bili until 1928.
Blackbeard: Then after a quick dip in the local gentlemen’s establishment, I discovered the painful sensation of lowing fireballs out of me Long John Silver.
Long John Silver is a fictional character in the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. It wasn't published until the 1880's though.
Jack: here we are in a splashy entrance and all your proper English mind can concoct is, “Your carriage awaits”? This is Ben Franklin, not Cinderella.
Cinderella is a classic rags to riches tale that has roots in literature that date back to first century BC Greece. The most modern and now common version has Cinderella the step-daughter of a mean woman who gets a magical makeover and swoons a young prince.