Master of None (TV Series)

Indians on TV (2015)

Aziz Ansari: Dev

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Quotes 

• Dev : You see The Social Network? Max Minghella plays an Indian guy. He's white. They browned him up.

  Ravi : No no, I read he's one-sixteenth Indian.

  Dev : Who cares? If you go back far enough we're all one-sixteenth something. I'm probably one-sixteenth black. You think they're gonna let me play Blade?

• [last lines] 

  Ravi : Why won't you do an accent?

  Dev : I don't want to play a stereotype. It's offensive. But you've done it so many times. Your IMDb page is a list of Indian stereotypes: gas station clerk, IT guy, guy in crowd with Indian accent. I get a shot at the Schwimmer money, and now you get a conscience?

  Ravi : That was the old Ravi, okay? That was before the Short Circuit 2 revelation!

  Anush : What's wrong with Short Circuit 2?

  Ravi : That's a white actor. They used brownface makeup.

  Anush : Like the Popchips commercial? Is Mindy Kaling real?

• Dev : [at a Nicks game]  Hey. You take one of my nachos?

  Rich Kid : Yeah.

  Dev : Those are my nachos.

  Rich Kid : So? I wanted one.

  Dev : Yeah, but you can't just steal people's nachos, okay? You realize how lucky you are? You're 12 years old. You're sitting court-side at a Knicks game. You didn't earn this. I had to suffer through a minor racial trauma to get here.

• Ravi : I'm just gonna say this: you're being a bit of an Uncle Taj.

  Dev : An Uncle Taj?

  Ravi : Yeah, Uncle Tom, Uncle Taj.

• Terrence : [looking at football helmet]  This is my pitch for what they should change the name to: the Washington Breadsticks.

  Dev : Is this real? Are you serious?

  Terrence : Yeah, I mean, it sounds like Redskins. Listen closely. Breadsticks. Redskins. Breadsticks. Redskins. It just makes sense.

  Ravi : Yeah, I don't know if it does.

  Dev : It doesn't, no.