Black-ish (TV Series)

Pops' Pops' Pops (2015)

Laurence Fishburne: Pops, Bippy Barnes

Quotes 

• Bippy Barnes : [giving her a hammer]  Dolly, go collect on the markers on from today's bangtail races.

  Dolly : With pleasure.

  Bippy Barnes : [slapping some money on the table]  Jolly, go buy me a bag of bullets.

  Jolly : .45s for the Tommy?

  Bippy Barnes : You bet your sweet Bippy.

  [turns to a flapper] 

  Bippy Barnes : Where were...

  Rainbow Johnson : Hold on: you're saying "you bet your sweet bippy" came from a bookie named Bippy?

  Pops : Who's telling the story?

• Bea : I swear one of these days that thing's gonna tip over and kill me.

  Drexler Johnson : You know what, Bea? You and the rest of the girls should organize into a group and demand safer working conditions.

  Bea : Wow, I never thought of...

  Zoey Johnson : Hold on: you're saying our great-great-grandfather invented unions?

  Pops : Who is telling the story?

• Janitor : Me, I'll never get into the Savoy. Too dark to pass the paper bag test. But my old roomie Langston get in with no problem. Old caramel-colored bastard nabbed some fancy book deal writing about raisins in the sun; got that from me. Love putting stuff in the sun: raisins, damp socks, uncured bacon. It's probably why I'm so dark. The sun, man. That crazy fireball don't play. You stay light-skinned out there, boy.

  Andre Johnson, Jr. : Hold on: you're saying Langston Hughes plagiarized an insane janitor who lived under a train?

  Pops : Who? Is? Telling? This? Story?

• Pops : It all went down in the year of Our Lord 19 and 27 during the Harlem Renaissance...

  Jack Johnson : Oh those dudes are hilarious with their trick dunks and the confetti bucket!