Ned: Here’s the thing, I . . . I live my life a certain way. And that is that I like to think that if you put your trust out there, I mean, if you really give people the benefit of the doubt, see their best intentions, they’re gonna want to live up to it. It doesn’t always work out, clearly. But more often than not, I think that if you do, people will rise to the occasion. I really believe that.
Arabella: It’s very sweet, Ned.
Ned: You think I’m an idiot like everybody else.
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Miranda: Hey, Ned. Really? You had to go and tell Jeremy about that little stupid thing I said about the health insurance? Why are you such a blabbermouth? Is that my brush? Ew! What are you doing? I don’t even wanna know.
Jeremy: I’m surprised that you even asked my opinion on your work, since . . . Wait, I’m not even a grown-up. Is that what it was?
Miranda: Ned! That . . . Ok, what you don’t understand is that my brother is a retard.
Ned: Oh, ok. That’s true.
Miranda: See? Thank you.
Ned: No, I mean, she didn’t say that at all. What she said was that you’re not like a real man.
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Ned: I’m so psyched you and Nat weather that storm.
Cindy: Yeah, we’re good. We’re good.
Ned: And to power through infidelity, man, you can do that, you can do anything.