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3rd Rock from the Sun Season 1 Episode 11

The Art of Dick

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AIRED: 3/19/96

While Dick and Harry take up painting (Harry takes to it; Dick doesn't), Sally takes over the school bake sale with the gusto of Gen. Patton.

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John Lithgow	Dick Solomon
Kristen Johnston	Sally Solomon
French Stewart	Harry Solomon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Tommy Solomon
Jane Curtin	Mary Albright

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Lorna Scott	Mrs. Walters	Guest Star
Peggy Billo	Mrs. Hartzinger	Guest Star
Jane Gordon	Mrs. Greenstein	Guest Star
Ian Lithgow	Leon	Recurring Role
David DeLuise	Bug	Recurring Role
Chris Hogan	Pitman	Recurring Role

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- Harry: Well, here's my latest painting. It's a still-life.
  Dick: That's very interesting Harry.
  Sally : And very dark.
  Tommy: It's a bunch of rotten fruit.
  Harry: Yeah I really gotta learn to paint faster.
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- Dick: (Looking at Mary's painting of him) What do you call it?
  Mary: 'Middle-aged naked guy who can't paint.'
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- Dick: Tommy, do you ever doodle?
  Tommy: Why? Was I in the bathroom too long?
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- Bake Sale Mother: Hello there! I don't believe we've seen you before.
  Sally: I don't believe you're blonde.
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- Dick: (about art) What makes them strive to create this?
  Tommy: Naked women.
  Dick: These are not naked women, they're nudes. Nudity is the artist passionate celebration of the human form.
  Tommy: Well, party on!
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- Mary: From suffering comes creativity. You can't spell "painting" without "pain".
  Harry: Or "ting".
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- Sally: Hey, Dick, why is it that you see nude people in museums but they never show them on TV?
  Dick: Sure they do! But never in comedies, only in dramas and even so when the ratings sack.
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- Harry: Oooh, look at this. Here's a job I can do: "Police seek third gunman." Well, tomorrow I'm gonna march right down to the police station and tell them I'm the man they're looking for!
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- Sally: What's a bake sale?
  Tommy: Oh, it's just an attempt to revive a failing educational system through parent involvement.
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- Dick: Look at this Garfield.
  Garfield is the popular comic strip created by Jim Davis featuring Garfield, a lasagna eating cat, Odie, the dim pet dog, and their owner Jon Arbuckle.
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