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Dave Foley dropped out of an alternative high school to do stand-up comedy. He met 'Kevin McDonald (I)' ...

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Dave Nelson Quotes

05x22 - New Hampshire (2) Season 5 / Episode 22: - New Hampshire (2)

Joe Garrelli: You can't let Mr. James take away Matthew. He's not his little puppet for his amusement. He has a very important role here.
Dave Nelson: As what?
Joe Garrelli: The little puppet that amuses me.
05x22 - New Hampshire (2) Season 5 / Episode 22: - New Hampshire (2)

Lisa Miller: Matthew has never lived more than ten miles from his mother.
Dave Nelson: We all have to leave our mothers sometimes.
Lisa Miller: When Matthew's mother dies, I envision him dressing in her clothes and murdering transients.
05x22 - New Hampshire (2) Season 5 / Episode 22: - New Hampshire (2)

Beth: You son of a bitch! How could you?
Dave Nelson: Is this Have Your Secretary Committed Day?
Beth: Ah, sarcasm. The last resort of sons of bitches.
05x20 - Freaky Friday Season 5 / Episode 20: - Freaky Friday

Dave Nelson: Max. That's my lunch.
Max Lewis: Really? I don't see your name on it.


Max Lewis: Well, I don't see your name on the actual sandwich.
05x20 - Freaky Friday Season 5 / Episode 20: - Freaky Friday

Dave Nelson: Sure, we've all wanted to kill Matthew, but what good would that do?
Jimmy: It would make him dead.
05x20 - Freaky Friday Season 5 / Episode 20: - Freaky Friday

Dave Nelson: Joe, we don't need a science reporter.
Joe Garrelli: Dude, I'm offering my services for free.
Dave Nelson: Yeah, but just so that you can beam your messages to space.
Joe Garrelli: Lucky guess.
05x20 - Freaky Friday Season 5 / Episode 20: - Freaky Friday

Dave Nelson: Max, the break room is not your personal hunting ground.
Max Lewis: I know. I prefer to think of it as a game preserve, where everyone is free to take their best shot.
05x18 - Ploy Season 5 / Episode 18: - Ploy

Beth: Max is not leaving, it's just a ploy to get me to go out with him.
Dave Nelson: Wow. Your vanity equals his insanity.
05x18 - Ploy Season 5 / Episode 18: - Ploy

Dave Nelson: Max, how do I know you won't do anything this moronic in the future?
Max: You can't.
05x14 - Hair Season 5 / Episode 14: - Hair

Dave Nelson: Joe, you do not know hypnotism.
Joe Garrelli: Sure I do. Watch this. Chicken. [Matthew clucks like a chicken]
Joe Garrelli: Human.
Matthew Brock: What up?
Jimmy James: That's very impressive.
Joe Garrelli: Thank you.
Dave Nelson: No, Joe just told him to do that.
Joe Garrelli: Dave, with Matthew, telling him to do something is hypnotism.
05x14 - Hair Season 5 / Episode 14: - Hair

Lisa Miller: What about Matthew?
Dave Nelson: I think he's happier that way.
Lisa Miller: You think so?
Dave Nelson: Well, I'm happier to have him that way, in any rate.
05x14 - Hair Season 5 / Episode 14: - Hair

Dave Nelson: Joe, Mr. James is a human being, not your personal plaything.
Joe Garrelli: We'll just keep that our little secret.
05x14 - Hair Season 5 / Episode 14: - Hair

Dave Nelson: Beth, what are you doing?
Beth: Lisa's puppy is licking peanut butter off my hand.
Dave Nelson: Oh, Lisa?
Lisa Miller: [Comes out of Dave's office with puppy] Yeah?
Beth: Ew!
Max Lewis: [Coming out from under table] For future reference, I prefer chunky.
05x14 - Hair Season 5 / Episode 14: - Hair

Lisa Miller: Dave, I'm not too strict with Daisy, am I?
Dave Nelson: No, I think you obviously care for that dog.
Lisa Miller: I don't feed her donuts like Beth does.
Dave Nelson: Well, Beth likes cleaning up puppy vomit better than you do.
05x13 - Towers Season 5 / Episode 13: - Towers

Jimmy: What would you say if I told you your future was standing out there in the foyer?
Dave Nelson: It's the thought that keeps me awake at nights.
Jimmy: Well, you're gonna have to be awake in the daytime too, because get ready to shake hands with tomorrow!
05x13 - Towers Season 5 / Episode 13: - Towers

Dave Nelson: Matthew, what are you doing?
Matthew Brock: [British accent] I was trying to get a packet of crisps and this flippin' machine stole me quid!
Dave Nelson: First of all, in this country we use dollars, not quids; we call them potato chips, not crisps; and we do not kick vending machines.
Matthew Brock: You know what I say to that? [Flashes MAYHEM tattoo on stomach] Revolution!
Dave Nelson: It actually says mayhem.
Matthew Brock: [regular voice] Well, I was going to get revolution, but it was too many letters.
05x05 - Flowers for Matthew Season 5 / Episode 5: - Flowers for Matthew

Matthew Brock: I even understand National Public Radio.
Dave Nelson: You understand everything they say?
Matthew Brock: No, I understand that it's boring crap masquerading as bourgeois intellectual discourse and, therefore, not worth my time.
05x05 - Flowers for Matthew Season 5 / Episode 5: - Flowers for Matthew

Dave Nelson: Joe, what did I tell you about experimenting on Matthew?
Joe Garrelli: Come on, it's not like I'm testing cosmetics on him.
Dave Nelson: Not any more.
05x02 - Meet The Max Louis Season 5 / Episode 2: - Meet The Max Louis

Dave Nelson: What evil game are we playing, little man?
05x02 - Meet The Max Louis Season 5 / Episode 2: - Meet The Max Louis

Dave Nelson: Joe, Jesus was not born 2000 years ago today.
Joe Garrelli: Yeah? Well, I have a birth certificate that proves otherwise.
05x01 - Bill Moves On Season 5 / Episode 1: - Bill Moves On

Dave Nelson: Joe, my office is on fire.
04x19 - Monster Rancher Season 4 / Episode 19: - Monster Rancher

Dave Nelson: Wait a minute, this isn't one of your weird nephews, is it?
Jimmy: No, no, no... yes. This is one of my normal nephews. I tell you, he's so normal he makes Richie Cunningham look like a crack-smoking porn freak.
04x19 - Monster Rancher Season 4 / Episode 19: - Monster Rancher

Dave Nelson: Why did you do that?
Bill McNeal: It's just a little harmless hazing, and as far as hazings go, pouring hot coffee and hot sauce on someone's head is relatively mild.
Lisa Miller: You put hot sauce in there?
Bill McNeal: No.
04x19 - Monster Rancher Season 4 / Episode 19: - Monster Rancher

Bill McNeal: I remember this one time in college we got this pledge drunk, tied him up, locked him in the trunk of a car, abandoned the car in a junkyard...
Dave Nelson: And then?
Bill McNeal: What?
Dave Nelson: How did he get out of the car?
Bill McNeal: [Beat] You know what, I gotta make a phone call.
04x19 - Monster Rancher Season 4 / Episode 19: - Monster Rancher

Dave Nelson: Beth, what is your problem with Walt?
Beth: Isn't it obvious? I've been working here for five years making next to nothing, and this new guy waltzes in...
Dave Nelson: Beth, he makes nothing.
Beth: You see? Already he almost makes almost as much as I do.
04x19 - Monster Rancher Season 4 / Episode 19: - Monster Rancher

Bill McNeal: Uncle Jimmy? I didn't know we were bringing in one of Jimmy's boy toys...
Dave Nelson: Bill! Mr. James doesn't have boy toys. This is actually one of Jimmy's nephews.
Bill McNeal: Oh. Because I thought...
Dave Nelson: I don't care what you thought.
04x19 - Monster Rancher Season 4 / Episode 19: - Monster Rancher

Jimmy: I'm giving Walt an entry-level position at one of my chemical plants.
Dave Nelson: But, sir. Radio is in his blood.
Jimmy: Radio, bauxite smelting, it's all the same, really.
04x17 - Balloon Season 4 / Episode 17: - Balloon

Beth: Mr James, you are not going to fly around the world in a hot air balloon?
Jimmy James: Oh, yes I am.
Dave Nelson: With whom ?
Jimmy James: All by myself.
Dave Nelson: When ?
Jimmy James: Today.
Dave Nelson: Why ?
Jimmy James: Because it's there.
Dave Nelson: What's there ?
Jimmy James: What's where ?
Bill McNeal: Who's on first ?
Jimmy James: I don't know.
Bill McNeal: Third base!
04x17 - Balloon Season 4 / Episode 17: - Balloon

Dave Nelson: You pick a fine time to do some work.
Matthew Brock: I'm not really working. I'm so nervous I'm just hitting keys randomly.
Dave Nelson: Well, be careful you don't accidentally write something.
04x17 - Balloon Season 4 / Episode 17: - Balloon

Dave Nelson: You're chewing tobacco?
Bill McNeal: I'm giving up smoking, not nicotine.
Dave Nelson: Chewing tobacco is just as dangerous as smoking.
Bill McNeal: To my gums, not my lungs. Just trying to mix it up a little.

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