Suburbia/Quotes

Rodney: Did you ever hear of Ozone Heights?
Venus: No, what are they?
Rodney: It's a great big new real estate development over on Staten Island. Every bungalow's the same. They got an electric incinerator and a radio that looks like a fireplace--
Venus: And a fireplace that looks like a radio?
Rodney: Yes. And when you sign the lease, you get a year's subscription to the Reader's Digest! And I almost forgot the most important thing of all--a dandy big yard for the kiddies when they start to come along.

—One Touch of Venus

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

—Malvina Reynolds

I often hear people talk about how to deal with the problem of the suburbs — the problem being that they're ecologically unsustainable and that they're intrinsically soul-destroying.

—Adam Cadre, reviewing A Pattern Language

Ah, the suburbs. Fostering the illusion of success since 1950.

—Daffy Duck, The Looney Tunes Show, "Newspaper Thief"