Belittling Cartoons

"After you've finished doing what you're doing, could you not begin doing something else?"

"Sorry, Chief, but of course I didn't mean 'bimbo' in the pejorative sense."

"Are you going bowling or is that Prada?"

"Let's have a heart-to-heart talk—one huge, powerful grownup to one tiny, nothing kid."

"I try neither to encourage nor to discourage Pookie."

"Mother's ninety-one and still depreciating."

"I will have the senior-executive businessman's lunch, and Hooper here will have the junior-executive businessman's lunch."

"You've always stuck to the prix fixe in life."

"I could do that."

"Go ahead, Albertson. Ask Toby for a raise. It'll be cute."

"I didn't mean your day wasn't hard, too."

"You're a latitude-and-longitude person, which will be helpful to you, I'm sure, in 1992."

"The gods are antic tonight."

"Don't you 'wee, tim'rous beastie' me."

"I may be a nobody, Lawler, but I'm a big nobody."

"There's some clown to see you, Sir."

"It's your job to dream of things that never were and ask 'why not' and it's my job to tell you."

"…And just what do you think you're going to do with your silly death ray once you've finished it?!"

"Still, you've got to admire them for trying."

"Hey! You forgot your stupid little ideas printed in bold type."

"Well, if I practiced all day, too."

"Duh!"

"I'd remind you not to fly too close to the sun, but no one's ever accused you of aiming too high, have they?"

Breaking down cardboard

"You're enjoying this, aren't you – hammering away at my credibility."