Kenan & Kel (TV Series)

Doing Things the Hemingway (1996)

Kenan Thompson: Kenan Rockmore

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Quotes 

• Kenan Rockmore : One more floor

  Kel Kimble : Man... I wish I had some fresh squeezed juice.

  [Kenan gives him dirty look, then breaks down] 

  Kenan Rockmore : Kel... I can't go on, Man. You just take the banner along and go... Leave me here to die!

  [sobs] 

  Kel Kimble : Ok!

  [goes to leave] 

  Kenan Rockmore : Wait man, Wait!

• [at Rigby's, Kenan is reading a book while Kel is making a sandwich; Chris enters the store holding a sign he painted] 

  Chris Potter : Hey, guys. Look at the sign I painted. I call it "3 Bananas for a Dollar"! I'm quite the artiste if I do say so myself.

  Kenan Rockmore : [looks at the sign]  Looks more like baseball mitts to me.

  Chris Potter : Obviously, you know nothing about fruit art.

  Kenan Rockmore : Oh, yeah. In school, I was always skipping that fruit art class!

  [Kenan and Kel chuckle before they resume what they were doing] 

  Chris Potter : What're you reading there?

  Kenan Rockmore : Oh, I'm reading about Ernest Hemingway, the great American author.

  Chris Potter : Oh, Ernest Hemingway! I have read all his books. "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "The Old Man and the Sea", they're all classics!

  Kel Kimble : Oh, yeah? I've seen all his movies. You know, "Ernest Goes to Camp", "Ernest Saves Christmas", "Ernest"...

  Chris Potter : [interrupting]  Kel, I think that may be a different Ernest.

  Kel Kimble : Oh. Hey, Chris. What's that sign say? Three octopuses for one dollar?

  Chris Potter : [in an irritated tone]  No! Three bananas for a dollar!

  Kel Kimble : They look like octopuses.

  Chris Potter : No, it doesn't! I'll be outside hanging my *banana* sign!

  [Chris leaves; as Kel goes to grab more items for his sandwich from the store with Kenan following close behind him] 

  Kenan Rockmore : Check this out, Kel. Ernest Hemingway said in order for him to be a complete person, he had to do three things: plant a tree, bear a son, and fight a bull.

  Kel Kimble : Well, then, Ernest Hemingway is an idiot.

  Kenan Rockmore : No, man! Don't you see what Hemingway is saying? He's saying set goals and go for them. It's a positive thing.

  Kel Kimble : Ohh! How did you get something so positive from a schoolbook?

  Kenan Rockmore : [snatches the sandwich from Kel and walks back to the register]  How did you get something so free from my store? Look... isn't there anything in your life you always wanted to achieve?

  Kel Kimble : Well, right now, my stomach want to achieve that sandwich!

  Kenan Rockmore : Isn't there something more important that you want?

  Kel Kimble : [thinks about it for a second]  I always wanted to meet an Eskimo.

  [beat] 

  Kenan Rockmore : Ok. See, I'm gonna set my goals so I can be a complete person just like Ernest Hemingway.

  [Kenan walks back behind the cash register] 

  Kel Kimble : Hey, Kenan. What ever happened to Ernest Hemingway?

  Kenan Rockmore : Oh, he's dead.

  [Kenan takes a bite out of the sandwich Kel made] 

  Kel Kimble : Oh, I don't wanna be that complete.