Veep, Season 2

Kent:
I cook these noodles every day.

Jonah:
Oh, the noodle analogy. You guys are gonna love this. [Off Kent's glare] I will leave.

Kent:
They need to be heated at 800 watts for 3:35. Any more and they'll dry out, any less and they will be flaccid and damp like a lady's hair in the rain.

Amy Why are we talking about noodles?

Ben:
No, let me rephrase that. Why the f*** are we talking about noodles?

Kent:
I'll tell you why. Hostage crisis, noodles, same principle. Both require precision timing, neither should be rushed. Inaction only becomes untenable when more than 65% of Americans support intervention even with casualties.

Amy:
So you'd like me to tell the Vice President we do nothing until then?

Kent:
Waiting is not doing nothing. I choose to wait for my noodles even though my salivary glands are crying out to me like newly hatched birds. But they will thank me because I waited until...

[Kent snaps his fingers at the exact same moment as the microwave dings]

Ben:
You just timed out that whole shit analogy for your little ding? That is f***ing pathetic.