The Mentalist/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • "Ring around the Rosie": At the end of the show, when the suspected psychopath starts wildly shooting a sub machine gun in the middle of a crowded party, he doesn't kill anyone(because his gun is actually filled with blanks). and then in comes Cho

Cho: Hey. How you doin. You're under arrest for the attempted murder of...(gestures to the dozens of terrified guests)Everybody.

  • From "Red Sky at Night:"

Jane: New boss? I thought Hightower was boss.
Lisbon: The boss of Hightower. The director of the entire division. I told you about him last week. Your memory's going.
Jane: My memory is a mighty fortress, Lisbon, from which no fact ever escapes once committed. Now, when you tell me boring things, I set them free immediately. Saves overcrowding.

  • Grace Van Pelt fiddles with the controls of a police car in "Redemption:"

Lisbon: Van Pelt, it's not a jet plane.

Lisbon: Go to Galton, take Van Pelt with you. (To Jane) You, go to hell, take a toothbrush.

  • Red Brick and Ivy

Lisbon: Heh, that was funny. (imitates Jane) "Don't listen to control freaks!" (little girl voice) "Whatever you say, sir."

  • Crimson Casanova

Suspect: I can make one phone call and your career is toast.
Cho: That's impressive. The best I can get with one call is a pizza.

  • Jane hits on a widow at her husband's funeral, after Lisbon leaves:

Lisbon: I'm sorry. I mistakenly treated him as a responsible adult.

Jane: Oh really. Well that says it all. I’m ex. Army and the Marine Corps suck eggs. But hey, no point in arguing over the phone let’s sort this out when I get to your location. Semper Fi sissy britches.

  • From "Code Red"

Rigsby: Anything to be looking out for in particular?
Lisbon: Oh, uh, one of them released a lethal super virus that could kill half the state of California. So I guess we're looking for someone with a prior background as an evil supervillain.
Cho: Ok.
Lisbon: ...That last part was a joke.
Cho: Yeah. We get it.

  • In "Bloodshot", a rather effeminate club doorman says that Lisbon ("little miss fierce", as he calls her) can come in, but she has to "lose the backup dancer" that is Rigsby as he is "too butch". She tells him to "get lost, fluffy".
  • The end of the plague episode, when Jane has convinced everyone they're infected.

Lisbon: Don't you have someone you want to call?
Jane: Not really. If I were dying, I'd call you, and you're right here.
Lisbon: Really? Well...what would you say?
Jane: Well, I--
Lisbon: Wait...if you were dying? If?

  • Lisbon and Wainwright really kill it in "The Redshirt". There are this and that

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