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Sometimes the insults evolve as the writers revise.

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This meeting isnt happening, you whale pube.

Jonah: Well, let it show that tonights official count cannot be trusted.

Furlong: Cheeto-flavored Christ!

You will not desecrate my convention with any of that Muslim-math nonsense.

They also punch up the Muslim-math line.

The table-read version:

Furlong: There is no record.

This meeting isnt happening,Kareem-on-my-face Abdul-Jabbar.

Jonah:Well, let the no-record show that tonights official count cannot be trusted.

Furlong:Fiery-hotCheeto-flavored Christ!

Writer Pete Huyck suggests Furlong could say both.

The shooting-script version:

Furlong: There is no record, Kareem-on-my-face Abdul-Jabbar.

This meeting isnt happening.

Jonah: Let the no-record show that the official count cannot be trusted.

3.Just before shooting the Furlong scene, the writers gather to punch it up yet again.

The pre-shoot rewrite:

Jonah: I just want to say that the official count cannot be trusted.

Jonah:The only thing I smear on my asylum walls is truth!

Furlong:Because you have malfunctioning Taiwanese-made Christmas lights in lieu of a nervous system, Kareem-on-my-face Jabbar.

4.During shooting, Bakkedahl tries some alts that change the Christmas-lights line.

Furlong: Because you were born with three umbilical cords wrapped around your neck, Hep-C Kevin McHale.

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