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TIFU by repeating a line from Brooklyn Nine-Nine in front of my daughter...

This actually did happen yesterday.

My wife and I binge-watch family-friendly shows with our 13yo son. Each night, we put our 8yo daughter to bed, and spend an hour on the couch. We've made it through all of Modern Family, Life in Pieces, Big Bang Theory, and Young Sheldon. We are now almost through Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

I don't know whether it is his age or the show, but B99 has been the most quotable among us: my son will refer to himself in the third person like Terry. If he doesn't like what's for dinner, he will say that he would rather "eat flavorless beige smoothies containing all the nutrients required by the human animal". My wife will make "title of your tape" comments. I'll pretend to be Scully or Hitchcock.

Fast-forward to a family gathering last week where my son notices a cheeseboard. He popped a cube of Oka in his mouth and said "oh, that's not what I thought it was". Immediately, I quipped "that's not cheddar, that's just some common Oka". He laughed uncontrollably and my daughter asked what was so funny. We explained that it was from a line in a TV show and carried on with our lives.

She is at a day camp this week which provides lunch in a cafeteria (its run by a bougie private school). Somewhere during the lunch, they passed a sandwich station and she noticed the slices of cheese. Then she commented "that's not cheddar, that's just some common cheese". An older kid behind her in line said, "that's not the quote, its 'you're not Cheddar, you're just some common bitch'". So she asked her camp counselor: "what's a bitch?" and then I got the phone call from the camp director. Ultimately, we got to the bottom of it. The camp director was a little harsher with the older kid, but my daughter got a talking to by staff about using bad language and missed out on the fun swim time. I had to come get her. She doesn't think she did anything wrong, which we agree with. Thankfully, she'll only have two more days at the camp.

TL;DR: daughter copied me in quoting B99 and got in trouble at camp

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