The Scene That Was Written as a Throwaway Line Became the Most-Quoted Moment in Blue Bloods History — and the Writer Almost Cut It

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The Scene That Was Written as a Throwaway Line Became the Most-Quoted Moment in Blue Bloods History — and the Writer Almost Cut It

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The Scene That Was Written as a Throwaway Line Became the Most-Quoted Moment in Blue Bloods History — and the Writer Almost Cut It

Not every great television moment is planned. Some of the lines that stick with audiences for years were written in twenty minutes on a Thursday afternoon, almost didn't survive the editing room, and only made it to air because someone in a meeting said "let's just try it.

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One of the most quoted exchanges in Blue Bloods history — the kind of line fans still bring up years after the show ended — came from exactly that kind of accident.

The writer who put it in the script has since said they nearly removed it during the revision process.

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