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Tosca stabs Scarpia

"We're following Carrot Top."

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

The Da Vinci Cod

"A wise choice sir! Aah. . . Da Vinci - a genius of the Renaissance and a man who changed the face of art forever! Would you like that as a bookmark, a pencil sharpener or a fridge magnet. . . ?"

You're my Venus

"You'd be angry, too, if your alter ego was a successful physician."

"Excuse me, Jerrod, but I'm leaving you for Paul's competing narrative."

I Pagliacci

"When we asked you to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michaelangelo, we were hoping you'd snazz it up."

"Oh, that's just one of those special effects for a film they're making here."

Cat reaching his paw into a mouse hole that is rigged with a guillotine; the mouse has many taxidermy cat paws displayed on his wall

Superintendent

"You know what, let's go with the pearl earring."

"Another selfie, Rembrandt?"

"I think he's been capitalised!"

"I'm not loitering officer, I 'm waiting for the next renaissance!"

Rembrandt's Selfies

'Legislature' doctor scratching his head over a syringe marked 'Free market Principles' with those marked 'Regulations' in the bin

"He's rolling over in his grave when free market economics became trade war economics."

"I like everything Big Bird's ever done."

"Just how powerful of a fan did you put in your computer?"

A heat wave threatens an old woman.

"Two minutes, 40 seconds. Next ... Two minutes, 53 seconds. Next ..."

"It's funny. . . I know it's the renaissance, but I keep writing dark ages on my checks!"

Must you be so judgmental?

Thomas Wyatt

'Oh, you'll like school -- It's like Sesame Street, only in 3-D!'

Ye Olde FIgure-Drawing Classe

Ned hated being famous: "Hey, everybody! It's the substitute weather guy who wore a green sweater on camera and looked like he had a hole in his body!"

Heat Wave Podium

'I miss the days when the only thing I couldn't work was the video.'

"What if we try for a very subtle smile?"

Have you installed the heater?

Leonardo da Vinci's cat.