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"So you just plan to have a Green Card forever. Don't you want to become a citizen?"
"I tried, but the process was so... They interrogate you and they ask you a million questions, like you're a criminal, like they're trying to catch you in a lie. Plus, you have to take a test, memorize the Pledge of Allegiance. Why would I want to do all that? [...] It takes years, it's expensive, and it's all for a piece of paper that will make no difference in my day-to-day life.
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Louis Huang and Jessica Huang

"Citizen Jessica" is the fourth episode of the third season of Fresh Off the Boat. It first aired on November 1, 2016.

Synopsis[]

Cattleman's becomes an official polling place for the 1996 elections. Emery openly supports Bob Dole for president, despite Evan insisting that Dole has no chance of winning. Jessica learns that her commission from selling a huge house will put her and Louis into a higher tax bracket, so she backs a strong anti-tax proposal that is on the ballot. It is further revealed that Jessica simply renews her resident alien (green card) status over and over, and has never become a permanent U.S. citizen. Elsewhere, Eddie laments the death of Tupac Shakur and opposes the accusations that Biggie was involved.

Plot[]

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Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Guest Cast[]

  • Paul Mabon as I.N.S. Officer
  • Dieterich Gray as Customer
  • Christopher Kriesa as Jack Clovis
  • Armando Molina as Raul Ruiz
  • Daniel E. Mora as Eduardo
  • Kathleen Rose Perkins as Mey-Mey
  • Ken Marino as Gus

Trivia[]

  • At the start of the series, Eddie did not know any Mandarin. However, by this episode, he knows the language well enough to be able to understand Grandma Huang perfectly.
  • Hector mentions that he is into street racing and owns a modified Honda Civic. This is most likely a reference to his actor Noel Gugliemi's role in The Fast and the Furious, where he played a character also named Hector who was also into street racing and owned a modified Honda Civic.
  • Louis tells Jessica that as a citizen, she would be able to go on game shows, and at the end of the episode, Jessica states that with her citizenship, she would be on Wheel of Fortune someday. She would eventually go on to be on Wheel of Fortune in the episode "B as in Best Friends".
  • California Proposition 187 was passed by 58.93% in reality.
  • Hector claims the cheat code to reaching Mike Tyson in the NES game Punch-Out!! is 007-373-596, but he was one 3 short at the end; the real cheat code is 007-373-5963.

Quotes[]

Louis: I want Election Day to run as smoothly as possible. Our way of life depends on it.
Jessica: What do you need our help with?
Louis: Setting up the polling station. In just one week, voters will use our humble restaurant to choose between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole.
Jessica: Well, at least we're getting paid for this.
Louis: Only in civic pride. I volunteered.
Jessica: Divorce.
Louis: Well, I believe in voting. Who we pick as president matters. There's so many issues at stake.
Jessica: Please. It's not as if your vote counts.
Louis: Of course it does.
Jessica: Evan.
Evan: The Electoral College violates the rule of "one person, one vote." It was made to benefit slave-owners by distributing votes. That means the candidate who wins the popular vote can still lose the election. And that is extremely undemocratic.
Louis: But you get a sticker.
Eddie: Why are we talking about stuff that no one cares about?! Tupac is dead!
Jessica: This light always takes forever. Evan, write to the city about this.
Evan: Sure, but they're getting tired of hearing from me.
Emery: Are you in a rush, Mom?
Jessica: I'm late to close a deal I've been working on for months. This house will be my biggest sale yet.
Emery: Please drive the speed limit. You don't want to hit someone.
Jessica: You're right. Then I would really be late.
Eddie: They're trying to pin Tupac's assassination on Biggie! Biggie didn't do it! This is just a big distraction so we don't ask how his killer obtained a Glock anyways. We need better gun control. Which is why everyone should "Rock The Vote" for Clinton.
Emery: I like Bob Dole. He seems like a nice, old man.
Evan: He has a zero chance to win.
Emery: Evan, I had no idea you were a Democrat.
Evan: I belong to no party. I believe in numbers. And the electoral math doesn't work out for Dole.
Emery: Then I guess I just have to work harder spreading the Dole message.
Jessica: Is Bob Dole the one that keeps falling off stages?
Emery: Yeah.
Trent: Guys, can we agree we're killing it in eighth grade? Just like how Biggie killed Tupac.
Eddie: One... East Coast/West Coast rivalry sells albums. Biggie needed Pac to get paid. Two... Puffy loves Biggie too much to let him do something stupid like this. Three... Biggie travels by train. So you mean to tell me that Biggie traveled from New York to Las Vegas, saw the sunrise over the Grand Canyon, and he still had enough anger inside him to shoot Tupac? Biggie's innocent.
Trent: Okay. If Biggie didn't do it, then who did?
Jessica: That's just another thing that my taxes are going to pay for that Hector will get to use for free. Is he an illegal immigrant?
Louis: It's "undocumented immigrant." Saying "illegal" is kind of offensive.
Jack Clovis: Illegal immigrants keep coming onto our shores. The federal government won't stop them, yet makes us pay billions to take care of them. But the Wall Keepers want to stop that. I'm Jack Clovis, president of the Wall Keepers and owner of a Blimpie Subs & Salads. I want to end illegal immigration by putting up a wall of Border Patrol agents on our shore. Enough is enough.
Jessica: I thought you'd be happy. I now see the point in voting.
Louis: But this proposition is anti-immigrant.
Jessica: So?
Louis: You're an immigrant.
Jessica: I'm a legal immigrant. I did it the right way. I went through the immigration process. I waited my turn. I didn't jump the line. This is just about fairness.
Eddie: Tupac wanted to leave Death Row Records. His killer is obviously Suge Knight!
Trent: Shh! Don't say his name, fool! He's like a hip-hop Candyman!
Dave: Shh! Don't say "Candyman."
Walter: Man, screw Tupac. Tupac wasn't really a thug! He went to a fancy performing-arts school. He studied acting and ballet. He was in "The Nutcracker" and played the damn Mouse King. "Thug life"? Try "hug life."
Eddie: That's immaterial, homey.
Brian: Walter, stick to the question at hand. Who do you think killed him?
Walter: Courtney Love.
Louis: So he really is undocumented.
Nancy: He said his folks came here from Mexico for a better life when he was a baby. I bet he was a really cute baby.
Jessica: Well, I'm sorry about Hector, but the rules are the rules.
Louis: How could you say that? Right now, you're technically an undocumented immigrant, too.
Jessica: But my situation is different. I just messed up some paperwork. Hector is here illegally.
Louis: Do you know who the original illegal immigrants were? The Pilgrims. This country was founded by illegal immigrants.
Eddie: It's like this video was shot after his death.
Dave: So, are you saying... Tupac is not the guy that sang "Parents Just Don't Understand"?
Eddie: What I'm saying is that none of us are right about who killed Tupac... Because Tupac is still alive.
Louis: I really thought you were a citizen, though. You gave me a Social Security number.
Hector: I gave you the code to get directly to Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!. 007-37-3596.
Jessica: I decided I'm going to apply for citizenship.
Louis: That's fantastic!
Jessica: I'm not going to let the process intimidate me. Bring on the interrogation. I'm ready. Mm. I want to be able to vote. And to be on Wheel of Fortune one day.

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