"Little Bro" -- David & Matthew (2003-2009)

[David hands Matthew some beers he brought for the bachelor party]
David: Hey, kid, these are for you.


[David loses at poker]
David: That's just great. This has been a lot of fun. It's my bachelor party. I'm the first one out.
Spencer: Matthew's been out for a while.
David: Yeah, but he's just a little kid. No offense, little kid.
Matthew: It's okay.


[Everyone in town believes that David wrote an anti-Todd article for "Craze" magazine]
Matthew: I read what you said about Starr's dad.
David: Shouldn't you be reading comic books?
Matthew: It's like this one kid, Nelson, in my class. He doesn't really talk to anybody, so nobody really likes him.
David: What does this have to do with me?
Matthew: Well, every day he writes in this journal, and somebody got it and read it. And it was a book about trashing everybody. So now everybody hates him. I just think he's lonely, like you. I mean, for you to write all that stuff in the magazine so now everybody can read it --
David: Matthew, I know this probably sounds lame, but I didn't write that article.
Matthew: You're right. It is lame. And I feel sorry for you.


Matthew: (about Starr) She's really upset.
David: I'm sure she is. You're a good friend, Matthew. You know, sometimes girls need a strong man when times get tough. I know because I'm a strong man.


Matthew: Uh, aren't fur jackets a little uncool?
David: If you think my jacket's uncool, you're really going to hate my new bathrobe.


David: I'm your dad's brother. That makes me your Uncle Dave, kiddo.
Matthew: No way.
David: Yes way.


David: (to Viki) So, am I Bo's handsome son, Dorian's handsome husband, or Matthew's handsome brother?


[David plans to shoot at reality tv show at the Buchanan Mansion]
David: I've come back to my ancestral home, the home of my granddaddy. My handicapped little brother needs me here, and most importantly, we have to be ready for a fall-season launch.


David: (to Ford) My little brother is the Tiny Tim of Llanview High!


Matthew: (about the tv show) What channel will this be on?
David: Bro, by the time we're finished, we'll have our own channel. All Buchs, all the time.


David: A boy needs his father to teach him how to fish. Tell me, Matthew. Tell me the truth. Did our father Bo teach you all the things that a father should teach his son?
Matthew: Like what?
David: Like how to throw a baseball, what a balk is. What is a balk anyway?
Matthew: It's complicated.
David: No kidding. Did he teach you how to bait your own fishhook?
Matthew: Sure.
David: See, that's what I want. To be a son and big brother. To have a family. Is all of that really so much to ask?


[Matthew is suing Bo and Nora]
David: Matthew's the one doing the suing, and I've been footing the legal bills.
Matthew: Brothers till the end.


Nora: (to Matthew) He's paying your legal fees?
David: Of course I am. He's my brother. I've been paying Tea's bills out of our development budget.
Ford: You've been doing what??
David: Oh, relax. We'll get the money back when the show sells.


David: I'm opening my heart to my television audience so that one day my horribly disfigured little brother might one day walk again, and if all goes well and the show sells, we might secure the movie rights. I will play myself. (to Matthew) You will be played by Zac Efron.
Matthew: Oh, he's good.


Bo: (about Matthew) Did he tell you why we object to this surgery?
David: He told me it was no more dangerous than a nose job. Is that not true?


David: Matthew! This operation could kill you?
Matthew: You could die from a nose job. This thing will give me my legs back.
David: Yeah, but, Matthew, if I can't get the show off the ground, then nobody gets what they want. No money for Téa, no operation for you, no fame and fortune for me.


Matthew: David and his crew are trying to keep a low profile.
Langston: How well do you know your older brother?


David: What's up, little bro? I'm sorry I'm here so late, but it's now that counts, right?
Matthew: That's right, David -- no, I mean, bro.
David: There you go.


[David sees Matthew and Destiny]
David: And here he is. My little bro and his sassy little friend, who apparently talked him into suing his parents. Destiny, please tell me. Why do you hate my father and Nora so much?
Destiny: I don't. I just like Matthew. That's all.
David: You like him, or "like" like him?


David: (to Dorian, Viki and Charlie) Are you all aware that my own father won't even speak to me because I blew all of my money on my brother's legal bills? You'd think having a little brother with a disability would get me some sympathy, but apparently not.


Matthew: Ease up on my parents, will you?
David: You mean, you want total dignified victory?
Matthew: No, I just don't want them to be hurt.
David: Eh, all right. I can do that as long as we get to gloat in private.


Elijah: This is the same Dr. Evans who assured the court he's never lost a patient and was promising us that he couldn't hurt Matthew if given the chance to perform his surgery, as well. Yet as of today, he's virtually killed his own brother. I have corroboration, Your Honor.
David: (to Matthew) Dude, little bro, if this is true, you and I talk before any slicing.


[Matthew has won the right to have the surgery]
David: Little Buch, you won. You can do anything you want, and whatever that is, I will back it up. So, what's it gonna be? Are we going to surgery or Disney World?


David: What a missed opportunity.
Matthew: What was?
David: I had to go for that stupid reality show, when I should have secured the rights to your story about you getting crippled and all, and suing your parents for the right to walk again. Ah. Would have made a great TV movie. I would have been brilliant.
Matthew: Well, who would you play?
David: You. We would have made the Matthew character a little older.
Matthew: Well, if I was older, I wouldn't have needed to file the lawsuit in the first place.
David: A minor detail.
Matthew: Plus, we don't even know how the movie ends yet.
David: Look, if you're going to keep making sense, you will never work in Hollywood. In the climax of our movie, our hero rises from the wheelchair, and he takes his first tentative steps. And the audience starts to weep into their rocky road.
Matthew: Hmm. Whatever you say.
David: You never saw "Heidi," huh?
Matthew: No.
David: Dilettante.


David: (to Bo) You can't live Matthew's life for him. He sees things his own way. He's his own person. Isn't that what you wanted? For him to grow up and be an independent person? He took you to court and he won. He's getting that surgery. You say you don't want to lose him, but you keep doing this, that's exactly what's going to happen.


David: (to Destiny, about Matthew) Looks like the little road racer's okay.


David: (to Destiny) There are about a million reasons that Matthew could have borrowed some girl's phone. For example, maybe he accidentally dropped it and then he ran over it, and a hot nurse walks by -- I mean a sick patient with cankles.


[Destiny wants to go visit Matthew in London]
Destiny: I do care about Matthew, a lot. And I tried to tell him, but I couldn't do it. And now he needs my help.
David: Needs your help with what, getting a nice shirt and a shave on Jermyn Street?


Destiny: You're needed in London. Matthew is being held prisoner there.
David: Held prisoner? Ha ha ha! Little girl, have you ever been to London?
Destiny: No. I spend my vacations at my summer home.
David: Well, it's a young guy's paradise -- great restaurants, clubs, rich girls with titles and a deep-seated urge to rebel.