At her blind date with the actor while they sit in the middle of restaurant, Jake recites: "It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant. It out - Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it." This passage is from Act 2 of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 2. Unwittingly apropos to when she says it, this quote describes how Hamlet hates to hear a boisterous player ruin an emotional scene with excessive acting.