Community (TV Series)
The Psychology of Letting Go (2010)
Gillian Jacobs: Britta Perry
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Quotes
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Britta Perry : [mocking Annie] I don't know anything. I need boys. Saving the planet makes my back hurt.
Annie Edison : [mocking Britta] Oh, I obviously don't need boys for anything. That's why I wear stripper boots during the day and eat only celery and mustard for lunch.
Britta Perry : [mocking Annie] I never stop smiling.
Annie Edison : [mocking Britta] I never start.
Britta Perry : [mocking Annie] My sweaters keep shrinking.
Annie Edison : [mocking Britta] I get up an hour early to ever so slightly curl my hair.
Shirley Bennett : Yeah, you're both so different. Skinny bitches.
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Britta Perry : We have to do something about Pierce. He thinks his mom isn't dead. He's gone crazy.
Jeff Winger : "... er?"
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Troy Barnes : I just saw a dead body.
Shirley Bennett : Told you not to use the east stairwell. My pastor said it's meth season.
Troy Barnes : You know I'm living with Pierce now, so this morning I went to do laundry in the garage and I found his mom, dead.
Shirley Bennett , Britta Perry : Oh.
Annie Edison : Troy, that's terrible.
Troy Barnes : Well, she had been in bad shape for a while, so I guess she crawled out there to die like a cat. I've never been close to a dead body.
Annie Edison , Britta Perry : Oh.
Shirley Bennett : Oh, pumpkin.
[Annie, Britta and Shirley console Troy]
Troy Barnes : She was so cold and grey. I saw her underwear.
Pierce Hawthorne : [enters room whistling] Jeez, who died?
Britta Perry : Pierce, we're so sorry to hear about your mom.
Pierce Hawthorne : Why?
Annie Edison : Losing a loved one is always difficult.
Pierce Hawthorne : What? My mom isn't dead.
Shirley Bennett : But when Troy found her, he said...
Pierce Hawthorne : Well her heart, lungs, kidneys and brain have stopped working.
Jeff Winger : And another way of saying that would be?
Pierce Hawthorne : She used up her organic body.
Britta Perry : By... dying in it.
Pierce Hawthorne : Wrong. She's alive. Mom was a part of my Buddhist church. She's a Level Five Laser Lotus, same as me. When a Level Five's body stops functioning, it's vaporized in the Temple of Renewal and stored in an energon pod. In a few years, when our technology advances, they'll extract her body vapors, re-condense it to a solid. Before you know it, Mom will be back in the kitchen making Troy and me sandwiches.
[pats Troy on the shoulder]
Pierce Hawthorne : Heh.
[Troy starts sobbing]
Shirley Bennett , Annie Edison , Britta Perry : Oh!
Shirley Bennett : Pumpkin. It's okay. Oh, sweetie.
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Annie Edison : Greendale cares about this issue.
Britta Perry : Yeah, I don't think that's it.
Annie Edison : What do you mean?
Britta Perry : Come on, Annie. Guys are giving you money because of the sexy schoolgirl routine.
Annie Edison : I have a routine?
Britta Perry : Yeah. The one where you use posture as an excuse to stick out your chest and you laugh at guys' unfunny jokes, pretending not to know that they have a sock at home with your name on it.
Annie Edison : Umm... that's me. And if a guy wants to make a puppet of me, that's hardly your concern.
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Britta Perry : The point being, death needs to be coped with, not ignored. Otherwise why did mankind concoct all these religions?
Shirley Bennett : You wanna rephrase that?
Britta Perry : Oh, I'm sorry, humankind.
Shirley Bennett : You think you're real smart.