Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

P.O.V. (2004)

Michael Welch: Luke Girardi

Quotes 

• Joan Girardi : Oh! Cut!

  Luke Girardi : Please stop yelling "cut".

  Joan Girardi : Wardrobe! Dad, I can't shoot you in that sweater. Everyone will actually think that's what you're like.

  Will Girardi : It's my lucky sweater. Kevin, we have a 7:30 tee time! Today, I'm gonna play like Tiger Woods. When he played like Tiger Woods.

• Luke Girardi : You've been avoiding me.

  Grace Polk : Not successfully, it seems.

  Luke Girardi : You said you were gonna tell me how things were going.

  Grace Polk : Very well for my mother. She made it through two bottles of wine at dinner.

  Luke Girardi : You keeping your journal?

  Grace Polk : Yeah. But it's mostly free-form swearing. I'm just not the journal type.

• Grace Polk : [letting Luke into her room]  Speak, creep.

  Luke Girardi : I like it. It's, uh... it's a little tidier than I thought it'd be.

  Grace Polk : I'm not tidy. I just thought you should be able to walk in here, that's all.

  Luke Girardi : That's nice, thanks.

  Grace Polk : "Nice". "Tidy". Do you have a death wish?

• Luke Girardi : Oh, dude! Splash. The original Beanie Baby.

  Grace Polk : That's the first inflationary bubble of our lifetime. My mom stood in line at 5:00 in the morning to get the second run. It opened my eyes to the dangers of captialism.

  Luke Girardi : I have Pinchers.

  Grace Polk : The lobster?

  Luke Girardi : Originally released under the name Punchers. Retired in 1987, which briefly inflated the price to over $5,000. A-A classic lesson that any economic system is subject to the whims of human emotion.

  Grace Polk : And easily exploited by the rapacious elite.

  Luke Girardi : The cool calculation of science meets the heated imprecision of economic theory.