Party of Five (TV Series)

Analogies (1995)

Paula Devicq: Kirsten Bennett

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Early at the morning, Charlie and Kirsten are talking in bed] 

  Charlie Salinger : How would you describe that?

  Kirsten Bennett : Really, really...

  Charlie Salinger : Be honest.

  Kirsten Bennett : Adequate.

  Charlie Salinger : Adequate.

  Kirsten Bennett : Adequate's good, though. Adequate gets the job done. Adequate's right up there.

  [doorbell rings] 

  Kirsten Bennett : Who could that be?

  Charlie Salinger : It's probably the paperboy.

  [he makes her stay] 

  Charlie Salinger : No, no, no. Come back here. Bay'll get it. We've never gone 11 days before.

  Kirsten Bennett : Yeah, well, we've been busy. We've been stressed.

  Charlie Salinger : I'm never that stressed. Okay. I'm gonna make up for a little lost time here. Try to get that pleasure barometer back up over adequate.

  [they kiss] 

  Bailey Salinger : [from downstairs]  Kirsten, could you come down here?

  Kirsten Bennett : In a minute!

  Charlie Salinger : In a minute. You know, I'm not 16.

  Kirsten Bennett : Come on, Charlie. Bailey's...

  [he makes her stay] 

  Charlie Salinger : Bailey can wait. Okay?

  [she giggles] 

  Charlie Salinger : Doesn't this worry you? The fact that we, like... Lately, we... God, we recycle more often than we make love.

  Kirsten Bennett : That's not true.

  Bailey Salinger : [from downstairs again]  Kirsten!

  Kirsten Bennett : Charlie...

  [she finally gets up and leaves] 

  Charlie Salinger : Kirsten.

  Kirsten Bennett : Bailey, I'm coming. God, Bailey, what is it?

  [she sees her parents standing at the doorway] 

  Kirsten Bennett : Mom? Dad?

• [Ellie reaches Kirsten in the backyard] 

  Ellie Bennett : I apologize. I don't know what's gotten into your father.

  Kirsten Bennett : I can't stand it. I can't stand the way you talk to him, the way you criticize and nitpick and belittle!

  Ellie Bennett : How dare you? How dare you? I love your father.

  Kirsten Bennett : How? By embarrassing him?

  Ellie Bennett : Oh, please. Please! Do you know how many times a year I walk in on a conversation like that? Where your father has told someone that we're gonna sell the house and set out on some new adventure? We're gonna go to Africa or Alaska or visit every battlefield of the Civil War. And everybody is always onboard, because there's just something about a dreamer. And then it's my turn to come in and say, "No, dear. We are not selling the house. We are not going to Alaska, because you don't make the kind of money to retire like that." "And besides, you've never been able to make a decision for more than a day ahead." So that makes him the good guy and me the bad guy, even with you and your sister.

  Kirsten Bennett : That's not true.

  Kirsten Bennett : Always said yes to you. Yes to the dress. Yes to the car. Even when you had too many dresses and we couldn't afford the car. So, he got your love. But I'm the one who made you responsible.

  Kirsten Bennett : [in tears]  I... I'm sorry, Mom.

  Ellie Bennett : About what? That's who we are, your father and I. That's the bargain we made with each other. He dreams, and I pull him back down to earth. I make sure that he has a house to come home to and that there's food on the table and the same program on the television. Because that is what really makes him happy. And you know what? I have a feeling it's the same with you and Charlie.

• [Charlie, Kirsten and Gene are talking in a chinese restaurant while Ellie is in the bathroom] 

  Mr. Gene Bennett : Maybe it was the wontons.

  Kirsten Bennett : It wasn't the wontons.

  Mr. Gene Bennett : Could have been the Peking duck.

  Kirsten Bennett : It wasn't the Peking duck.

  Charlie Salinger : Maybe it was that beige stuff.

  Kirsten Bennett : Oh, look, it wasn't the beige stuff, okay? The beige stuff is their specialty. The beige stuff was delicious. We all had four helpings of the beige stuff, and you don't see the three of us parked in the toilet for 30 minutes, do you?

  Mr. Gene Bennett : You know what a sensitive stomach your mother has.

  Kirsten Bennett : Come on, Dad! Let's not pretend we don't know what's happening. This is her revenge for letting you pick the restaurant.

  Mr. Gene Bennett : Well, I'm worried. She's been in there too long. Since you refuse to look in on her, I just hope she didn't faint.

  [he goes to check on Ellie] 

  Kirsten Bennett : [to Charlie]  You know what this means, don't you?

  Charlie Salinger : We shouldn't bother taking the leftovers home?

  Kirsten Bennett : The Dee Young exhibit starts at three. We're never gonna make it in time. And plus, she's not gonna wanna schlep all the way to Chez Panisse for dinner after this.

  [sighs] 

  Kirsten Bennett : Okay. Okay, here's what we do. We get a dinner reservation at Kuleto's for nine o'clock. If we leave in 15, provided she's not dead, we hop a cable car down to the wharf, check out Ghirardelli, go back home, nap a couple of hours before we head out to dinner. What do you think?

  Charlie Salinger : What do I think?

  [he sees Ellie and Gene coming to the table] 

  Charlie Salinger : I think you sound exactly like your mother.

  Ellie Bennett : Feeling much better now.

  Kirsten Bennett : [whispers to Charlie]  What? What's that mean?

  Mr. Gene Bennett : She's fine. Not to worry.

  Ellie Bennett : I am so sorry. You know, they had the loveliest mural in that ladies' room.