Party of Five (TV Series)

Analogies (1995)

Scott Wolf: Bailey Salinger

Quotes 

• [Bailey goes to the basement and finds Charlie] 

  Bailey Salinger : Hey. You hiding down here?

  Charlie Salinger : I'm looking for the waffle iron. Ellie woke up with a craving, bless her heart.

  Bailey Salinger : So... So I was thinking that... I don't think I'm gonna take the SATs over again.

  Charlie Salinger : How did you do?

  Bailey Salinger : Nine hundred. Combined.

  Charlie Salinger : I think that's about what I did. Yeah, so you took it. Don't put yourself through that stress again, man. Who needs it?

  Bailey Salinger : So that's it? You're not gonna... You're not gonna give me a hard time?

  Charlie Salinger : Nah.

  Charlie Salinger : Hey, Char. When you dropped out of school, did anyone, like, try and talk you out of it?

  Charlie Salinger : Are you kidding, man? You could hear Dad yelling from across the bridge.

  Bailey Salinger : Yeah, I do, kind of remember that.

  Charlie Salinger : It was like he was... He was expecting me to disappoint him. And... dropping out was just one more item on the checklist. But, Mom, she... She knew the Berkeley thing was just about me running scared. She left me alone for a couple of months. I don't know how she did it.

  Bailey Salinger : Did what?

  Charlie Salinger : I was gonna re-enroll for the spring semester when the accident happened. But you knew that, right?

  Bailey Salinger : Yeah.

  Charlie Salinger : Mom, she... She had that complete faith thing going. Well, you remember.

• [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?

• [last lines] 

  [Bailey is writing an essay] 

  Bailey Salinger : When someone is gone from your life for a really long time, you start to forget stuff about them. Like, you forget what their voice sounded like. Or how they loved you so much and how everything you did was completely okay with them. And how that meant, in a weird way, that you could actually do amazing things. I'm not a very good student, and applying to college isn't so easy for me. So right now, what I am doing is I'm trying very hard to remember my mother's voice. Because I really need to hear it now. I'm listening for her to say to me what she always used to say: Anything is possible Bailey, anything.

• [Bailey sees that he had the same results on his SAT scores after trying again] 

  Bailey Salinger : You should've listened to me. I can't do this stuff, okay? I'm just not good at it. I'm... Kind of stupid is what I am.

  Maggie Beaton : You're not stupid. You're having trouble with the test. We've worked on it for one day.

  Bailey Salinger : Would you cut it out? You are part of the problem here. You don't have to lie to me. I can handle it. I'll just apply to State, and... And that's that.

  Maggie Beaton : I wonder what things are like for you at home.

  Bailey Salinger : What?

  Maggie Beaton : I know things have changed.

  Bailey Salinger : Things are fine, thanks.

  Maggie Beaton : Yeah, I'm sure they are. You come to school every day. You're healthy. You're taken care of. But nobody holds you accountable, do they, Bailey? I mean, if you screw up, or you fail, or you quit, does anyone mind? Does anyone tell you that you can do better?