Community (TV Series)
The Psychology of Letting Go (2010)
Yvette Nicole Brown: Shirley Bennett
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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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Professor Ian Duncan : So where did we get to yesterday?
Jeff Winger : We were talking about humanity, which starts with birth and ends with death.
Professor Ian Duncan : True, all life ends in death, which we as a species are cursed with knowing, resulting in...
[writes the word on the blackboard]
Professor Ian Duncan : something. Again, this is really not my field.
Jeff Winger : Professor, what would you say might be the difference between a religion and a cult?
Professor Ian Duncan : Why don't we open that to the floor since I don't know and the book for this class is expensive?
Jeff Winger : Well, I would say a cult might, for instance, sell you a tube of Jell-O and tell you your mother is in it.
Shirley Bennett : [scoldingly] Jeffrey!
Professor Ian Duncan : Oh, I see and are we thinly veiling personal conflict and passing it off as a lesson? Because if so, please continue.
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Abed Nadir : [about Pierce's non-reaction to his mother's death] He hasn't cried yet. I'm told that's not normal.
Jeff Winger : Who's normal, Abed?
Shirley Bennett : Baptists are, but that's beside the point. Everybody has some service for the departed. Eskimos, witch doctors, Jewish people.
Annie Edison : Cool, we made the list.
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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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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.
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Pierce Hawthorne : Morning, guys.
Shirley Bennett : Morning, Pierce. How's Mom?
Pierce Hawthorne : Terrific. Her body is being vaporized as we speak.
Troy Barnes : What does that feel like?
Pierce Hawthorne : Pierce: It's the greatest feeling ever. Like the second when the fudge on your sundae is still hot, or when you're the first one to break in a new boob job. You're free from the burden of your earthly body.
Troy Barnes : It is a burden.
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Shirley Bennett : I barely saw you this week, Abed. What have you been up to?
Abed Nadir : Not much.
Shirley Bennett : Hm.
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Shirley Bennett : Morning Jeff. Did you get the results of your blood test?
Jeff Winger : I'm fine.
Shirley Bennett : I figured. Thank you for wising us up. We were being judgmental about Pierce's religion, but the fact is Jesus accepts...
Jeff Winger : The fact is everyone's dying and we all have these little notions that we're the exception, but we're as wrong as we are dead.
Shirley Bennett : That's nice.
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Professor Ian Duncan : So where did we get to yesterday?
Jeff Winger : We were talking about humanity, which starts with birth and ends with death.
Professor Ian Duncan : True, all life ends in death, which we as a species are cursed with knowing, resulting in... something. Again, this is really not my field.
Jeff Winger : Professor, what would you say might be the difference between a religion and a cult?
Professor Ian Duncan : Why don't we open that to the floor since I don't know and the book for this class is expensive?
Jeff Winger : Well, I would say a cult might, for instance, sell you a tube of Jell-O and tell you your mother is in it.
Shirley Bennett : [scoldingly] Jeffrey!
Professor Ian Duncan : Oh, I see and are we thinly veiling personal conflict and passing it off as a lesson? Because if so, please continue.