Benny & Joon

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#1
Joon: Should we let him in?
Benny: Yeah, before someone slaps a stamp on him and sends him to Guam.
#2
Benny: I hope you're happy... I hope you're happy with what you have done to her.

[throws Sam against wall]
Benny: You just stay the hell away from my sister.
Sam: [shakes his head] No... no.
Benny: You wanna know why everyone laughs at you, Sam? Because you're an idiot. You're a first-class *moron*.

[lets go of Sam. Pauses]
Sam: [nodding head while stumbling slowly away] You're scared, Benny.
Benny: I'm *what*?
Sam: You're scared. I can see it... And I know why. I used to look up to you. But... uh... now I can't look at you at all.

[walks out of hospital]
#3
Joon: Did you have to go to school for that?
Sam: No, no, I got thrown out of school for that.
#4
Joon: Having a Boo Radley moment, are we?
#5
Joon: I lost...
Benny: What's in the pot?
Joon: A cousin.
#6
Joon: Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese.
#7
Sam: How sick is she?
Benny: She's plenty sick. Now listen to me, I've been doin' some thinkin'...
Sam: Because, you know, it seems to me that, I mean, except for being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal.
#8
Sam: Thanks for the couch. Um... Mike made me sleep under the sink.
#9
Joon: You can't throw him out, I won him!
#10
Joon: Don't underestimate the mentally ill. We know how to count.
#11
Sam: Mommy?
#12
Benny: You can't bet a human being!
#13
Joon: She was given to fits of semi-precious metaphors.
Benny: The woman is a housekeeper, Joon, not an English professor.
#14
Benny: Hey. Where's Sam?
Joon: I didn't mean to kick him out. I mean, I didn't kick him out, he just - he just left.
Benny: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What - What happened? Did something happen?
Joon: He just - he just left. He was - he was in the air and-and-and - with a thing and - that was really loud. It was really loud. And all- I-I just kept seeing... He didn't mean to do it.
Benny: Do it? What? What- Did he- What did he do?
Joon: He cleaned the house.
#15
Thomas: [while playing cards] Soap on a rope. Slightly used.
#16
Sam: You don't like raisins?
Joon: Not really.
Sam: Why?
Joon: They used to be fat and juicy and now they're twisted. They had their lives stolen. Well, they taste sweet, but really they're just humiliated grapes. I can't say I am a big supporter of the raisin council.
Sam: Did you see those, those raisins on TV? The ones that sing and dance and stuff?
Joon: They scare me.
Sam: Yeah me too
Joon: It's sick. The commercial people they make them sing and dance so people will eat them.
Sam: It's a shame about raisins.
Joon: Cannibals.
Sam: Yeah. Do you like avocados?
Joon: They're a fruit you know.
Sam: Ruthie, do you got any avocados?
#17
Joon: He can really cook, can't he?
Benny: Uh, yeah. Although for grilled cheese, I mighta used a wool setting.
Joon: That's what I told him.
Benny: Really? What-what did he use?
Joon: Rayon.
Benny: Mm.
Joon: Silk would have been too soggy. Cotton would have...
Benny: Would have burned it.
Joon: Right. Fortunately, he consulted me before giving it steam. I was four square against it.
#18
Sam: Tapioca?
#19
[while playing cards]
Eric: Salad shooter!
#20
Sam: Joon.
Joon: What?
Sam: I-I love you.
Joon: Me too.
Joon: [door opens; gets up] Don't tell Benny.
Sam: Okay.