April Fool's Day (1986) Poster

Deborah Goodrich: Nikki

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  • Harvey : I know you think I'm a hick, but I'd like to change your mind about that if you'd give me a chance.

    Nikki : Why?

    Harvey : Because I would really like to plow your field.

  • [everyone admires the view of the lake from Muffy's window] 

    Nikki : On a clear day, you can see the Kennedys.

  • Nikki : [on camera]  My name is Mary O'Reilly O'Toole O'Shea. Somewhere out there is the island my friend Muffy owns. It's spring break and she's invited us over there for the weekend and we're waiting for the ferry now to take us there, and... I don't know what else to say.

    Chaz : [voice]  Why don't you tell us something about yourself?

    Nikki : Oh, all right, something about myself. Um, I wanna work with handicapped children, and my parents are my best friends. Oh, and I start convent school next semester... and I fuck on the first date. April Fool's!

    [everybody laughs] 

  • Harvey : Y'know what I find amazin'? Muffy's her real name. I mean, my name's Harvey but they call me Hal, so I figure Muffy must stand for something... Muffin?

    Nikki : Muff-child, Moffo, the Muffster, Muffin' stuff...

    Harvey : Muff dive.

  • Nikki : [reading magazine quiz]  My first experience was A. Painful and degrading. B. Not so hot but I really cared about him. C. I was ready to try again. D. Wildly exciting, I had an orgasm.

    Muffy : A and part of B.

    Nikki : A, painful and degrading, not so hot but I really cared about him, awww that's so sweet!

    Kit : I'll take B.

    Nikki : Not so hot but I really cared about him. Was it Rob?

    Kit : Uh, no it wasn't Rob. What about you, Niki?

    Nikki : Um, A and D, painful and degrading, wildly exciting, I had an orgasm.

    [they laugh] 

  • Chaz : [sees the dining room table]  Oh Muffers! Our very own place settings and our very own place cards, and a his or her dolly.

    Nikki : Just like in Agatha Christie.

  • Arch : This is incredible. Here we are: privileged, independent, the hope for the future right here at this table, and not one of us knows what we're gonna do with the rest of our lives.

    Kit : We're all friends here, right?

    Nikki : Sort of.

  • Skip : A poor boy can say 'Fuck you, Dad, I'm my own person'. What's his father gonna do? Kick him out of the house, disinherit him? His life won't change much. He's got nothing to lose.

    Nikki : His father's love.

    Skip : That was lost a long time ago.

    Nikki : Skip, blaming yourself won't make Buck any better.

  • Muffy : Well there's an awful lot to be done with the place.

    Arch : You sound as if you own it.

    Muffy : I will, if all goes well next month when I turn 21, it's my first stage of inheritance.

    Harvey : First stage? What's your second?

    Nikki : Taxes, you may be talking to your future boss, Harve.

  • Nan : [about the table set with dolls at every setting]  Just like Agatha Christie.

    Chaz : And sporks.

    Arch : Sporks?

    Chaz : [mocking voice]  And napkins with bunnies on 'em. Gee, Muff, you really spare no expense.

    Muffy : Well now how do you think Daddy made his money?

    Nikki : The old fashioned way, he inherited it.

    Nan : [about the doll at her place]  I used to have all her outfits.

  • Nan : Can I make a toast? Well, someone once said to me to cherish the friends you make in college.

    Arch : I try to cherish *all* the friends I make.

    Nikki : Stop it.

    Nan : Because... they'll be the friends you cherish most for the rest of your life. So, here's to us and here's to my life, because I'm very glad to be here. And to be a part of all of you.

    Kit : Muffy, anything you want to add to that?

    Muffy : Why me?

    Nikki : Because you're the hostess.

    Muffy : Okay. In his Life of Johnson, Janus Boswell said 'We cannot predict the precise moment when friendships are formed, as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last one which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one which makes the heart run over.' So, with this toast, may our hearts run over and our friendships be formed.

  • Nikki : I can't stay here anymore!

    Chaz : What if the constable never even shows up?

    Nikki : Then I'll swim all the way back to the mainland if I have to!

    Chaz : Okay, you, relax!

    Nikki : Oh great, 3 people are dead and you're telling me to relax?

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