April Fool's Day (1986)

Leah Pinsent: Nan

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Quotes 

• Chaz : [stands close to Nan and coughs exaggeratedly]  Hi, what're you reading?

  Nan : Milton's Paradise Lost, for Professor Russo's course in English epic. You know, it's a shame; it's a dying form.

  Chaz : Dying...

  Nan : Not too many people read it nowadays, even in college.

  Chaz : [feigning interest]  Really?

  Nan : What about you?

  Chaz : Oh, uh, Treasure Island - the history of pornography in America.

• Nan : [reading magazine quiz]  The one thing I haven't tried yet but am intensely curious about is A. Oral sex. B. Anal entry. C. S&M. D. Group sex. E. Lesbian sex, or F. All of the above.

  Kit : [long pause]  What was C?

• 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.

• Kit : It's okay now, with the others, they were outside, but you...

  Chaz : We're inside now, so we're safe.

  Nan : It's all because of what happened at the ferry, isn't it?

  Chaz : It was an accident! Christ! Don't they know that?

  Arch : Muffy, where do you keep your guns?

  Muffy : Guns? We don't keep guns in this house.

• 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.

• Nan : [sees the well out back]  When she said well she really meant *well*, who dug this thing, Pocahontas?

• Chaz : Wait a minute, aren't we supposed to be staying together? What about Rob and Muffy?

  Kit : Rob's out back checking the doors.

  Chaz : Yeah well what about Muffy?

  Nan : She's been acting less than normal anyway.

  Kit : What do you mean?

  Nan : All day and you haven't noticed?

  Harvey : Well who isn't?

  Nan : Those nurse's shoes.

  Chaz : What nurse's shoes?

  Nan : The clodhoppers she's been walking around in all day long. Crepe soles?

• Harvey : Oh crap!

  Nan : What happened?

  Harvey : I lost the bucket.

  Nan : Harve!

  Harvey : Hal! And the rope was rotten, any fool could've seen that!

  Nan : *You* didn't.

• Muffy : Here.

  [sets a glass of water down] 

  Nan : [after finding 2 dead bodies in the well]  God! Not the water!

  Muffy : It's alright, it's Perrier!