Andy Brown quotes from Everwood

Ephram

[seeing Andy standing in his bedroom doorway] Why are you doing that lingering thing you do?

Andy

Well, I don't want to force a conversation.

Ephram

That'd be a first.

Andy

You know, you may need to be there for Amy.

Ephram

Well, Amy and I aren't exactly talking much.

Andy

Really? When did that happen?

Ephram

A while ago.

Andy

How'd I miss that?

Ephram

You were busy being clueless.

Andy

That's my job. So what happened? Did you two kiss or something? [Ephram gives him a startled look] I'm not that clueless.

Ephram

I don't know what happened. One day she's kissing me, then I make the mistake in giving her this stupid mix CD and now its like I'm the Okumo and she's Shiva the Destroyer. [Andy looks at him, puzzled] Manga reference.

Nina

[about her son] How was he?

Andy

Well, I'd say he was a little angel, but there were too many witnesses.

Nina

Oh boy!

Andy

Well, I learned how to make a cape, how to unclog a toilet and how to remove a chewy cookie from a VCR.

Andy

[about Colin] You two friends now?

Ephram

Kind of. It turns out we have some things in common.

Andy

You mean Amy?

Ephram

Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with Amy.

Andy

So, why aren't you sitting with him?

Ephram

Because of Amy.

Andy

When will you be home?

Ephram

Usual time. Unless the schoolyard pusher has some good stuff.

Harold

Carl used to be Everwood's version of Tom Cruise. I suppose that appeals to a certain woman, you know the type. Rugged...athletic...young.

Andy

Why don't you ask him out, Harold?

Andy

[At the basketball game] Why is the Abbott kid waving at you?

Ephram

I don't know. Probably needs help counting the points.

Andy

Are you dilated yet?

I'm not sure, but everything has a rainbow halo around it. You look like Jesus.

Andy

I get that a lot.

Harold

It's an impossible predicament. I mean, they don't want us to treat them like children but then when you try to talk to them like an adult, they act like...

Andy

Teenagers.

Harold

My child won't talk to me anymore. Apparently, I've broken a sacred trust by simply voicing an honest concern.

Andy

If it makes you feel any better, Ephram's not talking to me right now, either.

Harold

Big deal. He never talks to you. You're used to it.

Ephram

You know, I've been angry at you. I've been hating you for a long time now. And I was wrong. You never deserved to be treated that way. Sorry.

Andy

You know you don't need to apologize, Ephram. I failed you as a father for 15 years. I was never there for you or your mother. That's why sometimes you feel like throwing me off a cliff and that's why your mother did what she did. And I don't blame either of you for it.

Andy

Some magazine is sending a guy to interview me.

Harold

I wouldn't get too excited. It's hardly rare for some local birdcage liner to want to fill the space between the Friday crossword and the tuna frittata recipe with whatever profile they can muster. So what rag is selling ad space on your dime?

Andy

New York Magazine.

Andy

My dad used to say there's a thin line between fishing and sitting in a boat getting drunk.

Irv

It's a fine line to straddle.

Irv

[voiceover] I wasn't there the day Colin Hart's life changed forever, but you could feel the earth shake a little from quite a ways off... at the end of it, the young boy and all who loved him would never be the same. In an opposite corner of the world another man's tragedy kept time with Colin Hart's... Andy Brown did what any man would do who felt he had lost everything, he disappeared. He fell apart, lost his center, lost his way... the girl took her chance when she saw it. She begged the doctor's son to help her in her cause, and he did because he loved her and could refuse her nothing. And so it came to pass that one man's tragedy and one boy's loss met... and the boy was saved, and the man was saved, at least for a time... although Colin had cheated death, a little death had crept inside. He was not whole. He was not himself. His own changed face frightened him. He pushed those he cared for far away. The good doctor believed that this boy could still be saved, and that he was the one who could save him, but the boy hadn't decided if life was worth dying for. The choice was all his own...

Colin

What can you promise me?

Andy

Nothing.

Colin

Okay, I'm in.

Irv

[voiceover] This is the story of Colin Hart and Andy Brown. It's the story of a town that lost its center and strove to regain it. This is the story of Everwood.

Andy

Do you remember that girl in the dean's office I was trying to sweet talk into getting me out of Douglas's rotation? Well on our first date she gets in my car and she makes a face like she just sat on a cat. Then she drags me here, puts in me in her Volvo, points to the stick shift and says, 'No self-respecting surgeon should be allowed to drive an automatic.' It was around then I decided I wanted a second date.

Ephram

Didn't Mom drive a Volvo?