Gretchen quotes from Recess

Gretchen

Take it from someone who knows. Your brother is definitely a geek.

Gretchen

Oh, it was just a dream. That's it. Tomorrow morning, I'm putting an end to this once and for all.

Gretchen

Old video out... new video in. [laughs manically; then starts gasping and coughing] I think I may have swallowed my retainer.

Gretchen

Repeat after me. The rain...

Gretchen

In Spain...

Gretchen

Falls mainly in the moist temperate zone northwest of the Pyranees mountains.

Gretchen

Well, excuse me! For once in my life I'm good at a real sport! A sport with trophies! It's important to me, okay?! More important than any science fair, quiz bowl, or chess tournament I've ever been in! If you guys can't support me, then so-rry!

Gretchen

That's right, I loved a machine. Like a sister or kind uncle. Maybe it's sick, maybe it's twisted. But love it, I did. Then one day, everything changed.

Gretchen

[narrating] It was a crazy end to a crazy story. Principal Prickly got so interested in what I was showing him on his computer, he forgot all about taking away my recess, though, I did have to clean up the messes. Still, I got Galileo back, I survived my sordid journey through the Underworld, and I'm never going back there again.

Gretchen

Unless I'm mistaken… Diggers split up.

Gretchen

Look shiny metal! Do you like the shiny metal? If you help us we'll give you the shiny metal. What you say kindergartners?

Let's eat 'em!

Boys kissing girls? Girls kissing boys?

Gretchen

Surely, there must be some mistake. I mean, this defies the rules of nature and physics. Besides that, it's disgusting!

But Butch says it's the future. His brother Joey told him.

Oh, please! The day I stop caring about dodgeball is the day the Earth starts spinning around the sun.

Gretchen

Which explains the D minus you got in Science.

Gretchen

The kids' unwritten code of honor is what makes us different from adults, different from animals. What would we be without it?

Gus

Adult animals?

Nothing, that's what!

Hey! One of you drop five bucks?

Oooo...

Scandalous! Jinx!

Vince

[watching an old video of himself] Man, did you see that kick? That was in my prime!

Gretchen

Vince, that was 2 weeks ago.

Gretchen

[as Jeffery pokes her in the back with a pencil; annoyed] Quit it, Jeffery!

[innocently] Quit what?

Gretchen

You know, just quit it!

[whistles, stopping the gang's fighting] Come on, guys. We're all pals here. Who cares whose best friend I am?

Vince

Well, I do care who my best friend is. And if that's the way you feel about it, T.J., then I don't want to be friends with you, or any of you. [storms off]

Same here. [also storms off]

Gretchen

Me too. [also storms off in the opposite direction]

Mikey

Goodbye. [walks off]

Gus

Uh, what they said. [also walks off in the opposite direction]

But… but, guys, wait! Come back!

Randall

Oh, boy, that was neat! So, you ready to tell me your favorite color?