April Fool's Day (1986)
Leah Pinsent: Nan
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Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nan : [sees the well out back] When she said well she really meant *well*, who dug this thing, Pocahontas?
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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?