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Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Ritter, Amber Tamblyn, and Michael Welch in Joan of Arcadia (2003)

Amber Tamblyn: Joan Girardi

Joan of Arcadia

Amber Tamblyn credited as playing...

Joan Girardi

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  • God: Good is relative. Beauty's relative. Everything's relative. Except for me. I'm absolute.
  • Joan: I thought that was vodka.
  • God: [about a book] Have you read this?
  • Joan: You stole that!
  • God: Well, technically everything belongs to me.
  • Joan: Were you being snippy to me?
  • [lets out a breath]
  • Joan: God is snippy.
  • God: If I seem snippy to you, it's because you understand snippy.
  • Joan: You are not real!
  • God: So people keep telling me.
  • Joan: I'm ignoring you!
  • God: I'm used to it.
  • Adam: Maybe I'm bad at stuff like this... but we kissed. It's not like I've kissed a lot of girls. Maybe I've only kissed one.
  • Joan Girardi: Right.
  • Adam: Well maybe it meant something to me.
  • Joan Girardi: Maybe it meant something to me, too.
  • Adam: I don't... I don't know what to do with it now.
  • Joan Girardi: [chuckles] Me neither.
  • Adam: Maybe it's like that anti-drug guy said, you know? Romantic love is like a mental illness. It just happens and then what are you gonna do?
  • Joan Girardi: Maybe we're just not ready.
  • Adam: Okay. I accept that. Were you ready for that other guy?
  • [Referencing God, whom Joan was dancing with at the party]
  • Joan Girardi: That's different.
  • [after a long pause]
  • Joan Girardi: Hey, wanna dance?
  • Pizza Delivery God: What, no tip? I got it here under thirty minutes.
  • Joan: Like that's hard for you.
  • [she closes the door on him]
  • Joan: You don't think she is right, do you?
  • Adam: I usually don't listen to what's going on unless I hear my name.
  • Joan: Does my hair look funny?
  • Grace Polk: Your hair always looks funny.
  • [laughs]
  • Grace Polk: Sometimes it just pops into my head and I just laugh.
  • Joan: You think they
  • [the cheerleaders]
  • Joan: know?
  • Luke: What? That Mom turned in their alpha dog? Probably.
  • Joan: They're going to eat me alive.
  • Joan: Great, so ask Isaac Newton to the prom.
  • Luke: Sure, if he was a girl... and alive.
  • [Joan, Adam, and Grace are studying]
  • Joan: What should we do first?
  • Grace: Ask your brother for the answers.
  • Joan: To be humble you have to be proud.
  • Adam: Wait, arent those opposites?
  • Grace: Ah, ask him ask him.
  • [Luke just walked in]
  • Joan: No, no lets just break it down ok. Is there a chemical formula for twigs?
  • Adam: Uh
  • [from the top of is head]
  • Adam: Cellulose is c6h12o6
  • [Joan drops her pencil in shock]
  • Adam: Uh, I have an eidetic memory.
  • Joan: Whats that?
  • Luke: Photographic.
  • Grace: [talking about Adam] He can barely remember his name.
  • Adam: Listen, I know a lot, I just cant put it all together.
  • Joan: Ok, what about a chemical equation for fire?
  • Grace: Wood doesnt actually burn.
  • Joan: Thats insane.
  • Grace: What burns is the gas released when the wood gets hot. Therefore the reaction would have to be gasification, through oxidation reduction, then combustion.
  • Luke: It is so hot that you know that.
  • Adam: [to Grace] Dude, are you smart?
  • Grace: Just because I refute the whole formal schooling equals knowledge crap doesnt mean Im stupid.
  • Adam: Nice.
  • Joan: Ok, so what about gas.
  • [Joan looks at Adam]
  • Adam: Cha, like I know.
  • Grace: And Rainman back to underpants.
  • Joan Girardi: Judith doesn't know that many people here. She was just acting out.
  • Grace: Acting out is getting your nose pierced. Nearly dying in a pool of your own vomit goes a little deeper than that.
  • Joan: I thought we were going with monotheism.
  • Twin-Girl God: I'm impressed you know what that is.
  • Joan: Why are you torturing me, And don't say I'm torturing myself.
  • Twin-Girl God: Sometimes it's hard to believe what you see, so you have to trust the world behind your eyes,
  • Joan: There's a world behind my eyes? Great, because this one isn't enough trouble.
  • Twin-Girl God: People manage to believe in me, even though they have no idea what I am, they trust me even in the silence.
  • Joan: OK. Can you take care of the rash and the barfing? Save the haiku for another time.
  • [Twin-Girls combine into one]
  • Joan: Very matrix.
  • Twin-Girl God: Go to the doctor, you're sick.
  • Adam: [after Joan fails her physics test] Physics is hard.
  • Joan: "Physics is hard"? That's like the intellectual version of "you're not fat".
  • Female Custodian God: Hi there, Joan.
  • Joan: Oh, God...
  • Female Custodian God: The one and only.
  • Joan: What are you wearing?
  • Grace Polk: [sighing] A dress.
  • Joan: You're... wearing... a dress?
  • Grace Polk: Oh, nice smirk.
  • Joan: I wasn't smirking! I was... I... had to sneeze.
  • Joan: Power to the pimple!
  • Luke: Wow, the classic geek misdirect. Gee, I'd like to hang out with you, but let's pretend to study.
  • Joan, Grace: We're not hanging out.
  • Joan Girardi: This is a new look for you.
  • Loner Loser Kid God: Yeah... the jeans are really comfy.

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