Glenn Close credited as playing...
Claire Wellington
- Claire Wellington: I asked myself, "Where would people never notice a town full of robots?"
- [gasps]
- Claire Wellington: Connecticut.
- Claire Wellington: I was the world's foremost brain surgeon and genetic engineer. I had top-secret contracts with the Pentagon, Apple and Mattel. I was driven. Exhausted. Until late one night, I came home to find...
- [stunned]
- Claire Wellington: Mike... with Patricia. My brilliant... blond... 21-year-old research assistant. It was all so...
- [in a deep manly voice]
- Claire Wellington: ... ugly.
- [Continues in a disconnectedly happy voice]
- Claire Wellington: Then early the next morning, as I gazed across the breakfast table at their lifeless bodies, I thought... "What have I done?" But more importantly... what could I do to make the world more beautiful?
- Bobbi Markowitz: [Discussing how to include Jewish Bobbie in Stepford's Christmas] Or maybe I could just use hundreds of Pine Cones to spell out the words 'Big Jew' in letters 15 feet tall, on the snow in my front yard?
- Claire Wellington: ...That's a wonderful idea!
- Claire Wellington: Today, we are going to discuss - well, it is probably the most important book any of us will ever read. Yes, it is provocative, but it is also inspiring: The Heritage Hills Special Edition Golden Deluxe Treasury of Christmas Keepsakes and Collectibles!
- [wives and Roger squeal and applaud with delight]
- Claire Wellington: This book said to me, 'Let's celebrate the birth of our lord Jesus Christ... with yarn.'
- Claire Wellington: Well, aren't you a bug's ear.
- Kimberly Kresby: Bugs don't have ears.
- Claire Wellington: Why, aren't you sassy? And a little sad.
- [seeing Joanna in the car]
- Claire Wellington: And this must be Joanna.
- [whispering to Walter]
- Claire Wellington: Electroshock?
- Walter Kresby: Yes, but she's doing much better.
- Claire Wellington: Hello, little energizer.
- Claire Wellington: [at the Stepford Bookclub, Claire is discussing a book on Christmas] Now Bobbi. We all realize you're probably feeling a bit uncomfortable with this weeks book because...
- [Frowns]
- Claire Wellington: what's the word I'm looking for
- Additional Stepford Wife: New?
- Sarah Sunderson: Scared?
- Roger Bannister: Cranky?
- Claire Wellington: [remembering] Jewish.
- Bobbi Markowitz: [smiling] Same thing.
- Claire Wellington: [to all] But the Heritage Hills series is very inclusive. In fact there is a whole chapter,
- [to Bobbi]
- Claire Wellington: about Chanukah
- Claire Wellington: I'm the only decent person left
- Joanna Eberhart: In Stepford?
- Claire Wellington: In the world!
- Roger Bannister: [gasps] She's fabulous!
- Joanna Eberhard: You're insane!
- Claire Wellington: I'm in love. With the waltz, and a town
- [pauses, picks up Mikes head]
- Claire Wellington: and a man.
- [Kisses Mikes head]