Benny & Joon (1993)

Mary Stuart Masterson: Joon Pearl

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Quotes 

• Sam : You don't like raisins?

  Joon : Not really.

  Sam : Why?

  Joon : They used to be fat and juicy and now they're twisted. They had their lives stolen. Well, they taste sweet, but really they're just humiliated grapes. I can't say I am a big supporter of the raisin council.

  Sam : Did you see those, those raisins on TV? The ones that sing and dance and stuff?

  Joon : They scare me.

  Sam : Yeah me too

  Joon : It's sick. The commercial people they make them sing and dance so people will eat them.

  Sam : It's a shame about raisins.

  Joon : Cannibals.

  Sam : Yeah. Do you like avocados?

  Joon : They're a fruit you know.

  Sam : Ruthie, do you got any avocados?

• Joon : Having a Boo Radley moment, are we?

• Joon : Did you have to go to school for that?

  Sam : No, no, I got thrown out of school for that.

• Joon : Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese.

• Joon : She was given to fits of semi-precious metaphors.

  Benny : The woman is a housekeeper, Joon, not an English professor.

• Benny : Hey. Where's Sam?

  Joon : I didn't mean to kick him out. I mean, I didn't kick him out, he just - he just left.

  Benny : Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What - What happened? Did something happen?

  Joon : He just - he just left. He was - he was in the air and-and-and - with a thing and - that was really loud. It was really loud. And all- I-I just kept seeing... He didn't mean to do it.

  Benny : Do it? What? What- Did he- What did he do?

  Joon : He cleaned the house.

• Joon : You can't throw him out, I won him!

• Joon : Should we let him in?

  Benny : Yeah, before someone slaps a stamp on him and sends him to Guam.

• Joon : He can really cook, can't he?

  Benny : Uh, yeah. Although for grilled cheese, I mighta used a wool setting.

  Joon : That's what I told him.

  Benny : Really? What-what did he use?

  Joon : Rayon.

  Benny : Mm.

  Joon : Silk would have been too soggy. Cotton would have...

  Benny : Would have burned it.

  Joon : Right. Fortunately, he consulted me before giving it steam. I was four square against it.

• Joon : I lost...

  Benny : What's in the pot?

  Joon : A cousin.

• Mike : [about Sam]  He keeps me up at night watching stupid old movies, my work is starting to suffer.

  Joon : You install cable.

• Joon : Have we an internal sequin issue to deal with, Benjamin?

• Sam : Joon.

  Joon : What?

  Sam : I-I love you.

  Joon : Me too.

  Joon : [door opens; gets up]  Don't tell Benny.

  Sam : Okay.

• Joon : Don't underestimate the mentally ill. We know how to count.

• Mike : [betting in poker]  Box of 30-aught-6 cartridges.

  Joon : Medium-sized, green-haired troll.

  Thomas : Soap-on-a-rope, slightly used.

• Sam : I'm Sam.

  Benny : So I hear. I'm Benny.

  Sam : With an 'n'?

  Benny : Yea two of 'em. This is Joon.

  Sam : With an 'n'?

  Joon : One. You're out of your tree.

  Sam : It's not my tree.

• Joon : [police find Joon wearing a snorkle and directing traffic with a ping pong paddle]  I have every right to be outside, Officer, I have every right.

• Joon : He's not my Smail!

• Joon : Why do you hate me so much?

  Benny : I don't hate you.

  Joon : You need me to be sick.

• Benny : I can't be worried about you knocking another housekeeper into retirement. First, it was Mrs. Larkspur.

  Joon : A woman deeply and hygienically disturbed. Her hair smelled.

• Joon : You're out of your tree.

  Sam : It's not my tree.

  Benny : I think I need a beer.

• Benny , Joon : [singing]  The melodious songs of the blessed, And our spirits shall sorrow no more, Not a sigh for the blessing of rest, In the sweet by-and-by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore, In the sweet by-and-by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore...

• Joon : So are you and Ruthie considering itemhood? Are you?

  [singing] 

  Joon : Benjamin and Ruthjamin, Sittin' in a tree, K-i-s-s-i-n-g, First comes love...

• Benny : *You* are crazy!

  Joon : I am not crazy.

• Joon : Who died and made you Ed McMahon?

• Joon : [observing Sam sitting and sulking on top of a neighborhood mail box]  Maybe I should invite him back in.

  Benny : Yeah, before someone gets sticks a stamp on his head and mails him to Guam.