Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

The Election (2004)

Morocco Omari: Principal Stephen Chadwick

Quotes 

• Principal Stephen Chadwick : You're actually displaying a dead animal in your classroom?

  Helen Girardi : It's a conceptual art piece.

  Principal Stephen Chadwick : Darlene Fitch's parents called the school. It's an affront to their religious beliefs.

  Helen Girardi : What religious beliefs?

  Principal Stephen Chadwick : Who knows? Just put the thing away.

• Helen Girardi : You're ordering me to put away a student's artwork?

  Principal Stephen Chadwick : A dead gerbil is art?

  Helen Girardi : Why not? Damien Hirst hung a dead cow in the Tate Modern.

  Principal Stephen Chadwick : Oh, so the next time I run over a dog on my way to school, I'm van Gogh?

  Helen Girardi : Do you often run over dogs on your way to school?

  Principal Stephen Chadwick : Helen, just get rid of the thing before we get sued.