Community (TV Series)
Comparative Religion (2009)
Yvette Nicole Brown: Shirley Bennett
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Quotes
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Shirley : Uh, quick question. Are you all coming to my Christmas party right after the final, or are you stopping home to change into your Christmas outfits?
Annie : [Breaking the silence] I guess I could wear one of my Hanukkah sweaters.
Shirley : Uh, Annie.
[Uncomfortable]
Shirley : I didn't know you weren't, uh, Christian.
Annie : Yep. One might even say I'm Jewish.
Shirley : [Faking tolerance] Oh, tha-that's good for you. Tha-that's wonderful. I respect all religions of the world.
Abed : I'm Muslim.
Troy : Jehovah's Witness.
Britta : Atheist.
Shirley : [With raised eyebrows] The Lord is testing me.
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Shirley : Oh, look. Britta brought what she believes in: nothing.
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Shirley : You realize there's no other way for me to take this than as a giant middle finger to the most important day of the year.
Jeff Winger : December 10?
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Shirley : I did my best to create a special Christmas for my *one* intact family... and this is the thanks I get.
Annie : Shirley, you are a guilt machine.
Pierce Hawthorne : And Annie knows a thing or two about guilt. Am I right, Jew?
Annie : Say the whole word!
Pierce Hawthorne : ...Jewie?
Troy : You would never catch a Jehovah's Witness saying "Jewie."
Pierce Hawthorne : Tell it to the birthday cake you never got. You know, there's an old Buddhist saying...
Britta : You are not a Buddhist, you are in a cult.
Pierce Hawthorne : Suck it, Nietzsche.
Annie : Guys, everyone's faith is weird. Let's just not talk about it.
[all speaking indistinctly]
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Shirley : I'm not mad. I'm dissapointed.
Jeff Winger : That's mom for mad.
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Pierce Hawthorne : I'm born-again.
Shirley : [Perks up] Oh!
Pierce Hawthorne : We had a re-birthing ritual in my friend's hot tub. I'm now a level five Laser Lotus in my Buddhist community.
Britta : That does not sound like Buddhism. You sure you're not in a cult?
Pierce Hawthorne : Just by asking me that question, you put me back down to a level four. You now owe me 2000 Energon cubes.
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Shirley : I am so sick of the dean jamming his PCness down my throat.
Jeff Winger : Pierce, I'd like to commend you for letting that one go.
Pierce Hawthorne : [chuckling] PCness. Now I get it.
Troy : It sounds like penis. I just got it, too.
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Shirley : Well, don't we have a diverse little family. I say we open up this party to all faiths. I brought my Star of Bethlehem, which led the wise men to the savior of all mankind. And you guys can bring a little trinket or doodad from your philosophies. Sounds good?
Jeff Winger : As an agnostic, I'm gonna bring my winning smile.
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Shirley : Jeffrey, I have two boys. And when we have a serious discussion, I find that a brownie helps them to relax.
[gives Jeff a brownie]
Shirley : So why do you hate me and Jesus?
Jeff Winger : I don't think my brownie's working.
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Shirley : What is going on?
Troy : We're trying to get Jeff ready for the fiiiiiiiiiiiii... iight.
[whispers to Jeff]
Troy : I couldn't think of another word.
Jeff Winger : [to Troy] Idiot.
[to Shirley]
Jeff Winger : He meant we were figh... ting.
[to Troy]
Jeff Winger : It is hard to think of another word.