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:VERONICA: |
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September 1st, 1989. Dear Diary: I believe I'm a good person. |
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Ya know, I think there's good in everyone, but here we are first day of senior year. |
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And uh...I look around at all these kids I've known all my life and I ask myself: What happened? |
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KIDS: |
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Freak! Slut! Burnout! Bug-eyes! Poser! Lard-ass! |
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VERONICA: |
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We were so tiny, happy and shiny, playing tag and getting chased. |
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KIDS: |
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Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus! |
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VERONICA: |
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Singing and clapping, |
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laughing and napping, |
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baking cookies, eating paste. |
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KIDS: |
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Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback! |
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VERONICA: |
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Then we got bigger. |
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That was the trigger, |
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Like the Huns invading Rome - |
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Oh sorry! |
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Welcome to my school, |
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This ain't no high school: |
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This is the Thunderdome. |
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Hold your breath |
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and count the days, |
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we're graduating soon. |
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KIDS: |
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White trash! |
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VERONICA: |
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College will be paradise |
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If I'm not dead by June! |
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But I know, I know, life can be beautiful. |
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I pray, I pray for a better way. |
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If we changed back then, |
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we could change again. |
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We can be beautiful... |
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(A PREPPY STUD knocks a HIPSTER DORK to the floor.) |
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Ow! |
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VERONICA: |
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Just not today. |
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Hey, are you okay? |
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Get away, nerd. |
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Oh...Okay |
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Freak! Slut! Cripple! Homo! Homo! Homo! |
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VERONICA: |
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Things will get better |
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soon as my letter |
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comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown. |
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Wake from this coma, |
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take my diploma, |
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then I can blow this town. |
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Dream of my ivy-covered walls |
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and smoky French cafes... |
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(VERONICA jostles RAM SWEENEY.) |
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Watch it! |
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VERONICA: |
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Fight the urge to strike a match and send this dump ablaze! |
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(RAM upends VERONICA'S lunch tray.) |
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RAM: |
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Ooooops. |
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Ram Sweeney. Third year as linebacker. |
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And eighth year of smacking lunch trays and BEING A HUGE DICK. |
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RAM: |
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What did you say to me skank? |
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VERONICA: |
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... Nothing. |
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VERONICA & KIDS: |
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But I know, I know, I know... |
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Life can be beautiful. |
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I pray, I pray, I pray |
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For a better way. |
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We were kind before; |
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we can be kind once more. |
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We can be beautiful... |
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(MARTHA approaches.) |
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VERONICA: |
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Agh!... Hey Martha. |
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MARTHA: |
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Hey. |
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(MARTHA helps VERONICA pick up her tray.) |
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VERONICA: |
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Martha Dunnstock. My best friend since diapers. |
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MARTHA: |
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We on for movie night? |
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VERONICA: |
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Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail. |
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MARTHA: |
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I rented "The Princess Bride." |
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VERONICA: |
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Again? Don't you have it memorized by now? |
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MARTHA: |
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What can I say? I'm a sucker for a happy ending. |
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KURT: |
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Martha Dumptruck! Wide load! Honnnnnk! |
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(KURT KELLY knocks the tray from MARTHA'S hands.) |
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VERONICA: |
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Kurt Kelly. Quarterback. He is the smartest guy on the football team. |
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Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf. |
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(Furious, to KURT) Hey! Pick that up right now! |
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KURT: |
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I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me? |
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VERONICA: |
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Yes, I am. I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend. |
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You're a high school has-been waiting to happen. A future gas station attendant. |
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KURT: |
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... You have a zit right there... |
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VERONICA & KIDS: |
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(Variously) |
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Dear diary: why.... |
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Why do they hate me? |
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Why don't I fight back? |
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Why do I act like such a creep? (VERONICA: Why....) |
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Why won't he date me? |
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Why did I hit him? |
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Why do I cry myself to sleep? (VERONICA: Why....) |
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Somebody hug me! |
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Somebody fix me! |
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Somebody save me! |
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Send me a sign, God! |
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Give me some hope here! |
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Something to live for! |
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(The three HEATHERS enter.) |
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KIDS: |
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Ah!... Heather, Heather, and Heather! |
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VERONICA: |
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Then there's the Heathers. They float above it all. |
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KIDS: |
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(Repeating.) I love Heather, Heather, and Heather. |
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VERONICA: |
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Heather McNamara. Head cheerleader. Her dad's loaded - he sells engagement rings. |
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Heather Duke. Runs the yearbook. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants. |
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And Heather Chandler. The Almighty. |
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She is a mythic bitch. They are solid Teflon - never bothered, never harassed. |
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I would give anything to be like that. |
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HIPSTER DORK: |
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I'd like to be their boyfriend. |
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KIDS: |
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That would be beautiful... |
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STONER CHICK: |
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If I sat at their table, guys would notice me. |
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KIDS: |
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So beautiful... |
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MARTHA: |
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I'd like them to be nicer. |
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KIDS: |
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That would be beautiful... |
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BELEAGUERED GEEK: |
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I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse |
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and leave her tied up for the rats! |
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(VERONICA enters the girls' bathroom. |
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HEATHER CHANDLER and MCNAMARA are watching HEATHER DUKE vomit into a toilet.) |
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HEATHER CHANDLER: |
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Grow up, Heather. Bulimia is so '87. |
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HEATHER MCNAMARA: |
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Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather. |
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HEATHER DUKE: |
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Yeah, Heather. Maybe I should. |
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MS. FLEMING: |
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Ah, Heather and Heather. |
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(HEATHER DUKE vomits.) |
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... and Heather. Perhaps you didn't hear the bell over all the vomiting. You're late for class. |
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(VERONICA scribbles on a piece of paper.) |
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HEATHER CHANDLER: |
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Heather wasn't feeling well. We're helping her. |
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MS. FLEMING: |
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Not without a hall pass you're not. A week's detention. |
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VERONICA: |
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Actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. Yearbook committee. |
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MS. FLEMING: |
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... I see you're all listed. Hurry up and get where you're going. |
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HEATHER CHANDLER: |
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This is an excellent forgery. Who are you? |
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VERONICA: |
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Veronica Sawyer. I crave a boon. |
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HEATHER CHANDLER: |
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What boon? |
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VERONICA: |
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Let me sit at your table at lunch. Just once. No talking necessary. |
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If people think you guys tolerate me, they'll leave me alone.... |
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Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips and absence notes. |
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HEATHER DUKE: |
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How about prescriptions? |
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HEATHER CHANDLER: |
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Shut up, Heather. |
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HEATHER DUKE: |
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Sorry, Heather. |
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(HEATHER CHANDLER inspects VERONICA'S face.) |
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HEATHER CHANDLER: |
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For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure. |
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HEATHER MCNAMARA: |
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And a symmetrical face. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, |
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I'd have matching halves. That's very important. |
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HEATHER DUKE: |
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Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds. |
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HEATHER CHANDLER: |
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And ya know, ya know, ya know? |
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This could be beautiful. |
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Mascara, maybe some lip gloss, |
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and we're on our way. |
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Get this girl some blush; |
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And Heather, I need your brush. |
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Let's make her beautiful. |
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HEATHER MCNAMARA: |
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Let's make her beautiful... |
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HEATHER DUKE: |
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Let's make her beautiful... |
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HEATHER CHANDLER: |
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Make her beautiful... |
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Okay? |
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VERONICA: |
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Okay! |
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(Another day, another hellish lunch.) |
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KURT: |
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Out of my way geek! |
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BELEAGUERED GEEK: |
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I don't want any trouble - |
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RAM: |
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You're gonna die at 3pm! |
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REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL: |
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Don't you dare touch me! Get away, pervert! |
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BELEAGUERED GEEK: |
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What'd I ever do to them? |
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KIDS: |
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Who could survive this? |
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I can't escape this! |
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I think I'm dying! |
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MS. FLEMING: |
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Who's that with Heather? |
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(THE HEATHERS enter again...) |
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KIDS: |
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Whoa. Heather, Heather, Heather... |
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NEW WAVE GIRL: |
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And... someone! |
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KIDS: |
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Heather, Heather, Heather... |
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GOWAN & COACH: |
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And a babe! |
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KIDS: |
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Heather, Heather, Heather... |
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MARTHA: |
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Veronica?! |
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KIDS: |
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Veronica? Veronica? Veronica?! |
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(THE HEATHER part, revealing a smoking hot VERONICA who has been given a make-over.) |
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VERONICA & KIDS: |
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(Variously.) And ya know, |
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ya know, ya know |
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life can be beautiful. |
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You hope, you dream, you pray, |
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and you get your way! |
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Ask me how it feels |
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looking like hell on wheels... |
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My God, it's beautiful! |
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I might be beautiful |
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And when you're beautiful... |
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It's a beautiful frickin' day! |
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KIDS: |
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Heather... Veronica! |
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Heather! Heather! |
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Heather... Veronica! |
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Veronica! Veronica! |
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Veronica! Veronica! |