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Costume Shop [[Cat and Girl look through a costume shop.]] / Cat: "Hippie"? / Girl: No. / Cat: "Feminist"? / Girl: No. / Cat: "Chav"? / Girl: Ugh, no. / Girl: Don't even say it. / Girl: Like we don't have enough words for making fun of people poorer than us. / Grrrl: "Chav" isn't about money. It's about class. / Girl:...
Flooding [[Girl holds her head in her hands.]] / [[Cat approaches her.]] / Girl: I'd think we were being punished if I believed in anything that might punish us. / Cat: Let's play the silver lining game. / Girl: OK. / Girl: National attention has been drawn to the destruction of coastal wetlands that increased...
Iconography Today [[Girl stands outside of two restrooms. One door has a sign marked "Ladies." The other has a sign marked "Whores."]]
Boy Lucks Out [[Boy sits on the bank of a river, fishing.]] / Boy: <> / <> / [[There's a pull on Boy's line.]] / [[The fish on the line jumps out of the water.]] / Fish: Ow! Ow! Ow! / Fish: Wait! Hold on! Wait! / [[Boy holds the fish up, out of the water.]] / Fish: If you let me go I'll grant your wish. / Boy:...
Ready-made Generational Touchstone [[Cat stands by the microwave.]] / <> / Girl: You're making dinner? / <> / Girl: Why does it smell like rotting corpses in here? / <> / <> / Girl: Should I have eaten a big lunch? / <> / Cat:...
 
Death and Tchotchkes [[Cat wanders through a store. Paintings, television sets, lamps and a harp are on display.]] / [[Cat checks the lamp's price tag.]] / [[Cat turns to Girl.]] / Cat: I think I've caught the bug. / Cat: The antiquing bug. / Cat: <> / Cat: <> / Cat: <> / [[Girl...
Out of Vogue [[Girl and Grrrl enter a practice space. Two girls who look like Grrrl are there.]] / Grrrl: This is the band. / Bassist: Hi. / Drummer: Hey! / [[Grrrl unpacks her guitar.]] / Grrrl: We're calling ourselves "The Upper Middle Class." / Girl: Have any new songs? / Grrrl: A few. / [[Grrrl tunes.]] / Grrrl:...
Ich bin ein Toast [[Cat is about to touch the butter. Girl looks over from the refrigerator.]] / Girl: Don't touch that! / Cat: What? / Girl: I'm making toast. / Cat: Ooh, I'll help! Hold on. / [[Cat leaves. Girl stirs batter.]] / [[Cat returns carrying books.]] / Cat: You can start with "1001 Purportedly Humorous Anecdotes,"...
After-School Activities Girl: Hey, do you want to come over? / Girl: I'm working on a lecture about the legacy of John Waters as embodied by the post-"Hairspray" careers of Ricki Lake and Vitamin C. / Girl: I made puppets! / [[Girl holds up two sock puppets resembling John Waters and Ricki Lake in "Hairspray.]] / Boy: I'm...
Mime Time [[Cat smiles and waves his hands.]] / [[He waves his hands to the right.]] / [[He waves his hands to the left.]] / Girl: That doesn't spell "Y-M-C-A." / Cat: I'm in a box! / [[Cat points right at the edge of the panel.]] / Cat: Box here! / [[Cat points up at the edge of the panel.]] / Cat: Box there! / [[Girl...
 
The Regular Crowd Shuffles In Girl: John at the bar is Bill's analogue. / Girl: But John has a dream - being a movie star. He just can't get out of that place. / Girl: Paul, the real estate novelist. Davy of the Navy. Clinging to what remains of their hopes. / [[Girl sits in the kitchen drinking coffee. Cat comes in to join her.]] / Girl:...
Fine Art [[Cat and Girl stand looking at Turner's painting "The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons."]] / [[They look.]] / [[They look.]] / Girl: Did we turn the oven off?
Eternal Struggle <> / [[Cat walks into an invisible wall.]] / Cat: Ow! / <> / <> / <> / [[Cat falls over.]] / Cat: Double ow. / [[Girl sits in the yard on a lawn chair, reading Marx. Cat hits another invisible wall.]] / <> / [[Cat walks up to Girl.]] / Girl: Class structure is...
Something in the Air [[Girl considers a backgammon board, a cup of tea at her side.]] / [[She smells something in the air.]] / Girl: <> / [[She follows the smell.]] / [[Cat is frying something in the kitchen.]] / Girl: What are you making? / Cat: Popcorn! / [[Girl looks into the frying pan.]] / Girl: Those...
Nighthawks Cat: Ugh. / [[Girl is in the kitchen holding a box of cat food.]] / Girl: We're cat sitting, not redecorating. / [[Edward Hopper's painting "Nighthawks."]] / Cat: Where do you even get a painting like that? / [[Cat and Girl look at the painting.]] / Girl: IKEA? / [[The leave.]] / [[Cat comes back...
 
School Shopping [[Cat and Girl enter a store.]] / Girl: Eros and Thanatos - the purchase and the return. / [[They walk among towels, glassware and large baskets.]] / Girl: The myth of creation as a hand-made tchotchke - / Girl: Physical labor outsourced, tchotchke priced to move. / Girl: The aesthetics of nostalgia...
Large Mediums [[Cat and Girl sit on the couch watching television.]] / Girl: Early television programs never showed people watching TV. / Girl: Like television's application for "real object" status was still pending. / Girl: It wasn't until "The Simpsons" and "Roseanne" that we saw a realistic portrayal of the television...
Slap Fight Beatnik Vampire: The only Wes Anderson film I like is "Bottle Rocket." / Cat: The only Bill Murray film I like is "Ghostbusters II." / Beatnik Vampire: Thai food is better than Chinese. / Cat: Cuban food made by Mexicans is better than Italian food made by Albanians. / Beatnik Vampire: I believe in respecting...
The World's Largest Cubicle [[Cat and Girl do research. Girl reads a book called "Wonders of the Modern World."]] / [[Cat and Girl look at a map.]] / [[Cat and Girl argue about the bag on the kitchen counter marked "Trail Mix." Cat holds a box of carob.]] / [[Cat and Girl hike through a forest. A bird sings.]] / [[Night. Cat...
Traffic [[Cat and Girl are in a car. Cat is driving, his teeth gritted, sweat pouring from his forehead. On the buildingd near the road hangs a banner: "If you lived here you'd be urinating now."]]
 
The Black Freighter You say "Work on, take these envelopes, my boy, / [[An office. Boy is handed envelopes.]] / color-code them all in order of expiration." / [[Boy works at his desk.]] / And your folders will be filed, and your coffee will be made, / [[Boy, shaking, carries a cup of coffee to a man in a dark office.]] / but...
The Black Freighter By noontime the docks are swarming with men / [[An office break room, a dirty cup of coffee by the sink.]] / coming out form the ghostly freighter. / [[A water cooler.]] / They move in the shadows, where no one can see / [[A cup of coffee and a desktop computer.]] / and they're chaining up people and...
Feeling Hard or Hardly Feeling [[Cat drinks from a can of paint.]] / [[He licks his lips.]] / Cat: What? / [[Girl is sad.]] / Girl: Do you ever feel like you've got this - hole that goes straight through the middle of you? / Girl: Like there's a hole at the center of everyone? / Girl: And we try to fill it with shopping or eating,...
House Arrest [[Cat sits at a window looking outside.]] / [[He sees a fly.]] / [[Cat lunges for the fly and misses.]] / Offscreen voice: Ha Ha Ha Ha / [[Two cats sit on a fence.]] / Tuxedo Cat: Hey house cat! / Crosseyed Cat: Ha Ha / Tuxedo Cat: I bet you crap in a box. / Tuxedo Cat: You sleep in people's laps. / Tuxedo...
God Bless America [[Cat and Girl are watching television.]] / Cat: What was the name of the Mary Tyler Moore spinoff starring her ugly friend? / Girl: "Rhoda." And she was NOT ugly. / Cat: "Rhoda!" / Girl: Valerie Harper. Later of "Valerie." / Girl: Which became "Valerie's Family" when she left. And then "The Hogan Family." / Cat:...
 
Outdoor Activities [[Cat and Girl sit on the couch. Girl reads.]] / Cat: Race you to the upper middle class. Ready go! / [[Cat and Girl run past the kitchen.]] / [[They run outside. Cat breathes heavily. Girl inches ahead.]] / [[Girl gains more ground.]] / Girl: Oof! / [[Girl takes a spill. Cat keeps running.]] / [[Girl...
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark [[Cat sits reading and listening to music on a boombox.]] / [[Girl comes in, shaking her fist.]] / Girl: There are two types of people in the world - / Girl: The people who say "boo hoo" in a sarcastic voice and the people who pretend to play a tiny violin. / <> / [[Girl leaves.]] / [[Cat looks...
Happy Birthday [[Girl wears a party hat and Cat holds a present.]] / Girl: We celebrate birthdays for the new opportunities they give is. / Girl: Like "Happy eighteenth birthday, now you can chew tobacco and join the military without your parents' permission!" / Girl: "Happy twelfth birthday, welcome to the adult...
Take Warning [[Girl stops Cat.]] / Girl: Look both ways before you cross the street! / Girl: Turn the water off while you brush your teeth! / Girl: Don't stick your finger in the electrical socket! / [[Cat walks outside, finally alone.]] / Cat: I don't have to listen to her. / Cat: My only rule is that there are...
United Nations Brunch Council Girl: I'm Nigeria. Nigeria is the birthplace of Juju and Afrobeat. / Beatnik Vampire: I'm Slovakia. I celebrate May 8 as Victory over Fascism Day. / Mouse: I'm Saudi Arabia. Watch me dance the Ardha! / Boy: I'm Mongolia. I use Yak's milk butter as fuel for my lamps. / Grrrl: I'm Bolivia. I'm home...
 

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