Kicking and Screaming Page #2

- Monkeys.

- For all of our sakes, I hope nobody gets this.

- Monkey Shines. Monkey Trouble.

- In a few hours I'm gonna lose all identity.

- King Kong. The other King Kong.

- Eight hours ago I was Max Belmont, English major, college senior.

- La Femme "Monkita. "

- Now I am Max Belmont who does nothing.

- Man, Boy and Monkeys.

What are you talking about?

- Monkeys, Monkeys, Ted and Alice.

- What do I do? I do nothing.

- All my accomplishments are in the past.

- Monkeys -

Okay. Monkeys is a stupid subject.

- Yeah. Monkeys is a stupid - a stupid subject.

- Yeah.

How about name me

six empiricist philosophers.

- Okay. Hume.

- Ding! Ding! Uh -

- Hume.

- For Christ's sake, can it, Skippy.

- All the other ones.

- How about worst-case scenarios after graduation?

- Ding. Heart attack.

- Ding.

Live in Milwaukee.

- Live in Milwaukee.

- Forget everything you learned.

I didn't learn enough in the first place to forget,

and, honey, you did not ding in...

and this is definitely not for juniors.

I'm sorry.

I was completely out of line there.

Ding. Forget everything you learned.

- Really, Skippy.

- John Grisham's The Monkey.

Um, Monkeys, Monkeys, Ted and Alice.

Carnal Monkeys.

Prague. You'll come back a bug.

You could maybe sympathize

with my choice of Prague over Brooklyn.

I - I quit.

- What do you mean you quit? You quit?

- I quit.

I see. First you only smoke after meals,

then just once or twice a day...

and now all of a sudden you're quitting.

You could come with me, you know.

What's for me in Prague?

Places Kafka lived.

Me.

So all of a sudden

you just stopped smoking?

Meanwhile I'm up to

two f***ing packs a day.

Twenty years I make it

through all that peer pressure.

- Suddenly, my senior year, you get me addicted.

- Because you smoke now, I should too?

No. But what you did was snea -

Yes, you should smoke too!

I told you I was quitting.

You didn't pay any attention.

You're a foul-weather friend, Grover. You're

not interested in me unless I'm suffering like you.

You're like a child sometimes.

Yeah, but if I was a child,

you'd find that endearing.

Hey, Jane! Prague! Whoo!

Yeah, I'll "whoo" you.

I don't know what else to say.

Do you have anything you'd like to add?

Josselyn. Hi!

Fine.

- Chet. Chet. My man.

- Louis! My friend!

Louis! Oh, Louis!

Tell me. Did you graduate

accidentally or on purpose?

- I'm gonna miss you, man.

- Oh, I'm gonna miss you, my friend.

- I love you.

- Louis, I love you too.

- Okay, Louis. I've gotta go now. Bye-bye.

- Okay.

So how does that work?

Do I - Do I have to start

paying back my loan, like, tomorrow?

I'm gonna go look for pot.

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