Recess: School's Out (2001)

James Woods: Benedict

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• Benedict : All those years, I still thought about you. How you embarrassed me! How you humiliated me! How you destroyed my relationship with Muriel Finster, the only woman I ever loved!

  TJ : That part still grosses me out, sir.

  Principal Prickly : Shh.

• Benedict : Look, Pete, the 60s are over. All that peace and love and freedom stuff, yeah it was great for picking up chicks, but it's not gonna help my career. To do that, I gotta make test scores go up. And to make test scores go up, I gotta keep kids in class where they belong. That's why tomorrow I am tuning out recess once and for all.

  Principal Prickly : [voiceover]  Needless to say Philliam's plan didn't go over like he planned.

• Benedict : Same old noble Pete. Always standing up for the rights of children.

  TJ : [to Prickly]  You?

• Benedict : Oh, come now, Pete. There's no need to be rude. Not after I've instructed my men to provide you with special care.

  Principal Prickly : Special care? That's what you call gagging me, tying me up, and taking away my pants?

• Benedict : [Flashback to 1968]  Be cool, people. Be cool.

  Female Protester : We'll be cool when you give our kids their recess back!

  Benedict : Hey, baby, I can do what I want! I'm the Principal of the school! And there's nothing anybody can do about it! Dig?

• Benedict : It started at 3rd street, it will END at 3rd street.

• Benedict : [in 1968]  Pull up a bag, bro, I wanna rap.

  Principal Prickly : Lay it on me, man.

  Benedict : You see, Pete, I've been thinking, we're a new generation of teachers, right? It's time we shook things up a little.

  Principal Prickly : I hear you brother, in fact, dig this. I was meditating to that new Ravi Shankar album last night when I got this righteous notion. WHat if we hold all our classes outside on the playground? Imagine, school, recess, no boundaries.

  Benedict : Hey baby that's a hip idea but Pete I got a better thought here. As my first official act as principal, I've decided to get rid of recess.

  Principal Prickly : What? No recess? But Phil! For a kid, recess is like a major play-in, it's the one time of day they have any freedom.

• Dr. Phillium Benedict : I found a way to prove my theory. I'm gonna get rid of the biggest recess of 'em all! I... am gonna get rid... of summer vacation!

  TJ Detweiler : You fiend!

  Dr. Phillium Benedict : "Fiend"? Eh, you try to help people, that's the thanks you get.

  Principal Prickly : It'll never work, Phil.

  Dr. Phillium Benedict : Well, actually, Pete, that's where you're wrong.

  [a hologram of the Earth and moon] 

  Dr. Phillium Benedict : You see, all I have to do is modify the moon's orbit ever so slightly...

  [the moon changes position] 

  Dr. Phillium Benedict : ... and tide levels on the Eastern Seaboard rise eight feet. Move the moon over here...

  [the moon changes position again] 

  Dr. Phillium Benedict : ... and the currents that warm California suddenly become ice cold. Summer, as we know it, will become a thing of the past. And without summer...

  [the Earth becomes completely covered in ice and snow; TJ and Prickly gasp] 

  Dr. Phillium Benedict : No summer vacation.

  TJ Detweiler : You'll never get away with this, Benedict!

  Dr. Phillium Benedict : Oh, yeah? Well, who's gonna stop me?