Penn Badgley: Joel Larsen

Quotes 

• Isabelle Meyers : So how does it feel to be fifteen, old man?

  Joel : [voice over]  Considering that I'm thirty-five? Strange, confusing, frustrating...

  Joel Larsen : Great.

• Joel Larsen : I am not letting turning fifteen get in the way of celebrating my thirtyfifth birthday! Let's cut school!

  Pat Brody : And shave our heads!

  [Joel looks at him] 

  Pat Brody : Or just cut school.

• Joel Larsen : And we need to bring Isabelle. She's in desperate need of a Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

  Pat Brody : What's a Ferris Bueller?

  Joel Larsen : A happy-go-lucky teen played by Matthew Broderick.

  Pat Brody : Who's Matthew Broderick?

  Joel Larsen : He stars in the Broadway version of "The Producers". Even if you sign up now, you can't get tickets.

• Isabelle Meyers : I expected this from him, not from you, Joel.

  Joel Larsen : Joel? Joel who? I'm Ferris Bueller!

  [Joel dances a Ferris Bueller dance and sings a few tones from the movie] 

  Isabelle Meyers : Who is Ferris Bueller?

  Pat Brody : I'm not quite sure, but you can't get tickets for him.

• Joel Larsen : I don't know what happened today. I guess I was having some kind of midlife... teen... crisis. I have all these expectations about how this birthday was supposed to be. You guys were right, I was acting like an old man when I should have been singing "Twist and Shout" on a parade float.

  [Pat and Isabelle looks at each other, confused] 

  Joel Larsen : It means that I took a good look in the mirror. And I'm gonna start acting my own age. I'm sorry, guys.

  [Pat and Isabelle still looks confused, but are also smiling, accepting the apology] 

• Principal Glen Rudd : You're all suspended for three days.

  Pat Brody : What...?

  Joel Larsen : Wait, let me get this straight. To punish us for taking one day off, together, you're giving us... three days off. Together.

  Pat Brody : That's right.

  Joel Larsen : Great! See you Thursday. Do you have a movie section?

• Principal Glen Rudd : Oh, hold on, hold on. Okay. You're not suspended.

  Isabelle Meyers : Wait! I wanna be suspended.

  Principal Glen Rudd , Joel Larsen , Pat Brody : What?

  Isabelle Meyers : I'm tired of being a perfect little girl. Do you know what kind of pressure that is? Do you? I'm fed up with it! It's about time that I let my parents down and lower their expectations so that I can lead a normal life!

  Joel Larsen : Good for you, Isabelle.

  [Isabelle smiles, proud of herself] 

  Pat Brody : Mr. Rudd, suspend her.

• Joel Larsen : Now, you look at this, Pat? I have my parents, still married. My sister, out of rehab, or jail, or stalking Mel Gibson. And I have my two best friends. By the time I turn thirty-five, dinners like this were in the past. I think I'm gonna enjoy this.