The Magical World of Disney (TV Series)

Hero in the Family (1986)

Annabeth Gish: Jessie

Quotes 

• Benjamin Reed : [explaining to Jessie how the machine works to switch his dad and Orville's mind back]  ... The circuits control the flow, and Dad and Orville sit here. The whole thing re-creates what happened in space, then I press this

  [shows Jessie a hand-held button] 

  Benjamin Reed : and bang! Maybe, it all works.

  Jessie : Or, bang! Maybe we blow up Houston.

• Benjamin Reed : [trying to get into a locked area, whispers]  I need your chewing gum!

  [Jessie hands him a stick of gum, which Ben unwraps and throws away the gum but keeps the wrapper] 

  Benjamin Reed : Gimmie the piece in your mouth.

  Jessie : [takes out the gum she is chewing and hands it to Ben]  You're so weird.

  Benjamin Reed : Thank you!

  [takes the chewed gum, sticks it to the wrapper, waits for the technician to pass by, then puts it on the door sensor. The technician shuts the door] 

  Benjamin Reed : .

  Benjamin Reed : Locked Digi-card doors are totally secure. Unless,

  [opens the door and points to the gum wrapper] 

  Benjamin Reed : there is a piece of foil which interrupts the circuit.

  Jessie : Pretty slick!

• Student Council Pres : Hey hey hey! Digger Junior!

  Jessie : Why'd he call you Digger Junior!

  Benjamin Reed : Oh, he didn't call me Digger Junior, he said... dig your junior year! You know how all these rah rah types get. Go Juniors!

  Student Council Pres : Oh, you bet! Oh, congratulations!

  Jessie : Congratulations?

  Benjamin Reed : Congratulations...

  Jessie : What'd he tell you that for?

  Benjamin Reed : Congratulations!... Um, well, he sees me standing here with this pretty girl, and I guess he thinks I'm going to... uh, ask her out?

  Jessie : [smiles meekly]  Well?

• Benjamin Reed : [finds an empty science lab and enters it to a dark room with multiple stations of refracted light showing different colors. a noise in the corner of the room startles him]  Oh!

  [a young brunette pops her head up from one of the stations] 

  Benjamin Reed : I thought I'd have this place... to myself.

  Jessie : Well you don't, sorry.

  Benjamin Reed : You're working on refracted light.

  Jessie : How'd you know?

  [Ben smiles and picks up a square with some tinfoil, refracting the light at his station further to shine on the girl. She smiles, and picks up another square with tinfoil, refracting the light back to shine on Ben] 

  Jessie : . I guess we're working on the same thing.

  Benjamin Reed : Guess so.

  [Jessie moves to turn on the lab lights which turns off the refracted light stations] 

  Benjamin Reed : .

  Jessie : I haven't seen you around here before.

  Jessie : Well, I haven't been here before. I just moved here from Boston.

  Benjamin Reed : Well, if you want to meet people you should be at the blast off boogey.

  Jessie : No thanks! Everybody here's astronuts! Who cares about space.

  Benjamin Reed : Not me.

  Jessie : You don't? Don't you feel a little left out?

  Benjamin Reed : Not really. All everyone ever cares about is does your father work for NASA.

  Jessie : My father does work for them.

  Benjamin Reed : Oh.

  Jessie : He's a physicist. What does your father do?

  Benjamin Reed : [surprised she asked]  My father? Well, he's... a travelling man...

  Jessie : What does he travel for?

  Benjamin Reed : Well, uh, I'll tell you the truth. I'm a little embaressed. My father, drives a truck.

  Jessie : You don't have to be embaressed. There's nothing wrong with that.

  [Ben smiles. The two exit the lab and begin walking to their lockers] 

  Jessie : I didn't get your name. My name's Jessie.

  [extends her hand to shake] 

  Benjamin Reed : I'm Benjamin

  [shakes her hand] 

  Benjamin Reed : .

  Jessie : Please to meet you, Benjamin. I was beginning to think there weren't any normal kids around here.

  Benjamin Reed : Well, I don't know how normal I am, but, uh... It was good to meet you too.

  [Jessie smiles, and walks towards her locker wing]