Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

Game Theory (2005)

Amber Tamblyn: Joan Girardi

Quotes 

• Adam Rove : I've been calling you all the way down the hall.

  Joan Girardi : Oh. Well, I'm temporarily deaf. My mom burnt a hole in my ear lecturing me about college.

• Joan Girardi : I always knew God was an underachiever.

• Joan Girardi : So you gonna tell me why you're here?

  Goth Kid God : It's a guidance session. I'm all about guidance.

  Joan Girardi : Well, maybe if you were a little more specific.

  Goth Kid God : Yeah, but you didn't like it when I told you what to do.

  Joan Girardi : I like it less when you don't.

• Goth Kid God : I have a specific assignment for you, since you miss them so much.

  Joan Girardi : [sarcastic laugh]  Okay.

  Goth Kid God : Go with Adam tomorrow. Take a look at college.

  Joan Girardi : Wait. Now you want me to go to college?

  Goth Kid God : Informed choices. They're better than the other kind. Besides, you already told him you'd go, and I like follow-through.

  Joan Girardi : Well, I like privacy. Now that we're listing what what we like, privacy and autonomy!

  [he waves as he leaves] 

  Joan Girardi : I just used "autonomy" in a sentence. Huh.

• Female Motivational Speaker God : Nice to see you embracing technology, Joan.

  Joan Girardi : Great. God is a pop-up ad. That's perfect. Appears out of nowhere, impossible to get rid of.

• Chess Player God : I know you've had a difficult time lately. Losing Judith, questioning me. But you've learned so much. Use it.

  Joan Girardi : How? Every time I think I've learned something, something else gets thrown at me, you know? Adam, or Roger, or... feeling like a loser. Just makes me feel clueless again.

  Chess Player God : That's because you see each event as an end in itself. But they're all parts of something much greater, something that never ends.

  Joan Girardi : You're very "Maxtrix"-y today.

  Chess Player God : You do everything that I ask without knowing where it'll lead because you have faith. Have some in yourself. Other people do. I do.

  Joan Girardi : You're being really nice to me. That's weird.

  Chess Player God : Because I want you to see how much stronger you are than you think. Failure and disappointment, you've been through it before. It's all part of the game.

  Joan Girardi : But this isn't a game. This is my life.

  Chess Player God : Every act you undertake, working at the bookstore, helping someone, even playing rock-paper-scissors, each of those choices is a move, and every move informs the next and changes you and everyone else, like moves on a chess board.

  Joan Girardi : So there has to be a way to win.

  Chess Player God : Sure. By playing.