a month later, she confesses...

So I know everyone and his mother liked Juno, so I don't really tell people I like it unless they ask. I kind of love it.

Juno MacGuff: Yea, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom I can think of so many cooler things to do that night. Like, you know what Bleek? I might pumice my feet, uh, I might go to Bren's Unitarian Church, maybe get hit by a truck full of hot garbage juice, you know? Cause all those things, would be exponentially cooler than going to prom with you.
Paulie Bleeker: You're being really immature... You have no reason to be mad at me, I mean, you know, you broke MY heart. I should be royally ticked off at you. I should be really cheesed off, I shouldn't want to talk to you anymore.
Juno MacGuff: What? Cause I got bored and had sex with you and I didn't want to like marry you?
Paulie Bleeker: Like I'd marry you! You'd be the meanest wife ever, okay? And I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a lot of stuff on TV, and then 'The Blair Witch Project' was coming on Starz and you were like 'I haven't seen this since it came out and if so we should watch it' and 'but oh, no, we should just make out instead la la la'

Everyone loves Juno, and I do too, but Paulie's a gem of a character too. Michael Cera (the actor who plays Paulie) has got to be one of my favorite actors: he's confident without arrogance, and has a bit of an awkward mannerism which makes him "real" in a way that even "real" people aren't. I love the "You'd be the meanest wife ever!" line. Juno's sarcastic trademark is golden. The day after I saw Juno, my sarcasm ripped through conversations. It was so acidic and sharp, I spouted lines I had never thought of before. It was crazy. I felt like I had seen a muse.

Juno MacGuff: Oh, and she inexplicably mails me a cactus every Valentine's Day. And I'm like, "Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings even worse than your abandonment."


Mac MacGuff: Whats that thing?
Vanessa Loring: It's a pilates machine.
Mac MacGuff: What do you make with it?
Vanessa Loring: Oh you don't make anything with it, it's for exercise.
Mac MacGuff: Oh. My wife ordered one of those Tony Little Gazelles off the television... I don't know about that guy. He doesn't look right.