History Quotes / SingleIssuePsychology

%%-> "''I had an unhappy childhood. May I tell you about it?''"
%%-->--This one French film.

--> ''I was just standing there, looking at my stamp album and the priceless collection that it had taken me years to build, [[SeriousBusiness when all of a sudden I realized that since I had foolishly pasted all of them directly into the album using an industrial-strength adhesive, they were completely worthless. I understood then that the universe was just a cruel joke upon mankind, and that life was pointless. I became completely cynical about human existence and saw the essential stupidity of all effort and human striving.]] At this point I decided to join the police force.''

-> "''I had an unhappy childhood. May I tell you about it?''"
-->--This one French film.

-> ''"The DC comics were always a lot more true blue. Very enjoyable, but they were big, brave uncles and aunties who probably insisted on a high standard of you know mental and physical hygiene. Whereas the Stan Lee stuff, the Marvel comics, he went from one dimensional characters whose only characteristic was they dressed up in costumes and did good. Whereas Stan Lee had this huge breakthrough of two-dimensional characters. So, they dress up in costumes and do good, but they've got a bad heart. Or a bad leg. I actually did think for a long while that having a bad leg was an actual character trait."''

-->--'''[[http://tvminus50.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/20-26-february-1965.html TV Minus 50]]''' on ''Series/TheHumanJungle'' episode "Struggle for a Mind"

->'''Joel:''' ''"Ladies and gentlemen, today we are watching a film called ''Film/IAccuseMyParents''."''
->'''Tom:''' ''"Just to ground everybody, it's the one where [[CaptainObvious the kid accuses his parents]]."''
->'''Crow:''' ''"But can [[FreudianExcuse parents and parents alone]] ''explain'' mental illness on the scale on the scale of young Jimmy's? Hm. Gee, that's be nice, but... Hey, let's try to map out the trail of his psychosis."''
->'''Tom:''' ''"We'll give Jimmy the benefit of the doubt and start with the film's hypotenuse, that at the center of Jimmy's madness we will in fact find his drunk folks."''
->'''Joel:''' ''(drawing on a whiteboard) "Right. ''Drunk folks'' concerning whom Jimmy ''lies''."''
->'''Crow:''' ''"That's fine, but these are not simple utilitarian lies that satisfy you and me as we interact on a day-to-day basis."''
->'''Tom:''' ''"No no no no. These are ''elaborate'' lies - Joel, if you will? Through which Jimmy constructs a richly cuckoo fantasy world of love."''
->'''Crow:''' ''"Then he meets a nice young woman -- hey Jim, here's someone you might want to confide in! Truth, Jim."''
->'''All:''' ''"Truth, truth, truth, truth --"''
->'''Joel:''' ''"It's not gonna happen. Instead, Jimmy feels the need to ''denigrate others'' while simultaneously ''attracting others''."''
->'''Tom:''' ''"Which leads, ''somehow'', to [[TheMafia a life of crime]]!. And yet he's ignorant that it ''is'' crime! Huh. Related back to the elaborate ''lies'', perhaps, Jim? And where in god's name is the connection to our starting point --"''
->'''All:''' ''"Drunk folks."''
->'''Crow:''' ''"We shouldn't forget that Jimmy may be kinda stupid, Joel."''
->'''Tom:''' ''"Oh, Cambot, if you will?" (camera zooms out and a mobile descends from the ceiling) "Here we go. Now we've entered Jimmy's subconscious, as it spins and twirls to illustrate today's lesson: that true Jimmy-scale dementia is indeed a complex phenomenon."''

-->--'''L.J. Washington''', ''TwelveMonkeys''

-->--'''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''' episode 507, ''IAccuseMyParents'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229peR7jjrI&t=2m40s sketch]]

->'''Joel:''' ''"Ladies and gentlemen, today we are watching a film called ''IAccuseMyParents''."''

-->--'''Mystery Science Theater''' episode 507, ''IAccuseMyParents'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229peR7jjrI&t=2m40s sketch]]

-->--This one French film.