Reverend Spike Quotes in Serial (1980)

Martha: You-ness. Me-ness. Us-ness. We-ness.

Sam Stone: [snorts]

Martha: Your-ness. My-ness. Our-ness. Happiness.

Harvey Holroyd: [whispering] Sickness.

Kate Linville Holroyd: [whispering] Harvey!

Martha: And now, Bill, I'd like to hear where your head is at.

Bill: Thank you, Martha, for pushing my button.

Stokely: [shakes head in disbelief]

Bill: Thank you for inviting me to participate in your life, for I am an asshole. And being an asshole is neither good nor bad. It just is.

Reverend Spike: I think that says it all.

Harvey Holroyd: [whispering] These are exciting times, aren't they? Gas is over a dollar a gallon and it's okay to be an asshole.

Kate Linville Holroyd: [whispering] Shh!

Reverend Spike: Fellow beings, we are here to celebrate a wedding. Not one imposed by an uptight consumer society, which kills whales, builds nuclear reactors, but a real marriage. Will you touch each other please?

[Kate and Harvey hold hands]

Reverend Spike: Beautiful. Harv, can you relate to making a heavy commitment, to share your space with Kate, respecting her identity as a free being?

Harvey Holroyd: No.

Reverend Spike: No?

Harvey Holroyd: No. I promise to love, honor, and cherish Kate Linville Holroyd in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, forsaking all others, for as long as we both shall live.

[Harvey turns to Spike]

Harvey Holroyd: You asshole!

Reverend Spike: Kate, will you tell us where you're coming from?

Kate Linville Holroyd: I think Harvey took the words right out of my mouth.

Reverend Spike: All of 'em?

Kate Linville Holroyd: Including the asshole.

Reverend Spike: Kate, it's so meaningful to me about Harvey's new awareness.

Kate Linville Holroyd: Oh, I know!

Reverend Spike: These flowers symbolize rebirth.

Kate Linville Holroyd: Lovely, Spike. There seem to be two missing.

Reverend Spike: Life is a mound of space.

Kate Linville Holroyd: Oh, yes, yes! That's beautiful, really beautiful, Spike!

Reverend Spike: By the way, does Harvey have the check?

Kate Linville Holroyd: Of course.

Reverend Spike: Beautiful. Beautiful.