Janine: And let's go to "boul."
Children: Boul.
Janine: Right. Sometimes it's spelled B-U-L, which is interesting.
Barbara: [enters] What is going on in this classroom?
Janine: Hey, Mrs. Howard. I'm just teaching the kids some sight words. [chuckles] It's a helpful teaching tool, because these kids use these...
Children: Jawns...
Janine: Jawns all the time.
Barbara: You're abandoning the phonics principle that these children need. This is a classroom, not a hoagie stand.
Janine: Oh, boom. Hoagie.
Children: Hoagie.
Janine: We had it on the board, so...

Janine: Hey, Mrs. Howard. Hey, after the assembly, do you think you can come help me with the program? My kids are struggling, and I know I ask you for help all the time, but what can I say? You're the best. [chuckles]
Barbara: Janine...
Janine: Sometimes I wonder if I put you on too high a pedestal, but then I think it's not high enough. I say, "Janine, she's just a person like you..." You know what? I'm sorry, I'm rambling. You make- [voice breaking] I'm sorry. You make me want to be a better teacher.
Barbara: Okay. [chuckles lightly]

Janine: Jacob, are you ready?
Jacob: [scoffs] I am not just ready, I am set and go.
Janine: Yes.
Gregory: Ready for what? What's going on?
Janine: We have this little tradition where we read our Grades for Teachers reviews out loud when a new one comes in. Mine are always just incredibly flattering.
Gregory: There's a Yelp for teachers?
Janine: Yeah. Do you want me to help you set up a page? Because as it says here, I am excellent... at explaining complicated ideas.

Ava: Oh, hey, Barbara! Nothing to see here, just Janine going on and on about what a handful Courtney is and how she can't handle the situation at all.
Barbara: Is that so?
Ava: [clicks tongue] Fine. I guess technically Janine succeeded. She figured out that Courtney needs to be bumped up a grade. [sighs] Guess you win the bet.
Barbara: Hmm.
Janine: Barbara? You believed in me?
Barbara: Janine, why don't you go handle this transfer so that your class isn't any more disrupted than it already has been?
Janine: Okay. Mm. [makes symbol with hangs] It's a heart. [voice breaking] I learned that from Courtney.
[aside to camera:]
Janine: I thought Barbara bet against me, but she didn't. She actually thinks I'm a great teacher. Maybe even better than... [Courtney runs out of the class room] Courtney! Hey, Courtney! What, get... How'd you get back in the building? Courtney!

Janine: Am I interrupting?
Melissa: What do you think of Gary, the vending-machine guy?
Janine: Oh. Oh, my God. I love that he stocks Gushers.
Melissa: Aren't you like 25?
Janine: And three-quarters, yes.

Sahar: Oh, we're gonna do the installation. Since when have we let one "no" stop us?
Janine: A "no" from Melissa is like a thousand "no's" from anybody else.
Sahar: Melissa's gonna love the installation. She just doesn't know it yet 'cause she doesn't think like us. We're wired different.
Janine: Totally, totally. I think it's "wired differently," but...
Sahar: What happened to the Janine who was hopping over turnstiles last year to protest minimum wage for transit workers?
Janine: Actually, I did pay 'cause I couldn't get over the turnstile and that's how they get paid, so it wasn't making sense as a protest.

[aside to camera:]
Janine: I obviously could not afford to buy the books myself, so I had to get creative.
[Janine leading a group of hipsters around Sahar's exhibit:]
Janine: So, what you see here is a commentary on both domesticity and capitalism. Uh, as well as socialism and sexism. If you think about it for a second... Carrot. Or not. It's up to the eye of the beholder of the person who has the eye.
[aside to camera:]
Janine: I reached out to some art collectors who notoriously have money to burn. I sold the art installation and had enough money to replace the books.

Janine: [aside to camera] I can't believe Jacob didn't tell me about Zach. I mean, I have so many questions, okay? Is he tall? Is he a cat person or a dog person? Is Zach spelled with a "ck" or a "ch" or, what I find to be the most exotic spelling, just a "c"? And... I don't know. Maybe he's right. Maybe we are just work friends, because a "friend" friend would know.

Janine: Well, look on the bright side. Now we get to all stay inside and have lunch together, which will be nice because, despite what some people say, we all love each other, like one big, happy family.
Ava: Ugh, what are you talking about?
Jacob: I told her we're work friends, and now she's doing this.
Melissa: Well, we are work friends. What's the problem?
Janine: Uh, no. No, no, no, we are a family.
Ava: [mockingly] "We're family." Enough with that Dominic Toretto rhetoric.
Janine: Th-There's a reason that there are nine of those movies.

Melissa: Honey, family you kill for. I ain't killing for any of ya. Except Barbara.
Barbara: Look, we come here, we love our kids, we exchange some delightful repartee. We are good colleagues. And then we leave. There's nothing wrong with that.
Janine: But I just feel like it doesn't have to be that way.
Ava: Girl, this ain't a sorority. I'm not shoplifting Plan B for you.
Gregory: See, this is what people are trying to avoid.
Janine: I know. I just think we should spend the time to get to know each other better. [thunder rumbles]
[aside to camera:]
Janine: Oh, they may not want to share, but I have ways of making people talk. [thunder crashes] Mm. [points to the heavens]