Barbara Quote #26
Quote from Barbara in Student Transfer
Man: Ms. Howard?
Barbara: Yes?
Man: Ms. Howard! It is you! Yo! I would have thought you would have retired by now! Yo, I just dropped off my nephew and... Yo, you was always my favorite teacher, and I never got a chance to thank you for everything you did for me back in kindergarten.
Barbara: Aw, sweetheart, you don't have to thank me for that. You did this.
Man: Of course I need to thank you. Before I was in your class, everyone would have been like, "Oh, he's gon' be the one that needs to be secured." But thanks to you, I'm out here securing.
Barbara: [gasps] Well, I am very proud of you. By the way, how is your mother?
Man: Well, that's complicated, but it's gon' mean so much to my moms that Ms. Howard asked after her.
Barbara: Well, sweetheart, it was so good to see you, and have a great rest of your day.
Man: You, too, Ms. Howard.
Barbara: Alright.
Man: You, too.
Barbara: Bye.
Man: Bye.
[Janine and Barbara walk into the school]
Janine: [chuckles] See, Mrs. Howard? That is why we do this. Mold those young minds. Just create new lives, make those connections. That...
Barbara: Sweetheart, I have no idea who that young man was. Morning.
Abbott Elementary Quotes
‘Student Transfer’ Quotes
Quote from Barbara
Jacob: Barbara, have you ever been roasted by your students?
Barbara: One, they're five. Two, they respect me. Three, what would they even say?
Quote from Ava
Janine: I feel that with a more challenging workload, Courtney will be much, much easier to handle, and she won't have time to distract her classmates.
Ava: Mm-hmm. Why does that sound so familiar? Oh. Hold up.
Melissa: [removes file] Part 3?
Ava: My bad, y'all. She was supposed to skip second grade, but they told me during Essence Fest. I missed a lot of paperwork during that month.
Janine: Isn't Essence Fest just a weekend?
Ava: Maybe for y'all.
Quote from Jacob
Jacob: Hey, I need to talk. Like to a friend. You know how sometimes when you're being chased by a dog and you can't tell if it's playing or if it's trying to bite you?
Gregory: No.
Jacob: But at the same time, you don't want to stop running, because if it isn't playing, you're gonna get bit? Look, I tried roasting my students back, and it didn't work. It got way worse and oddly specific.
Gregory: Come on. It couldn't have been that bad.
Jacob: They called me "HuffPo-reading gay Pete Buttigieg," which is repetitive and insulting. As if I would read a word of Huffington Post after Arianna stepped down.
Gregory: You may just have to take the L on this one, man. I mean, you can't really beat them at their own game. It's like them challenging you to... Dungeons & Dragons.
Jacob: Yeah, you can't really challenge someone to D&D. It's more like a cooperative game that's all about the shared experience rather than winning. [gasps, snaps fingers] Thank you, you ol' good friendship having man.