FLCL Quotations

FLCL
(フリクリ, Furi Kuri, also Fooly Cooly) is an anime OVA series co-produced by Gainax and Production I.G.. The series was created and directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki, and written by Yōji Enokido.

"Fooly Cooly" (フリクリ) [1.1]

Naota Nandaba: Nothing amazing ever happens here. (recurring quote)

Mamimi Samejima: Ta-kun!

Haruko Haruhara: Native girl must stop! Taro-kun just hit his head so you can’t move him yet understand?

Mamimi: But he isn’t Taro-kun.

Haruko: Hes dead! This young boy is completely dead, just as Taro would be.

Mamimi: But hes not Taro, like I said.

Haruko: Oh I killed him, I finally find the S.O.B. and I killed him. I didn’t mean to it was an accident, kind of. Ah lets face it I definitely totally killed him, just like that Bang! No more like bong, kablam or kunga ka-splat! yea yea yea . . .

Naota: What did you do to me?

Haruko: CPR. What do you think I did?

Naota: That's not what I meant.

Mamimi: Did she put her tongue inside?

[Naota in a hopistal checking his bump]

Haruko [as nurse]: Hmmm . . . Flictonic Clipple Webber Syndrome

Naota: Uh...Fooly Cooly?

Haruko: Adolescent psychological skin hardening syndrome. It’s a common disease where children grow horns from trying too hard.

Naota: That’s a lie, I never heard that before.

Haruko: Yeah I lied; so what is the truth? Underneath the bad-aid?

Naota: What are you doing in the hospital?

Haruko: Stay right there. I’m going to make you feel all better.

[crashing sounds]

Haruko: It's my special treatment!

[crashing stops and Naota sneaks out of the hospital]

Haruko:Huh? Where'd he go? Heyyyy....heyyyy.... Taro-kun?

Haruko: You're the one I saw first, Takkun.

[Mamimi is clutching a bag of old bread]

Naota: My brother, I mean - how much do you like him?

Mamimi: It's hard.

Naota: You saw the sign at our bakery, that bread's old.

Mamimi: ...Watermelon.

Naota: Huh?

Mamimi: Or like a panda with a mean face, or like sandals with pressure points drawn on them, or the smell of a blackboard eraser, or a Sunday morning where you wake up and it's raining. Well, I like him more than hard bread.

[Manga sequence]

Naota: WAA! It's you, the Vespa Woman!

Kamon: Why are you yelling?

Grandpa: Hurry up, and siddown!

Haruko: Hi!

Naota: Uh...uhh...

Kamon: Ah, I just hired her to work for us. Her name is Haruhara--

Haruko: -Haruko. Pleasure.

[Naota stares at Haruko and his father in pure disbelief]

Kamon: I got run over you know. Smashed!

Naota: By her vespa?!

Grandpa: It should've killed him.

Kamon: But instead we got a live-in housekeeper out of it, didn't we?

Naota: Are you feeling okay, Grandpa? I mean--YOU GOT A HOUSEKEEPER?! A HOUSEKEEPER?!!!

Haruko: --Who was watching Taro-kun who was making out with a High-School girl.

Kamon: Fondling her yum-yums?

Naota: I told you I'm not Taro--

Kamon: FONDLING HER CUPCAKES!? [Kamon crosschops his son] Who's this slut you're fooling around with? Huh!? HUH!?

Naota: Ma-Mamimi! We were down at the river!

Kamon: Really!? Mamimi?

Grandpa: I'll bet she does it like a weasel! She's cursed I tell ya.

Kamon: Ah, your brother is away, so she's sinking your fangs into you, Naota. Fondling around, fooling around! Fooly Cooly! [pause] What's Fooly Cooly?

Naota: How should I know? I'm still in grade school. Do you think I'm that crazy?

Kamon: Ha ha...HA HA HA...that's what it is; Naota's Gundam Hammer.

Naota: Huh...?

Kamon: It's that tomino-esquede, saying that it's Gundam, but basically it's a giant robot anime, right?

Naota: I don't know what you're talking about!

Kamon: Nao's just like me, so he must be doing it! I know he's doing it. Doing it, doing it, Fooly Coolying!

Haruko: I see...pretty impressive little bro.

Kamon: So what do you think, Haruko-san?

Haruko: Yeah...?

Kamon: Oooh...Cooly Cooly, like that?

Haruko: Kool-aid?

Kamon: Not like curry powder aphrodisiac licked off my desk!

Haruko: Death!

Kamon: It's like this...Cooly Cooly...new modality.

Haruko: Noodle?

Kamon: I mean like on MTV!

Haruko: Empty?

Kamon: Oooh, former assistant editor and chief, who knew you had such a lovely, young wife?! Oooh, hoo, hoo, hoo, Cooly Cooly! Yeah, it's kind of this Fooly Cooly dream thing!

Grandpa: Yeah, Cooly Cooly is...you do it like this with your hands, see?

Haruko: Right, I'm already in that kind of relationship with Ta-kun here.

Kamon/Grandpa: Relationship?! HOW DO YOU MEAN?!

Haruko: MOUTH TO MOUTH!

Kamon: Mouth...m-m-m-mou-mou-mouth?!

Naota: I told you to shut up about that!

Kamon: So...living in the same house...you two must already be Fooly Coolying...

Naota: Who cares if it's Fooly or Cooly?!

Kamon: But you aren't thinking about doing it tonight, are you?

Naota: Stop acting like a kid!

Kamon: With that kind of Cooly Cooly kind of dream, you must be hiding it underneath this band-aid, aren't you?!

Naota: Ahh, I'm not hiding anything!

Haruko: Band-aid...

"FireStarter" (ファイスタ) [1.2]

[taking x-rays of Naota's brain]:

Haruko: Okay, stay still. Look at this. It's empty, there's no brain. Did you lose it somewhere?

Naota: You're the one who did this.

Haruko: Don't blame me if you go around losing things. Some kids are just freaks.

Naota: Look who's talking, miss normal.

Haruko: At least I didn't sprout a robot out of my head, like some people. By the way, there's something new there now.

Haruko: Hey there, Haruhara Haruko here, age 19, splendiferous housekeeper at Takkun's house.

Naota: She's older than that...

Haruko: But my true identity is this... [drumroll] First Class Space Patrol Officer!

Naota: [after a pause] What a lame stage name.

Naota: When you're on a bike, the ocean's a lot closer than you think. The autumn salt wind went right through to the back of my nose. And maybe it's because, like Haruko said, my head was empty.

Naota: At the time, I didn't notice the sirens that were coming towards us. I don't know where the lies end and the truth begins. I asked myself what I could do for Mamimi. I decided to stay by her side forever.

"Marquis de Carabas" (マルラバ) [1.3]

Haruko: It's Manhattan style, see? Little Prince Curry goes to New York. Mild, for kids.

Naota: Uaaahhh, it's spicy, I don't care if it goes to New York!

Haruko: Please don't tell people our bakery's motorbike ran you over.

[Ninamori watches Canti eat curry]

Eri Ninamori: Why is that thing eating? What is it anyway?

Kamon Nandaba: That's just our TV.

[Canti gets up]

Eri Ninamori: Why is it walking?

Kamon Nandaba: Well, uh, it must be a TV-Walkman.

Eri Ninamori: Sony brand?

Eri Ninamori: Just don't tell anybody I stayed the night here. People might start saying things if they know.

Naota: [drinking a soft drink] Yeah, people will say all kinds of things. Just don't hang out with me for the next couple of days, all right?

Eri Ninamori: But tonight is okay, right?

Eri Ninamori: What's really weird... is your ears...

Naota: What? You've seen them...?

Eri Ninamori: I was told not to touch them. So, what are they?

Naota: What do they look like?

Eri Ninamori: Like cat ears; perfect for playing a cat.

Eri Ninamori: You're Puss in Boots, the one who tricks the prince. He hides who he really is and pretends to be someone else forever. So in time he becomes that person, so his lie becomes the truth, see? He transcends the mask. Well, don't you get it? That's how he finds happiness. That's pretty good, right?

Haruko: Ukulele no good! Chu*!

Masashi: "Chu"?

chu in japanese is the sound of kissing and the sound that mice make

Eri Ninamori: They're fake.

"Full Swing" (フリキリ) [1.4]

Haruko: Nothing can happen till you swing the bat.

Kamon:Don't be late for dinner. We're having your favorite, Genetically Altered Fermented Soybeans.

Naota: Those... eyebrows.

Amarao: What about the eyebrows?

Naota: Nothing.

Commander Amarao: When it comes down to it, there are very few people who will swing the bat.

[a giant satelite bomb is headed towards the city]

Mamimi: If that thing hits, do you think we'll have school tomorrow?

[Haruko is trying to pull an object out of Naota's head]

Haruko: Hey, I didn't know boys felt like this inside.

Naota: Ah. Don't touch me there from behind.

Haruko: What are you waiting for? Hurry up and pop it.

Naota: If I rush, it won't pop. Go slow.

Amarao:He swung the bat...

Naota: By the time I realized it, I had already swung the bat. My palms still sting. I wonder if Haruko feels like this all the time.

[Haruko laughs gleefully]

From the preview for the next episode.

Haruko: It takes an idiot to do cool things. That's why it's cool.

"Brittle Bullet" (ブラブレ) [1.5]

Haruko: [after Naota accidentally kisses her, due to his new horn jutting his head up] Yeah, Tak-kun! That's more like it.

Naota: No, the horn. It's the horn.

Haruko: My first kiss!

Naota: Liar. You've done it plenty of times, and you know it.

Haruko: [protecting Kitsurubami from shooting at Canti] CYBORG, MY BUTT! (english dub only)

Mamimi: You like Haru-san.

Naota: How can I like someone who's insane?

Amarao: Look at that! Medical Mechanica's transporting these monstrosities here to destroy this planet! Ohhh, it's all over. Don't you see what's happening here?

Haruko: [picking her nose, nonchalantly] You're such a drama queen, figure it out.

Amarao: You're the one who caused all this.

Haruko: I don't CARE, you got it?

Amarao: Your guitar's not up to it. That's it.

Haruko: YOU are a million years under-evolved, primitive monkey!

Amarao: That's discriminatory language used against underdeveloped planets.

Amarao: Where are my eyebrows? I've gotta find my eyebrows!

[Mamimi is scared and calling for Naota's brother, over and over]

Naota: Don't call my brother! I'm the one who's here! Hey, look at me! I'm the one whose gonna save you! Canti!

[Canti comes down out of the sky]

Naota: Now listen, my name is Naota. Don't EVER call me Ta-kun again!

"FLCLimax" (フリクラ) [1.6]

Naota:Ever since that day smoke has continued to pour out of the medical mechanica factory. The town is completely covered in white mist, you can't see the sky or the stars. It's almost like, outside of this town nothing else exists anymore, a town where you can't go beyond the edge. But gigantic hand says stay where you are you have no choice its like the right hand of a judge or a prison warden about to give the signal for an execution.

Naota: When you're in a town like this all covered with smoke, you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that, used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. But now Haruko is here. That's how I know there really is a world outside.

[Amarao and Kitsurubami are examining a hand-shaped structure on a bank of televisions]

Kitsurubami: It's... a hand, isn't it?

Amarao: It's a hand.

Mamimi: Finally, I think I can forgive all of them after this

Amarao: Cats should stick with other cats, it's only natural.

Amarao:Where are your eyebrows? Why did you take them off? I told you not to trust her. She's only thinking about herself. She doesn't care what happens to you; she doesn't care what happens to anyone. But you have family and friends who live here, and that high school girl, you want to save her, don't you? Of course you do; that's normal; you're thinking like an adult. Come over here. Don't let her manipulate you. [Naota goes to Haruko] What are you doing? How much pain before you realize? Are you out of your mind? You brat!

Amarao: [to Haruko] This is insane! You're doing exactly what Medical Mechanica wants! They're flattening planets all over the galaxy... smoothing out the wrinkles so you can't think! Even the Pirate King has been captured! They're using him to lure you in! It's over! IT'S ALL OVER!

Haruko: I said I don't CARE about any of that. I just want Atomsk, that's all. I don't care what happens to this planet. They'll have to learn to 'think smooth', I guess!

Amarao: [Naota has just emerged from Canti's head, glowing bright red] The kid? Did he do it? HE GOT THE POWERS OF THE PIRATE KING! ATOMSK!

Haruko: [suddenly enraged, gritting her teeth] Ta-kun, you can't DO THAT! That power's MINE!

Amarao:She's just as bad as Medical Mechanica! You're not going to get what you want from her! FIGHT BACK, TAKE HER OUT!

Naota: [Naota 'lets go' of his powers as the Pirate King just in time not to hurt Haruko, to Haruko] I love you.

Haruko: I lost him again because of you, Ta-kun, we couldn't pull it off. You wanna come along? [pauses] Know what? Forget it. 'Cause you're still a kid, Ta-kun. Save it for next time.