Clueless (TV Series)

Driving Me Crazy (1996)

Wallace Shawn: Mr. Hall

Quotes 

• Mr. Hall : [in class]  Cher? Is something wrong?

  Cher Horowitz : [sitting forlornly at her desk, rest of classroom empty]  No.

  Mr. Hall : Aren't you gonna be late for your next class? Uh, Driver's Ed, isn't it?

  Cher Horowitz : Uh, I'm the only one left.

  Mr. Hall : Oh, that's, uh, nice. Be like a... private tutorial.

  Cher Horowitz : [scoffs softly]  Oh, Mr. Hall, it's so pathetic. I can't do it. Everyone else can and I can't.

  [dejected:] 

  Cher Horowitz : I'll never drive.

  Mr. Hall : Uhm, Cher, did you read last week's assignment in Don Quixote?

  Cher Horowitz : Mr. Hall, I've been a little preoccupied with my automotive distress.

  Mr. Hall : You know, Cher, uh,

  [sits down] 

  Mr. Hall : everybody does this at some time or another. Sometimes when I'm teaching, I even find it happening to me. And whenever it does, I think, uh, windmills.

  Cher Horowitz : Oh, do you mean like happy things from Holland? Like tulips and clogs and Gouda?

  Mr. Hall : Well, let's look in the book. It seems, in Chapter 8, Don Quixote finds himself on a plain dotted with windmills.

  Cher Horowitz : [rising, intrigued]  Oh, that's right! He attacked them because he thought they were giants.

  Mr. Hall : Exactly! Now, Cher, are windmills giants?

  Cher Horowitz : [laughs]  No...

  Mr. Hall : But he thought they were. And so he, uh...

  Cher Horowitz : Oh, Mr. Hall... I really appreciate your courageous attempt to help... but I think I'm beyond even metaphorical assistance.

  Mr. Hall : But why don't you think about it? Because great literature can often have the answer to our problems.

  [this hits home with Cher]