Monsters Among Us

American Horror Story: Freak Show

4×1

& Doctor: One bladder. Three kidneys— two on the left and one on the right. Nurse?! Are you writing this down?.. Four lungs. Two hearts with a shared circulatory system...

& Penny: Um, you’re not supposed to smoke in this wing, ma’am.
    Elsa: Oh, it’s fine. It’s Lucky Strike. It’s good for you. Here. Have one.

& Penny: «Fraulein Elsa’s Cabinet of Curiosities.» What is it?
    Elsa: Only by entering will you learn its secrets...

& Dot: I don’t know you.
    Elsa: What pretty girls you are. And so fortunate to have a sister.

& Elsa: One of your doctors... shared your X-ray reports with me. It says you have two hearts. But... only one reproductive system. Complicated, no?

& Elsa: Where were we, Herr Haddonfield?
    Haddonfield: No offense, Miss Elsa, but I lost four toes to frostbite in the Ardennes in the winter of ’44. It’s Mr. Haddonfield, not «Herr.»
    Elsa: You Americans are so sensitive! You won the war...

& Waitress: You mind closing out your check now? I’m going on break.
    Elsa: Oh, darling, it’s on the house. Stars never pay.

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& Jimmy: Don’t worry... I don’t bite.

& Jimmy: Hi. I’m Jimmy. Jimmy Darling.

& Dot: ’...even in the darkest of night... the promise of dawn beckons.

& Jimmy: You’re not worried?
    Elsa: Why should I be? I survived the Stasi. I think I can deal with the simpletons of the Jupiter Police Department.

& Jimmy: I tell you, sometimes I can’t take it. The way they look at us. The way they treat us. It ain’t right.
    Evie: That’s showbiz.

& Elsa: I’ll tell you who the monsters are! The people outside this tent! In your town, in all these little towns. Housewives pinched with bitterness, stupefied with boredom as they doze off in front of their laundry detergent commercials, and dream of strange, erotic pleasures. They have no souls... My monsters, the ones you call depraved, they are the beautiful, heroic ones. They offer their oddity to the world. They provide a laugh, or a fright, to people in need of entertainment... Everyone is living the life they chose. But you... you undoubtedly... will be one of those soulless monsters. Perhaps you already are.

& Ethel: Ladies and gentlemen, direct from the cabarets of prewar Berlin, the enchantress who holds sway over all of nature’s mistakes: Elsa Mars!

♪ It’s a god-awful small affair ♪
♪ To the girl with the mousy hair ♪
♪ But her mommy is yelling «no» ♪
♪ And her daddy has told her to go ♪
♪ But her friend is nowhere to be seen ♪
♪ Now she walks through her sunken dream ♪
♪ To the seats with the clearest view ♪
♪ And she’s hooked to the silver screen ♪
♪ But the film is a saddening bore ♪
♪ For she’s lived it ten times or more ♪
♪ She could spit in the eyes of fools ♪
♪ As they ask her to focus on ♪
♪ Sailors fighting in the dance hall ♪
♪ Oh, man ♪

& Elsa: Let’s ask them. Do you think $10,000 is a fair price for you?
    Gloria: $15,000, and not one penny more. Unless she grows another head.

& Elsa: You see, we are a troupe of entertainers. A family. And you will not split up our family.

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