Funny / Next to Normal

• "Better Than Before" is full of these. Such as;
  Diana: And who's this little chubby girl?
  Dan: That's Natalie!
  Natalie: This sucks.

  Natalie: Here's the damage to the Honda when you showed me how to park it.
  Diana: Did we crush somebody's cat beneath the tire?
  Natalie: Yes, ours.

  Diana: [To Natalie] Your life has kinda sucked, I think.
  Natalie: You've got it! Yay, hooray!
• Doctor Madden's rock star moments just before I'm Alive.
• For that matter, his rattling off all the warnings. "The white ones with the round yellow ones but not the trapezoidal green ones. Split the green ones into thirds with a tiny chisel...If a train is leaving New York at 120 miles an hour..."
• And Diana in "Seconds and Years":
  Dr Madden: Do you still feel your head is filled with concrete?
  Diana: No...and you're not a scary rock star anymore!
  Dr Madden: Ok...great.
• Diana in "Just Another Day":
  So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring/And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak...
  • Additionally, her blithe declaration to Natalie:
    Diana: Honey, you need to slow down, take some time for yourself. I'm going to have sex with your father.
    Natalie: Great, thanks, I'm...so glad I know that.
• Feeling Electric in the off-Broadway run, which takes Doctor Madden's brief rock star moments and makes a whole song out of it.
• "I mean, Portland?"

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