American Horror Story

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American Horror Story (2011–) is a horror-drama television series, airing on FX, created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Described as an anthology series, each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a disparate set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own "beginning, middle and end."

The first season takes place in the present day and follows the story of the Harmon family, who move into a restored mansion, unaware that the home is haunted by its former inhabitants. The second season, titled American Horror Story: Asylum, takes place in 1964 and follows the stories of the patients, doctors and nuns who occupy an institution for the criminally insane.

Season 1

Pilot [1.01]

Rubber Man
Ben: Peeking in people's windows is still a crime, even in L.A.
Gynecologist: So are your periods regular again?
Vivien: Every other month. Not that I'm really complaining. After all that blood. Ben hates blood.
Gynecologist: You having issues with arousal?
Vivien: Not when I'm by myself.
Vivien: The light is different out here. It's softer.
Violet: It's called smog.
Ben: You should be excited, Vi. You can stop sneaking cigarettes and just start taking deep breaths.
Constance: Adelaide, I put on Dora the Explorer for you, so you would sit and watch it.
Adelaide: It was Go, Diego, Go! I don't like it.
Constance: Oh, brown cartoon characters--you can't tell the difference.
Vivien: Can I ask you a personal question? Do you ever get tired of cleaning up other peoples' messes?
Old Moira: We're women--it's what we do. I just get paid for it.
Constance: Don't make me kill you again.

Home Invasion [1.02]

Constance: Is there anything more wonderful than the promise of a new child... or more heartbreaking when that promise is broken?
Ben: What do you want?
Larry: Well.. more than anything, I guess, to be on the stage. You know what stopped me? Fear of what my family would say. But... now that they're, well, you know, dead, and, uh, I have terminal brain cancer, I figure... maybe I should just go for it, you know? Chase that dream. What about you? What dream are you chasing? Or should I say, what dream is chasing you?
Larry: I'm trying very hard not to judge you.
Ben: Me? You murdered your entire family.
Larry: Yes. But I was never unfaithful.
Vivien: Well, I appreciate it. I'm not usually much of a cupcake girl myself...
Constance: Oh! They're not for you. At your age? You might as well just Krazy Glue a stick of butter to your ass.

Murder House [1.03]

Marcy: I'd kill to live in this house, regardless of the history!
Moira: I don't want to be here anymore! I'm frightened! I miss my mother!
Constance: You think I want to stay in this world of death and rot and regret? Try to find some dignity in the situation. Move on, missy.
Moira: I can't. I want to, but I can't.
Constance: Every time I find my heart breaking just a sliver for you, I suddenly remember. You made this mess for yourself. And I also remember every time I see that ghostly eye, that I was and continue to be a hell of a shot.
Moira: I'm not not naive to the ways of men. Their need to objectify, conquer. They see what they want to see. Women, however, see into the soul of a person.
Ben: Okay. But if you ever want to talk to somebody...
Violet: Dad...
Ben: I mean, not me. You know, I'm way too expensive.
Ben: I didn't do anything. You heard it on the tape. She did it to herself.
Colquitt: Right. It's not a crime to be an asshole.

Halloween (1) [1.04]

Chad: And pick me up some Gala apples. I thought these Golden Delicious would look dramatic in the bobbing bucket. They just look dull and depressing. There's no contrast.
Chad: I am trying here! I am trying to make this place warm and inviting and spectacular and have this Halloween party shot by Elle friggin Decor so someone will see it and sweep in and take this place off our hands, and then I can feel free to fall in love with a 25-year-old who has great biceps. So get off my back, carve a goddamn pumpkin, go get a goddamn costume, and man up.
Vivien: We have style.
Marcy: Everybody thinks they have style, and everybody thinks they're funny. Most people aren't.
Chad: I think you should just leave.
Vivien: You think we should just leave our house?
Chad: It's not your house. We know it, you know it, and the house knows it. Frankly, you don't deserve it.

Halloween (2) [1.05]

Larry: The one thing about the dead is they've got nothing left to lose.
Ben: You see that crazy bitch, you tell her we're done. I'm not playing your games. You come back on this property, and I will kill you. You hear me? I will kill you.
Larry: Promises, promises.
Tate: I used to come here... when the world closed in and got so small I couldn't breathe. I'd look out at the ocean, and I'd think... "Yo, douche bag, high school counts for jack shit." Kurt Cobain, Quentin Tarantino, Brando, DeNiro, Pacino, all high school dropouts. I... hated high school. So I'd come here and I'd look out at this vast, limitless expanse. Then it's like, that's your life, man. You can do anything, could be anything. Screw high school. That's... it's just a blip in your timeline. Don't get stuck there.
Constance: One of the comforts of having children is knowing one's youth has not fled, but merely been passed down to a new generation. They say when a parent dies, a child feels his own mortality. But when a child dies, it's immortality that a parent loses.

Piggy, Piggy [1.06]

Billie: I used to be like you. Until I was 25. When out of the blue my cleaning lady shows up as I'm brushing my teeth. except she's got no toilet brush and rubber gloves, she's naked and bloody. Her husband murdered her with an ice pick.
Constance: It's hard to keep good help.
Billie: You think I wanted a bloody Mexican ghost in my bathroom? All I wanted was to improve my tennis game and unseat Charlotte Whitney as president of my book club. I was chosen. And when you're chosen, you either get with the program or you go crazy.
Ben: We need the money.
Vivien: I'm finding it really hard to look at your face. 'Cause I really, really, really want to bash it in. I find you disgusting... and disappointing as a man. and we're gonna end this marriage and we're gonna sell this house and I'll let you be a father to our kids because I happen to think that you're a good one. But I'm not going to be your friend. I will merely tolerate you.
Leah: The Devil is real. And he's not a little red man with horns and a tail. He can be beautiful. Because he's a fallen angel, and he used to be God's favorite. Have you read the Book of Revelation?
Violet: No.
Leah: In Heaven, there's this woman in labor howling in pain. And there's a red dragon with seven heads waiting so he can eat her babies. But the Archangel Michael, he hurls the dragon down to earth. From that moment on, the red dragon hates the woman, and declares war on her and all of her children. That's us.
Violet: Why are you bullshitting me?!?
Teacher: If the bullet had been an inch to the right, it would've missed my spine and I would have walked out of here. Might have even been able to stop him. An inch higher, it would have killed me. Sometimes shit just happens.
Violet: Good people don't just have a bad day and start shooting people.
Teacher: Maybe he wasn't a good person.
Billie: I see it all the time. The dead can hold a grudge better than most Scorpios.

Open House [1.07]

Marcy: No matter how gruesome or horrible the murder, you can always find someone who'll buy the house.
Vivien: You know, we want to make sure everything's okay with the baby. You didn't see anything unusual--hooves or anything?
Ben: What?
Marcy: Everything was meticulously restored by a couple of the previous homos. Owners. Homeowners.
Escandarian: Fags have such a great eye for detail, don't they?
Marcy: A queer eye.
Larry: Oh, I see. It's because of my affliction, isn't it. Sometimes I wonder, if I knew how much I was going to be shunned, if I would have run back onto that burning school bus to save those children. Now this crudité is making my mouth dry. I'm going to have a little glass of this Chardonnay, and then you may show me the house.
Marcy: [drawing her gun] Put down the stemware.
Vivien: What are you doing?
Marcy: A woman in my line can't be too careful. There are a lot of minority men in this city who would like nothing more than to ravage me on this countertop.
Constance: Used to be no one was from here. People came here to escape their pasts. find a plot of land that not even a red Indian had set foot on and make a new life for yourself.
Escandarian: Give me a number. I want history, I'll talk to Gene Autry.
Constance: But now there are no more virgin plots. We live on top of each other. That's California now... and that's the world. there is no more space, and yet it it's human nature to want to claim your own turf. So build away, we do. every time you put up one of these... monstrous temples to the gods of travertine, you're building on top of someone else's life.
Escandarian: I'm a developer. I improved on the past. I build a new future.
Constance: You should show some respect. You're not an archaeologist. You should stop unearthing while you're ahead. It only brings a haunting. We have a responsibility as caretakers to the old lands... to show some respect.

Rubber Man [1.08]

Moira: That's what men do--they make you think you're crazy so that they can have their fun.
Marcy: Oh lord. Moira, how about a calming cup of tea for Mrs. Harmon?
Vivien: Don't patronize me, Marcy. In fact, there is someone who wants my husband, who wants my life.
Marcy: You know, cousin Helen went paranoid when she was pregnant with her second. She imagined the stuffed animals in the nursery dancing to some dreadful African drumbeat. She thought they were enacting voodoo on her. We got her hormones straightened out, and she was right back on the happy track in no time.
Peggy: Look, Pat's obviously got some interests that he doesn't feel free sharing with you.
Chad: Ugh!
Peggy: Now, if you don't want to end up sharing him, then you need to make a preemptive strike.
Chad: What do you mean?
Peggy: I mean you have to fight. Pat's a great guy, Chad, worth fighting for. And if that means you have to fight with a cat-o'-nine-tails and some titty clamps, then brother, you better gear up.
Chad: Why are you being such an asshole? This turns you on. I know it does.
Patrick: Seriously, Chad, depressing sex is even more depressing when you try so hard.
Moira: You want them to find you?
Tate: I'm open to suggestions.
Moira: I think you should get over your compulsive need to please the ladies of this house.
Tate: I think I have mommy issues. You know a good therapist?

Spooky Little Girl [1.09]

Dr. Curan: What have you done?
Dr. Montgomery: I've bisected her body, removed the intestine, and drained her blood.
Dr. Curan: Why?
Dr. Montgomery: A writer writes, a surgeon cuts. I think you will find these pieces more portable.
Travis: I really got to go. I mean, I can't leave it like this with Constance.
Hayden: You're kidding me. I thought you said you hated her.
Travis: Nah, I guess I love her. And we got a baby coming.
Hayden: A baby what, fossil?
Billie: The Holy Ghost merely whispered in the Virgin Mary's ear and she begat the son of God. If the Devil's going to use a human womb for his spawn, he's going to want a little more bang for his buck.

Smoldering Children [1.10]

Constance: Now, who wants to say grace?
Tate: Oh, Mother, may I?
Larry: Oh, of course, son. I was hoping you would choose to become a part of this family.
Tate: Dear God, thank you for the salty pig meat we are about to eat, along with the rest of the indigestible swill. And thank you for our new charade of our family. My father ran away when I was only six. If I'd have known any better, I would have joined him,. And, also, because she's been trying to get back into this house ever since she lost it, Lord, a big thank you for blinding the asshole that's doing my mother, so that he can't see what everybody knows. She doesn't really love him.
Adelaide: Amen.
Constance: [after feeding Hugo to her dogs] Once I discovered that he had cheated, Hugo meant no more to me than dog shit.
Violet: So why'd you keep it a secret?
Tate: "Hi, I'm Tate. I'm dead. Want to hook up?" I don't think so.
Constance: I have long stopped asking why the mad do mad things.

Birth [1.11]

Constance: What you are planning to do is unnatural.
Chad: Deodorant's unnatural, but it's a public good. We'll make excellent parents.
Constance: Man shall not lie with man. It is an abomination.
Chad: So's that hairdo, but I figure that's your business.
Tate: Seriously, though, are you ready for all this? I mean, you never struck me as the diapers and midnight feedings type.
Patrick: Maybe you should have taken a few minutes to get to know me before you stuck a fireplace poker up my ass.
Tate: Fair enough.
Moira: He's the most beautiful baby I've ever seen.
Constance: From blood and pain come perfection.
Violet: I used to think you were like me. You were attracted to the darkness, but Tate, you are the darkness.
Tate: You've changed me Violet.

Afterbirth [1.12]

Vivien: Moira, would you make me a cup of tea, please?
Moira: No. Your denial is impressive. You're a ghost, Mrs. Harmon. i don't take orders from ghosts.
Ben: What about Violet?
Violet: What about Violet? I'm a teenage girl. Not exactly a cakewalk.
Ben: Violet. What kind of father have I been? You weren't eating, you weren't going to school. You were already gone. I didn't get it.
Violet: I shut you out. I was afraid it would break you.
Ben: I've missed you so much.
Violet: I was never getting into Harvard. But I saved you a shitload of money.
Ben: Yeah, you did.
Violet: Are you sure you want to be alone? They say this house is haunted.
Gabriel: You're kind of twisted, aren't you?
Violet: You don't know the half of it.
Vivien: Some other poor family's just going to move in here. Suckers who will have no idea what they're in for.
Ben: And we know exactly what to do.
Constance: Ever since I was a little girl, I knew I was destined for great things. I was going to be somebody. Person of significance. Star of the silver screen, I once thought. But... my dreams became nightmares. Instead of laurels, funeral wreaths. Instead of glory, heh, bitter disappointment. Cruel afflictions. Now I understand. Tragedy was preparing me for something greater. every loss that came before was a lesson. I was being prepared. Now I know for what. This child... a remarkable boy. Destined for greatness. In need of a remarkable mother. Someone forged in the fires of adversity, who can guide him. With--with firmness. With love.
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Season 2

Welcome to Briarcliff [2.01]

Shelley: Do you think I'm full of shame and regret for what I've done now, Sister? You could shave me bald as a cue ball and I'd still be the hottest tamale in this joint.
Sister Jude: Shelley was brought to us having been given the preposterous diagnosis by a psychiatrist comparing her to a wood nymph.
Lana: You mean a nymphomaniac?
Sister Jude: Mental illness is the fashionable explanation for sin.
Sister Jude: This is not a meat locker. Here, you will repent for your crimes to the only judge that matters: the Almighty God.
Kit: There is no God. Not a God who would create the things I saw.
Sister Jude: Your story about little green men? That won't do here.
Kit: They weren't human. They were monsters.
Sister Jude: All monsters are human. You're a monster.
Dr. Arden: When the monsignor brought me out of retirement to run Briarcliff's medical unit, we made a gentleman's agreement.
Sister Jude: Curious, since only one of you is a gentleman.

Tricks and Treats [2.02]

Dr. Arden: The last time I suggested electroshock therapy, you accused me of being a sadistic barbarian.
Sister Jude: I prayed about it. When I wasn't praying for you to find a halfway decent haberdasher.

Nor'easter [2.03]

Sister Mary Eunice: We're all going to be together in the dark, watching The Sign of the Cross. A movie full of fire, sex, and the death of Christians. What fun.
Sister Mary Eunice: [security guard interrupts movie to tell her that patients are missing] Now? The Christians are about to be eaten!

I Am Anne Frank (1) [2.04]

Sister Jude: So, "Anne Frank," is it? What a relief it will be to millions of schoolchildren to know you survived.
Dr. Arden: I was never in Auschwitz; I'm from Scottsdale!

I Am Anne Frank (2) [2.05]

Dr. Thredson: I don't work here anymore, Frank. As a matter of fact, I never did. You can tell her I said that.
Dr. Thredson: I see you found my little ... hobby.
Lana: You make furniture?
Dr. Thredson: Lamps mainly. I make the shades myself.
Lana: What kind of material do you use?
Dr. Thredson: Skin.
Dr. Thredson: She's been on ice for a while. Normally by now, I would have removed the skin and head. Don't worry, she won't bite. [Thredson puts on the Bloody Face mask which now has teeth on it] I took her teeth.

The Origins of Monstrosity [2.06]

Thredson: You can scream all you want, no one will hear you. Obviously the basement is soundproof. Believe me, girls with bigger sets of lungs than yours have tried before.
Thredson: A mother's touch. Skin to skin contact. That's what I was craving, that's what I was missing. My whole life. But she smelled of formaldehyde. And her skin, even after I removed it, was cold. And stiff.
Jenny: She thinks I killed Josie.
Sister Mary Eunice: Did you?
Jenny: No.
Sister Mary Eunice: Did so.
Jenny: How do you know?
Sister Mary Eunice: I know everything. I'm the Devil.
Jenny: Are not.
Sister Mary Eunice: Are too.
Howard: I thought all TB patients had been cleared out.
Arden: These are the incurables. Those whose tuberculosis was too far advanced for any of the new miracle drugs to have an effect.
Howard: God bless them.
Arden: Well, He hasn't yet.
Arden: Another mess to clean up, Mr. Spivey? You seem to have mistaken the broom closet for the playground where you used to expose yourself to innocent little boys and girls.
Spivey: No, never the boys, Doc. I had my standards.

Dark Cousin [2.07]

Sister Mary Eunice: [to Dr. Arden about Grace] All of her girl parts have been scooped out.
Thredson: [to Lana] I can either cut your throat or I can strangle you. I don't believe in guns.
Sister Jude: Never trust a drunk.
Angel of Death: I come when I'm called. That's what I do, Jude. I don't judge. I never judge.
Angel of Death: Are you ready for me?
Grace: Yes. [Angel kisses Grace and as she dies] I'm free.

Unholy Night [2.08]

Frank McCann: Doctor, I've been thinking.
Dr. Arden: You want to be careful, Frank — that could be dangerous.
Sister Mary Eunice: [to Dr. Arden] Did you celebrate Christmas in your Nazi household?
Sister Jude: [to Mother Superior about Satan's plan] Bit by bit, he turns our eyes away from God.
Leigh Emerson: [dressed as Santa Claus with a woman on his lap] What do you say we blow this pop stand, go savage a few elves, and then suck on each other?
Leigh: [to Sister Jude] There is no God, but there is a Santa Claus!

The Coat Hanger [2.09]

Sister Jude: Make it tight, Frank.
Leigh: Make it tight. I like it tight. Just ask Sister Chastity.
Sister Jude: I'll deal with Sister Chastity.
Leigh: You might start by picking a new name for her.
Sister Jude: So you'll spend the next couple days here, reflecting on your behavior.
Leigh: How can I reflect when my hand's tied down? [tries to simulate masturbating]
Sister Jude: You're disgusting.
Leigh: We all got our crosses to bear.
Sister Jude: [to Lana] Come on, goddammit, give me a cigarette. I think I've earned it.
Sister Jude: There's going be some changes around here, starting with that. [walks up to the record player and smashes the record that constantly plays in the rec room]
Lana: [after Sister Jude returns to her seat] Well, hot damn.

The Name Game [2.10]

Pepper: [to Dr. Arden] If anything happens to Grace in here, they'll take you, open up your brain and stir it with a fork.
Shacath, the Angel of Death: The devil is at Briarcliff in your favorite young nun. Guard your thoughts, use your rosary. Each bead is His name. This is your moment, Timothy.
Monsignor Howard: Your voice had the gift of moral clarity. I owe you an apology. She's destroyed you, and now she's destroyed me. I need your counsel. What should I do?
Judy (Sister Jude): Kill her.
Dr. Arden: [to Sister Mary Eunice] You have no idea what it means to have lost you.

Spilt Milk [2.11]

Mother Superior Claudia: [to Lana, about the asylum] I want it burned down and the Earth salted!
Johnny: [about his mother] Every time I think about her, I wanna do things! Bad things!
Judy: [to the monsignor] It's an extraordinary thing. You know that? You throw me in the madhouse, you strip away everything I have, everything I know, you treat me like a rabid dog, like a madwoman. And you know what happens? I'm blessed with the gift of total clarity. I am more sane now as a madwoman than I ever was as the head of Briarcliff.
Lana: [about reporters] We are vultures, attracted to the scent of rotted meat.
Detective Byers: You're one tough cookie.
Lana: I am tough, but I'm no cookie.

Continuum [2.12]

Judy: [to the monsignor] Hell, I'm the Queen of Candyland.
Shacath (as Judy's cellmate): Babycakes, I'm only just starting to toy with you.
Lana: [to Kit, regarding a book about Leigh] I thought of calling it Santa and the Seven Nuns. Too campy?
Judy: [after seeing The Flying Nun on TV] They don't know, but I don't need the hat. I can fly without it. One of these days I'm gonna fly my ass right outta here!
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Cast

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