Bugonia (2025) - Quotes

The Complexity of Bee Society and Exploitation

Michelle: About bees? Uh... Complex society. Work ethic. They do their duty, they build their worlds without complaint or piety or self-obsession.

Teddy: Mm-hmm. All true. Which is why they're so easy to exploit, right?

Michelle: I just admire their resolve. That's all. Even in the face of peril.

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A Conversation About Past Mistakes

Casey: Look, Teddy, um, I know it was a long time ago, what I did to you, man...

Teddy: It's fine.

Casey: No, it wasn't fine. It was wrong, but I promise you it's not because I liked it. It was just, you know, probably some weird power thing. I was-I was young and lost, and I promise you, dude, I never, ever did that to anybody else.

Teddy: Just forget it. It's done. Seriously.

Casey: Really?

Teddy: Mm-hmm.

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The Blurred Line Between Lies and Truth

Teddy: Lies.

Michelle: Truth. What's the difference?

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Acknowledgment of Effort and Humanity

Michelle: You're a credit to your species, Teddy, truly.

Teddy: Well, I'm just... trying to help.

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Hair Shaved Off in Unexpected Moment

Michelle: Where's my hair?

Teddy: Your hair has been destroyed.

Michelle: You shaved off my hair?

Teddy: Yes, we've shaved off your hair.

Michelle: Why have you shaved off my hair?

Teddy: To prevent you from contacting your ship.

Michelle: My ship?

Teddy: Your ship.

Michelle: What ship?

Teddy: Your mothership.

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Understanding Differences in a Hollowed Society

Don: How can you tell them apart?

Teddy: Well, you have to know where to look. There are signs.

Don: What about these people?

Teddy: No, no, they're fine. I mean, they're not fine-fine, but hollowed. You know, like the rest of us. Harmless. Hopeless. And that's the way they planned it. To make us the same as the bees. A dead colony, atomised in a trillion directions with no way home again.

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Adjusting Work Hours for Flexibility

Michelle: The 5:30 thing.

Corey: Uh-huh?

Michelle: Look, I know you sent the e-mail already, but I need you to let everyone know that they're free to leave at 5:30 from now on, starting today, okay? But do it in a way that's, you know, what we talked about.

Corey: Yeah, of course.

Michelle: We need to send the message that we have a new culture here now. Where people should, of course, feel free to leave at 5:30 and be with their families. No one is going to be overworked like in the past. No more unpleasant incidents. But, of course, it's not compulsory. And obviously, if people still have work to do, they should absolutely stay and continue to work. But it's not strictly enforced. Although we still do want to meet quotas. So if we can do that, just remembering, you know, we are running a business here, so "let your conscience guide you" kind of thing. Yeah? Good.

Corey: I'll definitely let them know.

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A Struggle Between Grief and Professionalism

Teddy Gatz: I want you to know... this is really difficult for me as well. You killed my family, you killed my community, you killed my co-workers and you killed the bees. So given that, you should really appreciate how professional I'm being by not gutting you.

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Critique of Modern Activism and Authenticity

Teddy Gatz: 99.9% of what's called activism is really personal exhibitionism and brand maintenance in disguise.

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Critique of University Credentials and Privilege

Teddy Gatz: A degree from a university? From a credentialist scam for laundering privilege? Amazing.

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Challenging Norms and Institutional Beliefs

Teddy Gatz: Because I know exactly what you're going to say. You're going to say that I'm in some kind of Internet-induced autohypnotic feedback loop, and-and gatekeepers, and-and norms, and all that weak hegemonic horseshit. But that is precisely the limp-dick rhetoric that you've been instructed to counter the human insurgency with. That's the fucking hyper-normalized dialectic by which you've convinced seven and half billion people that they're not your captives. To keep us believing in these fucking false institutional, fucking shy-boleths'.

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Confrontation with a personal enemy

Teddy Gatz: [bashing Michelle in the kneecap] That's for Don, you fucking virus.

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Leveling the Playing Field, Not Torture

Teddy Gatz: We're just leveling the playing field. It's not torture. Torture is what it's done to us.

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Denial and Confession in Bugonia

Teddy Gatz: [after slapping Michelle] Everybody denies it at first. And then they confess.

Recognition and Understanding of Identity

Teddy Gatz: I know who you are. I know what you are.

Human Resistance and Ethical Principles Explained

Teddy Gatz: Welcome to the headquarters of the human resistance. Despite our general suspicion and disavowal of all extant governing bodies, and despite the fact that you, as an Andromedan, are not subject to the human rights guidelines detailed in the Geneva Conventions, we nevertheless endeavour to adhere to those guidelines out of the humanist principles to which they aspire.

The Beauty of Nature's Simple Connections

Teddy Gatz: It all starts with something... magnificent. A flower. Just a flower. Then a honeybee. Very fragile. Very complicated. The bee gathers pollen and deposits it in another flower's stigma. It's like sex but cleaner. And nobody gets hurt.

Identity Assertion in Bugonia

Michelle Fuller: Primarily, I'm not an alien.

Grammar as a False Construct in Bugonia

Michelle Fuller: I guess grammar is a false Andromedan construct as well.

Anticipation of the Coming Moment

Michelle Fuller: And the hour is almost upon us. Yay!

Winning and Losing in Life

Michelle Fuller: You can't beat me because you are a loser and I'm a winner and that's fucking life!

Confrontation and Frustration in Bugonia

Michelle Fuller: You miserable fucking idiot, do you know what you've done?

Strict Diet and Therapy for Aging Gracefully

Michelle Fuller: I mean, I follow a very strict reverse-aging diet and therapy program. It's very expensive, as you can imagine, but I'm not an alien.