Boron's Frustration and Evolutionary Theory
from WAR OF THE WORMS
Written by Andrew Kurtzman, Anne Kurtzman
Three socially outcast friends lament their romantic failures and the perceived injustice of evolutionary attraction while sitting in a mall food court. As they navigate feelings of humiliation and intellectual superiority, they grapple with the realization that their intelligence offers no advantage in the high school social hierarchy.
JACK: I can’t fucking believe we fell for that.
BORON: Again!
JACK: We’ve achieved a new quantum level of humiliation.
BORON: It’s like we’re at the center of a neutron star, and one teaspoon of our humiliation weighs a hundred thousand pounds.
WHITMAN: This is worse than when they told us Shatner w
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