Avenue Q - 02 - What do you do with a B.A. in English/It suck to be me
What do you do with a B.A. in English, What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of knowledge, Have earned me this useless degree.
I can't pay the bills yet, 'Cause I have no skills yet, The world is a big scary place.
But somehow I can't shake, The feeling I might make, A difference, To the human race.
KATE MONSTER Morning, Brian!
BRIAN Hi, Kate Monster.
KATE MONSTER How's life?
BRIAN Disappointing!
KATE MONSTER What's the matter?
BRIAN The caterine company laid me off.
KATE MONSTER Oh, I'm sorry!
BRIAN Me too! I mean, look at me! I'm ten years out of college, and I always thought -
KATE MONSTER What?
BRIAN No, it sounds stupid.
KATE MONSTER Aww, come on!
BRIAN When I was little I thought I would be...
KATE MONSTER What?
BRIAN A big comedian on late night TV But now I'm thirty-two And as you can see I'm not
KATE MONSTER Nope!
BRIAN Oh Well, It sucks to be me.
KATE MONSTER Nooo.
BRIAN It sucks to be me.
KATE MONSTER No!
BRIAN It sucks to be broke and unemployed and turning thirty-three. It sucks to be me.
KATE MONSTER Oh, you think your life sucks?
BRIAN I think so.
KATE MONSTER Your problems aren't so bad! I'm kinda pretty And pretty damn smart.
BRIAN You are.
KATE MONSTER Thanks! I like romantic things Like music and art. And as you know I have a gigantic heart So why don't I have A boyfriend? Fuck! It sucks to be me!
BRIAN Me too.
KATE MONSTER It sucks to be me.
BRIAN It sucks to be me. It sucks to be Brian...
KATE MONSTER And Kate...
BRIAN To not have a job!
KATE MONSTER To not have a date!
BOTH It sucks to be me.
BRIAN Hey, ROd, Nicky, can you settle something for us? Do you have a second?
ROD Ah, certainly.
KATE MONSTER Whose life sucks more? Brian's or mine?
NICKY AND ROD Ours!
ROD We live together.
NICKY We're as close As people can get.
ROD We've been the best of buddies...
NICKY Ever since the Day we met.
ROD So he knows lots Of ways to make me Really upset. Oh, every day is An aggravation.
NICKY Come on, that's an exaggeration!
ROD You leave your clothes out. You put your feet On my chair.
NICKY Oh yeah? You do such anal Things like ironing Your underwear.
ROD You make that very Small apartment We share a hell.
NICKY So do you, That's why I'm in hell too!
ROD It sucks to be me!
NICKY No, it sucks to be me!
KATE MONSTER It sucks to be me!
BRIAN It sucks to be me!
ALL Is there anybody here It doesn't suck to be? It sucks to be me!
CHRISTMAS EVE Why you all so happy?
NICKY Becuase our lives suck!
CHRISTMAS EVE Your lives suck? I hearing you correctly? Ha! I coming to this country For opportunities. Tried to work in Korean deli But I am Japanese. But with hard work I earn two Master's Degrees In social work! And now I a therapist! But I have no clients And I have an Unemployed fiance'! And we have lots Of bills to pay! It suck to be me! It suck to be me! I say it Sucka-Sucka-Sucka-Sucka- Sucka-Sucka-Sucka-Sucka- Sucka-Sucka-Sucka-Sucka- Suck! It suck to be me!
PRINCETON Excuse me?
BRIAN Hey there.
PRINCETON Sorry to bother you, but I'm looking for a place to live.