Supergirl (TV Series)

Prom Night! (2021)

Peter Adrian Sudarso: Kenny Li

Quotes 

• Kenny Li : Why are you dressed like that?

  Brainiac-5 : Uh, well...

  Nia Nal : Well... um...

  Brainiac-5 : When visiting another planet, we like to dress formally to...

  Nia Nal : To show respect.

  Brainiac-5 : To show respect.

  Nia Nal : But we will be changing...

  Brainiac-5 : We'll be changing.

  Nia Nal : ...right after we fix our ship.

  Young Alex : Your ship's broken?

  Brainiac-5 : [simultaneously]  No.

  Nia Nal : Yes.

  Brainiac-5 : [sharing an awkward laugh]  Can I just have a minute with, uh, my...

  Nia Nal : Just one.

  Brainiac-5 : ...my fellow Psyconian? Just...

  Nia Nal : [moving a few feet away]  Stay frosty.

• Kenny Li : I've never met another alien that wasn't Kara. Do you always dress this formally?

  Brainiac-5 : Customarily, it's what we...

  Mrs. Li : [knocking on the door and coming in]  Kenny?

  Kenny Li : Mom. Look, I can explain.

  Mrs. Li : [behind him, Brainy has vanished]  Explain? Explain why you ran in so fast, I have to bring your dinner to you?

  Kenny Li : Right, um... I-I was at a study session with Kara, but you didn't have to bring me dinner.

  Mrs. Li : It's no trouble. Plus, I need to take a break from doing the store books.

  Kenny Li : Don't worry about the books. I'll, uh... I'll get 'em done later tonight, as soon as I finish my homework. Thanks, mom.

  [as she leaves, he closes the door, behind which Brainy hides] 

  Kenny Li : Oh!

  Brainiac-5 : No.

  Kenny Li : My...

  Brainiac-5 : Now, time is of the essence.

  [patting his shoulder] 

  Brainiac-5 : Totes. I'll be out of your hair as soon as I locate your computer.

  Kenny Li : Bro, it's right here.

  Brainiac-5 : [seeing his desktop]  This is your best computer? You... it's... Sprock. I'll make it work.

• Brainiac-5 : All right, next, I need to find access to a 3-D printer.

  Kenny Li : A 3-D printer?

  Brainiac-5 : Yeah, it's just basic. Nothing fancy.

  Kenny Li : Brandon, I don't know what you have on Psychon, but 3-D printers aren't basic here. Some aerospace companies might have them under...

  Brainiac-5 : [remembering where he is]  This is 2009.

  Kenny Li : Well, yeah. Still, can't you use your ring to, you know, Dumbledore something up?

  Brainiac-5 : No. What? No! It's physically impossible to create something out of nothing, Kenny.

  [he takes a bag of chips out and starts to stress-eat] 

  Kenny Li : Uh... what if I can get you a something? The building blocks of 3-D printing are an inkjet engine and ABS plastic. Right?

  Brainiac-5 : That's correct.

  Kenny Li : We have all that stuff at our school STEM lab. Plus, on Friday, no one's really there. Oh, we could sneak onto campus early, and then we'd have the run of the whole place.

  Brainiac-5 : That could work. Well planned.

  Kenny Li : Uh, glad I could help.

  Brainiac-5 : [indicating the dinner Kenny's mother made]  So, will you be eating all of this?

  Kenny Li : Uh...

  Brainiac-5 : [taking it]  Thank you.

• Young Kara : [to Nia, after hiding the Legion cruiser]  You... you can stay with us.

  Kenny Li : If-if she stays with you guys, he stays with me.

  Young Kara : Okay! Okay, let's go.

  Nia Nal : Uh...

  Young Kara : [gesturing for her and Brainy to follow them]  Come on.

  Kenny Li : [returning Brainy's backpack]  Here you go, bro.

  Brainiac-5 : Thank you.

  Nia Nal : [stopping at Brainy's side]  Okay. Um, it's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay. Just, um... chillax.

• Kenny Li : [finding Brainy at baseball practice]  Where have you been? I have been searching for you. I thought we were keeping a low profile.

  Brainiac-5 : Key events sidelined that goal. I left our STEM lab in search of sustenance and immediately got conscripted by a Glee Club Spartan chief. Needing to preserve my student cover, I agreed. But that led me to getting recruited by your math league, drama guild, and... Coach Kripkey, who is desperately in need of someone who can switch-hit.

  Kenny Li : Wow, that is a lot of exposure.

  Brainiac-5 : Yes, and given my status, a risky venture, but necessary in order to avoid unwanted attention, or worse, A.M. detention with Mrs. Gormley. But still, I have to say, it has been a revelation. Are you familiar with the emotion of stress?

  Kenny Li : I'm... I'm kind of feeling it right now.

  Brainiac-5 : Well, I have been struggling with the emotion, and yet I have been under the impression that my only options were to stress eat or not to stress eat. But now, thanks to your school, I see a cornucopia of approaches. Math leaguers factor, drama clubbers soliloquize, and baseballers hit.

  Kenny Li : Dude, that is fantastic. But now that you've seen all that, do you, uh... do you maybe want to get out of here? Because if Alex finds out, she's going to flip.

  Brainiac-5 : True. Okay. But how do I exfiltrate? I am a vassal of Coach Kripkey.

  Kenny Li : You just say you're not feeling well and you got to go to the nurse.

  Brainiac-5 : Oh. Okay, yes. Another method of coping chicanery. Yes, I love it. Okay. Okay, I will do it...

  Kenny Li : Good.

  Brainiac-5 : ...after one more line drive.

• Kenny Li : Do you know what this is?

  Young Kara : [seeing a log with their initials and a date carved into it]  It's the log where we had our first kiss.

  Kenny Li : It's where you changed my life, Kara.

  [indicating the decorated barn] 

  Kenny Li : This? This is our future. Our fortress.

• Young Kara : That's old man Watson's barn. What are we doing?

  Kenny Li : You'll see. Come on.

  [leading her inside] 

  Kenny Li : I was gonna wait until after graduation to give you this, but... I know you've been stressed, and, uh, I thought you could use a pick-me-up. Welcome to our new hero-ing base.

• Kenny Li : When I'm with Kara, I feel like... like I could do anything.

  Brainiac-5 : Well... it appears your positivity is catchy.

  Kenny Li : [he starts the printer]  Nice!

  [checking his watch] 

  Kenny Li : Oh, uh... well, I gotta get to my, um...

  Brainiac-5 : Ah, not to fear. I shall stay here for the remaining minutes to complete fabrication.

  Kenny Li : I don't know, man. With that print rate, your fab looks like it's gonna take remaining hours. But, um... don't worry. I'll be back before lunch. Just don't open the door. Or anything like that.

• Kenny Li : No one should bother you so long as you keep the lights off.

  Brainiac-5 : Not to worry. I once assembled something similar on the planet Neuron, which orbits a black hole, so talk about, uh... talk about dark. This shouldn't be a problem.

  Kenny Li : That must be so cool, having adventures like that.

  Brainiac-5 : It's so cool, man.

  Kenny Li : That's... that's what I want to do, actually. I mean, not, like, be in space all the time, but to go around with Kara, helping people. She and I are staying local for college to... to get better at it. In fact, I, uh... I just made us a base.

  Brainiac-5 : Base?

  Kenny Li : Here on Earth, we have this alien hero named Superman. He lives in this secret bunker.

  Brainiac-5 : [feigning ignorance]  Oh. Sounds ingenious.

  Kenny Li : Yeah, Kara kinda looks up to him.

  Brainiac-5 : I see. So, uh, you built yourself a bunker-in-training.

  Kenny Li : I'm gonna show it to her after graduation. I really, really hope she likes it.

• Kenny Li : Alex is still upset about the super-ing, isn't she? I feel responsible.

  Young Kara : No. No, don't. I love doing that with you. I don't ever want that to change. You know that, right?

  [he nods] 

  Young Kara : Alex thinks she's looking out for me, for my future, but... really, she's just trying to control it, and-and she doesn't need to control it because I know exactly what I'm doing... what I need to do.

• Brainiac-5 : [talking privately after inadvertently bumping into the teenage Kara and Alex]  So, these are the exact people we are not supposed to be dealing with.

  Nia Nal : Yeah, um, but now we are dealing with them, so we have to figure out how to manage the situation.

  Brainiac-5 : Okay. So, the only management we need is to

  [raising his voice a little] 

  Brainiac-5 : get them out of here.

  Young Alex : We need to get out of here.

  Young Kara : What... what are you talking about? We have to help them.

  Young Alex : You just promised you'd stop drawing attention to yourself.

  Young Kara : If their ship is broken, the least we can do is help fix it.

  Young Alex : Even if it means endangering everyone around you?

  Kenny Li : To be fair, they don't seem hostile. I mean, look at how they're dressed.

• Young Alex : [reading an article in the local paper]  "With its small-town charm and nearly non-existent crime, Midvale is quickly becoming a top place to live in the country." Wow. Where was this town when I lived here full-time?

  Young Kara : Probably waiting for you to leave.

  Kenny Li : [snickering]  Ooh. Burn!

  [high-fiving] 

  Kenny Li : Midvale College, 1, Stanford, 0.

• Brainiac-5 : We need to conceal the evidence of our arrival, fix numerous parts, and lastly, locate a rare Earth element called dysprosium.

  Kenny Li : Dysprosium? That's one of those rare Earth elements that your mom is studying at work.

  Young Alex : There may be a dysprosium geode in the college's Rare Earth exhibit.

  Young Kara : She's saying she can get it, so...

  [hearing sirens approach with her superhuman hearing] 

  Young Kara : Wait.

  Kenny Li : Police?

  Young Kara : Heading this way, fast. You... you can't be found here.

  Brainiac-5 : We need to hide the ship.

  Kenny Li : Oh, uh... we could do "Groundhog Day".

  Young Alex : You have go-to plays?

• Kenny Li : Chocolate shake. Here you go.

  Young Kara : [having heard the Legion cruiser malfunctioning]  Uh, thanks, but I just realized we're late for study group.

  Kenny Li : Study group?

  [seeing her look and getting her point] 

  Kenny Li : Study group. Right. Right.

  Young Alex : You guys never do study...

  [realizing] 

  Young Alex : Wait. Are you sneaking out to save something?

  Young Kara : No.

  Kenny Li : [scoffing]  What?

  Young Alex : You promised me you'd stop super-ing when I left. Now you are fidgeting like you do when you lie.

  Young Kara : Right. Fine. We may have been helping the local authorities now and then, but no one knows that it's us.

  Young Alex : "Luckiest town in America"? Kara, you're the luck. At least until you get caught and you put mom and the rest of us in danger.

  Young Kara : We'll stop... after we check out whatever just crashed at the baseball field.

  Young Alex : No. No way.

  Young Kara : I can fly there without anybody seeing me. Trust me.

  Young Alex : You are not flying anywhere. I'm driving you.