Hal and Mario on the Moms and sadness
‘So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I’ll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. I’m pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I’m not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo.’
Context
Mario asks the God question he asks "once a week," and Hal answers with a joke whose floor is his father's suicide (Mario immediately names it). Grief processed entirely as management-consulting wit: the affect-deflection the scene is tagged for, in one speech.