"Northern Exposure" Aurora Borealis: A Fairy Tale for Big People (TV Episode 1990) - Richard Cummings Jr. as Bernard Stevens

Ed Chigliak : Are you lost?

Bernard Stevens : No! I just don't know where I am.
Ed Chigliak : So, you're Black.

Bernard Stevens : Yeah?

Ed Chigliak : We had a Black logger here, but he left.

Bernard Stevens : Why is that?

Ed Chigliak : I guess he wasn't into drinking beer and fighting.
Bernard Stevens : Excuse me.

Dr. Joel Fleischman : Yeah.

Bernard Stevens : Where am I?

Dr. Joel Fleischman : You know, I've been asking myself that same question since I got here. I finally figured out we are somewhere between the end of the line and the middle of nowhere.

Bernard Stevens : Oh. Where is that on the map?
Bernard Stevens : Those Northern Lights are some kind of weird psychic, something?

Chris Stevens : Yeah.

Bernard Stevens : What causes them to do that?

Chris Stevens : Well, this is just my guess, but I think that high speed electrons and protons from the sun are trapped in the van Allen radiation belt. Then they're channeled through the Polar Regions by the earth's magnetic field where they collide with other particles and create a brilliant luminosity.

Bernard Stevens : What does that have to do with us?

Chris Stevens : I swear man, I don't know.
Chris Stevens : I can see how that can be a problem. You know, it's like Jung says, "The unconscious is revealed through the imagery of our dreams which express our innermost fears and our desires."

Bernard Stevens : Jung said that?

Chris Stevens : Yeah, I think it was Jung. Or maybe Vincent Price.

Richard Cummings Jr.: Bernard Stevens