Dick: And, for Monday, I want you to read and outline chapters 8 through 24.
Leon: What?
Dick: Except for chapter 12, which you will refute in a 10-page treatise with illustrations. [all groan]
Leon: Oh, come on.
Caryn: Dr. Solomon, it's homecoming weekend.
Leon: Yeah, the big game.
Dick: Oh, yes, I forgot. God forbid that your intellectual development should get in the way of "the big game". What could be more important than "the big game"? The fate of mankind rests on the outcome of "the big game".
Bug: Is he being sarcastic?