Doc: Chris, I got to go into the library for a few minutes. Watch the register.
Chris: The library?
Doc: Yeah, I got to go to the bathroom. I do some of my best handicapping in the john. Keep an eye on the register.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] A big part of being cool is taking advantage of opportunities when they present themselves. Now that I had cigarettes, I had the start of what I needed. A real cool guy wouldn't have paid, but Nerdy McGee would have felt too guilty.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] Even though I had the keys to being cool, Greg was locked into being a square.
Chris: All right, just put one of these behind your ear.
Greg: Dude, that's contraband. The Surgeon General told us not to...
Chris: Greg, do you want to look cool or not?
Greg: Yeah, but I don't want to be a fugitive.
[fantasy: Greg runs as a S.W.A.T. team pulls up behind him:]
S.W.A.T. Team Leader: Freeze!
S.W.A.T. Officer #2: Go! Go! Go! Go!
S.W.A.T. Team Leader: Down! Get down! All the way down!
S.W.A.T. Officer #3: Slowly remove the cigarette away from your ear.
S.W.A.T. Officer #4: Stay there, dirtbag!

Chris: You don't have to smoke it. You just have to put it behind your ear and walk around like those guys at the arcade.
Greg: The arcade? I'd like to get back in there again.
Chris: You went in the arcade?
Greg: Yeah, once.
[flashback: Greg smiles as he walks up to an arcade, walks in and is then thrown out onto the street]

Chris: Oh, remember, you get caught with a cigarette in school is an automatic suspension.
Greg: Right, it's just to walk around and look cool for the other kids.
Chris: Right.
Greg: So how do I look?
Chris: Nervous. Come on, man, pop your collar. Put your shades on. Roll up your pant leg.
Greg: Okay.
Chris: Better.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] No it's not.
Chris: All right, let's make a pact. If either one of us gets caught by the teacher we don't rat out the other. Deal?
Greg: Deal.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] My father had worked hard all day. But my mother had been to space.
Julius: You went to work like that? Don't you know you could get fired? What did your boss say?
[flashback:]
Man: So you say you want a raise?
[present:]
Rochelle: I got a raise.
Julius: You shouldn't be wearing that. Get rid of it.
Rochelle: Oh, I'll be happy to get rid of it... as long as you get rid of that jacket.
Julius: I'm not getting rid of my jacket.
Rochelle: Fine.
Julius: Fine.
Rochelle: Fine!
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Not fine.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] When you get suspended from school, they call your parents. So if the phone rang, this could be my last meal.
Julius: So what's going on, Chris?
Chris: What you mean?
Julius: I don't know. There's something different about you. Did you get a haircut?
Chris: No.
Julius: Well, you look kind of cool.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] What he thought was cool was actually terror.

Rochelle: Mama, why are you dressed like that?
Julius: Ask your father.
Rochelle: Daddy, why is Mama dressed like that?
Julius: Maybe your mother doesn't know the difference between a perfectly good coat and a spacesuit.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Better be glad she doesn't have a ray gun.

Rochelle: So, Chris, how was your day at school?
Chris: It was all right.
Julius: Anything interesting happen?
Chris: No.
Drew: You sure? 'Cause usually you talk more about school. Can't get you to stop talking about it.
Chris: Nothing happened at school, okay? It was just like any other day.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Any other bad day.
Julius: Why are you talking to your brother like that? He's just asking you a question.
Rochelle: Yeah, Chris, calm down.

Julius: Drew, will you put that thing down and eat your dinner?
Drew: Dad, I've almost got it. I can't stop.
Rochelle: Either you eat your dinner or do the cube. What's it's going to be?
Drew: I'll take the cube.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] I thought somehow I had dodged the suspension bullet, but actually it was just loaded in a different gun.