Rochelle: Julius, your son is trying to save the Earth. Are you going to help him or not?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] My father had been asked that question before, and there was only one right answer, whether it was something minor...
[flashback:]
Rochelle: Are you going to do the dishes or not?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Or something major.
[flashback:]
Rochelle: Are you going to propose to me or not?
Julius: [takes someone else's ring] Here you go, baby.
Rochelle: Oh! Thank you. [kisses Julius] See?

Julius: Are those my good potatoes?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Not anymore!
Drew: Yeah, but I'll chop 'em up and make French fries after I turn my project in. Hey, check it out. I put a calendar on the front.
Tonya: I thought you were supposed to be making a car.
Rochelle: I thought you were supposed to be eating your dinner.
Drew: I was, but the potatoes were too weak to run it.
Julius: I wonder how many potatoes we need to get rid of the light bill.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Enough to make mashed potatoes for the next million years.

Rochelle: [to herself] See? Oh, this is what I'm talking about. I tried to be nice and this is the thanks I get. Yeah, I try not to be rude and belligerent. If I wasn't, nothing would get done around here. But that's okay. Oh, okay, I guess I'm supposed to clean this up too? Oh, no, no, no problem, Mr. Potato. I'll clean you up. I have nothing else better to do. No, please, you sit right there. I'll be back. No, really, stay! No, it's okay. It's okay because...
[Rochelle walks into the kitchen and finds the sink full of dirty dishes]
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Uh-oh.
Rochelle: Now that is just nasty.

Rochelle: I thought you were gonna help Chris with his homework.
Julius: I was. I am.
Rochelle: When?
Julius: I don't know. Rochelle, I've been working.
Rochelle: Oh, and I've just been laying around the house all day? Is that what it is? I ask you to help that boy with one homework assignment, in what, 15 years?! And you can't even do that! All I ask you to do is take the boy and pick up some cans.
Julius: I'm sorry.
Rochelle: "I'm sorry"? You ought to be! Your son needed your help with one school assignment, but, no, you were too busy.
Julius: But, baby...
Rochelle: But-but-but what? Are you going to help him or not? Mmm. That's exactly what I thought. Hmm. Take your money. [shouts] I'm back!

Ms. Morello: Chris, what would you like to do?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] I knew my dad had a truck and Bed-Stuy was a mess. So I had the perfect project.
Chris: Uh, collect cans and recycle them?
Ms. Morello: That's wonderful. Then you could take the money and do something for the environment. You could plant a tree.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Maybe I could plant my foot in your b...

Julius: And what are you doing to save the Earth?
Chris: I'm recycling cans, and the money I make I'm going to use to help the environment.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Just like Bono.

Rochelle: How is she being aggressive?
Mrs. Wilson: Apparently, Tonya turned toward her study partner and said this. [hands Rochelle a piece of paper]
Adult Chris: [v.o.] You'll get to hear it on the unrated DVD.
Rochelle: Did you say this?
Tonya: Sorta.

Rochelle: So you think that this is my fault?
Drew: Well, you do kind of always yell.
Rochelle: Okay, then fine, I'll stop. [all laughing] What? That's funny?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Yes.
Julius: You're going to stop yelling?
Rochelle: Yes, I'm going to stop yelling. You just watch.
Julius: I got five dollars says you won't last a week.
Rochelle: Bet.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] My money's on him.

Chris: You think we can go out and get started?
Julius: Started on what?
Chris: Collecting cans.
Julius: What cans?
Chris: For my project.
Julius: What project?
Chris: My school project.
Julius: What school project?
Chris: Collecting cans.
Julius: Chris, I'm tired. Can't you do it yourself?
Chris: Yeah, I guess I can start by myself.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] A kid collecting cans with his dad is recycling. A kid collecting cans by himself is bum practice.
Chris: Dad?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Well Earth, It's just us.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] After a few days, I could see that my recycling project was no can do.
Greg: You've got to be quick to get the cans. That's a big business.
Chris: I thought my dad was going to be helping me. This was supposed to be easy.
Greg: Maybe you should switch projects.
Chris: Yeah, now all I have to do is come up with a solar-powered excuse.