Rochelle: Well, I was just thinking, uh, since we have the house to ourselves that maybe we can do some things that we don't usually get to do.
Julius: What do you have in mind?
[cut to Julius and Rochelle watching The Price is Right:]
Adult Chris: [v.o.] My dad liked game shows.
Julius: Come on, sister, you can do it.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] And he always rooted for the Black people. If there were no Black people on it, then he'd root for anybody with a tan.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] When my mother was gossiping, nothing else mattered, even my father sleeping.
Rochelle: [on the phone] So he takes you to dinner, uh-huh, and orders a two-for-one special and then he said what?
Julius: Rochelle, Rochelle.
Rochelle: Huh?
Julius: I got to go to work in a few hours, okay?
Rochelle: Oh, I'm sorry, baby. Okay. All right. [shouts] Stop! [talks] Julius, you got to hear this. You know that guy Marcus that works for UPS with the stinky cologne?
Julius: Mm-hmm.
Rochelle: He took Sheila to the movies, bought this big ol' thing of popcorn, two hot dogs. She asked him just for a little piece, he told her no.
Julius: Two of 'em.
Rochelle: Uh-huh. Sheila said hi, baby.
Julius: Hey, Sheila.
Rochelle: Girl, he trying to sleep. Uh-huh, he better have big feet being that cheap.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] My sister Tonya was the baby of the family, so she was used to go wherever she felt like. When you have more kids than parents, one of the kids gets a kid. I got Tonya.
[When Chris sees Tonya holding a match in front of the gas stove, he imagines the entire floor of the building blown out by a gas explosion]
Chris: Are you crazy?
Tonya: I was trying to make some hot chocolate.
Chris: Well, that's not the way you do it. Why don't you ask somebody for help before you start messing things up. And give me the matches! Are you trying to blow the house up?
Rochelle: Chris, I smelled...
[Rochelle imagines the same gas explosion]
Rochelle: No! Goodness! Boys are you crazy? Are you trying to blow the all house up?
Tonya: I tried to tell him.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Little sisters, you can't live with them. And they can accidentally turn up missing.

Greg: Wait, Tonya tried to light the stove but you got blamed?
Chris: Yeah. That little girl coughs? I'd better cover my mouth.
Greg: I still think it's pretty cool having a brother and sister.
Chris: No, you're lucky you're an only child.
Greg: Yeah, I guess.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Brooklyn is filled with Blacks, Catholics and Puerto Ricans, Greg was probably the only only child there.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] My dad hated losing sleep, but he was happy when she talked to her girlfriends. That way, he didn't have to do it.
[flashback to Rochelle wiping the fogged-up bathroom mirror as Julius showers:]
Rochelle: Julius, you are not going to believe this. But you know that girl Jody Watley that used to be on Soul Train? I heard that she's leaving the group Shalamar and starting a new group with Ashford and Simpson. Can you believe that?
Julius: Wow, that's something.
Rochelle: Ain't it?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] I stopped listening at Jody Watley.

Julius: Who are you?
Art Wuliger: Wuliger. Art Wuliger. I'm Greg's dad.
Julius: Greg who?
Greg: I'm Greg. We go to school together. [Rochelle sighs]
Chris: Greg asked me to come over after school. We were just hanging out.
Rochelle: [mocking] Oh, "We were just hanging out. We were just hanging out." I'm over here worried sick, and you were hanging out? Have you lost your mind?!

Chris: Hey.
Greg: Your dad said you couldn't come over to my house. He didn't say I couldn't come over to yours.
[cut to Chris beat-boxing and Greg singing "More Bounce to the Ounce" in front of a fan]
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Even though we were spending 12 cents' worth of electricity, my father thought it was worth it.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] After that, things kind of went back to normal. Mom started working again. So she let Dad get some sleep. Drew still didn't get blamed for anything, and even though Tonya got on my nerves, I thought maybe it was time to do something nice for her.
Chris: Now that's how you make hot chocolate.
Tonya: Thanks, Chris.
Rochelle: Uh-uh. What are you doing?
Tonya: Having hot chocolate.
Rochelle: I told her she couldn't have any hot chocolate.
Tonya: That's what I tried to tell him.

Greg: It gets lonely once in a while, you know. I mean, I don't have to fight over the TV, if I want to watch the basketball game or anything.
Chris: At least you get to watch the game. Every time I turn one the TV, my sister wants to watch The Care Bears.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Underrated show, by the way.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] Greg's house was a lot different than what I expected. I used to think all White people were rich. I thought his house would look more like this.
Robin Leach: [v.o.] And the Wuligers parlayed their fortune into millions, and this fabulous estate in Brooklyn.