Drew: Hey, Dad, can we take a break?
Julius: Did Martin Luther King, Jr. take a break? Did Moses take a break? Did Gandhi take a break?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] He took a break from eating.
Julius: That looks pretty good, Chris.
Chris: Thanks, Dad.
Julius: Remember, two hours. I got to put the turkey in next.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] My mac and cheese looked so good Gandhi would've snuck himself a plate.

Julius: Well, don't worry about it. Look, I'll start the turkey and finish the cobbler.
Rochelle: Well, where are you going to cook the mac and cheese?
Julius: In the oven.
Rochelle: When?
Julius: What are you talking about?
Rochelle: The turkey's gonna take five hours at 300 degrees, the mac and cheese is gonna take two hours at 320 degrees, then the cobbler's gonna take 45 minutes at 425 degrees. You've already lost two hours with Three Mile Island here, so I'd say we'll probably, we'll be eating dinner around about 1:30 tomorrow morning. That's if nothing else goes wrong.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] My mother was bad at math, except when it came to multiplying my father's headaches.

Tonya & Drew: Hey, Uncle Louis!
Louis: What's up, sweetie? Hey, big man.
Rochelle: Hey. Good seeing you.
Michael: Hey, why they don't treat me like that?
Julius: 'Cause you don't have a job.

Doc: You're looking for macaroni on Thanksgiving Day? Man, that's like looking for candles on Hanukkah.

Michael: Hey, Rochelle, why I got to be over where with the kids?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] 'Cause everybody at that table lives with their mother.
Rochelle: Anyway...
Julius: 'Cause only working people at this table.

[title: "The following episode takes place over the Thanksgiving holiday November Nineteen Eight-Four"]
Adult Chris: [v.o.] When I was a kid, Thanksgiving was my favorite holiday. All you had to do was eat...
Julius: Chris, pass the macaroni and cheese.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] ...and sleep. Everybody in my family loved Thanksgiving, except my mother, because to her it was just more work. But this year was going to be different.
Rochelle: All right, guys, family conference. I just want to let y'all know that if you think all you're going to do this Thanksgiving is sit around and eat and sleep, you got another think coming. Uncle Louis is coming over and I'm not doing all the work by myself.
Tonya: What do we have to do?
Rochelle: I want everybody to make a dish.
Drew: I'll make the rolls.
Tonya: I can make the cranberry sauce.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Which means she can open up a can and dump it in a bowl.

Rochelle: Chris, I want you to make the mac and cheese.
Chris: I don't know how to make mac and cheese. And I don't want to be the one to mess it up. I like living here.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Next to turkey, the most important dish at our Thanksgiving dinner was the macaroni and cheese. Making good mac and cheese wasn't cooking, it was science.
[fantasy:]
Host: This year's Nobel prize nominees are Dr. Wan for the cure to cancer, Dr. Stravinsky for the discovery of the missing link, and Chris for some good-ass macaroni and cheese. And the winner is... Chris.
[reality:]
Rochelle: That's okay, baby. You'll do fine. All you got to do is follow the recipe.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Sounds to me like a recipe for disaster.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] My Uncle Louis was a successful chiropractor. Since he was younger, my father always felt like he had to outdo him.
[flashback:]
Julius: I'll have a beer.
Waiter: And you?
Louis: I'll have a red wine.
Julius: I'll have a red wine, too. A large.
[flashback:]
Louis: Man, you wouldn't believe the stress I'm under at work. I just got 15 new patients.
Julius: Man, I got so much stress at work, they had to hire another guy to help me worry.
[flashback:]
Louis: I got her for $150 below sticker.
Julius: Really?
Louis: Yeah.
Julius: Oh, wow. I got my whole car for below $150.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] That mac and cheese looked how my father felt.
Rochelle: That's your mother's recipe?
Julius: How come you didn't wake me up?
Rochelle: Because you woke me up at 5:00 in the morning. What are you going to do about this mac and cheese?
Julius: I sent Chris down to Doc's to get some more.
Rochelle: You sent Chris to look for macaroni and cheese on Thanksgiving? That's like trying to find candles on Hanukkah.

Kill Moves: Oh, don't throw that away. Is that burnt mac and cheese?
Julius: Yeah. Why?
Kill Moves: It's just the way I like it.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] He wants that blackaroni, 'cause he's on that crackaroni.