Rochelle: Julius. Julius. [slaps him] Julius!
Julius: Yo, I'm up, I'm up, I'm up. Where are my keys?
Rochelle: No, no, baby! You don't have to go to work. Today is Saturday.
Julius: You woke me up at 6:45 on a Saturday morning? Are you crazy?
Rochelle: No, baby, look, look, wait. I was looking through the paper and they're having TVs on sale in Queens. Look, $199 for a color 19-inch?!
Adult Chris: [v.o.] 19-inch TV? Hey! Now guys have those in their headrests, but back then, it was a big deal.
Julius: Rochelle, I can get this same TV for half that. All I got to do is wait for my man Risky to get one.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] That means he has to wait for his man Risky to steal one.

Kill Moves: You into martial arts?
Drew: Yeah. Why?
Kill Moves: Want to learn some kill moves?
Drew: Yeah
Adult Chris: [v.o.] The only thing Drew loved more than candy was learning how to break a neck.

Chris: Wake me up when that machine stops.
Tonya: I ain't waking you up.
Chris: Tonya, I'm not playing with you. Now, wake me up when that machine stops!
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Tonya's so difficult, the only reason she's a girl is 'cause my father wanted a boy.

Julius: Okay, let me tell you the rules.
Rochelle: Okay.
Julius: We're going to get a TV.
Rochelle: Mm-hmm.
Julius: Not a VCR.
Rochelle: I hear you.
Julius: Not a couch.
Rochelle: I got you.
Julius: A TV.
Rochelle: No problem.
Julius: And if it doesn't cost $199, we're going home.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Yeah, right.
Rochelle: Well, can I at least look around?
Julius: Last time you went someplace "looking around," I ended up buying a house.

Jerome: Little dude from across the street. Yo, why don't you let me hold a quarter?

Rochelle: Aren't you done yet, baby? I want to show you something.
Julius: I'm reading the contract.
Rochelle: Oh, just hurry up and sign that thing and come on.
Julius: I want to show you this couch.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] The only thing that made my mother happier than having man with two jobs was getting a new couch.
[fantasy: the kids are wearing white as they watch their own individual TVs in a luxuriously decorated room. Rochelle is talking to Sheila:]
Sheila: Girl, did I tell you I was getting married?
Rochelle: Ooh, that is nice. But did I show you my new couch?
Adult Chris: [v.o.] No amount of good news could compare to my mother getting a new couch.
Rochelle: It's all leather.

Tonya: What?
Chris: Open the door.
Tonya: I ain't opening nothing. I'm telling mama and daddy that you said you hate me and you left me in the house by myself.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] My mother didn't care what I said to Tonya just as long as I didn't leave her someplace by herself.
[flashback:]
Rochelle: Chris, didn't I tell you not to leave your sister here by herself?!
Chris: I didn't know she was gonna sell the house.

Salesman: I can work you out a great deal on the television, the sofa, dining room set. You get it today, I'm gonna save you some money.
Julius: If I don't get it at all, I'll save more. Let's go.
Rochelle: Now, wait a minute, Julius. You work, I work... Well, sometimes. I'm just saying, you don't have to be so ch-
Julius: You think I want to be cheap? I'd love to come in here and buy you everything in the store, but I don't have it like that, Rochelle. I don't.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] My father wasn't bald when he got married, but one hair fell out for every bill he got.

Rochelle: You know what, forget it, baby.
Julius: Huh?
Rochelle: If I buy this stuff, that means you'll have to work even harder, which means you'll be home even less. And when you do get home, I' be mad, you'll get tired of it, we'll end up in a divorce, and I'll end up with some old-ass furniture and no man. And if you think you leaving me for a White woman, you got another thing coming.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] I know you think she's doing this out of love, but watch this.
Rochelle: [sighs] What?
Julius: Hold on a minute. [to the salesman] How much for this one?
Rochelle: [kisses Julius] Can we get that one? It's just more state-of-the-art. It has the buttons and the knobs that...
Julius: I love you. We're getting that one right there.
Rochelle: Okay.
Julius: On sale.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] Even though my mother was gonna kill me about Tonya, at least she had clean clothes to bury me in.