Rochelle Quote #123
Quote from Rochelle in Everybody Hates the Gout
Rochelle: Oh, don't mind me. I'm just here to watch my brilliant, mathematician son in action. Ms. Morello said it would be okay. [Chris turns around and sees Ms. Morello glaring at him]
Adult Chris: [v.o.] If I could just be cool, maybe everything will be all right.
Ms. Morello: Today we're doing fractions. What does three twelfths plus three fourths equal?
Rochelle: Ooh! Ooh! Me! Pick me.
Ms. Morello: Rochelle.
Rochelle: Chris has an answer. He got an A.
Ms. Morello: That's right. He did get an A.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] If I could drive, I'd do this. [footage of the police chasing a car]
Chris: I don't know the answer.
Rochelle: No? Well, how is that possible? You're the math wiz. The human calculator. You got an A.
Chris: I actually got an F.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] This must be how Marion Barry felt when that tape got out.
Rochelle: Miss Morello, thank you for your time. Come on, Chris.
Joey Caruso: See you later, Stymie.
Everybody Hates Chris Quotes
‘Everybody Hates the Gout’ Quotes
Quote from Chris
Adult Chris: [v.o.] I could usually get a good grade just by talking about Dr. Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King: [film] Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] In English class...
Chris: My book report is on Dr. Martin Luther King.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] In history...
Chris: My history report is on the Birmingham Bus Boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] The only place Martin Luther King didn't work was in math.
Ms. Morello: Chris, what's the square root of 144?
Chris: 1963? The same year that Dr. Martin Luther King led the March on Washington?
Ms. Morello: No, it's 12.
Quote from Rochelle
Adult Chris: [v.o.] As kids we only had one job: go to school and get decent grades.
Kids: Bye, Mommy. Love you.
Rochelle: Have a good day. Don't come home stupid.
Kids: We won't.
Quote from Rochelle
Adult Chris: [v.o.] I couldn't bring myself to tell my mother I got an F. Next to dealing drugs, getting bad grades was the worst thing you could do. It was worse than this.
[flash-forward to 1993: Tonya is holding a gun over a man's dead body in front of the house:]
Rochelle: Tonya, what happened?
Teenage Tonya: Mama, I had to smoke that fool.
Rochelle: Oh, not him. I'm talking about this D you got in algebra.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] And worse than this.
[flash-forward to 1994:]
Rochelle: Drew! Where is that boy?
[Rochelle opens the door and finds Drew wearing a cowboy hot, a plaid shirt and blue jeans with a guitar strapped to his back]
Rochelle: What the hell is wrong with you?
Teenage Drew: I'm following my dream, Mama. I'm gonna be a country and western singer.
Rochelle: I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about this F. Now, take your Johnny Cashless ass upstairs and study. You think I'm playing with you? And where'd you get that guitar from? You'd better not be selling no damn drugs in my house.