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.

Adult Chris: [v.o.] While I was trying to figure out what to do about my F, my father was home sick, trying to figure out how he got the gout.
Rochelle: Oh, baby when did you get the gout?
Julius: I don't know. It just happened.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] I know you're probably wondering, what is the gout?
[A doctor addresses the camera from his office:]
Doctor: Well, gout, or the gout as some people like to call it, is a form of arthritis, which causes severe swelling usually in the ankle or the big toe. It's caused by a poor diet, including things like...
[The doctor appears behind Julius in the living room]
Doctor: ...smothered pork chops.
Julius: Needs some salt.
Doctor: Smothered chicken-fried bacon.
Julius: Needs some salt.
Doctor: And smothered chicken-fried bananas.
Julius: Not bad. Needs salt.
Doctor: Are you out your damn mind?

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.