Ray: Maybe he had some weird bond with that fish. You know? Like Flipper.
Debra: All right. I don't think it was the particular fish, Ray. I think it was more of a symbolic thing.
Ray: You mean, like... What do you mean?
Debra: It's his 65th birthday and then, on top of that, Stan dies. You know, it's bound to bring up the question of his own mortality.
Ray: Okay, but it was Stan, "the Fish."
Debra: Yes, Ray, that's the symbolic part!
Ray: I don't think that's it.
Debra: Why not?
Ray: My father isn't that deep. He doesn't make those connections. He thinks the moral of the Adam and Eve story is: "Don't eat when you're naked."
Debra: No, Ray. I think that's definitely it and I think that your father is hiding his feelings. It's normal. You know, he's afraid of dying, and then you give him the gift of death.