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Room for Change

‘Room for Change’

Season 3, Episode 17 -  Aired March 2, 1994

Tim unilaterally decides to move Randy out of Brad's room when the pair won't stop fighting.

Quote from Al

Tim: Today, we're gonna show you how to soundproof as well as insulate the walls. Now, there's a variety of products you can use, of course. Acoustic padding, fiberglass batting, or very unattractive flannel. [points to Al's shirt]
Al: The easiest way to install your insulation is during construction, before you've put up your dry wall.
Tim: However, if the dry wall's already been installed in your home, we suggest the foam injection method. Heidi, the foam injector, please.
Al: Here you go, Tim.
Tim: Thank you, Heidi.
Heidi: You're welcome.
Tim: For this method, you're gonna have to drill some holes.
Al: But first you wanna find a stud. [Tim dances] I said "stud," not "dud."

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Quote from Randy

Tim: Guys, you gotta figure out a way to work this out by yourselves, all right?
Brad: Randy shouldn't even have a room. He should be at the bottom of Lake Erie with the other shrimp.
Tim: Brad!
Randy: Yeah, and you'd fit right in on Mars, where there's no sign of intelligent life.
Tim: First of all... they've never confirmed that. And second of all, I want you guys to shake hands and make up. Big brother, help little brother out.

Quote from Mark

Mark: Hi, Mom.
Jill: Hi, honey. What are you doing with that box?
Mark: Dad's making me move.
Jill: What?
Mark: To Randy's room. Now I get to beat up on Brad.

Quote from Tim

Jill: Tim!
Tim: Was that you, honey? I could hardly hear you. They had a whole bunch of chamois on sale.
Jill: How could you?
Tim: You said always look for bargains.
Jill: I mean about switching the boys' rooms.
Tim: Oh. I tried it your way. It didn't work.
Jill: My way was that we told them. Was I not clear?
Tim: We, we, we. It can be taken so many ways. To you, it meant "us." To the French, it means "yes." To this little piggy, it meant, "I'm going all the way home."

Quote from Tim

Tim: Honey, I don't need endless discussions to make a decision. Men assess a situation, boom - done.
Jill: Are you saying that men are more decisive than women?
Tim: Oh, it's a fact. [Jill scoffs] Come on. We don't shop for three hours for shoes and handbags. The first pair of shoes I see that fit, I buy 'em.
Jill: Even if they're sling-back heels?
Tim: If they fit.
Jill: You see? Just because men make hasty decisions doesn't mean that they're the right ones.
Tim: Men aren't yammerers.
Jill: Is that what you think? You think that I yammer?
Tim: Jill, you're a yammer-er.
Jill: Well, you're a yack-ass!

Quote from Wilson

Tim: Evening, Wilson.
Wilson: Heavenly-ho, good neighbor.
Tim: What are you doing?
Wilson: Tim, I am shooting the moon.
Tim: Aren't you supposed to have your pants down for that?
Wilson: No, no, no, no, no, Tim. I'm taking time-lapse photographs. I'm tracking the path of the blue moon. I'm taking some very spectacular shots.
Tim: That's funny. Jill just took some spectacular shots at me.
Wilson: Something's out of orbit in the Taylor universe.
Tim: I suppose you could say that.

Quote from Randy

Randy: You think you could talk to him?
Jill: Would you feel better if things went back to the way they were?
Randy: I'd feel better if I had my own room.
Jill: Unfortunately, that's not gonna be an option.
Randy: So what are my options? Living with the dork or living with Brad who talks on the phone all day.
Jill: Honey, Brad is in junior high school now. He's got a lot of new stuff happening. He's meeting new friends, getting interested in girls...
Randy: Let me get this straight. Brad gets new friends, girls and his own room... and I get Mark?

Quote from Jill

Jill: But what I mean is... I got older, you know, and I got to have some of those same experiences. I can't say the shaving the legs part was so great, but then my sister moved out.
Randy: Then you got your own room.
Jill: No, then Dad turned it into a study.
Randy: Great.
Jill: Don't worry. I mean, with your father, you won't have that problem.
Randy: Yeah. Dad's idea of a study is a toilet and three hot-rod magazines.

Quote from Randy

Jill: You know, Randy, there are some advantages to sharing a room with a younger kid.
Randy: Such as?
Jill: Well, you have always wanted to have the upper bunk. You get to listen to more of your music, nobody can kick you out of your room.
Randy: Yeah... but I can always kick Mark out.
Jill: I didn't say that. Oh, who knows? Maybe just one of these days I'll completely lose my mind and let your father build another room.
Randy: I don't think so, Mom.

Quote from Tim

Tim: OK, OK, OK, I get your point. And I've decided that no matter what I do, those warts are going back to Bulgaria.
Jill: Why do I even try to talk to you?
Tim: The point is, we've got to get beneath the oily surface to the root of the boys' problem.

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