[flashback:]
Lois: Come on, Francis, honey. Please, won't you eat anything? We've tried the carrots, and the peaches, and the oatmeal, the apples, huh? Don't you like anything?
Hal: Lois! Would you like to know what your son did to my director's cut of The Eyes of Laura Mars? He also shaved a hole in the carpet with my new Norelco!
Lois: I'm sorry, Hal. I asked him very nicely not to play with it, but he just wouldn't listen. I can't get him to do anything. I've read Dr. Spock and Piaget and Eisenberg, and The Language of Hugs, all these books, nothing's helping.
Hal: What he needs is a little discipline.
Lois: I think he'd behave better if he just ate something. Look at him. He's just wasting away. I'm going to give him another Hershey bar.
Hal: Lois, no! You can't keep coddling him like this! I am sick and tired of always having to be the bad cop because you're constantly giving in to him.
Lois: Okay, Hal, I'll try.
Hal: You keep saying that, and then you do it again!
Lois: I'm going to be tougher with him. I promise. [Lois gives Francis a candy bar after Hal leaves]
[present:]
Francis: Huh. It's weird. I just have this vague feeling of you actually being a good mother.