Malcolm: This is my decision. My future.
Hal: You're a kid. You could change your mind. You just needed a cooling-off period. I almost married a Mexican woman two weeks before I married your mother.
Malcolm: What are you doing? You're mortgaging my future for some dinners and a few sweaters?
Hal: I got other stuff: ponchos, seat cushions... All right, I was going to let you make the final decision... I just liked the attention. No, no... I loved the attention. If I was a woman, I'd be a slut.
Malcolm: You were just leading all these guys on.
Hal: I know. It's just... Malcolm, I'm an average guy, in the middle of my life, in a job that can replace me in an hour. I was never an important man. You're the only important thing I've ever done. Oh, God!
Malcolm: Don't feel bad, Dad. You raised me. You deserve the attention.
Hal: No! Vince left the check.