Hal Quote #689
Quote from Hal in Butterflies
Hal: Okay, Reese.
Reese: [whispers] Ssh. Dad, they're pupating. They need peace and quiet while they're developing their delicate new-
Hal: We got to dump the bugs.
Reese: What?!
Hal: Sorry. Your mother wants them gone.
Reese: No, you can't do this. They never hurt anyone. They have no protection, no one to watch over them.
Hal: Oh, crap, I'm too late. You bonded with them, didn't you? Well, welcome to my world. Now you're stuck with feelings of unjustified love for a bunch of mindless, ungrateful eating machines. See how you like it. At least yours will be dead in a month.
Reese: Then I can keep them?
Hal: Throw them under the tarp with the Playboys. And you better be a sullen jerk to me in front of your mother so she doesn't get wise. You got that?
Malcolm in the Middle Quotes
‘Butterflies’ Quotes
Quote from Lois
Lois: [over P.A.] Attention, Lucky Aide trespasser. You do not get to do this. You do not get to live off the grid. If anyone on the planet was entitled to hide from all the aggravation, it would be me, but I don't, do you understand? No one gets to shirk their share of the misery. Everyone has to be stuck in this together. That's what's fair. Those are the rules. Now, you obviously know me, so you know what I'm willing to do to find you. So save us both the time and come out now.
[Norm emerges from an aisle]
Craig: Let me handle this. [to Norm] Do you know anything about a guy living in the store?
Quote from Malcolm
Lois: All right, what's in this bag?
Malcolm: Nothing. I'm restocking.
Lois: Fresh fruit? A package of all-cotton underwear? A decent book? We don't sell this stuff.
Malcolm: Okay, fine. If you must know, I was restocking my locker. I've been having intense stomach problems, and that's what the fruit is for, and the underwear, and sadly, the book, too. And now that you've publicly humiliated me, can I go about my business? [to camera] Okay, not bad. It's plausible, embarrassing enough for the outburst, and essentially unprovable. I just have to stand my ground.
Quote from Craig
Malcolm: That's weird. Did you see anyone?
Lois: What?
Malcolm: Someone left a candy wrapper and change on the counter here, but nobody's been in the store for hours.
Craig: It was probably a mouse.
Malcolm: A mouse that left the exact change?
Craig: I played tic-tac-toe with a chicken at the county fair, and it beat me eight times in a row. Don't shortchange animals.