‘Those Were the Days’
Season 2, Episode 20 - Aired February 24, 1992
When an old friend comes to town, Philip and Vivian are torn between supporting their friend and upholding the law.
Quote from Geoffrey
Geoffrey: Madam, sir, there is a most perturbing person out here who claims to be an old friend of yours.
Philip: Who is it, Geoffrey?
Geoffrey: She didn't say. She was too busy calling me a pathetic servant of the capitalist fat cats.
Phil & Viv: [in unison] Marge.
Quote from Carlton
Will: Hey, how you doing? I'm Will.
Marge: My God, you look just like my old boyfriend, El.
Will: I take it El was blindingly handsome. Who's El?
Marge: Eldridge Cleaver.
Carlton: Oh, was he related to Wally and the Beav?
Quote from Philip
Vivian: But we knew how to par-tay, too.
Philip: Ooh, did we ever. Remember Woodstock?
Marge: Yes.
Philip: 20 of us tried to squeeze into that tent. Vivian and I jumped into that lake naked. [laughs]
Vivian: I wasn't at Woodstock.
Philip: [stops laughing] Oh, yeah. Kids, did I tell you that Marge and I went to school together? That she graduated near the top of our law school class? [laughs]
Quote from Will
Will: I still can't believe they fired the best teacher that Bel-Air Prep ever had.
Marge: You know, you been talking about this for the past two days. Move on it. You know what Malcolm said: "By any means necessary."
Will: Yeah, you know, Marge, you're right. I'm gonna move on it.
Marge: Good.
Will: I like having you around. You get me all hyped and everything. Hey, I bet that's how you felt when you roomed with Angela Davis, right?
Marge: Ooh, yeah. But we had a lot of huge arguments.
Will: Word? What? About her political views?
Marge: No, about how she used to always put her name on everything in the refrigerator. Got on my nerves.
Will: Yeah, and I bet with that big old Afro, she probably had a lot of hair and Afro Sheen and stuff all over the place, right?
Marge: Boy, don't get me started.
Quote from Ashley
Ashley: Mom, Daddy, I am a depressed minority and I want my allowance increased.
Philip: No.
Ashley: Then I'm staging a sit-in and I won't eat my peas.
Philip: [chuckles] You will eat your peas.
Ashley: Come on, Daddy. Suppose Gandhi's parents treated him like this.
Philip: Gandhi ate his peas.
Ashley: Then I shall spray paint my demands on the pool house wall. [exits]
Philip: We like to encourage free speech.
Vivian: We certainly do. [both exit] Ashley! Girl, are you crazy?
Philip: [o.s.] Get your butt back here!
Quote from Hilary
Hilary: We're harboring a fugitive? Look, no offense, Marge, but I'm not going to prison over this. No way am I sharing a cell with a woman called Big Mama.
Quote from Will
Vivian: Marge, I don't understand. What do they want you for?
Marge: Take your pick. I helped a bunch of migrant workers bust out of an internment camp, broke into some federal buildings, shredded a few files, and made life pretty damn difficult for the South African Embassy back East. [chuckles]
Will: Man, and I thought I was doing my part by going to Spike Lee movies.
Quote from Will
Will: Yo, Marge, you should have seen me. It was dope. Me and my man Cornflake barricaded ourself in Mr. Knotts' classroom, right? It took the whole football team to break down the door and when they came in, we was chanting, "Make love, not war."
Marge: Right on, Hasani, but why were you chanting "Make love, not war?"
Will: Well, we was kind of hoping the cheerleaders would overhear.
Quote from Will
Will: Come on, Uncle Phil. Vogue. Express yourself... Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Philip: Oh, no. Oh, no.
Vivian: Will, sweetie, you've been snapping everything in sight for days. Now, what's going on?
Will: It's a photography assignment, Aunt Viv. I wanted to do something meaningful and artistic but ain't nobody getting naked.
Quote from Philip
Marge: You look so good, girl, give me a hug! Look at you.
Philip: Woman, the last time I saw you was that anti-war rally in '71. You stole my Afro comb.
Marge: Don't look like you be needing it now.