Mike: So, Brick, I guess you cared about the trophy after all. Guess you're more like your old man than you thought.
Brick: I wasn't mad about not getting the trophy. I just wanted to go to Washington, D.C. This trip has been so much fun, and I really wanted to go on another one.
Frankie: You thought the trip was fun?
Axl: This trip?
Brick: Oh, yeah. Sue makes the best decisions. Where are we going on the way home?
Sue: Uh, I don't know. I think I'm done deciding. It's too much pressure.
Mike: Oh, come on, Sue, it's your birthday.
Sue: Really? Okay. Well, there's this place that has the world's biggest ball of paint. And a little further down the road is this restaurant shaped like a biscuit.
Brick: Awesome!
Mike: World's biggest ball of paint, here we come.

Sue: Mom, do you think you could make me my favorite dinner on Saturday?
Frankie: I can hardly think to tomorrow. How about you ask me Friday about what we're having for dinner Saturday?
Sue: Okay. I will.
Frankie: Okay.
Sue: I'll ask you Friday. I'll do that. Definitely. Okay. Friday, then.

Sue: Hey, Mom. I was thinking I might wanna have like eight or nine friends sleep over Saturday. I mean, unless you've got something else planned.
Frankie: I don't know. It's kind of a crazy week. A big sleepover isn't really a good idea.
Sue: Yeah, you're right. Crazy week. Sure. I understand. Crazy week. Mom thinks a sleepover's not a good idea. So I'm gonna think of something else. [chuckles]
Mike: Okay, you do that.

Frankie: [v.o.] Yep, for all the crap you go through being a parent, there are some moments you just know you're doing something right.
Mike: He won. Your brother won. Brick Heck, future champ, is heading for regionals.
Frankie: [v.o.] Which are inevitably followed by other moments.
Sue: [sings] Happy birthday to me [balloon whirs]

Axl: Why did we have to get up early? You interrupted my REM sleep. My whole body clock's gonna be off.
Mike: Only clock that matters is mine and your brother's. We're on a schedule here. We need Brick rested and in the motel by 5. He's got a big day tomorrow. Big weekend for him.
Sue: And me. My clock matters.
Frankie: And Sue because it's her birthday weekend.
Mike: Right, sorry. And Sue.

Mike: Brick, you cool enough? Crack the window. Gotta keep that noggin oxygenated. Spell "oxygenated."
Frankie: Mike.

Sue: Actually, I think I, the birthday girl, might enjoy a window too. Axl, switch with me.
Axl: No way. I'm not sitting on the hump.
Frankie: Axl, you can call the shots when we forget your birthday. Get on the hump.

Sue: Hey, who's up for singing? [sings] Oh, the Hecks went traveling To Chicago one day When along came an avalanche Interrupting their way...
Axl: I wish.
Sue: [sings] Oh, they went...
Axl: I'm not singing.
Sue: It's my birthday trip.
All: [sing] Oh, le-rah-kee-kee-ah Oh, le-rah-cuckoo Whoosh Oh, le-rah-kee-kee-ah Oh, le-rah-cuckoo Whoosh Oh, le-rah-kee-kee-ah Oh, le-rah-cuckoo Whoosh Oh, le-rah-kee-kee-ah-oh

Sue: [sobs]
Mike: Sue, knock it off. Go to sleep.
Sue: Okay. [cries]
Frankie: You happy now? Sue's crying and you're yelling at her.
Mike: I wasn't yelling. I don't want her to wake up Brick.
Frankie: Yeah, that's right, it's all about Brick. That's why he gets the bed and I'm sleeping on this disgusting, crunchy carpet.
Mike: No, we're sleeping on this disgusting, crunchy carpet because you had to give the other bed to Sue.
Frankie: We forgot her birthday.
Mike: Mike: I know, but this wasn't the way to make it up to her.
Mike: This weekend is supposed to be about the spelling bee. The spelling bee's a big deal.
Frankie: To who?
Mike: What's that supposed to mean?
Frankie: It's a big deal to you. You're the one that wants the trophy. You're the one that wants to win.
Mike: That's ridiculous.
Frankie: Don't you roll away from me. It's true. You've been out of control this whole weekend.

Mike: I'm not the one agreeing to every idea my 13-year-old comes up with.
Frankie: Fourteen. She had a birthday.
Axl: I can hear you.
Brick: I can hear you.
Sue: I can hear you.
Man: [knocks on wall] I can hear you.
Sue: [sobs]
Mike: Sue, come on.
Frankie: It's me. I just wanted to make everybody happy.
Mike: Oh, man.