- David Ridgeway: [answers the phone] Hi Mom... Yeah, Tiffy's fine, we're just having a little soup here... Yep, that same fat-free, salt-free, taste-free stuff you always give us.
- Terry Venessi: You guys are all the same!
- David Ridgeway: How so?
- Terry Venessi: You gravitate to the shiniest object. Like grunion.
- David Ridgeway: I do not gravitate to shiny girls. I gravitate to smart minds!
- Terry Venessi: In short skirts.
- David Ridgeway: [embarrassed chuckle] Busted.
- Papa Tognetti: What are you eating?
- Karen Ridgeway: Um, ricecakes, tomato, and cucumbers.
- Papa Tognetti: Mmm... that must taste 'blech!'
- Karen Ridgeway: [smiles] What are those pills for?
- Papa Tognetti: Bloodthinners. The doctors say I have to have skinny blood.