- [Sal startles Max, who drops a valuable antique teapot, smashing it]
- Sal Hunter: Nooo! Not the Duesenberg teapot!
- Daniel Hunter: Duesenberg. That's it.
- Sal Hunter: It's irreplaceable!
- Daniel Hunter: We have to get another one! Oh, it's going to cost a fortune.
- Max Hunter: Do you know what irreplacable means?
- Daniel Hunter: Really... hard to replace?
- Max Hunter: That Clutterbeek is some kind of mean. When did they start using prison guards to teach innocent children?
- Tess Hunter: Innocent? You? Right.
- Max Hunter: An "F" isn't a low enough grade for you, Maximilan. I'm giving you a Z-minus. I'm making up new letters to give you. I'm giving you a Fleh-minus. Remember the name Clutterbuck...
- [Miss Clutterbuck walks up behind Max, who ignores Sal and Tess's "cut" signals and keeps talking]
- Max Hunter: ...as in Cyclops, "L" for loathsome, "U" for utterly unfair, "T for terrible, another "T" for even more terrible, "E" is for evil...
- Miss Clutterbeek: I can't wait to hear what "R" is for.
- Max Hunter: ...Really great.
- Miss Clutterbeek: What about "rancorous"?
- Max Hunter: I don't know what that means.
- Miss Clutterbeek: Good. You can look it up. It'll give you something to do during your five hours of after-school detentioin.
- Miss Clutterbeek: What are you doing? Let me guess - you're stealing my cookies. Or are you trying to steal tomorrow's test?
- Max Hunter: What? Why would I do that?
- Miss Clutterbeek: Because my pet piranha knows more about biology than you do.