- Clair Huxtable: [has just told Rudy to go upstairs and take off the summer dress] Now Cliff, I don't understand how you could look at that dress and tell that child that she could wear it on a day like today. You have been here. And there are three daughters who have grown up in your eyesight. Were you not paying attention?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: I - I paid attention. But I was tricked.
- [Clair gives him a long stare]
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: I didn't know.
- Clair Huxtable: [slowly] Why didn't you check with me first?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Because I don't know all the time to check. See - a lot of people - see, ah, just a little while ago, if I'd checked, eh, it would've helped me not to let Robert in here.
- [Clair smiles]
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: But I can't check with the checker and the check in the check checks...
- [Clair laughs loudly]
- Clair Huxtable: I'm sorry. You're right.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Thank you, dear.
- [They kiss]
- Clair Huxtable: And from now on, you don't have to check with anybody.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Thank you.
- Clair Huxtable: Except me.
- [She goes into the kitchen]