- Vanessa Huxtable: What's wrong with looking for boys? Denise married a boy. Sondra married a boy. Mom married a boy, or what used to be a boy. Someday I hope to be married, too. But if I don't start meeting boys now, I could be living here for the rest of my life.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: ...Go to the mall.
- [Vanessa kisses him on the head, and walks out the door]
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: And look for boys!
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Well, would you tell me: what is so intellectual about wandering up and down the mall?
- Vanessa Huxtable: The mall has absolutely nothing to do with intellect.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: ...Then why are you going to the mall?
- Vanessa Huxtable: For relaxation, I go to the mall and look in the store windows.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: And look for boys.
- Vanessa Huxtable: No doubt about it. But I also go and meet my friends there.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: And look for boys.
- Vanessa Huxtable: No doubt about it. But there's a bookstore, and sometimes I go in there.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: And look for boys.
- Vanessa Huxtable: No doubt about it, Dad.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Why is it that all of you children, if you have a little time off, go to the mall?
- Vanessa Huxtable: What else is there to do?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: You could read a book.
- Vanessa Huxtable: Dad, you're always telling me to read a book. Read what book?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: What about Ionesco? Wrote a wonderful play, Rhinoceros.
- Vanessa Huxtable: Dad, I read him in school. The teacher asked us to identify the symbolism in it. Not one kid had a clue. The biggest strain on a young person's intellect is discussing old books.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [Taken aback] ... Euripides.
- Vanessa Huxtable: Euripides, who wrote Medea, Electra, and The Trojan Women?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Yes.
- Vanessa Huxtable: I read him too. Even the teachers don't understand Euripides.