- Clair Hanks Huxtable: [obviously addressing Mrs. Westlake] I love your accent. Where are you from?
- Jack Westlake: I'm from Indiana.
- Anna Maria Westlake: That's why I marry him. I love the way he talks!
- [At dinner, Mrs. Westlake is sharing about her struggles, working two jobs while going to college and not being native to the U.S]
- Jack Westlake: Tell them what you did on the weekends!
- Anna Maria Westlake: I drove a taxicab!
- [everyone laughs]
- Anna Maria Westlake: One day, this man gets into my cab and says, 'I need to get to the airport, and step on it!' I say, 'you want me to step on the airport?'
- [more laughs]
- Anna Maria Westlake: Then he says, 'I need to get there in a jiffy!' I say, 'this is not a Jiffy, this is a Yellow Cab!'
- [more laughs]
- Clair Hanks Huxtable: So, did that man make it to the airport?
- Jack Westlake: Yes, but I missed my flight!
- [First lines]
- Rudy Huxtable: [Rudy is reading a book, while she is lying on top of her father who is sleeping] I gave my cat a ball of...
- [stumbles over a word]
- Rudy Huxtable: Yah... Yah- Daddy?
- [jabs her father awake]
- Rudy Huxtable: Daddy!
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [wakes up with a start] What's happening?
- Rudy Huxtable: What is this word?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [reading the book] Yah-arn. Yarn.
- Rudy Huxtable: Thanks, Daddy.
- [Goes back to reading]
- Rudy Huxtable: I gave my cat a ball of yarn, she plah...
- [jabs at her father awake]
- Rudy Huxtable: Daddy!
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [wakes up again with a start] Where are you going?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: On the first day of school, Theo came home with his face like this and said to me 'Dad, the thing I was most afraid of in my whole life happened today. I got Mrs Westlake for math. And on the first day she gave us homework!'.
- Anna Maria Westlake: And what about the second day? I knew he had not done his homework because when I asked for volunteers to go to the blackboard I saw him trying to hide behind the student in front of him.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Ah, yes, I used to do that in biology class.
- Anna Maria Westlake: [cynically] It doesn't work.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [regretfully] I know.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [on the phone with Mrs Westlake and Theo's having his hands no] Hold on a moment please.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [to Theo, covering the phone] What are you, landing an airplane or something?