- [First lines]
- Rudy Huxtable: [calling to Vanessa; from upstairs] Vanessa! Vanessa!
- [pause]
- Rudy Huxtable: [shouts loudly and impatiently] VANESSA!
- [sitcom laughter]
- Vanessa Huxtable: [shouts] MOM! You tell Rudy to stop saying my name!
- Clair Hanks Huxtable: [working at her desk] Cliff?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): [resting on the couch; smiling] They said 'Mom', dear. Not 'Dad'. That's why they have different names for us. So they can get to who they want.
- Clair Hanks Huxtable: But, can't you see I am busy?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): I'll do them for you.
- Clair Hanks Huxtable: You? You hate doing books.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): [chuckles] It's that everytime I see how they bring a smile to your face, it makes me jealous and want to make books of my own.
- Rudy Huxtable: [calls] Vanessa!
- Vanessa Huxtable: [calls] Mom!
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): Clair!
- Clair Hanks Huxtable: [serious] Cliff.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): [now serious] You want me to destroy them now?
- Clair Hanks Huxtable: Do something!
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): [shouts] Rudy!
- Rudy Huxtable: [shouts] Yes?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): [talking loudly] This is your father talking to you. Get down on your hands and knees. Now Put your ear to the floor. Can you hear me?
- Rudy Huxtable: Yes.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): All right... I am going to say this only one time...
- [shouts]
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): STOP IT!
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): [Rudy is keeps calling Vanessa's name. However, there is no answer] Rudy, put your ear down on the floor. Can you hear me?
- Rudy Huxtable (Knight Pulliam, Keshia): Yes.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): [yells] STOP IT!
- Denise Huxtable (Bonet, Lisa): Just ignore her.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (Cosby, Bill): Spoken by a woman with no children!