- Lisa: Don't you guys want to tell your kids someday that you played Beethoven at the Kennedy Center?
- Derek Taylor: I'm not gonna have any kids.
- Ricky Stratton: That's the first good news I've heard all day!
- Ricky Stratton: I did it, Dad! I sold the rest of the popcorn.
- Edward Stratton III: You did? But how? I thought you were upstairs.
- Ricky Stratton: No. I went out and I sold the popcorn from door to door to door to door. I sold most of them that way.
- Edward Stratton III: Great! How'd you sell the rest of them?
- Ricky Stratton: Derek's father bought 'em.
- Edward Stratton III: He did?
- Ricky Stratton: Yeah. I just went and knocked on a door at the Shangri-La Motel and Derek's father answered. He seemed real nervous. He bought my last 88 bags. I wonder why?
- Edward Stratton III: Well, when I see him, you can bet I'll ask him.
- Ricky Stratton: Kate, why are you so dressed up?
- Kate Summers: Oh, Edward and I are going to a fundraising dinner at the county art museum.
- Derek Taylor: Oh yeah, that's the dinner that costs $1,000 a plate.
- Freddy Lippincottleman: Hey. Why don't we sell our popcorn for $1,000 a bag? That way we only have to sell one.
- [looks at Derek and Ricky]
- Freddy Lippincottleman: I know, I know. "Shut up, Freddy."
- Edward Stratton III: You've committed to selling 1,000 bags of popcorn. So, I'll tell you what... first thing tomorrow morning, we'll go down to the mail, and you'll sell 1,000 bags.
- Ricky Stratton: In one day? That's impossible.
- Edward Stratton III: Well, you never know until you try. But I'll tell you this much... if you work hard and earn that $1,000, you're gonna feel a whole lot better about yourself.
- Ricky Stratton: Okay, Dad, I'll give it a try. But if I go through all that hard work and don't feel any better about myself, your credibility is shot.
- Ricky Stratton: So I really appreciate you helping our orchestra out like this.
- Woman #2: Oh, that's okay. I have a son about your age.
- Ricky Stratton: You have a son my age? You couldn't possibly be old enough to have a son my age.
- Woman #2: Maybe I'll take two bags.
- Ricky Stratton: Oh that is such a beautiful outfit. You wear it so well. Were you ever a model?
- Woman #2: Don't be silly. Come to think of it, my husband loves popcorn. I'll take three bags.
- Ricky Stratton: What a lucky man your husband must be to have such a beautiful, elegant, intelligent woman like yourself by his side. Not every man is so privileged that...
- Woman #2: Can it, kid, three's my limit.
- Derek Taylor: You know, the only reason I joined this wimpy orchestra is to take the trip to Washington. Hey, maybe I'll just join the debate team. They're going to Boston.
- Ricky Stratton: I guess it is true. The first ones to desert the sinking ship *are* the rats.