- Fran Sinclair: Robbie, quit poking your sister.
- Robbie Sinclair: Not until she supports her hypothesis that truth is knowable.
- Charlene Sinclair: I wasn't talking about imperical evidence, buttface!
- Fran Sinclair: Cut it out or I won't let you go to school tomorrow! I mean it!
- Robbie Sinclair: Whoa, we'll be good, we'll be good.
- Charlene Sinclair: Yeah, promise.
- Robbie Sinclair: Promise.
- Charlene Sinclair: Ugh, Mom, I just don't see why I can't go to school today.
- Fran Sinclair: Because it's Saturday, dear.
- Fran Sinclair: I was just at the market talking to some of the other mothers, and they said their kids are suddenly doing badly in school, they're like, zombies.
- [sees Robbie, Baby and Ethyl staring blankly at the TV]
- Fran Sinclair: Oh this has gone on far enough, if we're going to watch something, we're going to watch the news channel, Robbie, turn on channel 8.
- Robbie Sinclair: Huh? Oh.
- [raises the remote above his head]
- Robbie Sinclair: Which one's 8?
- Fran Sinclair: What? Oh give me that!
- Baby Sinclair: [watching Baby Cuddlebunny] Not the pajamas, not the pajamas.
- Grandma Ethyl Phillips: It's amazing the way a phrase like that can catch on.
- Fran Sinclair: Robbie, show your father your report card.
- [goes to answer phone]
- Earl Sinclair: Hit me with it.
- Fran Sinclair: [on phone] Charlene? What?
- Earl Sinclair: [reading report card] F, F, F, F, F, M... M? What's an M?
- Robbie Sinclair: Well, halfway through grading me, the teacher forgot the alphabet.
- Fran Sinclair: Earl! It's Charlene, she needs a ride home.
- [hangs up]
- Fran Sinclair: She can't remember where we live!
- Earl Sinclair: That doesn't prove a thing, she never was the brightest kid.
- Fran Sinclair: Earl, you've got to put smarter shows on the air! Everyone's gotten TOO dumb!
- Ted: [after Earl's quality TV makes dinosaurs so smart they stop watching TV] The public's gotten too smart.
- Stu: [groaning] Doh, they're all reading books!
- Ted: They don't need us anymore! There must be a way to make them dumb again!
- Stu: We could drug them, something in the water supply.
- Ted: We don't have the budget for that.
- Stu: Fine, we'll just hit everyone in the head with a brick!
- Earl Sinclair: You guys are evil! I put on the dumb shows because I liked them, then I put the smart shows on to save the world. You guys have an opportunity to speak to millions and millions of dinosaurs. But you don't care WHAT you put on the air, all you care about is ratings!
- Baby Sinclair: I want to watch TV.
- Fran Sinclair: No TV until after you play with your educational game.
- Baby Sinclair: [grumbles] Educational game stinks!
- Fran Sinclair: Earl, it's a school night, the children have homework to do.
- Earl Sinclair: Why?
- Fran Sinclair: Because if all they do is watch TV, they'll never amount to anything.
- Earl Sinclair: [sarcastically] Oh, you're right, Fran, I do nothing but watch TV and *I* don't have a great job. Oh wait, I dooooo!
- [singsong]
- Earl Sinclair: I have a great job, I have a great job!