- Victoria Letour: I did a little checking, and there's no Shuster University in all of Dixie. Or anywhere in the country, for that matter.
- Clark Kent: No, not yet there's not.
- Victoria Letour: So either you're a fraud... or there's something going on I don't understand.
- Clark Kent: I'm not a fraud, Victoria.
- Victoria Letour: That's your explanation?
- Clark Kent: It would take too long.
- Victoria Letour: I'm Victoria Letour. I've been researching my new role.
- Clark Kent: What are you playing, a Green Beret?
- Victoria Letour: I'm playing a downtrodden victim of the Depression. Why would I play a hat?
- Superboy: Something told me those sudden power surges meant you were around.
- Professor John Zugar: What are you so mad about? I'm the one who should be teed off. You know how long I've been waiting for you?
- Superboy: You planned the whole thing, didn't you? You tricked me into using superheat, and then you dragged me back to 1939.
- Professor John Zugar: Well, sure I did. How else was I gonna get your help? But I didn't force you to hang onto the time machine. That's your problem.
- Superboy: Mr. Stoddard, because you made it possible for us to return, the professor and I would like to offer you this gift of ten acres of land in the San Fernando Valley.
- Professor John Zugar: I think five acres would be enough. I mean, after all, gratitude carried too far is ostentation. If there's one thing I can't stand...
- Percy Stoddard: Please, please, gentlemen, I don't want anything.
- Superboy: You don't understand. We insist that you take this. He can't go back unless you take it. As a matter of fact, I won't go back unless you take this.
- Percy Stoddard: [leaving] Gentlemen.
- Superboy: Thank you very much.
- Professor John Zugar: I want to thank you for being so generous with *my* property.
- Superboy: I knew you wouldn't mind. I felt like we owed him a favor.
- Professor John Zugar: Well, do me a favor: don't do me any more favors.
- Professor John Zugar: Where's your joie de vivre? Your curiosity? Your wonder? I got here in 1938. You didn't arrive until 1939. Aren't you impatient to know how that happened?
- Superboy: No, not from you. I don't want...
- Professor John Zugar: You were hanging onto the time machine. You must have let go before I reached 1938. That's why you didn't travel back in time as far as I did.