- Vince LaSalle: Forget it man, you can't get back your lizard. It'd make you a taker-backer, and that's against the Code.
- Gus Griswald: The what?
- Spinelli: The Kids' Unwritten Code of Honor. Where you been, man?
- Gus Griswald: Uh...
- Theodore J. 'T.J.' Detweiler: Look Gus, what would you do if you knew some kid who went around stepping on cracks all the time?
- Gus Griswald: Well, I'd tell him to stop.
- Vince LaSalle: Right. And what about a kid who never held his breath when he went past a cemetary?
- Gus Griswald: I'd say he was crazy!
- Theodore J. 'T.J.' Detweiler: Exactly. And this is the same thing. Like never taking cuts in line, and only double-daring a kid after HE'S dared you first. They're all part of the Code.
- Mikey Blumberg: It's what separates us from the animals!
- Gretchen Grundler: And from the adults. If we kids didn't have the Code, what would we be?
- Gus Griswald: Uh... adult animals?
- Spinelli: Nothing, that's what!