Audrey: What do you think about this?
Mandy: Oh, I like the color. Not sure about all the princess stuff.
Audrey: What's wrong with princess stuff?
Mandy: Oh, nothing, it's just, you know, why can't it be dinosaurs or astronauts?
Audrey: Well, it can, if you want her to be a tomboy.
Mandy: Dinosaurs do not make tomboys. I'm just saying that she can be anything.
Audrey: Except a princess.

Mandy: Okay, why don't we just start with a color?
Audrey: What about yellow?
Mandy: Yellow's good, I love yellow.
Audrey: Terrific. Are sunflowers too feminine for you?
Mandy: Sunflowers are fine.
Audrey: See, we can do this. Now, where do we stand on unicorns?
Mandy: Kind of phallic, isn't it?
Audrey: Oh, get your mind out of the gutter. [looks at the magazine] Yeah, we can keep looking.

Georgie: All right, got all the road trip supplies we need. Jerky, map, bottle for peeing.
Jim: You realize we can pull over?
Georgie: Yeah, but where's the challenge in that?

Connor: I brought some music.
Jim: Oh, let's fire it up.
[Connor puts on his headphones and plays his Walkman cassette player]
Jim: Of course.
Georgie: It's fine, he's having fun.
Jim: Yeah, whatever you say.
Connor: [loudly] Pass the jerky!

Mandy: [sighs] Hate to say it, but I'm a little nervous about CeeCee sleeping all alone.
Audrey: Oh, she'llbe fine.
Mandy: Well, what about me? It's a big change for me.
Audrey: I understand. I cried the first night you spent in your own room.
Mandy: You did not.
Audrey: Of course I did. You were my precious little baby.
Mandy: Aw.
Audrey: Then you started talking and ruined everything.
Mandy: [sarcastically] Aw.

Audrey: Oh, it'll inspire CeeCee to have a love of reading and learning and... and staying in school.
Mandy: "Staying in school?"
Audrey: Is that a bad thing?
Mandy: Go ahead, just say it.
Audrey: Say what?
Mandy: Unlike her father.
Audrey: I just want her to achieve all her dreams.
Mandy: Unlike her mother.
Audrey: Well, since you brought it up, you always wanted to be a TV news reporter and instead-
Mandy: Instead I'm a waitress.
Audrey: Isn't it nice how we can finish each other's sentences?

Connor: [humming]
Georgie: Lives in his own world, don't he?
Jim: Yep.
Georgie: Seems like a happy world.
Jim: I guess.
Georgie: Your world, on the other hand, a little tense.
Jim: It's complicated.
Georgie: Which part?
Jim: Part where his mother and I are gonna be gone someday and I don't know what happens to him.
Georgie: I'm sure he'll find his way.
Jim: Yeah, you might be that way.
Georgie: What's that mean?
Jim: He might be living over your garage.
Georgie: Oh. Well, CeeCee'll have a fun uncle to play with.
Jim: Think Mandy's gonna be okay with that?
Georgie: Oh. Well, you and Mrs. McAllister are gonna live a long, long life.
Jim: Yeah, I'll do my best.

Georgie: Me and your dad are up here talking about the future, and I was wondering where you see yourself in ten, 20 years?
Connor: Let me guess, my father thinks I'll never amount to anything.
Jim: I-I didn't say that.
Georgie: He didn't.
Connor: Did he say something like that?
Georgie: That he did, yes.
Jim: Georgie.
Georgie: I don't want to lie to him.
Jim: [sighs] You want the truth? You're 26 years old, you live over the garage, you ain't never had a job.
Connor: Sorry I make you angry.
Jim: I'm not angry. I'm scared. [Connor puts his headphones back on] [Jim sighs]
Georgie: A lot to think about. Heavy stuff. [Jim exhales while looking at Georgie] Yep.

Audrey: I remember when you were in high school and hung up those beads.
Mandy: Yeah, you hated them.
Audrey: Yes, but it was your room and I gave you the freedom to decorate as you saw fit.
Mandy: You said it looked like an opium den.
Audrey: Maybe I meant it as a compliment?

Mandy: What do you want, Mom?
Audrey: [sighs] I want to apologize.
Mandy: Okay. Accepted. Go away.
Audrey: Amanda, you have so much potential, it's just hard for me to see you stuck.
Mandy: [scoffs] I'm not stuck.
Audrey: You're living in your childhood bedroom, working a dead-end job.
Mandy: It's temporary.
Audrey: That's what I told myself when I gave up on my dream.
Mandy: To be the Wicked Witch of the West?

Audrey: I never expected my whole life to be in Medford.
Mandy: Well, where did you think it would be?
Audrey: I thought I'd live in Washington and be chief of staff for Lyndon Johnson.
Mandy: Really? You were a Democrat?
Audrey: I was young once, too, Amanda.

Audrey: But I got married, and your father opened his tire store and life just happened.
Mandy: Yeah, well, life kind of happened to me, too.
Audrey: Or did Georgie happen to you?
Mandy: Stop blaming Georgie. It's my fault, too.
Audrey: Fine, I blame both of you.
Mandy: [quietly] Thank you.
Audrey: All I want is for you to have the things in life I never got.
Mandy: I know. I'm sure having me and Connor didn't help with your dreams.
Audrey: You were my firstborn. It was mostly you.

Jim: This road trip's feeling like a bust.
Georgie: I've been on worse.
Jim: Than this?
Georgie: Oh, yeah. Once, my dad took me and Sheldon to Florida to see the space shuttle launch.
Jim: Oh, I always wanted to see that.
Georgie: Me, too. It got rained out. Spent the whole time in a motel room listening to Sheldon complain.
Jim: You know, I can't imagine what it must've been like for you to grow up with a brother like that.
Georgie: No, what I'm most proud of is how many times I kept his sister from killing him.

Jim: What the hell?
Connor: You folks done here?
Jim: What are you doing?
Connor: You're scared I don't have a job. I saw a help wanted sign, I got a job.
Georgie: Congratulations.
Jim: No congratulations. Take that stuff off and let's go home.
Connor: Shouldn't I give them two weeks' notice?
Jim: Just... get in the truck.

Connor: Everything I do makes him mad.
Georgie: He's just worried about you.
Connor: I worry about me, too.
Georgie: Yeah, well, I got a feeling everything's gonna work out for you.
Connor: How would you know?
Georgie: It's just a feeling.
Connor: Thank you.
Georgie: [pats Connor on the shoulder] Let's go home.
Connor: Should I punch out?
Georgie: I think you'll be okay. Maybe lose the apron.

Connor: Hello, we're back.
Audrey: Hi, how was your trip?
Connor: Not good. Dad and I fought a lot.
Audrey: Well, your sister and I didn't have the best day, either.
Connor: [chuckles] Those two, huh? Sure glad Georgie was there.
Audrey: That was a good thing?
Connor: Yes, he's a great person.

Audrey: All of their tires, huh? I'm impressed.
Georgie: But...
Audrey: No buts. Way to go.
Mandy: Still feels like there's a "but" coming.
Georgie: You feel it, I feel it, too.
Audrey: You two are impossible.
Mandy: See, that feels better.

Georgie: I was thinkin', how about we take some of my commission and go have a fancy dinner somewhere?
Mandy: No, that's okay, we don't have to.
Georgie: You sure? Celebrate that we're finally makin' some money.
Mandy: You're making some money.
Georgie: You're mad about that?
Mandy: Of course not.
Georgie: 'Cause that'd be a weird thing to be mad about.
Mandy: Yeah, well, I'm not.
Georgie: Good.
Mandy: Yeah, I'm really proud of you.
Georgie: Probably a nicer way to say it.
Mandy: Okay, fine, it pisses me off.
Georgie: There we go.

Mandy: Hi. I'm Mandy McAllister. I'm the NuvoTrim sales rep in this area. I just wrapped things up with your neighbor and she...
Colleen: Which neighbor?
Mandy: Well, right next door.
Colleen: Joan gave you money? She owes me money.
Mandy: Well, I don't really know about...
Colleen: Joan! Joan! [knocks on door] Why are you buying crap from this bimbo when you owe me for the lotto tickets?! [continues knocking] I know you're in there! Joan!

[montage of people opening their apartment door to Mandy:]
Mandy: Hi. I'm Mandy McAllister. I'm the NuvoTrim sales rep in the... [door slams shut]
Mandy: Hi. I'm Mandy McAllister. Uh... [door slams shut]
Mandy: Uh... Hi. I'm Mandy... [door slams shut]
Mandy: [whimpers] [inhales] [door slams shut] I didn't even say anything!