- Louie: Dad, when are we going to put up lights?
- Dad: When the war was on, we couldn't put up lights.
- Louie: Huh?
- Adult Louie: My mom would always interpret from my dad.
- Mom: Your dad is telling you not this weekend, but next.
- Dad: Just wait 'til that old bird sees her electric bill. She'll wish that she had married Tom Edison.
- Dad: Get your coat, 'cause you're coming with me.
- Louie: I better stay here with Tommy.
- Dad: Your sister will watch him.
- [calls up the stairs]
- Dad: Laura, watch your brother down here. Don't let him blow up the house. I'm going over to the Stillman house to ROB it, with LOOOOUIE.
- Adult Louie: [voice over] Just what I needed: to go out in the subzero weather with the abominable loudmouth.
- Dad: [the kids are watching Miracle on 34th Street, at the scene where Santa teaches Susan how to act like a monkey] For crying out loud, what the heck is this? Louie, put the donut down and put on channel TWO!
- Louie: [muttering] I get all the bad jobs, plugging lights in each other, he's up there on the roof skating around. This is no fun, I could get electrocuted down here.
- Adult Louie: My dad never spoke words of sentiment, but he did thank me in his own way.
- Dad: Hurry up, I'm freezing my war wound off.