Dinosaurs (TV Series)

Refrigerator Day (1991)

Jessica Walter: Fran Sinclair

Quotes 

• Fran Sinclair : [Attempting to return the gifts]  We want to give you these things and have you give us our money back.

  Richard : That makes no sense whatsoever.

• Earl : This is terrible. I've failed my family. I'm nothing. I'm dirt.

  Robbie Sinclair : You're not dirt, Dad.

  Earl : No, you're right, I'm beneath dirt. I look up to dirt. I wish I was dirt. Dirt laughs at me!

  Fran Sinclair : Earl, it'll be okay.

  Earl : No it won't, Fran. This is gonna be the worst Refrigerator Day EVER.

• Richard : So, had yourself a little pageant, huh?

  Earl : A little pageant? We just had ourselves the most wonderful pageant imaginable. It had significance. It had sincere family value. It had a spirituality that made me realize what this holiday is all about.

  Richard : The one we do at the department store has an orchestra and lasers.

  Earl : Ooh!

  Fran Sinclair : Earl!

  Richard : Plus, everyone who attends is entitled to 35% of all ladies' sportswear.

  Fran Sinclair : Whoo!

  Earl : You retail guys are certainly giving new meaning to the holidays.

• Fran Sinclair : Now listen all of you! Our ancestors didn't *have* refrigerators. That's what this whole day is about, we remember what they didn't have, so we can appreciate what we do have: a lovely family, a beautiful home, all our hopes for the future. If you think about it my way, we're blessed.

  Earl Sinclair : If you think about it my way, you'd go to the garage to hang yourself.

  Fran Sinclair : Earl, I want us to do the pageant.

  Earl Sinclair : At the risk of sounding immature,

  [whines] 

  Earl Sinclair : I don't want to!

  Fran Sinclair : Earl, we do the pageant every year, and if you won't do it, we'll just do it without you.

• Earl : I'm not getting my bonus and we're broke.

  [Fran gasps] 

  Charlene Sinclair : You already bought our presents?

  Earl : Yes.

  Charlene Sinclair : So what's the problem?

  Fran Sinclair : The problem is we have bills to pay, now what're we going to do?

  Charlene Sinclair : [to Robbie]  Well he got the presents, I still don't see a problem.

• Fran Sinclair : Earl, it's your line.

  Earl : I don't want to!

  Fran Sinclair : This is a family tradition and without you, we're *not* a family.