- Opie Taylor: Gee, Pa! The fishing's so good! Can't we stay a little longer? Please?
- Andy Taylor: We better scoot on home, get cleaned up. We... we got to do some shoppin' for Aunt Bee's birthday.
- Opie Taylor: Just a little longer?
- Andy Taylor: And there's the cake to get.
- Opie Taylor: Cake? Yup! Guess we better scoot!
- Opie Taylor: How old's Aunt Bee?
- Andy Taylor: You know, I'm not rightly sure.
- Opie Taylor: I'll ask her.
- Andy Taylor: Whoa, I wou... I wouldn't do that. See, Aunt Bee, she ain't too sure about it either.
- Opie Taylor: She don't know how old she is?
- Andy Taylor: Nothin' so surprisin' about that. It's easy for her to forget.
- Opie Taylor: Don't she even know the day she was born on?
- Andy Taylor: She knows the day, all right. It's the year she's a little fuzzy on.
- [Sheriff Taylor goes fishing with his son, Opie, and his lucky fishing pole, "Eagle-Eye Annie"]
- Andy Taylor: Ol' Eagle-Eye Annie is doin' herself proud, ain't she? Sure do have to thank her.
- Opie Taylor: But you're doin' the fishin'.
- Andy Taylor: Oh, not really. Way I see it, I'm just the middleman. About all I do is get the bait. Day comes ol' Annie learns to dig her own worms, why, she probably won't invite me along at all after that.