- Ray Barone: So how was your first day? See, I'm asking just like you asked me to.
- Debra Barone: Terrible. It was just a terrible, horrible day.
- Ray Barone: Oh. All right, it will go better tomorrow.
- Debra Barone: No it won't, Ray. I was fired.
- Ray Barone: On your first day?
- Debra Barone: [yelling mockingly] Yes, on my first day!
- Ray Barone: Have you lost weight? You got fired? That's terrible.
- Debra Barone: Don't pretend you care. You're getting exactly what you want.
- Ray Barone: I want you to yell at me?
- Ray Barone: Why did they fire you?
- Debra Barone: Embezzlement. I doctored the books and stole millions of dollars. Is chicken okay?
- Ray Barone: If we're millionaires I think we're gonna order out.
- Debra Barone: The whole time I was arguing with Charlotte I was thinking, "What are you doing? Stop talking. " But I had to keep fighting for Pete Za.
- Ray Barone: I know why you fight. It's because you're surrounded by Barones. It's a jungle here. It's survival of the fittest. If you didn't learn how to hold your own my mother would be wearing you as a coat.
- Debra Barone: I'm not gonna blame your family for me losing my job.
- Ray Barone: Why not?
- Debra Barone: Because that's a big cop-out.
- Ray Barone: I'm doing it when I get fired from *my* job.
- Robert Barone: This is a family of dream squashers.
- Ray Barone: Dream squashers?
- Robert Barone: That's right. Everything I ever dreamed of they said I couldn't do. The drums.
- Marie Barone: Oh please, the drums were the worst.
- Robert Barone: Major league baseball. My career in space.
- Ray Barone: You were 6' tall in the third grade. They'd have to fold you in half to stuff you into the capsule.
- Robert Barone: Mission Control, man. I could've been Houston. You go for it, Deb. Drop a rocket on your back and fly. Fly from the dream squashers.
- Debra Barone: Thanks, I think I'll just take the train.