Married... with Children (TV Series)

He Thought He Could (1988)

Lu Leonard: De Groot

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Quotes 

• Miss DeGroot : You may take just one book.

  Young Al : Hey, be fair! Can you eat just one pig?

• Miss DeGroot : You'd like to check these out, would you? Well, I'm afraid you can't! Do you know why?

  Young Al : 'Cause I didn't bring you French fries like the other boys do?

  Miss DeGroot : You're a bad seed, Bundy. You can't have these books because you are consistently overdue, you never have the money to pay... and looking at you now I doubt you ever will.

  Young Al : I'll bring 'em back, I promise.

  Miss DeGroot : You always promise, but you don't follow through. And that, in a nutshell, is your problem. Make a promise, keep a promise.

  Young Al : Yeah, yeah, bake a pie, eat a pie.

• [last lines] 

  Miss DeGroot : You could have made something of your life... I suppose. But you never followed through. That's always been your problem. Like I always told you: make a promise, keep a promise. And maybe if you did that just once you'd be a winner.

  Al Bundy : Thank you, Miss DeGroot. As a matter of fact, I'm going to start keeping promises right now.

  Miss DeGroot : You won't!

  Al Bundy : Yes, I will.

  [Al takes her sugar bowl and leaves] 

• Miss DeGroot : You know, Mr. Bundy, I've worked at this library for 44 years. I was eligible for retirement 3 years ago. Do you know why I stayed?

  Al Bundy : You learned to eat books?

• Miss DeGroot : D'you think anyone can teach you anything?

  Young Al : Well, you've just taught me that even the slightest movement can make a fat person sweat.

• Al Bundy : Well, it just so happens that I returned that book years ago.

  Miss DeGroot : I'd remember if you did.

  Al Bundy : You weren't here.

  Miss DeGroot : I'm always here.

  Al Bundy : Not that day. I believe that was the day of the big cake heist. You were rounded up for questioning.

• Miss DeGroot : Well, young Mr. Bundy - the devil boy.