- Elizabeth Walton: How come I always get picked last?
- Jim-Bob Walton: 'Cause you're a crummy player and no one wants to get stuck with you.
- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] When I was growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia we never heard the words "generation gap", yet, such a separation developed shortly after my grandfather recovered from an illness, and for a while it was to threaten the unity of the entire family.