- [first lines]
- Mr. Conductor: Hi! Look what I found. I once did more than 500 paddles in a row. Then the band broke and the ball came off. It turned up later, though, disguised as a meatball in my aunt Lily's spaghetti.
- Mr. Conductor: [teaching how to paddle] It's all in the wrists... or is it the neck? Could be the arms... Sticking out your tongue helps.
- Mr. Conductor: You don't believe in magic?
- Becky: I just said I didn't - Wait - How did you do that?
- Kara: Do what?
- Becky: Just say I don't believe in magic in a different voice. Without moving your lips.
- Mr. Conductor: She didn't say it. *I* did. Are you positive you don't believe in magic?
- Becky: [looking around] Who said that?
- Mr. Conductor: I did. And I can tell you one or two things about magic that are quite real.
- Becky: Cut it out, you two; you're scaring me.
- Dan Jones: We aren't doing anything.
- Mr. Conductor: [standing up as he sees him in the paddleball- box] Nothing to be scared of, Becky. Are you sure you don't believe in magic?
- Becky: It's a little man!
- Dan Jones: It's Mr. Conductor.
- Becky: [starting to reach for him] Wait a second - neat; how does a doll like that run, on batteries?
- Mr. Conductor: Stop it! I don't come with batteries!
- Becky: Are you a magician?
- Mr. Conductor: [seriously] No. I am who I am. And who I am is who I'll be, see?
- Mr. Conductor: So you new-timers just remember: don't sell us old-timers short. We still have a lot of tricks up our sleeves.
- [plucks a floating card from his sleeve]
- Stacy Jones: [reading] "An otherwise-perfect evening was almost ruined by a snarling man who yelled at us to be quiet and kept wanting us to give him money."
- Schemer: Gee, I wonder who they're talkin' about.