- Clair Huxtable: [as Amanda of Amanda's Furniture City] Gentlemen, welcome to Amanda's Furniture City. Where money talks and nobody walks, if you like it you touch it, if you break it you buy it, if you don't see it we don't have it but we will get it, now what can I do for you?
- [Theo only has $200 to furnish his "apartment" in the "Real World"]
- Theo: [looking around Amanda's Furniture City] Everything's so expensive. What do I do?
- Clair Huxtable: [as Amanda of Amanda's Furniture City] Honey, did you come here for advice or for furniture? Now look, time is money. What you have got to do is figure out exactly what it is that you need.
- Theo: I *need* it all.
- Clair Huxtable: Yes, but you are not going to get it for $200, but you are in luck. Because here at Furniture City, we accept all major credit cards.
- Theo: I don't have any credit cards.
- Clair Huxtable: You are in luck, because here at Furniture City, we accept personal checks.
- Theo: I don't have any personal checks.
- Clair Huxtable: [the saleswoman smile leaves her face] Then *you* are about to *leave* Furniture City.
- Vanessa Huxtable: [as Mrs. Covington, Vice President of Griswold Bank] Mrs. Griswold, could you come here for a moment, please?
- Rudy Huxtable: [as Mrs. Griswold] What do you want? I'm busy.
- Vanessa Huxtable: This young man needs a loan and I do recommend we give it to him.
- Rudy Huxtable: No.
- Rudy Huxtable: But Mrs. Griswold...
- Rudy Huxtable: No!
- Theo: Why not?
- Rudy Huxtable: You have nothing!
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: With your money, you have everything you need. With our money, you want to live like the rich and famous.
- Theo: Dad, can I have an advance on my allowance?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Son, you're already backed up to your 50th birthday.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [as Harley Weewax, Landlord of the Real World Apartments] What kind of business are you in?
- Walter 'Cockroach' Bradley: [as Horton W. Dansbury] I'm in oil.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Oil?
- Walter 'Cockroach' Bradley: Yes, let me give you one of my cards.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Cockroach Oil?