- Lisa Douglas: [to Oliver] Two weeks ago, you were nothing but a plain old farmer, planting your little seeds in the ground and watching them shoosting and now you are the president of the telephone company. Why, yours is a regular Horatio Algebra story!
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: Where's all the food you're gonna cook?
- Lisa Douglas: [holds up small plastic bag containing white granules] In here.
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: Oh boy.
- Lisa Douglas: This is a bag of Dee Dee's dehydrofacated Mason-Dixon chicken dinner.
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: Dee Dee's dehydrofacated - ?
- Lisa Douglas: That means without water.