- Lisa Douglas: [explaining how a spoon can stand upright in her coffee] We ran out of coffee, but I found a can on the shelf.
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: Of what?
- Lisa Douglas: I don't know. There wasn't a label on it.
- Lisa Douglas: [trying to get Hank interested in Ralph] She's a very nice girl.
- Hank Kimball: Girl? Well, it's kind of hard to think of her as - No, it's impossible!
- Lisa Douglas: Wait a moment, I have a surprise for you. I made it myself.
- [holds up a men's shirt with practically no sleeves at all]
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: What is this?
- Lisa Douglas: A shirt-sleeved short, it's for the exam.
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: A shirt-sleeved...
- Lisa Douglas: Yes, I made it out of your best shirt.