Cate quotes from 8 Simple Rules

Paul

I'm looking forward to haveing a lovely dinner with my children.

Cate

Girls, where's your brother?

Kerry

Don't know.

Bridget

Don't care.

Kerry

Maybe he's lost.

Bridget

Maybe a bear got him.

Cate

Is that supposed to be sarcastic?

Kerry

Oh Mom, I'm sorry. Bridget just doesn't understand that you've got more important things to do. If anyone should understand sleeping until noon, it's her.

Cate

Rory, you want to come to the hospital with me?

Paul

Or to the newspaper with me? Big presses, jelly donuts...

Rory

Don't make me choose between…

Cate

Student nurses, bloody guys.

Rory

Hospital!

Cate

The hospital is doing something to fight child hunger. It's called the Great American Bake Sale.

Kerry

Great idea. Then we can create world peace with a kissing booth.

Kerry

They had a lemonade stand.

Cate

That's cute!

Kerry

They're in high school!

Bridget

Yeah, it's more like a lame-o-nade stand!

Kerry

And last week, they had a cookie stand!

Bridget

Yeah, it's more like a lame-o-cookie stand!

Kerry

And they even had a mud pie stand!

Bridget

Yeah, it's more like a...I got nothing.

Paul

(about the Doyles) They swing dance as a family.

Cate

We're doing it and that's final! As a family?

Cate

Awww! It's Donny Doyle! He's under Bridget's window. He's serenading her.

Paul

(takes off his shoe) I'm on it.

Cate

Paul!

Paul

Cate, he's conning us! Those serenading mid-shipmen virgins are all liars.

Paul

(about the pregnancy test) Kerry, Bridget...Beach, Care Bear...

Cate

(hesitantly) Paul... it's mine.

Bridget

I never would of got this far before. Dad would never let me go out like this. He would of definetly sent me up stairs to change and tell me to cover myself up in some hideous sweater and then give me a one hour lecture on how I should respect myself and how guys are only out for one thing and I always hated when he did that! I just want my dad back!

Cate

Bridget-

Bridget

Leave me alone!

Paul

Stop fighting or I'm going to turn this car around!

Cate

Paul, we're in the living room.

Paul

It's just a saying.

Cate

It's a saying in a car!

Hey, neighbor! Fred and Mary Ellen Doyle...

Hey, neighbor! Fred and Mary Ellen Doyle...

Hey, neighbor! Fred and Mary Ellen Doyle...

Cate

You know, you could return one of Fred's calls!

Paul

I can't talk to you when you're like this! I swear, he would keep calling even if I changed the outgoing message to, "Doyle, you idiot, stop calling!"

Hey, neighbor! Kept trying to call, but I think something's wrong with your machine.

Rory

There's something wrong with the answering machine? (starts to play Fred's message)

Paul

Rory, you fixed it!

Rory

But...

Paul

I said, YOU FIXED IT!!!

Cate

(on the phone) Hello? Yeah, this is Mrs. Hennessy.

Kerry

Gosh, you are so jealous.

Bridget

Oh, please, I debuted at number two on the hot list.

Rory

Yeah, but she didn't have to do the things you did to get on it.

Kerry

(nervously) Mom?

Cate

(fighting back tears) My... my keys, where are my keys?

Kerry

Mom, what's going on?

Cate

Oh, my... (dashes out the back door)

(uneasily) Mom? Mom!

Bridget

The last words I said to Dad were, "I hate you."

Cate

Oh...

Bridget

(guilt-ridden) He wouldn't let me borrow his stupid car, and I said "I hate you." I had my dad, and the last thing I ever said to him was "I hate you."

Cate

Aw, honey. I think those were the first words you said to him, also.

Kerry

My last words were an insult, too. He was wearing his Michigan sweatshirt with chinos, and I told him there weren't enough Queer Eyes in all of San Francisco to help him.

Cate

Well, I sent him to the store for milk, so the last thing he heard out of me was, "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah." You know what his last words to me were? "Hasta la vista, baby."

Rory

I'm trying to protect them.

Cate

Aww, that's sweet.

Rory

I'm afraid that they are going to turn into big fat whores!

Cate

OK. Not so sweet.

Bridget

No, I said it's what I'm most thankful for.

Jim

And, what about you, Cate? What are you thankful for?

Cate

Well, I'm thankful for my wonderful children, and for my great dad and my mom even though she couldn't be here.

Jim

That's what I'm thankful for.