Peg
Hi, Al. Did you have a good day?
I came home. How good could it have been?
(looking at the phone bill) Hey we qualify for the gold bill, family! [all getting excited hovering over Al] Family, please, let's all contain the excitement until after I'm dead.
Milwaukee. Milwaukee. That sounds like the town they centered around your mother, eh, Peg?
Peg
Hi, Kelly.
Peg
Hi, Bud.
Hi, Peg. And before you say "Hi" to the milkman, it's me.
Peg
I know. I have a nose. By the way, honey, I saw you pushing your car home. Doesn't it work?
Peg, if you saw me pushing the car home, why didn't you help me?
Peg
Well, I saw the kids out there and I figured if they weren't gonna help, why should I?
Kids, I have a little family announcement to make. But since I don't have an actual family, I'll say it to you. I have decided that it's time for me to buy a new car.
Peg
I want a Cadillac.
Your wishes mean nothing to me. It's going to be my car, and I'll decide what I'm getting.
Yeah. Just don't get another weenie-mobile.
If I want a weenie-mobile, I'll buy a weenie-mobile. But at least it'll be a new weenie-mobile. A new car. At last. Everything I've ever owned has been used. My car, my house, my... [gives Peg a significant nod]
Peg
Al, just call a roofer.
There. Right there, Peg, is the problem with America. We've lost our spirit of self-reliance. Something's broken, call someone. Something's leaking, call someone. One of the kids suffers a ruptured appendix, call someone. Whatever happened to rugged American manhood?
Well we don't know yet, Dad. Kelly's tests haven't come back from the lab yet.
Peg
So, are you really sick? You're not trying to get out of going to see my mother.
Now, Peg. That hurts. You know how much I love that huge fat woman.
[Bud enters Bundy residence]
Peg
Oh good, Bud is back from the store. Did you get our gift for Grandma? Remember, it was one of those "larger women romance novels".
Yes, I remember. They were all sold out of The Pie Man Always Rings Twice, so I had to go with her second choice, The Red Fudge of Courage.
Al{on the phone}: Hello, Jim's Fish, Chips & Insurance? How much would it cost to add my son to the plan? How old? Let me see.
Al{on the phone}: He is sixteen...What! If you think I'm gonna pay that much... you're as stupid as those cats you trap and call tuna...You know, when you insult my wife, Jim, you don't hurt me.
Nothing I haven't said myself.
Al{on the phone}: Seriously Jim, I need to ask, is this the best you can do for a lifetime friend and someone who did not tell the police what your catch of the day really was? Oh ho, well if you want to be that way you can take your insurance and stuff it, all of it!
Al hangs up
There! Al Bundy takes guff from no one!
Peg, Kelly & Bud{in unison}: Cheap, cheap, cheap!
Peg
Al, aren't you worried about being uninsured?
Peg, we don't need insurance. Insurance is like marriage. You pay and pay, and never get anything back! Besides, the car isn't worth more than 100 bucks with both kids in it.
Peg
Gee, honey, you look like Tarzan...if he was old and gay.
Well, Peg, if you were Jane, believe me, he would be.
Peg
I'm not cooking tonight, you know.
Uh-oh. Then I guess I just have to live on love.
Peg
Not with me. I'm on strike.
Oh, no. Then I guess I just have to live.