![]() | Season 2 / Episode 17: - A New Leaf Fran Sinclair: [Regarding Robbies Spikes] Look, it's getting Late Earl, why Can't we just discuss this after Dinner? Earl: He's not Eating Dinner in My House with those Spikes! Robbie Sinclair: Obviously, I can't do anything Right. My Room's a Mess, My Spikes are too long, and My Posture Stinks! I mean... why is it that everything that I do is so wrong? Earl: I was gonna ask You the same thing... Robbie Sinclair: You know, I never asked to be Hatched in this Stupid Family. Earl: Well then... nobody is keeping You here. [Earl opens the Door, and Robbie Leaves] Robbie Sinclair: FINE! Earl: [Aloud] Don't You walk away from Me! |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 17: - A New Leaf Baby Sinclair: This is your Brain. [Raises frying pan] Baby Sinclair: This is your brain on the plant. [Hits Earl over head with frying pan] Baby Sinclair: Any questions? |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Earl Sinclair: Mr. Richfield, I think maybe you shouldn't talk to my kid like that. B.P. Richfield: Think? You don't think. You're a tree pusher and you work for me. Or have you forgotten who you're talking to? Earl Sinclair: Yes, sir, I have. And until I remember I just wanna say, I don't care if you have enough money to buy the dome or the whole lousy volcano. We're not... B.P. Richfield: Wait a second, what did you say? Earl Sinclair: I said I don't care if you have enough money to buy the dome... B.P. Richfield: No, no, the other part. Earl Sinclair: Buy the volcano? B.P. Richfield: Yes. Great idea. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Robbie Sinclair: I don't want your money. Charlene Sinclair: I do. B.P. Richfield: Smart girl. You must be very proud of your daughter. Earl Sinclair: Oh yes, my daughter, very proud, all mine. My son, who knows? I was in babylon. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Fran Sinclair: Look at this heating bill. It's stamped 'pay now or die'. Earl Sinclair: At least they're still giving us a choice. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Robbie: Dad, this was supposed to be a big fun day and Mom's trying to kill it for all of us. Who's the boss around here? Earl: Yeah. Fran? Fran: [yelling] What? Earl: She is. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Fran: Don't worry, Robbie, your family is behind you no matter what. Earl: I want you out of this house now. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Baby: I wanna go to school. Charlene: Why? Baby: So I can stay home. Charlene: You are home. Baby: Then I got my way. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts B.P. Richfield: Sinclair. Earl: Mr. Richfield, I'm sorry. B.P. Richfield: Stop apologizing. You didn't do anything. Earl: I'm sorry my apology offended you, sir. B.P. Richfield: Stop being so obsequious. Earl: That was never my intent, your majesty. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Mr. Ashland: We don't eat our enemies. We have lawyers for that. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Robbie: I want to win this fair and square. Spike: How have you managed to stay alive so long? |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Fran Sinclair: [about a glass-dome contraption used to make jelly] This makes the jelly taste better. The flavor goes up in this dome and gets caught in these tubes... Charlene Sinclair: Gee, Mom, that's real fascinating. But how about if I go to the store and buy some jelly... and we can both have a life. Fran Sinclair: Charlene! Charlene Sinclair: Or not. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Mr. Ashland: This is a disaster! B.P. Richfield: But nothing a chief executive of your enormous power and authority can't handle, right, Mr. Ashland? Mr. Ashland: Cut the butt-kissing, Richfield. B.P. Richfield: Yes, sir. Mr. Ashland: Do you know what I do with a butt-kisser? B.P. Richfield: No, sir. [Ashland gestures to an executive's mounted head on the wall; Richfield grows rigid] |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Howard Handupme: [In Robbie's thoughts] And, on this unexpected holiday from school, thousands of very cool guys and totally hot babes spent the day frollicking in the ash. Having what many describe as "the MOST FUN EVER." Robbie Sinclair: Alright, that's it. I'm going outside. Fran Sinclair: [In Robbie's thoughts] I want you to stay in your room, finish that assignment, and have no fun for the rest of your life. Robbie Sinclair: Isn't she terrific? My mother, ladies and gentlemen? Earl Sinclair: [In Robbie's thoughts] How about a hand for the guy paying these heating bills? Fran Sinclair: Earl, get out of Robbie's thoughts and pay those bills. Earl Sinclair: Yes, dear. Sheesh. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Fran Sinclair: Those Wesayso ads are lies. Earl Sinclair: So what? It's temporarily being accepted by the masses, so it's the truth. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Robbie Sinclair: Gee, Dad, I thought you loved the dome. You said it was going to make us rich. Earl Sinclair: Yeah well now it's going to make us need plastic surgery and a relocation program. Robbie Sinclair: You can't possibly believe that. Baby: [wearing a disguise] Not the baby! |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Robbie Sinclair: The competition looks pretty tough, why did you see Billy Melman's project where you clap and a lamp turns on? I mean THAT'S genius. How am I going to compete with that? Spike: Oh, well you know Billy, he uses substandard material. You know, the kind that tend to shatter when broken over his head. Yo, Billy, let me see that lamp! |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Mr. Pullman: Aw, Spike, what project have you done for our science fair? Spike: I don't do projects. Mr. Pullman: You have to do a project. Spike: ...Okey dokey. [Punches his fist through a TV set and roots around] Well, what do we have here? Looky, looky. [Removes a circuit board with attached wires] I call this "What's inside a TV." Mr. Pullman: Um... Very nice. Very... realistic. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts B.P. Richfield: Well, if it isn't the Sinclairs. What a delightful looking family you have, Earl. Earl Sinclair: Oh, well let me introduce them... B.P. Richfield: Not interested! SIT DOWN! |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts B.P. Richfield: [Has invited the Sinclairs out to dinner] My, my, so good to have you here. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, well enough small talk. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts B.P. Richfield: [Sampling wine] That's fine for me, but give the rest of'em the cheap stuff. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts B.P. Richfield: What do you say I take you and your family out to dinner tonight. Earl Sinclair: You? Us? Eating? B.P. Richfield: Save the sparkling repartee for the dinner, Sinclair. And remember, the WHOLE family! |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts B.P. Richfield: Mr. Ashland, you're asking me to destroy an innocent boy just to protect our corporate assets? [Ashland nods] I'm honored. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Robbie Sinclair: Dad, you're not being rational. Earl Sinclair: Oh and I suppose the crazed mob on the front lawn isn't rational either? |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Earl Sinclair: It's true. It's obviously true. I saw it on TV. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts B.P. Richfield: You're asking me to destroy an innocent boy just to protect our corporate assets? B.P. Richfield: I'm honored. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts Robbie Sinclair: [Trying to think up a science project] Let's see. Sneakers. What else? A pump. Sneakers with a pump in them. Robbie Sinclair: Naw what a stupid idea. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 15: - Power Erupts B.P. Richfield: Waiter. Two pieces of bread. B.P. Richfield: I'm gonna make a sandwich. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 14: - Fran Live Earl Sinclair: There's so much I don't know about running a house. For example, on these frozen dinners, when they say preheat the oven, do they mean the whole oven or just the space inside it? |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 14: - Fran Live Earl Sinclair: Before I let Fran 'input' me. I'm gonna take everything she bought me, load it in the car, and return some of it. |



