- Uncle Porter: [reading the riot act to Sandy] You're going to have to use your brain which is going to hurt because it's the weakest muscle in your body.
- Dirk Moran: [Porter having just cut Moran's net line] You got no right to do that. I ought to teach you a lesson.
- Uncle Porter: Yeah, I'd like that. I have a thirst for knowledge. Teach me.
- Dirk Moran: [Moran backs down and just scoffs]
- Uncle Porter: School's out for the day, isn't it? Thought so. Maybe next time.
- Sandy Ricks: [after almost being eaten by a shark] You know that story you told me, about Scar?
- Kim: Mhm.
- Sandy Ricks: It's true.
- Sandy Ricks: [talking to his mother on the phone] I've been smoking up a storm. Uncle Porter lets me drink all the beer i want, he also knows a lot of loose women -
- [Uncle Porter seizes the phone from Sandy]
- Uncle Porter: [Blowtorching pieces of bread] You ever been fishing? What did you catch?
- Sandy Ricks: A whale. But I threw it back.
- Sandy Ricks: [after he and Porter receive test results about Flipper] The other night Kim and I went out looking for Flipper. Dirk Moran's boat was out there. We saw some guys tossing barrels or something over the side.
- Cathy: Sandy, this is really important. Do you remember where you guys were?
- Sandy Ricks: Definitely, exactly
- Cathy: Just let me know when the grunt work's done, okay?
- Uncle Porter: Grunt work? Well, we both know I'm good at that.