- Hope Murdoch Steadman: So, we haven't decided. You know, I mean, decided officially.
- Melissa Steadman: I totally agree. I mean, Thanksgiving, why bother, right?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Well, right. But Michael, he's decided. It's like it really matters to him.
- Melissa Steadman: That's strange, you know, because me and Michael, in our family, we never made a big deal about Thanksgiving.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Well, we did. Some relative, whose name I'm completely blocking, came over on the Mayflower.
- Melissa Steadman: Our relatives couldn't get reservations.
- Gary Shepherd: So the kid says, "I spent all weekend doing this paper. I even went to the library." And suddenly, the kid starts to cry. I mean, this is a 30-page exegesis of why Moby Dick was a Sagittarius. What am I supposed to do?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Flunk him. Moby Dick was obviously a Pisces.
- Gary Shepherd: You know what I just realized?
- Ellyn Warren: What?
- Gary Shepherd: This is the first time I've ever seen you...
- Ellyn Warren: Without Hope and Michael around, right? I know. I was thinking the same thing before. What, am I different? Here, I mean?
- Gary Shepherd: Much worse.
- Ellyn Warren: You, too, Bjorn.
- Michael Steadman: [accidentally dropping the Thanksgiving turkey] Don't worry, honey. It's just the turkey.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Turkeys make soft, squishy sounds when they fall. That sounded like a piece of the Skylab.
- Ethan Weston: Mom, the turkey broke.
- Nancy Krieger Weston: Oh, I know.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: [touching it] It's solid ice.
- Elliot Weston: Yeah, we forgot to defrost it.
- Michael Steadman: Honey, why are you doing this with the pictures?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Because I have 50 boxes of them. I have to do something with them. Maybe this weekend. Maybe we could not see anyone. We could even not answer the phone.
- Michael Steadman: Or maybe we could have Thanksgiving dinner like we did last year and the year before and ever since we had an oven.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Excuse me?
- Michael Steadman: What, you mean you haven't noticed that people are wearing bulky sweaters and I've been watching Monday Night Football?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: I thought it was October or something.
- Michael Steadman: It's November something.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Yeah, but... but things are really different this year. I mean, nobody really expects us to have a big bash.
- Michael Steadman: What about our friends? I'm sure we already pretty much said something.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: We said something? I didn't said anything. Did you?
- [getting her answer from his silence]
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Oh, Michael!
- Michael Steadman: Can we yell at me tonight?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Count on it.
- Ellyn Warren: [making Thanksgiving stuffing] Taste.
- Gary Shepherd: [tasting a bite] Mm. Not actually bad.
- Ellyn Warren: Yeah?
- Gary Shepherd: Mmm. Mmm.
- Ellyn Warren: You think it needs anything?
- Gary Shepherd: Celery?
- Ellyn Warren: [laughing] You know, you remind me of someone.
- Gary Shepherd: Make one Bjorn Borg joke, and I'm gonna hit you with this turnip.
- Michael Steadman: Is that you?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: What are you looking at? You can't look at anything until I decide if it has to be burned.
- Michael Steadman: Oh, you look beautiful.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Of course I do. I was 20.
- Michael Steadman: Well, where was I?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: God, can you believe Ellyn?
- Michael Steadman: Where was I?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: You didn't exist. We were hitchhiking. We stopped at a truck stop, and there was this really cute... never mind.