- Dewey: Dad, can I have a sleepover tomorrow?
- Hal: Somebody wants to sleep over? Here? That's fantastic! Who?
- Dewey: Chad from my class.
- Hal: Oh, geez, Dewey, I don't think that's a good idea. That kid is really...
- Dewey: He's fine. He's just a little strange. Nothing to be scared of.
- Hal: Well, it's not anything to be taken lightly, either. That boy has a lot of serious issues. I don't think you know what you're getting into.
- Dewey: Yes, I do. I also know people treat him like a freak for no reason. Even his parents have given up on him. They're just looking for an excuse to have him institutionalized.
- Hal: This is supposed to be convincing me?
- Malcolm: [to Reese] You couldn't have bothered to tell me about "Ditch Day"?
- Reese: There was a ditch day?
- Malcolm: Yeah. Today.
- Reese: No one told me. Why didn't they tell me?
- Malcolm: Because no one likes us, Reese. No one. Everybody else was told about it. Even that slow kid who ate cat litter for a dollar.
- Reese: Ducky? How did Ducky get so popular?
- Hal: [to Dewey] I told you no, and you went behind my back and tricked your mother into letting you have this sleepover?
- Dewey: I just told her it'd be a nice thing to do for a kid who doesn't have many nice things in his life. If you call that a trick, then yeah. You don't have to freak out. I know how to handle Chad. You can't believe everything you read in the special needs bulletin. They only say that stuff to get extra funding.