- Lauren: I just wanna be in love with someone, and maybe have some kids someday. Do you wanna have kids?
- Cory Matthews: Yeah, but I have to be home by midnight.
- Shawn Hunter: It's a tie. You like Lauren as much as you like Topanga and you can't live without either of them. Well, this was a bad idea.
- Cory Matthews: No, no, this was a good idea. Shawn, yeah, I like Lauren. I like spending time with her. But I can live without her. I-I can't live without Topanga.
- [he smiles happily while putting the rest of jelly beans bag on Topanga's end of the scales]
- Cory Matthews: It's no contest.
- Cory Matthews: Topanga! Hi, I'm glad you're here. Sit, sit. I want to tell you everything that happened. Okay, I went out with Lauren, and I'm not gonna lie to you. We had a great time.
- Topanga Lawrence: Well, Lauren's a nice girl, Cory. I knew you'd have fun.
- Cory Matthews: Yeah, but I-I didn't know I was allowed to. See, when I first met Lauren, she was the first girl besides you that I ever thought I could like. And that made me feel bad because I thought if I liked another girl, that it somehow meant that I liked you less.
- Topanga Lawrence: I'm sorry you felt bad.
- Cory Matthews: No, no, no. I-it was good that I went through this. Because it taught me that liking someone else could never, ever take away from loving you, and I don't have to be afraid of what I feel for anybody else because I know that it could never take away from loving you and I always will, and I know that completely now.
- Topanga Lawrence: You know that now?
- Cory Matthews: Yeah.
- Topanga Lawrence: Is there anything else you have to tell me?
- Cory Matthews: [mumbles to himself] Love you completely, know that now...
- [to Topanga]
- Cory Matthews: No, that's it. So, uh, listen can you put me in your jacket 'cause I only want to be in your jacket.
- Topanga Lawrence: Cory, I can't see you anymore.
- Cory Matthews: What?
- Topanga Lawrence: Do you have any idea how many guys hit on me?
- Cory Matthews: What are you talking about?
- Topanga Lawrence: I never needed to test my feelings for you. I moved away from my parents in Pittsburgh to be close to you. Ever since we were little kids, I felt like I belonged with you and I would have given you everything, Cory.
- Cory Matthews: Topanga, I'm-I'm so sorry.
- Topanga Lawrence: I forgive you. I forgive you for lying at the lodge. I forgive you for kissing her. And I forgive you for the letter, which I read. I know how intimately she felt about you. But that you needed to see her, to test how you felt about me.
- Cory Matthews: No.
- Topanga Lawrence: I don't forgive you for that, Cory.
- Cory Matthews: [He stands up] No! You told me to see her, Topanga! You told me to see how I felt!
- [Topanga stands up and hugs Cory]
- Topanga Lawrence: And you listened.
- [She walks away and passes Shawn on the stairs]
- Shawn Hunter: Topanga, what's wr-
- [She ignores him and continues up the stairs. He walks over to Cory, who is in a state of shock]
- Shawn Hunter: It's gonna be okay.
- Cory Matthews: No. No, it won't.
- Eric Matthews: I never understood why anybody would want to be a teacher until now.
- George Feeny: That's because you are seeing your students succeed and grow right in front of your eyes.
- Eric Matthews: It makes you feel so proud to know you made a difference in someone's life, doesn't it Mr. Feeny?
- George Feeny: Yes, it does my boy. Indeed it does.
- Cory Matthews: We're not gonna decide the rest of my life with jelly beans, Shawn.
- Shawn Hunter: Then who's gonna decide the rest of your life? You?
- Eric Matthews: Everybody hold your tests up like this.
- [Everyone does as he says]
- Eric Matthews: Now, do this.
- [He rips it in half. Everyone uncomfortably follows suit]
- Eric Matthews: There will be no test today! Throw away the textbooks, throw away the tests, throw awwwaaaaaayy the textbooks. You're my class now and for the first time in my life I'm the smartest guy in the room. Can we all just take a second and let that sink in?
- Raju: In my country, I was a nuclear physicist.
- Eric Matthews: Yeah, but see everybody here starts with a clean slate and as your proctologist, I'm gonna show you something.
- Raju: [terrified] Please don't pick me.
- George Feeny: Oh, Eric. I just had a phone call. I need to ask you a favor.
- Eric Matthews: Oh, no problem. Just give me your keys, I'll mow your lawn and water those ugly little plants.
- George Feeny: You don't think I'd actually let you inside my house? No, no. No, what I'm talking about is a lot more important than watering plants.
- Eric Matthews: Look, Mr. Feeny, don't get my hopes up that you're actually gonna trust me with something, okay? I'll wash your car. No biggie.
- George Feeny: My citizenship class is starting a series of practice tests this week. Unfortunately, I have a scheduling conflict. I need you to proctor
- Eric Matthews: Me? Proctor? Proctor Matthews.
- George Feeny: You know what "proctor" is?
- Eric Matthews: Yeah. It's a tushy doctor. Oh, bleh! I'm not gonna do that!
- George Feeny: Maybe you better just wash the car.
- Raju: I'm lucky enough to have picked an ace!
- Eric Matthews: Oooh! An ace, okay. Category is pop culture.
- Raju: Uh, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Launched the movie career of funnyman Jim Carrey.
- Eric Matthews: Very nice!
- George Feeny: [Comes in] Do nothing! I said all I wanted you to do, was nothing! Just watch them take the test!
- Eric Matthews: Oh, no tests. We tore 'em up.
- George Feeny: You what?
- Eric Matthews: I understand what you were doing. You were testing me to see if I had initiative. You think I should be a teacher.
- George Feeny: No, I don't! I just wanted you to pass out the test! And what does Ace Ventura got to do with United States citizenship? Eric, for the love of God.
- Eric Matthews: Mr. Feeny, if you don't mind I'm in the middle of teaching a class. Minh! Your turn. Come on.
- [She takes a card]
- Minh: I have a king.
- George Feeny: Let me guess. King Kong. Don King. Donkey Kong King.
- Eric Matthews: Okay, those were all good answers, weren't they? Except for the Donkey Kong King whatever. Look, Mr. Feeny, you can't play. You're already a citizen okay? Alright, Minh! You're holding a king. Category is, uh, civil rights.
- Minh: I have a dream. That my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Dr. Martin Luther King!
- Svetlana: You know, Mr. Feeny, all of us from different backgrounds are like cards in deck.
- Raju: Some cards are red. Some cards are black. Some are kings and queen and some are sixes and sevens.
- Minh: But without even one of them, the deck of cards doesn't work. And that's what Mr. Matthews says is America.
- Lauren: You're worried about something, aren't you?
- Cory Matthews: Yeah.
- Lauren: Aren't you having fun with me?
- Cory Matthews: That's what I'm worried about.