- Tom Gribalski: It's the last day we'll walk through these halls together. It's the last time we'll see you open your locker!
- Louis Stevens: Tom, enough!
- Tom Gribalski: It's the last time I'll hear you say: "Tom, enough!"
- Louis Stevens: [on videotape] Okay. Tawny, hi! Hi. Uhmm... By the time you see this, I'll probably already be in Washington. That's far. It's about, uh, 2,797 miles away. I looked it up. I didn't want the last things we talked about to be about chili fries. So that's why I'm doing this. This tape, you know. To tell you how I really feel.
- Louis Stevens: Now, listen, Tom. I'm entrusting you with this tape. Okay? So, if anybody else besides Tawny gets their hands on this, I will personally track you down and make you pay. You hear what I'm saying?
- Tom Gribalski: Is that a threat, Louis?
- Louis Stevens: Yeah, that's a threat.
- Tom Gribalski: Oh... Okay. Well, I respond very well to threats, so consider this tape delivered.
- News Anchor: In a stunning and dramatic reversal, a recount has snatched victory away from state senator Eileen Stevens, and by a scant 17 votes, has given the vacant congressional seat to Charles Nuck.
- Louis Stevens: My tape!
- Ren Stevens: My friends!
- Steve Stevens: My job!
- Donnie Stevens: My coach!
- Eileen Stevens: My seat!
- Louis Stevens: [reading the tape label] To Louis?
- [he plays the tape]
- Tawny Dean: [on tape] Hi, Louis. I'm sending you this tape because I didn't want the last thing we said to each other to be about chili fries.
- Louis Stevens: [on tape, as Tawny watches his tape at the same time] I remember the first time I saw you. I had fallen off the flagpole. Hurt like crud! But it didn't matter. 'Cause there you were...
- Tawny Dean: ...and then you fell off the flagpole, and... I just remember thinking how funny you were. Not... not funny that you broke your back! But just... you were a funny person. And you were really cute too.
- Louis Stevens: ...I like the way you look at me. You have this look you do, right after I do something stupid. You give me this look... it's like... it's like you're gonna get mad... But then you just smile.
- Tawny Dean: ...as long as I live, I'm... I'm never gonna meet anybody like you.
- Louis Stevens: ...I'm gonna miss you so much. I love you, Tawny.
- Tawny Dean: ...I love you, Louis.
- Louis Stevens: Hey.
- Tawny Dean: Hi.
- Louis Stevens: So... I saw a tape last night.
- Tawny Dean: Yeah, I... I saw a tape too.
- Louis Stevens: So...?
- Tawny Dean: So...
- Louis Stevens: So, I heard they're having chili fries at lunch today.
- Tawny Dean: Cool. I love chili fries.
- [walking out holding hands]
- Steve Stevens: This box weighs a ton!
- Eileen Stevens: Why are there holes in it?
- Beans: [bursts out of the box as Steve and Eileen scream] So I can breathe.
- Steve Stevens: Beans, you are not coming to Washington with us.
- Beans: Come on! You'll never know I'm there.
- Steve Stevens: Out! Home!
- Beans: Fine, but you're gonna miss me, though!
- Principal Conrad Wexler: [sees Louis] NO! WHHHYYYYYYY?
- Ms. Jenkins: Sir, sir, sir, come on. Let's go get you a nice cup of herbal tea.
- Principal Conrad Wexler: Cookies, too?
- Louis Stevens: Tawny. Hey.
- Tawny Dean: Hey, Louis!
- Louis Stevens: Hey. Uh... Well, we got some... stuff to talk about. Right?
- Tawny Dean: Oh, yeah... I turned on my television last night. That was really freaky.
- Louis Stevens: So it was upsetting?
- Tawny Dean: Yeah! I mean, your mom lost the election.
- Louis Stevens: Uh... My Mom... Yeah! Yeah, she was... she was crushed. It was horrible.
- Tawny Dean: But at least you're not moving, right?
- Louis Stevens: Oh, yeah, no, I'm right here. I'm right here. Uh... You didn't happen to get a tape from Tom?
- Tawny Dean: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it sounded important. But knowing Tom, it's probably just some nature special or his mom's 40th birthday...
- Louis Stevens: Oh, yeah, good party, that was a good... Besides, uh, besides... Point is, you didn't... you didn't watch it, or...?
- Tawny Dean: Oh, no. I mean, I'll probably watch it when I get home today. So he doesn't bug me anymore.
- Louis Stevens: Right... Well, that's great. That's great! Um... Good talking to you. Get back to reading, uh, I got a class.
- Tawny Dean: Oh yeah, me too.
- Louis Stevens: Oh. Cool! See you around, then.
- Tawny Dean: Bye.
- Eileen Stevens: [standing with her family, speaking to the press] I just look forward to being your voice in Congress. And my family and I will be moving to Washington immediately, so you can rest assured that I will be on the job, 24/7.
- Louis Stevens: We're moving to Washington?
- Ren Stevens: Hello! Mom's in Congress now. Congress is in Washington.
- Donnie Stevens: Since when?