- Greg Wuliger: [to Chris] Dude, come on. I mean, when you look back on your last year in junior high school, what are you gonna tell people?
- Narrator: I got my ass kicked at the ninth grade dance.
- Chris: Look, man, I want to go, but if you haven't noticed, I'm black. Who's gonna want to go with me?
- Joey Caruso: Maybe Bubbles the chimp has a sister.
- Narrator: Unfortunately, she said no.
- Greg Wuliger: I got a date to the dance.
- Chris: With who?
- Greg Wuliger: Jennifer.
- Chris: Doesn't she hate you?
- Greg Wuliger: Well, she does, but she also needs a math tutor. I told her I'd get her a "B", and she agreed to walk in with me and dance with me twice.
- Narrator: In Greg's world, that was second base.
- Carrie: [to Chris] So that's it? You cancel on me, you quit talking to me and I'm just supposed to be fine with that?
- Chris: Look, I'm sorry. People were saying bad stuff about us. I didn't want to put you through that.
- Carrie: So I'm not going to the dance because you can't take a little name-calling? What happened to "Bed-Stuy, do or die"? What's the worst they can call you? Stymie, Buckwheat, Rochester, Grady, Rollo, Junior Mint, Bosco, Chim Chim, Shoe Sole, Lakeside, Skillet, Count Chocula, Mudpie?
- Chris: You done? Look, I was just trying to look out for you.
- Carrie: If you were looking out for me, we'd still be going to the dance.
- Chris: You don't mind going with a black guy?
- Carrie: You're black? Why didn't anyone tell me? What was I thinking? If you really didn't want to go with me, all you had to do was say so. I don't even see why you asked.
- Narrator: It's not so bad. A black girl would've burned my house down.
- Narrator: Later that night, four guys still beat the crap out of me in the bathroom, but if I hadn't gone to my ninth grade dance, that never would have happened.