The Way We Was/Quotes


 * Estelle: Don't you think you deserve to earn as much as a man who does the same job?
 * Marge: Not if I have to do heavy lifting or math.


 * Homer: When I see you forming the vowels and continents . ..
 * Marge: Consonants.

(In detention.)
 * Homer: So, uh, what are you in for?
 * Marge: I'm a political prisoner. (Muttering) Last time I ever take a stand.
 * Homer: Well, I'm in here for being me. Every day, I show up, act like me, and they slap me in here.

(At debate team practice, Homer and Artie Ziff hold a debate.)
 * Artie: Our current speed limit is an anachronism. The fatuity--
 * Homer: (Reading from a dictionary.) "Ignoramus."
 * Artie: --Will you shut up?
 * Homer: Wait a minute. That word you keep calling me?
 * Artie: Ignoramus?
 * Homer: Ignoramus! It means I'm stupid, doesn't it?
 * Artie: There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity.
 * Homer: Not to me, there isn't, you--
 * Mrs. Bloominstein: Homer?
 * Homer: --ignoramus!
 * Artie: You're the ignoramus.
 * Homer: No, you are!
 * Mrs. Bloominstein: Homer, would you like to present your rebuttal?
 * Homer: With pleasure. (Everyone gasps as Homer moons the class.)

(Principal Dondalinger catches Homer and Barney smoking in the bathroom.)
 * Dondalinger: Well, well, well. If it isn't Homer Simpson and Barney Gumble, Springfield's answer to "Cheech and Chong." Allow me, gentlemen. (Grabs their cigarettes and tosses them in the toilet.) You just bought yourselves three days of detention. You know where and when.
 * Homer and Barney: (In unison.) Three o'clock, old building, room 106.