- Archie Bunker: [when no-one can figure out the riddle, Archie proposes a new game] Bandleaders' initials.
- Edith Bunker: Oh, I know that game. You think up the name of a famous bandleader, but you just give the initials, and then the others have to guess who it is. But you have to have lived a lot to play a game like that.
- Archie Bunker: Yeah, you said it... Let me think of a good one for you. Ahhhhh, P.W.
- Tammy Robinson: Paul Whiteman.
- Archie Bunker: [impressed] Hey, Look at Tammy. She got it right away, here.
- Archie Bunker: [after some further discussion and a couple more bandleaders] Hey, hey, I thought of a good one... Now, I got one for all of youse: E.C.
- Gloria Bunker-Stivic: E.C...
- Tammy Robinson: Eddie Condon.
- Archie Bunker: Well, Eddie Condon's E.C., but ain't the E.C. I'm thinkin' about.
- Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: Eddie Cochran?
- Archie Bunker: I never heard of him.
- Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: So?
- Archie Bunker: [annoyed] Well, if I never heard of him, he ain't the right E.C.
- Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: All right, we give up. Who is it?
- Archie Bunker: Youse all give up?... Heh, heh, heh. Egzavier Cugat!
- Tammy Robinson: [everyone falls on the floor] Egzavier Cugat! That's wonderful!
- Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: Archie, that's not E.C., that's X.C. Xavier begins with an 'X'.
- Archie Bunker: Get outta here... No human being begins his name with an 'X'. I heard it a million times: Egzavier Cugat. E - G - Z - avier Cugat. Look it up.
- Edith Bunker: [Gloria's riddle about a father, a son and a surgeon has stumped everyone] Maybe the answer has something to do with people that come back from the hereafter, like that milk company.
- Gloria Bunker-Stivic: Oh, reincarnation?