- Erica Goldberg: [about a plush Garfield on a stick] Mom, what is that?
- Beverly Goldberg: It's a dancing cat, like in the Paula Abdul video.
- Murray Goldberg: I'm not friend material.
- Albert 'Pops' Solomon: That is not true, Murray. Out of all the friends I have, my favorite one, is you.
- Narrator: And that's when my dad realized his first friend wasn't Bill Lewis, it was Pops!