- [last lines]
- Sheldon Cooper: I never did get to see a launch in person, but that was the best trip I ever had.
- [pause]
- Sheldon Cooper: I wish I had told my father while he was alive.
- [Mary wraps a velvet fabric around Missy's head before sending her to bed]
- Missy Cooper: This really works?
- Mary Cooper: Your hair will look just as pretty tomorrow. Now, come on, let's tuck you in.
- Missy Cooper: I'm glad I don't have orange hair.
- Mary Cooper: Me too, baby.
- Missy Cooper: I want to be more like Madonna.
- Mary Cooper: Are you trying to kill me? 'Cause if you are, good job.
- [kisses her forehead and leaves the bedroom]
- Missy Cooper: Why is she only *like* a virgin?
- Mary Cooper: Good night.
- Sheldon Cooper: It didn't dawn on me until many years later that my dad only pretended to be dumb, and asked me questions about thunder and lightning to make me feel better.
- Georgie Cooper: [looks at the downpour outside] Looks like rain.
- Sheldon Cooper: My brother on the hand, never *had* to pretend to be dumb.
- Connie 'Meemaw' Tucker: I raised *you* with lots of freedom. You grew up responsible.
- Mary Cooper: No, you didn't! You didn't raise me! I raised myself because you were hardly ever home!
- Connie 'Meemaw' Tucker: Well, do you think I was out dancing? I was working two jobs to make all the money for your dad to lose on his stupid chain of Foto-Mats!
- Mary Cooper: It wasn't his fault they blew over every time there was a storm.
- Connie 'Meemaw' Tucker: You raised yourself better than I ever could.
- Mary Cooper: Do you really believe that?
- Connie 'Meemaw' Tucker: No, but it'd help my case if *you* believed it.
- [Mary is trying to convince George Sr to spend more time with Sheldon]
- Mary Cooper: George, you have to make an effort. Young boys who don't spend time with their daddies grow up to be oddballs.
- George Cooper Sr.: Honey, I hate to tell you, but that ball's already pretty odd.
- [flashback to a fishing trip]
- Sheldon Cooper: [frightened after catching a fish] Get it away! Get it away!
- George Cooper Sr.: Calm down. It's an itty-bitty thing.
- Sheldon Cooper: No, *I'm* an itty-bitty thing!
- [flashback to a camping trip with Sheldon, his father and brother in silhouette in a tent]
- Sheldon Cooper: Moth! Moth!
- George Cooper Sr.: Sheldon, it's like a butterfly.
- Sheldon Cooper: How is that better? Butterfly! Butterfly!
- [Sheldon runs screaming from the tent]
- George Cooper Sr.: [after a thunderstorm rains out the shuttle launch] Sheldon, can I tell you a secret?
- Sheldon Cooper: Sure.
- George Cooper Sr.: I've never really understood how thunder and lightning work.
- Sheldon Cooper: Didn't they teach it to you in high school?
- George Cooper Sr.: Well they probably did, but I got hit in the head a lot during football. Can you explain it to me?
- Missy Cooper: Can I get orange hair like Cyndi Lauper?
- Mary Cooper: Absolutely not.
- Missy Cooper: Meemaw has friends with *blue* hair.
- Connie 'Meemaw' Tucker: *I'm* not there yet, but once you reach a certain age, it becomes mandatory.