The car at the beginning of the episode is also seen at the end of the first season, as the car with Alaskan plates.
Emma: So, do you still carry baker's yeast or do I have to go all the way to the co-op? Oscar: Emma, tell your idiot son to get his head out of the clouds. Brent: And tell my crank of a father to go home and look up the word "retired." Emma (to Wanda): So is there baker's yeast or do I gotta go to the co-op?
(upon seeing inside of coffee shop for the first time) Wanda: Looks like Martha Stewart blew up. Brent: I feel mildly violated.
Hank: Brent, this coffee tastes terrible. Brent: Oh, well, let me refund your money. What'd you pay for it, zero?
(after Oscar rents a video for the first time) Wanda: Do you really think your dad will like Jaws? Brent: He might, if he owned a VCR.
Brent: So, here we are, the finest drinking establishment in all of Dog River. Lacey: Nice. Kind of homey. Brent: I suppose, if you grew up in a home of pickled eggs and pinball.
Brent: (about Oscar) He doesn't know how it works, but he's against it. It's the touchtone phone all over again.
Brent: But he's never even rented a video. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Oscar: I don't want to know what I'm talking about.
Emma: Now Oscar, when Brent took over the business, you knew he was going to make some changes. So butt out. Brent: Thank you. Emma: And you. Your father ran this business for nearly 40 years, so I expect you to show some respect for his opinions. Oscar: Yeah. Brent: Geez, you're asking a lot, Ma. Emma: Well pretend to show some respect for his opinion. Oscar: Yeah. (glares at Emma)
Oscar: Wait a minute. What does that sign say? Brent: Well take it slow. Sound it out. Oscar: I can read it smart guy, but we don't rent movies.
Brent: [Lacey] wants to reveal it all, at what I believe she refers to as a gala reopening. Hank: Is it ga-la or gay-la? Brent: Wear whatever you want.
Hank (upon seeing the changes to the coffee shop): What the hell did she do to this place? Brent: Here we go. Would ya settle down Hank? It's just a little different. Hank: Different? We're in the seventh circle of Hell here.
(Hank is questioning the salt shakers) Hank: What if it's a trick? Wanda: Shake some on your hand. Hank: That's unsanitary! Brent: I've seen you eat gum off your shoe. Hank: What's that got to do with anything?
Lacey: You don't see a photo of me with a Hitler mustache, tossing puppies into a woodchipper. Hank: Does such a photo exist?
Emma: The red wire goes to the red hole. The white wire goes to the white hole. See? Oscar: ...It must be one of those new Japanese models.
Brent: Maybe she doesn't want us in the coffee shop because she's turning the whole place into a methamphetamine lab. Get the town kids hooked on the meth and the crack cocaine, 'cause once you're hooked on that, you know....what next? Marijuana, then jazz music, forget about it.
Oscar: Your son is turning the gas station into a movie theater Brent: Bear in mind that Dad has a tendency to overstate things Oscar: I have never overstated a single thing in the history of the planet
Hank: Wanda, what do you know about this Lacey person ? Wanda: I know she doesn't have cataracts, so you don't have a chance.
Lacey: I mean come on, a boycott? Look it, I'm not clubbing baby seals and I'm not using Honduran children to make sneakers. Hank: You could be clubbing baby seals with Hondurian children and I don't care about that.
Wanda: Ya know, Jaws is a pretty intense movie. Is that a good idea to rent that to your old man? He's wound tight enough as it is. Brent: It doesn't matter. In a million years, he'll never figure out how to hook that up to the TV.
Hank: Freaky abstract art on the walls, and she puts weird cloths on the table. Brent: You mean tablecloths. Hank: It's too much. She's turned the coffee house into a gay bar.
Janet Wright was nominated for a "Music, Comedy, or Variety Program or Series: Best Performance or Host" Leo Award for this episode.
This is the only episode where the diner is called the "Cafe". At the end of the episode it is changed to its final name "The Ruby."
Brent: Maybe I have an inner-ear disorder. A disorder in the inner-ear can cause a person to be unable to maintain balance or orient the body. Since Wanda is the second person to criticize Brent's ability to hang a sign straight, he suggests he may have this problem.
Brent: Jaws. It's a classic. Steven Spielberg's 1975 horror film Jaws was the story of a series of attacks by a great white shark on a New England community.
Hank : Different? We're in the seventh circle of Hell here. "Seventh circle of Hell" is a reference to Dante's Divine Comedy, the first part of which is Inferno and describes the various circles of hell.
Hank: I'm standing by my principles. Brent: Your principles? Who are you? Lech Walesa? Lech Walesa was trade union and human rights activist; a founder of Solidarity, the first trade union in the Soviet bloc; and eventually became President of Poland.
Oscar: Who do you think you are, Ed Sullivan? "We got a big shew, we got a really big shew!" What are you thinking? Brent: I'm thinking your Ed Sullivan needs work. Oscar is imitating Ed Sullivan, who opened his weekly show by telling the audience and viewers that "We've got a really big show!"
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