- Sgt Strong: [Jim-Bob is at an army recruiting office, and wants to enlist] What's your name?
- Jim-Bob Walton: Jim-Bob Walton
- Sgt Strong: No... Last name first, first name last
- Jim-Bob Walton: Oh... Walton, Bob-Jim
- Jim-Bob Walton: Elizabeth, you're crazy.
- Elizabeth Walton: Mama, Jim-Bob called me a name.
- Olivia Walton: Well, you call him a name.
- Elizabeth Walton: Jim-Bob, you're a name.
- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] In today's troubled world, it isn't unusual to hear that a member of a family has packed up and left, gone off on his own, feeling rejected and misunderstood. When I was growing up on Waltons Mountain, it never occurred to us that such a thing could happen in our family, and yet, it did.
- Jim-Bob Walton: I wanna buy a ticket.
- Railroad Clerk: Okay, where to?
- Jim-Bob Walton: Do you have any for Japan?
- Railroad Clerk: What state's it in?
- Jim-Bob Walton: I forget, but it's where all the Japanese live.