- Alex Moore: Speaking of shadows, where's your buddy Merv?
- Kevin St. James: Where else, he skipped the rest of high school and went straight to college.
- Alex Moore: Your kidding, wow, that lucky dog.
- Kevin St. James: Not according to him, he's a freshman all over again.
- Kevin St. James: Where's Tara and Walter?
- Alex Moore: Well, I don't know about bonehead, but Tara called me last week, they moved.
- Kevin St. James: She's not going to Hawthorne anymore?
- Alex Moore: She's not going anywhere anymore, they signed up for biosphere three, you know, that big glass dome you live in to see if it's possible to sustain life on other planets. Only thing is they can't come out for a whole year.
- Kevin St. James: Whoa, her entire sophomore year spent inside a terrarium. We can go look at her on weekends or something.
- Kevin St. James: Hey, what happened to you?
- Walter Patterson: Didn't you guys hear about that bungee cord accident in Florida this summer?
- Alex Moore: That was you?
- Walter Patterson: Yeah, landed right on my head.
- Kevin St. James: You could've been seriously hurt, man.
- Alex Moore: Really.
- [they start walking, but stop]
- Alex Moore: hey, wait a minute, if you landed on your head, then how did you break your leg?
- Walter Patterson: Oh, well, the gurney rolled out of the back of the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
- Walter Patterson: Nah, it didn't hurt too much, besides kept me out of summer school for almost four weeks.
- Mr. Elliott Lippman: Also kept you out of tenth grade, smart boy.
- Alex Moore: What do you mean, Mr.Lippman?
- Mr. Elliott Lippman: I mean that little stunt Walter pulled last summer made him a freshman for the second year in a row, congratulations, Walter.
- Kevin St. James: Don't worry, Walter, there are worse things that could happen.
- Alex Moore: Sure, like uh, like that nightmare everyone has about coming to school dressed in their underwear.
- Kevin St. James: Yeah, right, besides your father was held back three times.
- Walter Patterson: Yeah, but my father was no Albert Epstein.
- Erin Kelly: I am the Grant Kelly expert, ok.
- [she closes her locker]
- Erin Kelly: and he says I'm suppose to love him.
- Alex Moore: He what? You mean you and Grant are.
- Erin Kelly: Oh, you didn't know? I got five of them.
- Alex Moore: Five?
- Walter Patterson: Gee, Mr.Lippman, does this mean I still have to be a freshman?
- Mr. Elliott Lippman: Walter, I have the feeling you'll always be a freshman.