- [Bernie and Wanda are sitting in the living room looking at their mail]
- Bernie 'Mac' McCullough: Hey baby, the phone bill kind of high this month. Look at that.
- Wanda McCullough: Vanessa was doing good in school so I let her call some friends.
- Bernie 'Mac' McCullough: Vanessa?
- Wanda McCullough: Mmm-hmm.
- Wanda McCullough: You still got to watch her, baby. I mean, she already think we rich.
- Wanda McCullough: Well, compared to where she's from.
- Bernie 'Mac' McCullough: Yeah, but she think we're old country club rich - old money rich. Shoot, we just nigger rich.
- [Wanda pokes Bernie]
- Bernie 'Mac' McCullough: What?
- [the camera angle changes and we see that, unbeknownst to Wanda and Bernie, Bryana has been listening to their conversation]
- [Jordan, who wants to go out and play, has just put a dent on Bernie's car]
- Bernie 'Mac' McCullough: Jordan, what's wrong with you? Are you blind, huh? What do I gotta do to put some sense into your head, Jordan? Beat you in the head with a dictionary? It ain't gonna do no good? 'Cause you ain't gonna see it coming? Your big thick pop out glasses you got on? Jordan, I swear, you make me so doggone angry, I just wanna wring your neck, you stupid little beetle!
- [Bryana and her teacher, who just heard this, are looking critically at Bernie]
- Bryana 'Baby Girl' Thomkins: Hi, Uncle Bernie.
- Joan Lefco: "Stupid little beetle"?
- Joan Lefco: Bryana, did you just say that Billy was a pain the...
- Bernie 'Mac' McCullough: ...ass?
- [teacher shakes her head yes]
- Bernie 'Mac' McCullough: You got Dracula - a wooden stake; Wolfman - a silver bullet. But little boys, a belt. But I've been stripped of my weapons. Wait a minute. I don't need a belt.