- [Frasier is complaining about his mother-in-law, Betty Sternin]
- Dr. Frasier Crane: I suppose it's wrong of me to blame Betty for all our problems. I'm sure I'm not the way she wants me to be either.
- Woody Boyd: How does she want you to be, Dr. Crane?
- Dr. Frasier Crane: Well, dead.
- Dr. Frasier Crane: The thing that really drives me crazy is the unrelenting tension between Lilith and her mother. You know, Lilith just holds it all in, she has to unload it somewhere and guess who gets to listen to it endlessly.
- Woody Boyd: [sarcastically] Apparently me, Dr. Crane.
- [Norm has asked Sam, who is on his way to Atlantic City, to place a bet for him at a roulette wheel on black 17]
- Cliff Clavin: How come black 17, Norm?
- Norm Peterson: Ah, well, 17 is because Vera and I were married on the seventeenth. And black is because Vera and I were married on the seventeenth.