- [Norm and Cliff from Boston, are taking a flight to Nantucket to go fishing. Brian is preparing for take-off]
- Norm Peterson: I can't wait to get out on the water. Do you know how the fishing is over on Nantucket?
- Brian Michael Hackett: Oh, yeah, I hear they're biting like pitbulls at a mailman convention.
- Norm Peterson, Brian Michael Hackett: Hahahaha!
- Cliff Clavin: [scowling at Brian] That's supposed to be funny?
- Brian Michael Hackett: I guess not.
- [Cliff, sitting in the co-pilot's seat, starts tapping on the covers of the plane's console's indicators]
- Brian Michael Hackett: Don't do that.
- Cliff Clavin: Ah, your altimeter is stuck at zero there.
- Brian Michael Hackett: We're on the ground.
- Cliff Clavin: I'm about ready to take off, there. How about you, Sky King?
- Brian Michael Hackett: Just one more pre-flight adjustment to make.
- Cliff Clavin: What's that?
- Brian Michael Hackett: Would you two guys mind switching seats?
- Cliff Clavin: Ah, I get it. Weight distribution of payload. Right you are.
- [Gets up to change seats with Norm, all the while muttering]
- Norm Peterson: Is this for safety reasons?
- Brian Michael Hackett: Oh, yeah. If he'd stayed up here, I'd've killed him.
- Norm Peterson: So, um, what time's the cocktail service start?
- Brian Michael Hackett: We don't have cocktail service.
- Norm Peterson: You do now.
- [grabs a can of beer out of his pocket and pulls the tab]
- Norm Peterson: [about Cliff] He's an okay guy, it just takes a little time to get used to him. I'm about two years away myself.
- Brian Michael Hackett: [about Cliff] Hey, does he talk to people like that all the time?
- Norm Peterson: Oh, he doesn't need people.
- Lowell Mather: Joe, I've got good news and I've got bad news. The good news is the plane's fixed.
- Joe Montgomery Hackett: What's the bad news?
- Lowell Mather: I think I'm possessed by Satan. Either that or ragweed season has come early.
- [walks away, sneezing violently into handkerchief]
- Joe Montgomery Hackett: My money's on Satan.
- Ted Cobb: You've got some real whackoes on this island, Hackett!
- Joe Montgomery Hackett: Oh, so you've met my brother?
- Ted Cobb: [Indicates Roy] Is THAT guy your brother?
- Joe Montgomery Hackett: No, that's Roy, he doesn't have any siblings - word is he ate them in the nest.
- Joe Montgomery Hackett: I need need Brian's stories, I've got my own story, and it's a good one! I started this airline with nothing but $5,000, and I built it up with my own sweat and spit!
- Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly DeVay Cochran: [Looks dismayed] Joe, that's kind of disgusting.
- Joe Montgomery Hackett: [Reading from Ted's notes] "Joe Hackett, best pilot I've ever known... Cool in a crisis... Taught me everything I know... Once turned down an offer to sing with the Doodletown Pipers?" They never made me a job offer...
- Brian Michael Hackett: Yes, but I like to think that if they had, you would have had the good taste to turn them down.