Akili Prince: Little Richie

Quotes 

• Little Richie : [the boys' joint science-report turns into a duke-out]  ... The center of the Solar System is what we call our Sun.

  [Wally, providing illustrations on the blackboard, is clearly anything but happy about Richie taking the spotlight for himself] 

  Little Richie : ... The nearest planet to our sun is Mercury -- which is 35,960,000 miles away. Then comes Venus, which is 67 million...

  [sees that Wally is -- deliberately -- using too much space on the blackboard too fast] 

  Little Richie : Wally, that's too far!

  Wally : You just said it was 67 million miles away.

  Little Richie : If you put Venus way over there, we won't have enough room on the blackboard for Pluto.

  Wally : Okay, wise-guy, why don't *you* make the drawings while *I* give the report?

  [They begin shoving each other] 

  Little Richie : I got a better idea: you draw them RIGHT, so we can BOTH get this over with! If you put Venus THERE, we'll have to put Pluto in Ms. Noszigger's room.

  Wally : I'd like to put *you* in Ms. Noszigger's room!

  Little Richie : Think you're big enough, GRUNT-BRAIN?

  Wally : I *know* I'm big enough, CHICKEN BREATH!

  [they start beating each other up] 

  Ms. Stern : Boys, what are you doing? Boys!

  [the other kids rush forward to watch the slugfest] 

  Ms. Stern : Alright, kids, sit down; get back in your seats! Come on, boys, break it up...

  [to the others] 

  Ms. Stern : Did you kids hear what I said?

  Classmate #1 : [DELETED LINE]  I got ten bucks on Wally!

  Classmate #2 : [DELETED LINE]  Twenty on Richie!

  Ms. Stern : No, don't; stop encouraging them!

  [to Richie and Wally] 

  Ms. Stern : That's enough, boys...!

  [to their classmates] 

  Ms. Stern : You! Put that money away, right now...!