Bryan Cranston credited as playing...
Hal
- Hal: [Hal is obsessed with his sons' safety after he learns that his family's lapsed health insurance cannot be re-activated until after the weekend] What does it take to keep you boys safe?... What's the matter with you boys. Don't you realize you could get killed?
- Reese: Dad, I'm not gonna die.
- Hal: What?
- Reese: I'm seventeen.
- Hal: And so you can't die?
- Reese: I just don't see it happening.
- Hal: I got news for you, Reese. Seventeen-year-olds die all the time.
- Reese: [scoffing] Come on, Dad. That's just somethin' they tell you to so you stay off drugs.
- Hal: That's it! You're all grounded, in your room, for the rest of the weekend.
- Malcolm: You can't do that.
- Dewey: I know I'm gonna die, Dad.
- Hal: Nobody is dying in this family until the start of business Monday morning.
- Dewey: [Hal locks the boys in their room] Dad, why are you doing this?
- Reese: We're gonna call child welfare, and this time they'll come.