Tyler James Williams credited as playing...
Chris
- Rochelle: [to Chris] Hey, baby. I thought you had to work today.
- Chris: I asked Doc for the day off.
- Rochelle: Why? What's wrong?
- Chris: Algebra. We have this pizza day coming up and we can't win unless I bring up my test score.
- Rochelle: Is that how they get you to pass your classes these days, is by giving you pizza? I guess if they gave you steak, you'd be headed to class.
- Narrator: And if they gave you chicken, you'd open up the Apollo.
- Greg Wuliger: [to Chris] I don't get it. If your mom knows algebra, why don't you want her to tutor you?
- Chris: Cause when I'm working with her, I never learn anything. She's like Bobby Knight. All she does is scream and point.
- Chris: You know, maybe Grandma can help me. We could call her.
- Rochelle: No, because she's gonna to tell you the same thing. If you can add and subtract, you can do this.
- Narrator: My mother applied that logic to a lot of situations.
- Rochelle: [scene cuts Chris and his family in a bank vault dressed as bank robbers] If you can crack an egg, you can crack a safe!
- [scene cuts to Rochelle and Drew are in a hospital dressed as surgeons]
- Rochelle: Boy, if you can lace up a sneaker, you could stitch up a chest.
- [to another surgeon]
- Rochelle: Suture.
- [scene cuts Rochelle and Tonya are on a plane dressed as skydivers]
- Rochelle: If you can jump rope, you could jump from the plane! Go! Go!
- [Tonya jumps out of the plane without her parachute]
- Rochelle: Oh, baby, you forgot your parachute!
- Chris: [to Ms. Morello] I just don't get algebra. Maybe you could tutor me after school.
- Ms. Morello: I'm sorry, Chris. I don't have time. Have you called the United Negro College Fund? Maybe they can help.
- Narrator: History would later prove her wrong.