Mary: Everything okay?
Georgie: I don't want to talk about it.
Mary: You and Amber have a fight?
Georgie: We broke up.
Mary: Oh, no. I'm sorry. Well... Maybe it's a good thing because you and Mandy and CeeCee make such a cute little family.
Georgie: Mm-hmm.
Mary: You know, I see the way she's been looking at you.
Georgie: Stop.
Mary: I mean it. I think she's ready to give you another chance.
Georgie: Yeah, maybe I should just ask her to marry me.
Mary: Well... [chuckles] you don't want to scare her off. [clears throat]

Missy: Mom, can I get your opinion on something?
Mary: Of course, sweetie. I'm not just your mother, I'm also your friend.
[Missy gives her mother a questioning look and then walks away]

Mary: Hold on, are you saying Sheldon would be going to Germany by himself?
Dr. John Sturgis: Well, one of you could go with him.
George: And the university would cover our expenses as well?
Dr. John Sturgis: [laughs] The university isn't gonna pay for any of it.
George: Okay, meeting adjourned.
Dr. John Sturgis: Great. Well, let me know if there's anything else I can, uh, help you with.
Mary: Actually there is. Um... Would you tell Sheldon that he's not going?

George: [enters] Hey.
Mary: Oh, good. Can you do me a favor and run to the grocery store? There's a list there on the island.
George: Nice to see you, too.
Mary: [sighs] I'm sorry, I have to get passports for Shelly and me, I've got to make sure that the house is stocked, and now that he's read about deep-vein thrombosis, I have to find compression socks for the flight.

Mary: And... you got to visit Caltech with him.
George: Seeing a college campus ain't two months in Europe.
Mary: I wouldn't know, would I?

Meemaw: So, George really wants to go to Germany?
Mary: Yeah, he thinks it'll be a vacation.
Meemaw: Because the two things that Sheldon loves are change and new people.
Mary: Thank you.
Meemaw: So, which one of you is gonna go?
Mary: [sighs] We're still discussing it.
Meemaw: So, you?
Mary: Mm-hmm.

Mary: I am so glad you two are spending some quality time together.
Georgie: Mom.
Mandy: No, she's right, I mean, we earned it.
Mary: I don't love that you're gonna share a hotel room, but...
Georgie: Mom.
Mary: Well, you're not married.
Georgie: Mom.
Meemaw: Stop.
Mary: I'm done.
Meemaw: She's not. Run.
Georgie: See ya.
Mandy: Bye.
Meemaw: Well, you know you weren't.

Mandy: I'm just waiting 'cause... Well, you've met my mom.
Georgie: Although, she's been pretty sweet with CeeCee.
Mary: Well, some people are better grandmas than moms.
Meemaw: Is that a swipe at me?
Mary: Could be a compliment. Maybe I was saying you improved with...
Meemaw: Stuff it.
George: I think you're a wonderful grandma.
Meemaw: You can stuff it, too.

Mary: Hello?
Mei-Tung: Good afternoon, I'm here for tutoring with Sheldon.
Mary: Oh, he's helping you? Isn't that nice.
Mei-Tung: No, I'm helping him.
Mary: Sorry?
Mei-Tung: I'm tutoring him.
Mary: Excuse me just a minute.

Mary: Shelly? [knocks on door] Your tutor's here.
Sheldon: I've been thinking about it. We should go home.
Mary: Why?
Sheldon: I miss Dad and... football. The whole shebang.
Mary: Honey, are you sure this isn't because you need a tutor, and she's a little girl?
Sheldon: Leave me alone.
Mary: Didn't you say that you wanted to come here to learn new things and expand your horizons?
Sheldon: What do I know? I'm a dummkopf.
Mary: Oh, nobody thinks that.
Mei-Tung: [enters] I do. I thought we'd get started with anti-de Sitter space.
Mary: That sounds fun. What's that?
Sheldon: I wish I could tell you. [plants his face back in his pillow]

Mary: Absolutely not.
Sheldon: But we're in Europe, the birthplace of the modern rail system.
Mary: It is also the birthplace of the guillotine. You're not playing with that, either.
Sheldon: But I'm a college senior and I know more about trains than Richard Trevithick.
Mary: Who?
Sheldon: He built the first working steam locomotive.
Mary: I don't care. You are not gallivanting around Europe on a train by yourself.
Sheldon: German children ride trains by themselves all the time.
Mary: When you become a German child, we'll talk.
[Sheldon goes into his room and slams the door]
Mary: [sighs] Richard Trevithick? How does he know these things?

George: Besides, this is nice, writing back and forth, kind of like when I was in the Army.
Meemaw: Oh, she writing you back, too, huh?
George: Mm-hmm.
Meemaw: Huh.
George: What?
Meemaw: My house blows away, I don't even get a damn postcard.
George: Well, you should write her first. That's what I did.
Meemaw: Well, I'm not her cheapskate husband.
George: [v.o.] Heads up, I might kill your mother before you get back.

Mary: [on the phone] Uh, hello? Police? Sprechen English? Good, good. Um... My little boy is lost at a train station. No, I don't know which one... Um, he's, uh, five foot ten... Well, he's little to me!

Mary: [v.o.] Instead of punishing him, I'm letting him think he got away with it. The guilt is eating him alive. I wish you were here to enjoy it with me.

Sheldon: I cannot wait to sleep in my own bed.
George: You didn't tell him on the plane?
Sheldon: Tell me what?
Mary: I thought you were gonna tell him in the car.
George: Well, he was grumpy in the car.
Mary: How do you think he was on the plane?