- [Norton enters the Kramdens' apartment dressed as Pierre Francois de la Brioski]
- Norton: Bonjour, everybody. Happy Charles Boyer to you.
- [Ralph puts Norton on notice that their friendship is "suspended" for the duration of the costume competition]
- Ralph: From here on in, we are deadly enemies. I don't want to see ya, I don't want to talk to ya, I don't want to have nothing to do with ya. If you see me coming down the street, get on the other side!
- Norton: When you come down the street, there AIN'T no other side!
- Ralph: I need ten dollars to get my costume. I got it all picked out. I'm going as King Henry VIII.
- Alice: Nothing doing, Ralph. I can't spare the ten dollars.
- Ralph: All right, I said I'd be reasonable and I will be. If you can't give me ten, I'll take five. For five dollars, I can go as Billy the Kid.
- Alice: [shakes head] I tell you what I will do: I'll give you a tin can and you can go as Billy the Goat.
- Alice: Ralph, what do you need ten dollars for? What crazy scheme have you got in mind now?
- Ralph: It ain't no crazy scheme. I need the money to rent a costume for the party tomorrow night.
- Alice: Rent a costume? I thought you were going to do what you did last year - wear a torn undershirt, talk out of the side of your mouth and go as Marlon Brando.