- Mr. Adams: Oh, Joel... I really did like your song. It shows a lot of promise! You should think about playing in Friday's Lunch Time Music Gym.
- Joel Larsen: Oh, thanks! I'll consider it.
- Joel: [voice over] Yeah, right after I run up and down the halls in my Yoda pyjamas.
- Joel Larsen: Maybe you're right. Maybe Mr. Adams asked me to do this last time, and I just turned him down? I go ahead with this, who knows where it'll lead? You know what? I am going to play in that Music Gym thing.
- Pat Brody: Yeah. Yeah! And I'll play with you!
- Joel Larsen: In hell, Pat.
- Pat Brody: Okay.
- [Joel is sitting on stage]
- Joel: [voice over] Wait! What if my dad's right? What if music IS just a bunch of noise. What if I suck?
- [realizing that he has every single eye in the room on him]
- Joel: Oh, my god, play something! Anything.
- [pauses, then starts playing]
- Joel: Green Day's "Time of Your Life". They'll love it in 20 years, they'll love it now.
- [Joel sings the song and amazes the public. He walks off the stage and meets Isabelle and Pat]
- Isabelle Meyers: Joel, I can't believe how good you were!
- Pat Brody: Yeah, I even saw the stoners in the back break out through lighters!
- Bobby Kindler: I want to talk to you, because I'm scouting for a new TV show called "Star Search".
- Joel Larsen: "Star Search"? With Ed McMahon?
- Bobby Kindler: Well, we were gonna try to loan Fran Tarkenton from "That's Incredible", but McMahon would be perfect!
- Cute Girl #1: Hey, Joel! Your song... it was, like, amazing!
- Joel Larsen: Really? Oh! Thanks. It's about our life and the times... we have... in... it.
- Pat Brody: So what were you saying about being wrong?
- Joel Larsen: It would be wrong not to use the song in "Star Search"! Apparently it's amazing.
- Pat Brody: I see a fourteen year old man-boy. But do I see a rock star? No! What you need, is an image consultant.
- Joel Larsen: No, I don't. I'm the bomb!
- [Pat looks confused]
- Joel Larsen: It's something people say in the future.
- Pat Brody: I'm guessing you couldn't pull it off then either.
- Joel Larsen: Not really.
- Pat Brody: [after he and Isabelle have helped Joel getting a new style] I love it!
- Joel Larsen: I hate it. It makes me look like Pat Benatar.
- Pat Brody: Who, if I'm not mistaken, is a rock star!
- Isabelle Meyers: I can't stop thinking about your song. I didn't know you had that kind of depth.
- Joel Larsen: When I wrote this song, I wrote it for me. But if my song touched you, then that's cool too.
- Isabelle Meyers: What other songs do you have?
- Joel Larsen: I have something called "The Real Slim Shady". I have a little pop number I like to call "Oops!... I Did It Again". And, to challenge myself, I wrote something in Spanish: "Living La Vida Loca".
- Karen Larsen: I'm sorry, honey. You must be really disappointed.
- Joel Larsen: You don't have to feel sorry for me.
- Karen Larsen: But you didn't win.
- Joel Larsen: Who cares? Don't you see, Mom? I put myself out there, and it felt great. If I quit and didn't even try, then you should feel sorry for me.