He Thought He Could

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" He Thought He Could" is the 1st episode of season three of the television sitcom Married... with Children.

First Aired: Sunday November 6, 1988 on FOX.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Plot
2 Guest stars
3 Quotes
4 Episode guide

[edit] Plot

Al learns that he has had a copy of The Little Engine That Could since 1957 and when he goes to return it, he finds the same fat librarian that was there in 1957.

[edit] Guest stars

Lu Leonard - Mrs. DeGroot
Edan Gross - Young Al
Brandon Bluhm - Lenny
Joseph Dammann - Book Boy

[edit] Quotes

Al: (to Mrs. De Groot) So you think I'm a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn't respect me, a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every morning when I wake up, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered down Tang and still-frozen Pop Tart, get in my car with no upholstery, no gas and six more payments to fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would, I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman, and I'll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head. But I'm not a loser. 'Cause despite it all, me and every other guy who'll never be what he wanted to be, are still out there, being what we don't wanna be, forty hours a week, for life. And the fact that I haven't put a gun to my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner!