Benson (TV Series)
Fireside Chat (1981)
Robert Guillaume: Benson DuBois
Quotes
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Clayton Runnymede Endicott III : If I called you shiftless, would you consider that a racial slur?
Benson DuBois : If I called you an ambulance, would you consider that an omen?
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Peter 'Pete' John Downey : [the Governor is discussing a future speech with his staff] I'll put it on cue cards. All you have to do is sit there and read it off the cards.
Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling : Oh, don't bother with cue cards. I have a crackerjack memory.
Peter 'Pete' John Downey : Bet you can't name the seven dwarfs.
Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling : Happy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Bashful, Dopey, and Doc.
Clayton Runnymede Endicott III : Sir, what are you doing?
Benson DuBois : Naming the new cabinet.
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Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus , Marcy Hill , Benson DuBois : [Referring to Marcy's Boyfriend Dan] He reminds me of my first boyfriend, Wolfgang. Ah, I only lived for him, but I thought he did not know I was alive.
Benson DuBois : It is hard to tell.
Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus : Und then I noticed whenever he looked at me, there was a special gleam in his eye. Well he invited me to dinner. There was candlelight, a chilled bottle of Mosul, schnitzel for two, the works. Und then it happened, just as I hoped it would.
Marcy Hill : He asked you to marry him?
Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus : No. He asked me to be the brakeman on his bobsled team.