- Ted Baxter: Mary, I didn't get a chance to thank you. You saved my life by pressing your lips to mine.
- Mary Richards: Ted, it was nothing.
- Ted Baxter: What'd you expect? I was sick.
- Ted Baxter: Say, doc?
- Dr. Carter: Yeah?
- Ted Baxter: I didn't want to ask with everybody around. Something's been bothering me. It's kind of personal. How... how does it affect you if you have a heart attack about... you know... uh...
- Dr. Carter: Sex?
- [Chuckles]
- Dr. Carter: Ted, you can have it as often as you did before your heart attack.
- Georgette Baxter: I thought you said he was going to be better.
- Dr. Carter: I've known people in your condition who lived to be 100.
- Ted Baxter: Yeah? And then what?
- Ted Baxter: [Gets up from the table and dashes to the balcony door] Aw, gee! I forgot to watch the sunset, darn it!
- Georgette Baxter: [Follows him, visibly irritated] , Ted, there'll be another sunset tomorrow!
- Ted Baxter: That's not the same thing, Georgette! Tonight's sunset will never come again! Tomorrow, you and I and the sun will be a day older!
- Georgette Baxter: Not if you don't knock it off!
- [Ted has gone out to the balcony to watch the moon]
- Mary Richards: Wow, he really has changed!
- Georgette Baxter: I know! And, Mary, I've had it with him! I mean, I'm not ready for this. The Ted I married was loud, vain and egotistical; that I could handle. Then he has a little heart attack and turns into St. Francis of Assisi!
- [Everyone's stunned at Ted's sudden return to normalcy]
- Murray Slaughter: What happened?
- Mary Richards: Well, I guess this experience, this feeling must go away.
- Lou Grant: Yeah. I just remembered. The same thing happened in the war. During combat I never held life more dearly. But the feeling started to go away the minute the Germans stopped shooting at me. I never forgave them for that. I guess it always wears off.