The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series)

The System (1975)

Tom Pedi: Al

Quotes 

• Al : [At the same lunch, Mary's leaving, and Lou calls over his bookie, Al, who'd been sitting at the bar]  Hiya, Lou. Say, Lou; could you do me a favor?

  Lou Grant : What?

  Al : From now on, could you pick up your winnings, instead of that guy, Baxter? Every time i pay him off he giggles. I don't like losing to a guy who giggles and then says to me ; 'the weed of crime bears bitter fruit'.

  Lou Grant : Al, he thinks you're part of the Mob.

  Al : What's that about the mob, Lou? I'm in the john.

• Ted Baxter : [Everyone from WJM's newsroom is over at Mary's watching the Superbowl. The game's almost over]  I'll just get ready Teddy. He hates it when I rhyme his name. Sometimes I say; 'steady, Teddy', 'how's your cousin Eddy, Teddy', but the one he hates the most is; 'have some spaghetti, Teddy'.

  Murray Slaughter : She only does that because she knows I can't get back at her. Nothing rhymes with 'Georgette'.

  Al : You bet.