- Mary Richards: [At lunch,Mary's trying to cheer Lou up, so she tells him a story, how she used to cheer her high-school football team at Roseburg High] ... and then, the next year...
- Lou Grant: You stated betting and you lost your shirt?
- Mary Richards: No, i became a pom-pom girl.
- [Mary pauses]
- Lou Grant: Why are you stopping?
- Mary Richards: Well, I just thought you just might want to make a sarcastic remark about my having been a pom-pom girl.
- Lou Grant: No Mary, I'm surprised when your stories aren't about y
- Mary Richards: Okay, now I can go on: well, the thing is, Mr Grant; I used to it there on the field with these two big yellow pom-poms...
- Lou Grant: Hey wait a minute I have a question ; do you call one of them a 'pom', and the 2 of them 'pom-poms'?
- Mary Richards: No, one is a pom-pom pom.
- Lou Grant: Then why aren't the 2 of them 'pom-pom-pom-poms'?
- Mary Richards: Well, now the whole point of my story is going to be lost...
- 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.
- Lou Grant: [Ted's winning the final has Lou feeling down] I'm feeling depressed. Do you want to go to lunch with me?
- Mary Richards: Sure. Wait a minute. I know what'll cheer you up; it is such a gorgeous day, outside - I mean it's really nippy. Whad'ya say instead of going to some stuffy restaurant, you and I go over to the rink - rent a couple of skates, and skate the lunch hour away
- Lou Grant: [as Lou stands, not facing Mary, he's straightening his tie, and smiles] I've never done that on my lunch hour;
- [still smiling, he turns towards Mary]
- Lou Grant: and I never will.