Sanford and Son (TV Series)

Fred & Carol and Fred & Donna (1972)

Redd Foxx: Fred G. Sanford

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Quotes 

• Fred G. Sanford : Listen, I went through a lot of expense to make this a romantic evening. I even got some pink Champagne chilling in the refrigerator.

  Lamont Sanford : You bought Champagne?

  Fred G. Sanford : Well, not really. It's really ginger ale and Ripple. See, I call it Champipple.

• Fred G. Sanford : Come get your desert, Son.

  [Grabs baseball bat] 

  Fred G. Sanford : Lamont, come on down, Son, I've got your puding. Yeah, I'm gonna be pudin' this upside your head!

• Carol Davis : It's amazing how time flies when the conversation is interesting, isn't it?

  Carol Davis : Yeah, like sand in the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

  Carol Davis : Fred, that's very poetic. Did you just make that up?

  Fred G. Sanford : Oh, no. That's the words MacDonald Carey lives by every day at 12:30, 11:30 Central.

• Fred G. Sanford : Listen, Lamont, I'm not married. I still gotta sow some wild oats.

  Lamont Sanford : Pop, at your age you ain't got no wild oats; you got shredded wheat.

  Fred G. Sanford : Okay, so I got shredded wheat, but I still got a whole lot of snap, crackle and pop left.

• Fred G. Sanford : Listen, y'know I had an uncle who was a Catholic. I don't know if I told you that he had water on the knee, that's why he had to give it up.