- Bubba Bexley: [Bubba staggers in and explains why he's coming to Fred's party already drunk] I was celebrating the election results. I was celebratin' McGovern's getting elected.
- Fred G. Sanford: What's wrong with you, Bubba? Don't you know that Nixon got re-elected?
- Bubba Bexley: Nixon? Oh, now I'm really gonna have to get drunk.
- Aunt Esther Anderson: [to a fightin'-mad Fred] And if you lay one hand on me, I'll unscrew your arm from your shoulder and beat your brains out with it."
- Fred G. Sanford: [to Aunt Esther] Listen, for years people goin' around saying, "Black is beautiful." They took one look at your family and said, "Hold everything!"