- Lou Grant: Look, have you tried being brutal?
- Mary Richards: No, Mr. Grant, I'm not the brutal type.
- Lou Grant: Well, you know, sometimes when I want to frighten Ted, I give him a look like this... see? Really scares him! Maybe you could try that.
- Mary Richards: No, Mr. Grant, it won't work for me. It works for you because there's something about you that... scares people.
- Lou Grant: Thank you.
- Ted Baxter: [offended at having been insulted by Rhoda] Some people don't like the color green, I don't like the word 'dumb.' I don't know what it is about that word that rubs me the wrong way; I just don't like it.
- Murray Slaughter: It must be the same reason I don't like the word 'bald.'