The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series)

Chuckles Bites the Dust (1975)

Edward Asner: Lou Grant

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• Lou Grant : Lucky more people weren't hurt. Lucky that elephant didn't go after somebody else.

  Murray Slaughter : That's right. After all, you know how hard it is to stop after just one peanut.

• Lou Grant : Chuckles the Clown is dead. It was a freak accident. He went to the parade dressed as Peter Peanut, and a rogue elephant tried to shell him.

• Ted Baxter : You saved my life, Lou. You saved my life.

  Lou Grant : Please, Ted, I feel bad enough today.

• Lou Grant : I don't want anybody to make any fuss. When I go, I just want to be stood outside in the garbage with my hat on.

• Ted Baxter : Nothing can spoil my day now that I'm going to be Grand Marshal of the circus parade.

  Lou Grant : Forget it, Ted, you aren't.

  Ted Baxter : What?

  Lou Grant : I said, forget it. My anchorman isn't marching down the street with a chimp. It tends to give him an undignified image.

  Ted Baxter : Oh, Lou... it won't give me an undignified image!

  Lou Grant : I was talking about the chimp.

• Lou Grant : [Surveying the mourners at Chuckles the Clown's funeral]  Not much of a crowd is it.

  Ted Baxter : No. If this were my funeral it'd be packed.

  Murray Slaughter : That's right Ted. Just a matter of giving the public what they want.