Benson (TV Series)
Half-Court Trap (1983)
Robert Guillaume: Benson DuBois
Quotes
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Clayton Runnymede Endicott III : Benson, I've been looking for you. I have a message. Your nephew will be arriving on a later flight, but he said, and I will quote, "No sweat, Harlington is making the grab in the hog limo, and shooting me over pronto".
Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus : What language is that?
Benson DuBois : Baltimore.
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Benson DuBois : Are you gonna take the basketball with you?
Tommy : I go everywhere with this basketball. I eat with it. I sleep with it. I do everything with it.
Benson DuBois : Ah, yes the perfect companion... It's always glad to see you, and it doesn't mind if you dribble.
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Benson DuBois : [Benson is looking at the illiterate note his nephew wrote] You're putting me on, huh.
Tommy : What do you mean?
Benson DuBois : This note.
Tommy : Oh, you mean my handwriting. Pretty bad, isn't it? I always did write like a chicken.
Benson DuBois : Yeah, and you're beginning to spell like one.
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Benson DuBois : Did you know Tommy is having a problem with reading and writing?
Mr. Harlington : Well, it can't be that big a problem. After all, he's in college.
Benson DuBois : True, but he can barely read a simple paragraph from the newspaper.
Mr. Harlington : So, well, maybe he's a little bit awkward. We can't all be Einsteins.
Benson DuBois : That's true, but I was hoping for a little more than See Spot run.
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Mr. Harlington : Mr. Dubois, don't you have any confidence in your own nephew?
Benson DuBois : Of course I have confidence in him. It's just that I don't want to see him give up on the one thing he can count on. His mind.
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Sid, Cable Repairman : [the cable repairman is at Benson's home] Cable is gonna revolutionize the television industry.
Benson DuBois : Yeah, it's gonna bring back radio.
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Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling : See I always wanted a dog, but my father was allergic, so I had to settle for a pig.
Benson DuBois : You had a pet pig?
Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling : Mmm..hmm... Rover
Benson DuBois : Rover the pig?
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Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus : Oh, I love vacations. I remember when I was a little girl, my parents used to take me to the Black Forrest every summer.
Benson DuBois : Yeah. But, apparently it didn't do any good. You kept finding your way back.
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Clayton Runnymede Endicott III : Now, I got to split. Catch you the rebound.
Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus : What language is that?
Benson DuBois : Preppy jive.