The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series)

Chuckles Bites the Dust (1975)

Gavin MacLeod: Murray Slaughter

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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.

• Mary Richards : All right, just forget what he was wearing. Suppose he hadn't been dressed as a peanut, would his death still be funny?

  Murray Slaughter : Could have been worse. He could have gone as Billy Banana and had a gorilla peel him to death!

• Mary Richards : And then at the end of the show, he'd turn his little back to the camera, bend over, on his bloomers were written, "The End".

  Murray Slaughter : Maybe they should bury him that way.

• Ted Baxter : The circus is in town, and they want me.

  Murray Slaughter : Oh, terrific, Ted. Do you have to bring your own shovel?

• 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.