NewsRadio (TV Series)

Arcade (1996)

Dave Foley: Dave Nelson

Quotes 

• Dave : I didn't just sign for a stolen jeep, did I, Radar?

  Beth : Dave, I don't watch "Star Trek".

• Dave : [addressing the video game]  Well... it's been a long time, Stargate Defender.

  Dave : [lowering voice and imitating computerized voice]  Indeed it has, Dave.

• Beth : Hang on - you were one of those guys in high school who spent every day at the arcade, hunched over the controls of a simulated spaceship with all the other pale, friendless virgins?

  Dave : ...Don't be silly.

• Matthew Brock : I don't see what's so bad about the sandwich machine, anyways.

  Beth : What's so bad about it is that they change the sandwiches in it, like, once every leap year.

  Catherine Duke : Eww. Has anyone ever actually eaten one of those dried-up, old leathery specimens?

  Bill McNeal : What are you guys talkin' about?

  Dave : Uh, the sandwich machine by the elevators.

  Bill McNeal : Best sandwiches in the city... They're an acquired taste - like a good wine or cheese, a sandwich needs to be properly aged. In the olden days, a country squire would age his pheasants for weeks before they were deemed fit for consumption.

  Lisa Miller : In the olden days, people died of ptomaine poisoning and blamed it on ghosts.

• Dave : I really don't understand how you can eat those things.

  Bill McNeal : Well, they aren't what you would call conventionally tasty. I guess they just remind me of the sandwiches my mother used to make for me.

  Dave : Your mother made you sandwiches like that?

  Bill McNeal : Yes - she made a month's worth of sandwiches at a time. Then she'd leave them for me in a box on the porch. She was quite a woman.

  Dave : ...I'll bet she was.

• [the arcade game has been replaced by a fortune telling machine] 

  Beth : Come on - isn't she cool?

  Dave : No! No! Where's the fun in that?

  Beth : Dave, I know in time you'll grow to love her.

  [she gives Dave a quarter and leaves; he drops the coin into the machine] 

  Dave : ...I wish I was big.

• Lisa Miller : It's finally happening.

  Dave : What?

  Lisa Miller : I'm getting stupider.

  Dave : Huh?

  Lisa Miller : The human brain starts to deteriorate irreversibly after the age of thirty.

  Dave : Where did you hear that?

  Lisa Miller : I don't remember... See? See?

• Dave : Wisconsin offers very few distractions for a pale, friendless virgin.

• Lisa Miller : I have decided to retake the SAT.

  Dave : Good for you! I'm trying out for the drama club.