WKRP in Cincinnati (TV Series)

Baseball (1979)

Richard Sanders: Les Nessman

Quotes 

• Les Nessman : Venus is a great athlete too.

  Venus Flytrap : [smiling at the compliment]  Why thanks, Les. How did you know that?

  Les Nessman : Simple. You're a negro.

  [Venus responds with a stunned look] 

• Bailey Quarters : I'll play, Les.

  Les Nessman : [as Herb guffaws]  You will, Bailey?

  Jennifer Marlowe : Me too.

  Les Nessman : Thank you, Jennifer.

  Jennifer Marlowe : Oh, it will give me an opportunity to wear my new red shorts.

  Herb Tarlek : [foremost Jennifer fan]  I'll play.

  Venus Flytrap : Me too.

  [Johnny is eager as well] 

• Les Nessman : Now, Bailey, you'll lead us in a team prayer.

  Bailey Quarters : What? Uh, why me?

  Les Nessman : Because you're the most wholesome.

  Bailey Quarters : Oh, yeah. Yeah, all right, I suppose I am.

  Andy Travis : Go ahead, Bailey.

  Bailey Quarters : Well...

  [nobody's removing their caps, so, impatiently:] 

  Bailey Quarters : well...!

  [some caps are removed] 

  Bailey Quarters : Lord...

  Umpire : [from behind them]  Play ball!

  Bailey Quarters : ...help us!

• [last lines] 

  Les Nessman : [voiceover as WKRP is celebrating their baseball victory]  This, then, was my finest moment. A thrilling, frightening moment like this usually comes to boys... a-and now, girls... when they are eleven, twelve. For me, it would happen twenty-seven years later. I am reminded that George Bernard Shaw did not have his first great, successful play until he was forty-nine years of age. Beethoven didn't write his Ninth Symphony, my personal favorite, until he was fifty-three. I know now how these men must have felt. Beethoven was totally deaf at the time, by the way. Not everyone knows that.