The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series)

Best of Enemies (1974)

Edward Asner: Lou Grant

Quotes 

• Lou Grant : I can't tell a joke if you're gonna sit like that! A joke's gotta spring up on you! And it was a pretty good joke, too...

  Mary Richards : So, why don't you tell it.

  Lou Grant : What would happen if Billie Jean King married Bobby Riggs?

  Mary Richards : What would happen?

  Lou Grant : Her husband would be very upset! See, that's a good joke - it has something for both of us: it has women's lib for you and sports for me!

• Lou Grant : Mary, the reason I hired you had nothing to do with what was on your resume - I hired you because you were right for the job! And because, on the way into the interview, you bumped into a desk and said, "Excuse me."