Cheers (TV Series)

Give Me a Ring Sometime (1982)

Ted Danson: Sam Malone

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Quotes 

• Coach : [answers the ringing telephone]  Cheers... Yeah, just a sec.

  Coach : [to everyone in the bar]  Is there an Ernie Pantusso here?

  Sam : That's you, Coach.

  Coach : [to the person on the phone]  Speaking.

• Diane : [on the telephone for Sam]  Yes, yes, I'll take a message... You're welcome.

  [Diane hangs up the telephone] 

  Sam : Well?

  Diane : "You're a magnificent pagan beast."

  Sam : Thanks; what's the message?

• Diane : Sumner, am I stupid to let you go see a woman you were once in love with?

  Prof. Sumner Sloan : Oh, my darling, I'm leaving you alone in a bar. Which one of us is the stupider, Sam?

  Sam : Too close to call.

• Sam : [about Diane]  No Coach, she's going to be sitting here for a while...

  Diane : [taps on her glass to get Sam's attention]  Uh, excuse me. I hate to keep asking for special attention, but could you not discuss my private life with everyone that comes in?

  Sam : What would you like me to tell them?

  Diane : I don't care.

  Sam : [to Coach]  She's a hooker.

• Diane : [about Sumner]  What he actually said was, "Come with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove." That's Donne.

  Sam : I certainly hope so.

• Diane : [about baseball]  Well, if you were so good, why aren't you still playing?

  Sam : I developed an elbow problem.

  [Sam simulates hoisting a bottle to his mouth] 

  Sam : I, uh, bent it too much.

• [phone rings. Diane answers it] 

  Diane : Hello?... Sam?

  [Sam comes out of the office] 

  Diane : Are you Sam?

  Sam : [with his mouth full of coffee]  Yes.

  Diane : [into phone]  Yes, he's here.

  [hands Sam the phone] 

  Diane : It's someone named Vicki.

  Sam : [quickly backs away]  No, no, no, no, no!

• Diane : What makes you think that I would ever work in a place like this?

  Sam : It's simple, really. You can't go back to the professor for work. I need a waitress - you need a job. You like the people here. You think that they like you. And the phrase "magnificent pagan beast" has never left your mind.

  Diane : Now look, buster. I do need a job, and I'll find one. And you bet that it won't be waiting tables.

  Sam : What are you qualified to do?

  Diane : [emphatically]  Nothing!

• [first lines] 

  Boy : How about a beer, chief?

  Sam : How about an ID?

  Boy : An ID? That's very flattering! Wait till I tell the missus.

  Sam : Military ID. First Sergeant Walter Keller, born 1944. That makes you 38. Must've fought in Vietnam.

  Boy : Yeah.

  Sam : What was it like?

  Boy : [Making a sickening face]  It was gross.

  Sam : Yeah, that's what they say. War is gross. I'm sorry, soldier.

  Boy : This is the thanks we get.