- Frank Durning: It's a great game for working out the frustrations of the job, isn't it?
- Lou Grant: [out of breath] Frank... I go on my job to work out the frustrations of trying to learn this game.
- Lou Grant: Are you a doctor?
- Frank Durning: No, fireman.
- Lou Grant: Do you make house calls?
- Frank Durning: Only if they're burning.
- Joe Rossi: [Lou has just ordered part of the staff to photocopy a large file] What is it?
- Art Donovan: I think it's Lou's memoirs.
- Joe Rossi: I hope I get the war years...
- Debbie Dexter: [looking through pictures The Animal took] Oh, look at the exhaustion on that poor man's face! 'Cause he's been through a battle. That pictures says 'war' better than any action shot. Was it Vietnam?
- The Animal: Pasadena. That guy was the lead in a porno movie on his break.