Married... with Children (TV Series)
He Thought He Could (1988)
Ed O'Neill: Al Bundy
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Quotes
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Al Bundy : So you think I'm a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn't respect me, a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every morning when I wake up, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered-down Tang and still-frozen Pop Tart, get in my car with no upholstery, no gas, and six more payments to fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would. I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman. And I'll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head. But I'm not a loser. 'Cause, despite it all, me and every other guy who'll never be what he wanted to be are still out there being what we don't want to be forty hours a week for life. And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner.
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[last lines]
Miss DeGroot : You could have made something of your life... I suppose. But you never followed through. That's always been your problem. Like I always told you: make a promise, keep a promise. And maybe if you did that just once you'd be a winner.
Al Bundy : Thank you, Miss DeGroot. As a matter of fact, I'm going to start keeping promises right now.
Miss DeGroot : You won't!
Al Bundy : Yes, I will.
[Al takes her sugar bowl and leaves]
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Miss DeGroot : You know, Mr. Bundy, I've worked at this library for 44 years. I was eligible for retirement 3 years ago. Do you know why I stayed?
Al Bundy : You learned to eat books?
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Al Bundy : Well, it just so happens that I returned that book years ago.
Miss DeGroot : I'd remember if you did.
Al Bundy : You weren't here.
Miss DeGroot : I'm always here.
Al Bundy : Not that day. I believe that was the day of the big cake heist. You were rounded up for questioning.
