- Joanne: What is he, some kind of a nut?
- Charlene: He says he's a protest cat.
- Maynard G. Krebs: That's right, I'm protestin'. Cats all over the world are protestin'. My whole social group is, like, protestin'. We're angry young men, and we're all protestin'.
- Joanne: What are you angry young men protesting about?
- Maynard G. Krebs: I don't know. And that's why I'm such an angry young man!
- Dobie Gillis: Why do you suppose everybody looks at television every night?
- Edward J. McClusky: Why?
- Dobie Gillis: Because television's better than real life. I mean, if real life is better than television, then people'd look at each other every night, wouldn't they?
- Charlene: Don't worry, Joanne, if Dobie found you a blind date, you can bet he's a good one. Take my word for it.
- Maynard G. Krebs: You rang?
- Charlene: Oh, it's only you, Maynard.
- Maynard G. Krebs: [annoyed] 'Oh, it's only you, Maynard. It's only you Maynard.'
- Charlene: I'm sorry. I just meant...
- Maynard G. Krebs: My father's been sayin' that ever since the first day I learned to talk. What a way to treat a nine-year-old kid! At school, everybody thinks "Only You" is like my first name. I almost didn't graduate from Grammar School because they couldn't fit "Only You Maynard G. Krebs" on my diploma.