Bob Denver: Maynard G. Krebs

Quotes 

• Dobie Gillis : So, why don't you go home and write an essay about your favorite pet?

  Maynard G. Krebs : I ain't like got a pet.

  Dobie Gillis : You must'a had a pet at some time or other.

  Maynard G. Krebs : Yeah, well, once I had a vermilion.

  Dobie Gillis : A what?

  Maynard G. Krebs : You know, one of them little lizards that change color.

  Dobie Gillis : Maynard, that's 'chameleon'.

  Maynard G. Krebs : Yeah, chameleon. Oooh, what a gas. Put him on somethin' brown, he'd turn brown. Put him on somethin' red, he'd turn red. Put him on somethin' plaid, he'd turn plaid.

  Dobie Gillis : [as Maynard gets wound up, Dobie repeatedly tries to interrupt]  Maynard...

  Maynard G. Krebs : Put him on somethin' yellow, he'd turn yellow. Put him on somethin' blue, he'd turn blue. Y' put him on black, he'd turn white.

  Dobie Gillis : Maynard... he'd turn white?

  Maynard G. Krebs : Yeah. He didn't know how to turn black. He was a pretty young chameleon.

• Mason Dixon : [as she leaves the store, Mason tells Dobie that she won't be available for their date]  Some boys I know from Stonewall Jackson Military School are flyin' up for the weekend...

  Dobie Gillis : Mason... Mason...

  Mason Dixon : ...and I just *adore* a boy in uniform.

  [she leaves] 

  Dobie Gillis : [to Maynard]  Uniforms. What's in a uniform? If you take away the fancy epaulets, and the gold braid, and the brass buttons, and the scrambled eggs on the hat, and the sword, and the shiny boots, what have ya got left?

  Maynard G. Krebs : A naked soldier.