Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Bill Cosby: Wardell Franklin

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• Steve Jackson : You see what I saw?

  Wardell Franklin : Yes, I saw what you saw, and don't be worrying about nothin' 'cause the dude mess with me, I'm gonna knock him out.

• Geechie Dan Beauford : You all take these two dogs somewhere and put 'em to sleep.

  Wardell Franklin : Man, you said you was going to let us go!

  Geechie Dan Beauford : You just confessed, turkey. Your ass is grass!

• Steve Jackson : How's your other job?

  Wardell Franklin : Rotten, boring, and underpaid, but thank you, Jesus.

• Steve Jackson : Hey, young blood. What's happenin'?

  Wardell Franklin : Same old, same as old here.

• Madame Zenobia : Why don't you fellas move around, find something nice to do? If you get bored here and are looking for some real excitement, there is always the room with the red door in the back.

  Steve Jackson : What's in there?

  Madame Zenobia : Happiness. Or, sadness.

  Wardell Franklin : What do you mean by that?

  Madame Zenobia : Why don't you go back there and find out? And, Mr. Jackson, you behave yourself, hear?

• Wardell Franklin : What you think is going on back there?

  Steve Jackson : I don't know. Hookers maybe.

• Wardell Franklin : Look, man, you only live once. Now, what you say, homeboy?

• Steve Jackson : You ever been there?

  Wardell Franklin : Yeah - and no. I dropped some people off with the cab, but there be some fine mamas comin' in that place.

• Steve Jackson : Now listen here, you all, I'm looking fo a corny little runt named Seymour Petigreau. I know you're in here, Seymour, so come on out! I hear you're so ugly - till the sun refuse to shine every time you come out. You're so ugly - till it's against the law in 20 states to marry you.

  Wardell Franklin : Yeah, that's it, Steve. You're cooking. You keep on talking. He's in here somewhere and just remember, I got your back. And dig, say something about his Mama.

• Wardell Franklin : That was the hardest-hittin', fastest, baddest little black man of colored descent, I have ever seen in my life.

• Wardell Franklin : You dig it? You knock a dude down, you get some respect.

• Leggy Peggy : If y'all can't stand the heat, get outta the kitchen. Harry S. Truman, December 17, 1952.

  Wardell Franklin : That's right. I was in the kitchen when he said it.