Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Guest for Breakfast (1958)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

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Quotes 

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is standing before a breakfast table for two]  Good evening. I just happened upon this abandoned breakfast table. It was set for two persons and is complete down to the morning paper which was lying on the floor

  [picks up newspaper and sits down] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : with incidentally a, er, bullet hole through it.

  [opens newspaper and wiggles his finger through the bullet hole] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : It looks as though someone's husband missed the 8:20 this morning. In fact, he may have missed it for good,

  [closes newspaper and sits forward] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : for the bullet appears to have struck him between the society section and the want ads. While you are watching tonight's show, "Guest For Breakfast", I think I shall help myself to some toast. First however, let us pause for the unseemly sight of a man toasting himself.

  [picks up a burnt piece of toast] 

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is sitting with his head in his hand when he realises the audience is watching]  You know, there are times when I find myself wishing my television tube would blow out. I'm sure you have the same feeling but if you thought that was bad, you should have tasted this toast, burnt to a crisp.

  [holds up said toast] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : However, it indicates to me that it was the wife, and not the husband who was the victim of this little faux pas de deux, and justifiably too. She was no cook, she was an arsonist. Next week, we shall be back with another story. Until then, good night.

  [starts buttering burnt toast]