You Can't Do That on Television (TV Series)
Sports (1982)
Les Lye: El Capitano, Lance Prevort, Barth Baggs, Ross Ewich, Nasti, Mr. Schidtler, Doctor, Announcer, Howard Cosell, NY Scout
Quotes
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Brodie Osome : Did you know the National Hockey League is very interested in Barth?
Simone Lumsden : Barth? I didn't know he could skate.
Brodie Osome : He can't. It's just his hamburgers make great hockey pucks.
Kevin Kubusheskie : Yeah, but did you know they can't use them anymore?
Simone Lumsden : Why not?
Kevin Kubusheskie : They broke too many sticks.
Barth Baggs : Dyah, I heard that!
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Announcer : Howard Cosell Loses His Voice will not be seen at this time because NOBODY could be that lucky.
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Lance Prevort : [after 20 years of practicing his putt] Ya know, I outta knock your block off.
Simone Lumsden : Come on. You don't even know which club to use.
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Kevin Kubusheskie : [before the firing squad] They missed!
El Capitano : "THEY" missed? Ho-ho. No, YOU missed! You let it go right past and they scored one. Oh-ho!
Kevin Kubusheskie : What're you talking about?
El Capitano : Well, you're supposed to STOP the bullet, not let it go past. I d-don't know these kids... I don't know what the... Now look, you're going to try it once again. And you better stop that bullet this time or you're in real trouble.
El Capitano : [as Kevin bends down like a baseball player] Ready! Aim!...
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Mr. Schidtler : [entering classroom] Today we're going to try something entirely different. We're going to find out which ones of ya think you're stupid.
[class laughs]
Mr. Schidtler : No-no-no-no. No-no-no, whoever thinks he's stupid, stand up!
[Kevin stands up]
Mr. Schidtler : Now, come on now, Kevin. You don't really think you're stupid.
Kevin Kubusheskie : Oh, it's not that, sir. It's just that you looked so lonely standing there all by yourself.
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Lance Prevort : Oh, Valerie, I got bad news.
Valerie Prevort : What is it, dear?
Lance Prevort : We are gonna have to move.
Valerie Prevort : Why? Is your company sending us to another city?
Lance Prevort : No-no, no, no, no-no-no.
Valerie Prevort : Are we... in disgrace?
Lance Prevort : Oh, no-no. Nope.
Valerie Prevort : Is it my parking tickets?
Lance Prevort : Naw... huh-haw, no. Not exactly. No.
Valerie Prevort : It's my cooking?
Lance Prevort : Cooking? No-no, you been keepin' the windows closed.
Valerie Prevort : Well, then, what is it?
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Announcer : [as Kevin Kubusheskie pulls the longest, saddest face he's ever mustered before the camera] You Can't Do That On Television has been a Poor Sport Production.
[Kevin, looking like he's been about to cry, suddenly pounds the camera lens, breaking it]
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Lance Prevort : Ah hah, hidin', eh?
[Tony emerges from behind the couch in his baseball uniform]
Tony Lefebvre : No.
Lance Prevort : Oh yes you were, and I know why. 'Cause your sister was seriously hurt, and she says it's all your fault.
Tony Lefebvre : All my fault? I saved her life.
Lance Prevort : Saved her life? She fell off the Community Centre roof.
Tony Lefebvre : I was on my way to the baseball park when I saw her falling, and I went and caught her.
Lance Prevort : Caught her? How come she's so badly hurt?
Tony Lefebvre : Force of habit, Dad. I caught her, then I threw her to second base.