Cold Turkey (1971)

Bob Newhart: Merwin Wren

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• Wren : Big clocks are never wrong!

• Odie Turman : [Holding a pistol at Wren]  Don't you move, now. With my palsy, you're in enough trouble just standing there.

  Amos Bush : Odie, what are you doing? Give me my gun!

  Odie Turman : But he's a Communist! Look at them cigarettes!

  Wren : I was just trying to explain to the, the old lady here, this car's a rental.

  Odie Turman : Sure. And I'm an unwed mother.

• Tobacco Executive : You said no town in America would sign up.

  Wren : Must've - must've got my wires crossed somewhere.

  Tobacco Executive : Now you'll say they won't go through with it.

  Wren : Bottom line? Never.

  Tobacco Executive : How do you know they won't smoke and hide out? How do you know that, Wren?

  Wren : Well, they, uh... they took an oath. On, uh, like, a bible.

  Tobacco Executive : We didn't think it was on a slab of bacon.