The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series)

It May Look Like a Walnut (1963)

Mary Tyler Moore: Laura Petrie

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Quotes 

• Laura Petrie : Darling, I'll hit you with pleasure but it won't get you back your thumbs.

• Robert 'Rob' Petrie : What're you doing?

  Laura Petrie : Getting a drink of fresh air.

• Robert 'Rob' Petrie : You want to watch TV?

  Laura Petrie : I suppose so.

  Robert 'Rob' Petrie : Good, I'll see if I can get Insomnia Theater.

  [flips through channels] 

  Exercise Instructor : One and two and one...

  Laura Petrie : Who does exercises at this hour?

  Robert 'Rob' Petrie : [points to the TV]  This guy.

• Robert 'Rob' Petrie : Oh, what a nightmare! What a night... I dreamed that I was a Twylo-ite. And I lost my sense of humor and my thumbs!

  Robert 'Rob' Petrie : [looking at his thumbs]  Oh!

  [kisses them fervently] 

  Laura Petrie : I dreamt that Danny Thomas was chasing me and throwing walnuts at me, and every place he'd hit me I'd lose a thumb and grow an eye!

• Robert 'Rob' Petrie : Honey, you just set the alarm for an hour from now.

  Laura Petrie : That's right. If Kolak and his activated walnuts are gonna come after me in my dreams, I'll be saved by the bell.

• Robert 'Rob' Petrie : Laura...

  Laura Petrie : My name is not Laura. It's Lolak. Lolak of Twylo.

  Laura Petrie : [AS LOLAK: parting the hair on the back of her head to show the two eyes in the back of her head]  I SEE yooooou.

  [Rob Petrie shudders] 

• Laura Petrie : [surfaces from under the covers]  Rob, can't you turn that movie off? It's scaring me.

  Robert 'Rob' Petrie : Honey, not during the climax!

  Laura Petrie : Well can't you watch it out in the living room?

  Robert 'Rob' Petrie : Go back under.

  [Laura groans and pulls the covers up again]