Eight Is Enough (TV Series)

My Son, the Prom Queen (1980)

Willie Aames: Tommy Bradford

Quotes 

• Ernie : Wrong, Bradford, I'm not the prom queen type.

  Tommy Bradford : Are you saying that I am?

  Ernie : I'm saying we can get more votes with you. You got the number one requirement. Name recognition. Year after year, Central High has been infested with Bradfords.

  Tommy Bradford : Thanks a lot, Ernie, but I can't just run on an infested name.

  Ernie : But you got other pluses. Guys like it. Chicks like you. You got the right image, Bradford.

  Tommy Bradford : Which I'll totally lose, if I run for prom queen.

  Mary Bradford : Run for what?

  Tommy Bradford : Never mind.

  Ernie : Prom queen.

  Tommy Bradford : Shut up, Ernie.

  Susan Bradford Stockwell : I thought that's what you said.

  Mary Bradford : Prom queen?

  Ernie : Your brother here's gonna make history.

  Tommy Bradford : Yeah, for the murder of Ernie Field.

  Susan Bradford Stockwell : You guys pulling some kind of prank or something?

  Tommy Bradford : Yeah, some kind of prank.

  Ernie : We've never been more serious in our lives.

  Mary Bradford : How can you be serious about something so stupid?

  Ernie : How could you wanna be a doctor?

  Susan Bradford Stockwell : Oh, what does that have to do with Tommy running for prom queen?

  Ernie : If Mary can go after a man's job why can't Tommy go after a chick's job?

  Mary Bradford : That is the most chauvinistic thing I've ever heard you guys say. I-I don't believe it.

  Tommy Bradford : Are you saying that fair isn't fair?

  Mary Bradford : No, I'm saying that doctors don't have to be male.

  Tommy Bradford : We're only saying that prom queens don't have to be female.

  Ernie : That's it Bradford, tell her.

  Tommy Bradford : What gives you the right to decide the rules on sexual discrimination?

  Susan Bradford Stockwell : Because men have been making the rules for the last 5000 years so we haven't had the chance.

  Tommy Bradford : Oh, really, well, take a look around this house and at school, you've had all the chances.

  Mary Bradford : Tommy, you flipped.

  Tommy Bradford : Well, maybe it's about time women had a flip-side change.

  Ernie : Terrific, Bradford. Terrific. I never heard a better acceptance speech.

  Tommy Bradford : Yeah, well, somebody's gotta carry the ball before they freeze us out of the game.

  Ernie : Thanks for talking him into it. It needed a woman's touch.