The Honeymooners (TV Series)

Mind Your Own Business (1956)

Art Carney: Ed Norton

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• [Ed has been fired] 

  Ed Norton : Ol' Ed Norton, reliable old Ed Norton, working seventeen years in the sewer. And now everything's down the drain!

• Ed Norton : I called on 137 prospects. I made one sale.

  Trixie Norton : Out of all those people, you only sold one iron?

  Ed Norton : One iron. One iron, and that was my last stop.

  Trixie Norton : Ed, that's very encouraging if you sold to your last customer. Maybe after talking to all those people, you finally hit on the right approach. Can you remember what you said to the customer who bought the iron?

  Ed Norton : Sure I can remember. I said, "Mama, you just gotta by this iron from me."

  Trixie Norton : Oh, you sold an iron to my mother.

  Ed Norton : Not your mother, my mother. Tomorrow's your mother. And the outlook ain't very bright because the day after tomorrow, we run out of mothers.

• Ed Norton : I haven't told Trixie yet. Ain't got the nerve. Hey, uh, Alice, uh, you and Trixie been friends for a long time. Suppose you go up and break the news to her.

  Alice Kramden : Oh no, Ed. That's a man's job.

  Ed Norton : You're right, Alice. I'll get Ralph to do it.

• Ed Norton : After what he told me, I find it impossible to work one more day for him in the sewer.

  Alice Kramden : What'd he tell you?

  Ed Norton : You're fired.