- [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!
- Ralph Kramden: I go right over to see Mr. Marshall, my boss. I tell Mr. Marshall that I have this other offer and that it offers me 40, maybe 50 dollars a day. Therefore, I'll have to leave the bus company, otherwise he'll have to give me my promotion and raise. And that's what you call the squeeze play. You know he's not gonna get rid of me.
- Alice Kramden: It's not gonna work, Ralph.
- Ralph Kramden: What do you mean, it's not gonna work? I'm going to squeeze Mr. Marshall. He's in no position to squeeze me.
- Alice Kramden: Of course not. He couldn't even get his arms around you.
- Ralph Kramden: One of these days, One of these days, Pow! Right in the kisser!
- 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.
- Ralph Kramden: I'm gonna get his job back for him. Tomorrow morning, first thing, I'm going down in the sewer and talk to his boss. There's nothing, Alice, nothing in this world that's gonna stop me from going down that sewer tomorrow morning.
- Alice Kramden: Oh no? There isn't a manhole in this city you can fit through.
- 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.