- Johnny Carson: [after Martin Mull's performance] Did a light go out when you were sitting out there? One of our lights also went out.
- Martin Mull: How'd I look?
- Johnny Carson: You looked very nice.
- Martin Mull: Really?
- Ed McMahon: Nice in shadows.
- Martin Mull: Kind of a swarthy kind of quality?
- Johnny Carson: Kind of gives you that, y'know, medieval type of quality. Is NBC trying to tell us something? The tape disappeared, the light...
- Martin Mull: Yeah, I heard those tapes are missing.
- Johnny Carson: This is the way, you know, when you're on your way out.
- Martin Mull: I think what you ought to do is keep those tapes missing for weeks and weeks and weeks, get a lot of press behind it, and run it as a special.
- Johnny Carson: [laughs] Just the two tapes.
- Johnny Carson: Bobby, the tape we were gonna play for The Mighty Carson Art Players?
- [Bobby replies, "Yesss?"; Ed laughs]
- Johnny Carson: Nevermind the Frank Nelson impression. "MMYESSSSS? What IS it?"
- Ed McMahon: No no, he'll have a definitive answer, something technical. Probably technical.
- Johnny Carson: Was it some kind of mechnical or technical problem?
- [Bobby replies, "They lost it."]
- Ed McMahon: "They". You wonder who "they" are.
- Johnny Carson: Wonder who "they"...
- [Bobby says, "They just FOUND it!"]
- Johnny Carson: They what? They just found it?
- [audience cheers]
- Johnny Carson: All right, we'll do it fifteen or twenty minutes from now.
- Ed McMahon: Oh! No one will leave now!
- Johnny Carson: Okay.
- [reading card]
- Johnny Carson: I have a note here: They lost Martin Mull. Okay, my first guest... The Mighty Carson Art Players WILL appear here tonight, we THINK, unless somebody loses it between now and midnight. A distinct possibility the way things are going.
- Johnny Carson: [after the Mighty Carson Art Players sketches] I want to think Noel Coward for writing our last sketch.
- Martin Mull: That's from "Taste Takes a Holiday", isn't it?
- Johnny Carson: We have risen to new depths.