The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series)
The Great Petrie Fortune (1965)
Dick Van Dyke: Rob Petrie, Hezekiah Petrie
Quotes
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[after first checking that he's alone, Rob attempts to see if Uncle Hezekiah's old oil lamp is in fact Aladdin's lamp. He rubs it then carefully open the top lid]
Laura Petrie : [having come up behind him unheard] Yes?
Rob Petrie : [nearly jumping out of his skin] OH!
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[Everybody looks through old coins for a buffalo on a plain rather than on a mound, with no luck]
Buddy Sorrell : Hey, I got one.
Rob Petrie : There's a buffalo on a... on a plain?
Buddy Sorrell : No, the plane left. He's on a bus.
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Rob Petrie : An hour ago I was a writer. Now I'm a termite.
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Laura Petrie : It's the biggest... I mean the very biggest diamond I've ever seen in my whole life!
Rob Petrie : Where? Next to this glass doorknob?
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Hezekiah Petrie : Robbie, last time I saw you, you must have been, oh, thirteen years old.
Rob Petrie : [talking back to the screen] I was twelve.
Hezekiah Petrie : No, twelve years old.
Rob Petrie : What's the difference?
Hezekiah Petrie : Oh, what difference does it make?
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Hezekiah Petrie : [his riddle] In what you inherit are riches beyond compare, so get in there, and-and ferret here, there, and everywhere.
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Rob Petrie : There's a lotta little cubby holes. There's no cubbies in it.
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Rob Petrie : Honey, those aren't just marbles.
Laura Petrie : What do you mean?
Rob Petrie : Well, they're all puries.
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Rob Petrie : We got three wishes! Aladdin's Lamp!
Laura Petrie : I wish you'd stop acting so silly.
Sally Rogers : Oh, I wish you'd open it!
Laura Petrie : Come on!
Rob Petrie : I wish you'd all be quiet! That's three wishes. We just blew it.
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Rob Petrie : Buddy, a numismatist is a coin expert.
Buddy Sorrell : Oh. Well, these are old coins. Get an oldmismatist.
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Laura Petrie : You're-you're not thinking of selling it, are you?
Rob Petrie : Huh? I'm not? Well, I mean... Well, of course not. Why not?
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Rob Petrie : Why'd you have to think of that, anyway?
Laura Petrie : I only thought of it a couple seconds before you would have.
Rob Petrie : Yeah, but it makes you nicer than me, anyhow.
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Mr. Harlow : If you hold on to these, in time they'll be worth 7000-8000 dollars.
Rob Petrie : When?
Mr. Harlow : About the turn of the century.
Buddy Sorrell : That's a pretty slow turn. You don't even have to put your hand out for that one.