My World and Welcome to It (TV Series)

Rally Round the Flag (1969)

William Windom: John Monroe

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Quotes 

• John Monroe : You have always done the shopping and bought my Christmas present to Lydia. It's a family tradition.

  Ellen Monroe : It's a tradition we ought to change.

  John Monroe : You don't change tradition, you respect it.

• Ellen Monroe : What would you say if I told you she's actually been working on your present in arts and crafts?

  John Monroe : I'd say, what is it?

  Ellen Monroe : It's a paperweight made out of a very attractive rock she found at Pawtucket last summer.

  John Monroe : An "attractive rock" for Christmas?

  Ellen Monroe : It has green felt padding on the bottom.

  John Monroe : Why couldn't Mother Nature think of that?

• John Monroe : One of the first signs Christmas is upon us is when your basic, garden-variety milkman, barely civil for fifty weeks of the year, becomes a fawning hypocrite, a milk-bearing Uriah Heep, a sudden expert literary critic, founder of the John Monroe Fan Clubs of America. Yes, sir, Christmas is at our throats again.