The Rockford Files (TV Series)

The House on Willis Avenue (1978)

Dennis Dugan: Richie Brockelman

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• Richie Brockelman : Look, this guy actually lives in a trailer.

  Jim Rockford : Well what does that mean?

  Richie Brockelman : Well, it just seems to me that living in a trailer is at the bottom.

  Jim Rockford : I live in a trailer!

  Richie Brockelman : [he quickly backpedals]  Well, you know, not exactly the bottom, more like the middle. And of course, depending on what kind of trailer, it could be the upper middle. For instance I saw one in a magazine a couple of months ago. It could expand out into a two thousand foot home. Now a guy living in a place like that has the world by the...

  Jim Rockford : Save yourself, son, it's not important...

• Richie Brockelman : [Jim and Richie are sitting in Richie's car - Richie bemoaning how now that Tooley's either dead or missing, he has no one older to discuss cases with, bounce ideas off of, and, perhaps get advice]  I just think sometimes it's good to sit down and talk things out, like you and I have been doing.

  Jim Rockford : [Jim shifts uncomfortably in his seat]  Yeah, well, I, uh... run some of this stuff by Rocky. He has his own ideas on most of it.

  Richie Brockelman : Yeah? Like what?

  Jim Rockford : Oh, you know

  [Sniling at Richie, hoping that'll suffice as an answer] 

  Jim Rockford : .

  Richie Brockelman : No, no, I'd really like to hear. I mean, what kind of advice does he give you?

  Jim Rockford : Oh... 'life is like a red Ford,' that's one. And, it's better off keeping that Ford in neutral, than revving your engine all the time.'

  Richie Brockelman : What's that got to do with being a private eye?

  Jim Rockford : Nothing. Nothing. Doesn't have anything at all to do with it. Just something he says.

• Richie Brockelman : You know, I've been thinking, Mr. Rockford, that if you want my opinion, we may be barking up the wrong tree.

  Jim Rockford : [nursing his shot gun wound]  We're sure getting some strong feedback from the wrong tree.

• Richie Brockelman : The thing of it is, is...