Best TV quotes of 1979

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Prisoner: Cell Block H picture

Bea Smith: I'm going Freak-hunting.

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The Facts of Life picture

Blair Warner: I don't go to wing-dings, I go to cotillions.
Jo Polniaczek: Well if that is a dance at the Hillcrest Country Club, then your cotillion and my wing-ding are the same thing.

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Paige Matheson: For years, you have lied, cheated and conned people and you gotten away with it, but I'm not gonna let you get away with this.
Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner: You're good. You really are. If I were rating on the Abby scale, Abby being ten, you'd be a six, which is very good considering your youth and ignorance.
Paige Matheson: Well, I don't judge things on the Abby scale, and neither does Greg.
Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner: Don't count on it.

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Christine: Oh, Alanis?
Alanis: Yes, Christine?
Christine: I'm having a party for Bruce Springsteen, you wanna come?
Alanis: Bruce Springsteen! How do you know him?
Christine: Well, I don't.
Alanis: Then how can you have a party for him?
Christine: You just buy some cheesies and soda pop and watch some videos, and voila.
Alanis: But he won't be there.
Christine: Well that's his loss, isn't it?

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Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane: Ya dun scuffed my ve-hicle.

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Steel: We know that Tony Purnell was in love with Anne Shaw, Mullrine's secretary.
Sapphire: Not necessarily in love, he was... using her.
Steel: There's a difference?
Sapphire: On this planet, yes.

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