Rob Reiner credited as playing...
Michael 'Meathead' Stivic • Teen Mike
- Mike Stivic: Why couldn't they say "Buddha, bless you" in Chinese?
- Archie Bunker: Because they don't say that, that's why. If they say... Well, if they say anything at all, it's "Sayonara".
- Mike Stivic: That's Japanese.
- Archie Bunker: Same thing.
- Mike Stivic: It's not the same thing!
- Archie Bunker: What are you talking about? You put a Jap and a Chink together, you gonna tell me which is which?
- Mike Stivic: That's right, because I find out about them. I talk to them as individuals.
- Archie Bunker: Sure you talk to them. You say, "Which one of you guys is the Chink?"
- Mike Stivic: [yells] I don't believe this. He's making me crazy!
- Mike Stivic: In today's society, people throw things out because they don't work.
- Archie Bunker: Well you don't work, maybe we should throw you out.
- Mike Stivic: We're going to see something you know nothing about: culture.
- [Shows him the art exhibit book]
- Archie Bunker: Oh ho ho, look at this. No wonder he's getting himself so excited, it's one of his own here: A Polack art exhibit.
- Mike Stivic: That's 'Pollock'. Jackson Pollock. He happens to be a great American artist.
- Archie Bunker: Well he sure paints Polish. Look at this: he splashes and smears the paint over everything here. What do you mean? A monkey could do that. A great American artist? There ain't a tree or a flag or a president in the whole damn book.
- Mike Stivic: I'd explain it to you, Arch, but first you'd have to move your brain ahead two centuries.
- Archie Bunker: Why don't you go take a short walk on a long pier?
- Mike Stivic: Ha, you can't even get that right! It's take a long walk off a short pier.
- Archie Bunker: Then do that.
- Mike Stivic: What were you saying about colored families having no love?
- Archie Bunker: Why is it you can remember everything except how to work?
- Archie: Where's my grandson?
- Mike Stivic: He's asleep.
- Archie: Well wake him up.
- Mike Stivic: He's tired.
- Archie: But every time I come over here the kid is either in bed, in the bath tub or on the pot.
- Mike Stivic: That's what's wrong with this country; nobody asks questions any more!
- Archie Bunker: Can I ask *you* a question?
- Mike Stivic: Sure.
- Archie Bunker: Why don't you shut up?
- Mike Stivic: You know, you are totally incomprehensible.
- Archie Bunker: Maybe so, but I make a lot of sense.
- Mike Stivic: You eat my heart out. Little by little, bit by bit, you eat my heart out.
- Archie Bunker: I don't care.
- Edith Bunker: What are you fighting about?
- Mike Stivic: The Star-Spangled Banner.
- Edith Bunker: Did the singer forget the words again?
- Mike Stivic: Archie, if there *is* a God, how come there's so much unhappiness in the world?
- Archie Bunker: If there is a God how come there's so much unhappiness in the world? Uh... uh... hey, Edith... If there *is* a God, how come there's so much unhappiness in the world?
- Mike Stivic: I'll drive a truck, pump gas, collect garbage.
- Archie: Bingo. Start collecting the garbage off of the table.
- Edith: Why don't you go out and finish dinner.
- Mike Stivic: Nah, I ain't hungry.
- Edith: Ya can't depend on nothing no more.
- Mike Stivic: You can't do that, Archie! That's largesse!
- Archie Bunker: I don't care if it's largesse, smallesse or any kind of esse!