The Greatest American Hero (TV Series)

The Greatest American Hero (1981)

William Katt: Ralph Hinkley

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• Ralph Hinkley : I'm not quitting my job. How am I supposed to eat? Go down to the welfare office and stand in the Superhero line?

• Ralph Hinkley : Look at it this way, you're one step ahead of Lois Lane. She never found out who Clark Kent really was.

• Ralph Hinkley : Pam Davidson, my attorney, this is Bill Maxwell. We're in the superhero business together.

• Ralph Hinkley : [after confiscating a switchblade from Tony]  Take any more of these things off you, I'm gonna have to open a shop in Tijuana.

• Ralph Hinkley : [having just learned from a dead man on the car radio that he will get a super suit]  A suit? I don't need a suit, I got plenty of suits.

• Ralph Hinkley : We're going on a field trip.

  Cyler Johnson : A field trip?

  [laughs] 

  Cyler Johnson : Man, we never go nowhere. Ain't nobody told you? See, this class gets loose in public, everybody's insurance premiums go up.

• Ralph Hinkley : Tony, I'm not interested in Rhonda, believe me. I'm just trying to teach her, that's all. Maybe she needs some of that respect you're talking about. You ever think about that?

  Tony Villicana : Hey, man, she's just a girl, you know what I mean?

  Ralph Hinkley : Yeah, well, listen, she's got feelings just like you, and all you guys, you treat her like she's some kind of a pushover.

  Tony Villicana : She likes you.

  Ralph Hinkley : She likes me because I treat her with respect, that's all. Why don't you try that? Listen, send her some flowers. I gotta go.

  Tony Villicana : Flowers? Hey, I ain't no Cary Grant.

• Ralph Hinkley : That was my best earth shoes. Superman, he used to stash his clothes in the phone booth, and then he'd come back and he'd pick 'em up later. Try that today, get ripped off in 10 seconds. Boy, this is gonna cost me a fortune.

• Bill Maxwell : [to Pam]  You cannot step off a roller coaster, honey, just because it's going too fast.

  Ralph Hinkley : He's right. We're in this, we have to do something.

  Bill Maxwell : Whoa. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this not our very first point of agreement, on anything?

  Ralph Hinkley : I believe it is, Bill.

  Bill Maxwell : Well, a ray of sunshine. Shall we dance?

• Ralph Hinkley : I mean I could kill the guy who designed this suit. Why couldn't it have... narrow lapels and a cutaway jacket? Why'd it have to be long johns and a cape?

• Rhonda Blake : Do you like me, Mr. Hinkley?

  Ralph Hinkley : Of course I like you.

  Rhonda Blake : You think I'm cheap?

  Ralph Hinkley : [uncomfortable]  Look, Rhonda.

  Rhonda Blake : My mother thinks I'm cheap, but then she's cheap, so how would she know.

• Ralph Hinkley : Listen, Bill, I hate to be a crick at this late date, but don't you think that plan is a little bit sketchy?

  Bill Maxwell : It's sketchy, it stinks. You got a better one, let's hear it.

  Pam Davidson : Somebody ought to keep the President from landing.

  Ralph Hinkley : She's got a good point there, Bill.

  Bill Maxwell : Well, it's got to be up to you. Buzz or something, anything.

  Ralph Hinkley : Buzz him? You mean, fly up at that helicopter?

  Bill Maxwell : Yeah.

  Ralph Hinkley : Listen, man, I am Captain Crash. I navigate like I was hit with a can of Raid. This suit belongs in the Smithsonian. How am I gonna buzz that chopper?