L.A. Law (TV Series)

Bang... Zoom... Zap (1990)

Vincent Gardenia: Murray Melman

Quotes 

• Joan Nystrom : Miss Melman, it's an untenable situation, your father's been very disruptive around here.

  Murray Melman : What are you telling her for?

  Joan Nystrom : [Takes off glasses]  She's your daughter.

  Murray Melman : Just an accent at birth.

  Roxanne Melman : In what way has he been disruptive?

  Joan Nystrom : He goes to constant mood swings, he's a wild and boisterous, one minute and nearly catatonic the next. I think your father's increasingly losing touch with reality.

  Roxanne Melman : In what way?

  Joan Nystrom : He takes on the persona of a television character. Your father goes in and out of thinking he's Ralph Kramden.

  Murray Melman : You haven't the slightest idea what I'm thinking.

  Roxanne Melman : It sounds to me like my father's just trying to get a rise out of you, he - he often does that sort of thing to amuse himself.

  Joan Nystrom : Well, all I'll tell you is that, uh, whoever he assigns the role of Ed Norton is not amused.

  Roxanne Melman : Why? What does he do?

  Joan Nystrom : He throws them out whatever room there in. And then he makes some elderly woman Alice Kramden. And he yells at her for not ironing his bowling shirt or not having his dinner ready.

  Murray Melman : Why is it I get the feeling like I'm sitting in the principal's office?

  Joan Nystrom : We are just a retirement community, for people on a fixed income. What your father needs is professional help.

  Murray Melman : No, no, no, no. What I need is to be treated with some respect.

  Roxanne Melman : Daddy, if you're not happy, then don't stay here. Pack your things and we'll find another place.

  Murray Melman : You want me to ride? There's a bus stop up on the corner.

  Roxanne Melman : On will you?