- Ted Baxter: Come on, Mary, if you were me, would you have any self-respect?
- Mary Richards: Gee, I wish you put it another way, Ted.
- Lou Grant: Where do you get off changing Murray's copy?
- Ted Baxter: It was flat, Lou! I didn't change the facts, I just jazzed up the language.
- Lou Grant: Jazzed up? Jazzed up? Ted, you do not change the wording of a direct quote. And I do not believe that the Queen of England calls the French Ambassador "The Dude from Frog Town."