Night Court (TV Series)

Dan's Parents (1985)

Harry Anderson: Judge Harry T. Stone

Quotes 

• Dan Fielding : [talking about his parents]  Those people represent everything I have fought to get away from my entire life.

  Harry Stone : Dan, they can't be that bad.

  Dan Fielding : My God, Harry! They're *Democrats*!

  Harry Stone : ...I stand corrected.

• Harry Stone : I'll see you in my office, Counselor.

  Dan Fielding : Yes, sir.

  [Harry rises, and Dan follows him out. Billie starts to follow them, but Dan turns] 

  Dan Fielding : I'd rather be raked over the coals alone, if you don't mind.

• Dan Fielding : My father is a dirt farmer.

  Harry Stone : Dan, farming is noble...

  Dan Fielding : No crops, Harry, he farms *dirt*! Sure, maybe a few rocks now and again.

  Harry Stone : And I suppose he never tried to do any better?

  Dan Fielding : Yeah, sure he tried, and he always failed. Year after year after year, but nothing ever grew! That's not persistence, that's stupid.

  Harry Stone : Dan, it's true that I don't know everything about your father, but from what I do know, "stupid" is not a word I'd use to describe him! And I think you're a pompous ass for saying so!

  Dan Fielding : That may be! But it doesn't mean it isn't true.

• Harry Stone : Mr. and Mrs. Elmore, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to poke my nose into other people's business.

  Mucette Elmore : [smiling]  That's a judge's job, isn't it?

  Harry Stone : I suppose it is.

  Bob Elmore : Now, you see, judge, what the boy did here, was right! He got out of that little two-bit town and made something out of himself. And we encouraged him all the way, didn't we boy?

  [Dan nods uncomfortably] 

  Bob Elmore : We sold everything decent that we had to give him some pocket money for college. But he did all the rest hisself, with the scholarships, odd jobs, school...