Night Court (TV Series)

Dan's Parents (1985)

John Larroquette: Dan Fielding

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Quotes 

• [after Dan has made up with his parents] 

  Dan Fielding : Hey listen, everybody, after work what say we go out and get some real food?

  Court Clerk MacIntosh 'Mac' Robinson : Real food?

  Dan Fielding : Yeah, I know this 24-hour Creole place over on Lexington. They got chicken feet.

  Bob Elmore : No!

  Dan Fielding : Yeah, I go there quite a lot.

  [off everyone's looks] 

  Dan Fielding : Yes, I eat chicken feet. And I *like* it.

• 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.

• Dan Fielding : [Dan's co-workers bring him face-to with his bumpkin parents who come all the way to New York from their dirt farm to visit him] 

  [With a look of stunned embarrasment] 

  Dan Fielding : Thank God they left the livestock in the car.