WKRP in Cincinnati (TV Series)

Hoodlum Rock (1978)

Peter Elbling: Blood

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Quotes 

• [the three members of Scum of the Earth have entered the dressing room, where Andy, Johnny and Venus are waiting for them] 

  Blood : I suppose you've heard that the three of us have decided that we're not going on this evening.

  Andy Travis : [standing up to join Venus in solidarity]  Right. The three of us have decided that the three of you *are* going on this evening.

  [everyone looks at Johnny, who is seated by himself on the other side of the room] 

  Dr. Johnny Fever : [shrugging while he takes off his sunglasses]  Rock 'n' roll.

  [Johnny stands up to join Andy and Venus to make it a three against three standoff] 

• [the band members have just thrown the hotel bellboy out the window] 

  Blood : What floor are we on?

  Dr. Johnny Fever : Ground floor.

  Blood : Pity!

• Nigel : Actually, we're not a punk rock group.

  Blood : No. Punk rock is passé. We play hoodlum rock. It's several cuts below punk rock.

  Venus Flytrap : What's the difference?

  Blood : Well first of all, punk rock groups dress deplorably. And secondly, they don't usually physically attack their audiences.

  Venus Flytrap : And you dudes do?

  Nigel : Come to the show and find out.

  Dog : [politely]  We don't like audiences.

• Dog : [incredulously]  They sent you up here to look after us?

  Dr. Johnny Fever : [sitting on the bed, reading a magazine in otherwise ignoring the three band members]  Yeah.

  Blood : Who's watching you then?

  Dr. Johnny Fever : Nobody. I'm a responsible adult.

  Dog : You don't look responsible.

  Dr. Johnny Fever : Well, you'll just have to trust me.

  Nigel : [emphatically]  We're not responsible. We're *irresponsible*.

  Dr. Johnny Fever : [finally looking up from his magazine to face the guys]  I think you're boring.

  Dog : [standing up in protest]  Boring?

  Blood : We're never boring. Watch this.

  [Blood throws a vase full of flowers into the wall] 

  Dr. Johnny Fever : [sarcastically]  I take it back. You're *fascinating*.

• Blood : [on the air]  May I say hello to my Mother.

  Venus Flytrap : Your mama live in Cincinnati?

  Blood : Well, there's always a chance, isn't there?

• Jennifer Marlowe : Where is Mr. Pievy?

  Dog : He got out of the car. That's actually the last we saw of him, I think.

  Dr. Johnny Fever : Was the car moving when he got out?

  Dog : Yes... I believe it was.

  Arthur Carlson : Why would he do a thing like that?

  Blood : We don't know. But that's our story, and we're sticking to it.

• Blood : But I got a degree in cello at the Royal Academy.

  Venus Flytrap : Oh yeah?

  Blood : I don't play too much anymore. You can't get thousands of screaming girls to come to a cello recital, now, can you?