The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (TV Series)

The Call of the Like Wild (1963)

Bob Denver: Maynard G. Krebs

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• Amelia : [Dobie and Amelia are sitting on a bench flirting when suddenly Amelia is distracted]  Dobie, do you smell something strange?

  Dobie Gillis : Yeah, like somebody set fire to an old innertube.

  Amelia : [jumping to her feet, looking enraptured]  Oh, no. It's the call of the wild. Glorioski, it makes me feel tingly all over. Rrrruff!

  Dobie Gillis : [Dobie stands and swaggers over to her]  Yes, I often have that effect on girls. It's a dangerous power, but some of us must live with it.

  Amelia : [ignoring Dobie, glancing about her]  It's coming closer. It's so wild, savage and primitive!

  Maynard G. Krebs : [enters scene]  You growled?

• Gina Lololasagna : Kiss me, my beautiful antipasto!

  Maynard G. Krebs : Will you give me a nickel?

  Gina Lololasagna : A nickel? I give you my Oscar, my Emmy!

  Maynard G. Krebs : Miami? Oh, I'd rather have Cleveland. That's a town in Indiana.

• [acting as Maynard's agent, Herbert promotes him as the 'New Valentino'] 

  R.J. Crumley : You got a client with ooomph?

  Herbert T. Gillis : Ooomph? Mr Crumley, women take one look at him and you'd think it was feeding time at the zoo.

  R.J. Crumley : All right, Gillis, I'll take a look at him. You got exactly three minutes. And he better be great.

  Herbert T. Gillis : Trust me, Crummy old man, trust me.

  R.J. Crumley : The last man that called me Crummy got fired on the spot. And he was a relative. Now bring in this New Valentino.

  R.J. Crumley : [Maynard stumbles into the room, asking if he could sleep in the corner]  This is the New Valentino?... The old one looked better, and he's been dead over 30 years! Out, you phony, out, and take this side-show with you. Out!

  Herbert T. Gillis : Now just a minute. He isn't the handsomest man in the world, that I'll admit.

  R.J. Crumley : So will I.

  Maynard G. Krebs : So will I.

  Herbert T. Gillis : And when it comes to muscles, he isn't exactly Tarzan.

  R.J. Crumley : When it comes to muscles, he isn't even Jane.