Corner Gas (TV Series)

Happy Career Day to You (2009)

Tara Spencer-Nairn: Karen Pelly

Quotes 

• Karen Pelly : I guess the hardest part about being a police officer is having to work within a tight municipal budget.

  Classmate #1 : Are you for real?

• Karen Pelly : [looking at her speed gun as a kid runs past her]  Wow, 50!

  [pauses] 

  Karen Pelly : That can't be right.

• [Karen and Wanda getting competitive over whose career the kids find more interesting] 

  Karen Pelly : Who wants to get a chalk outline drawn around them?

  Wanda Dollard : Who wants to see the most important part of my job?... Fireworks!

  Karen Pelly : Who wants to watch me shoot a stop sign?

• [Wanda is jealous that the kids think Karen's career is more interesting than hers after seeing what her job is like] 

  Karen Pelly : [phone]  DRPD. Yeah, uh-huh. Cows? How many cows? Fine, I'll be right there.

  [hangs up] 

  Karen Pelly : Sorry kids, I have to go do my job... I mean, career.

  [the kids groan] 

  Wanda Dollard : [holding a rubber ball]  Aw, does Officer Karen have to go? Aw, probably has to bore some criminal to death. Oh well, come inside and we'll... have a ball!

  Classmate #1 : We wanna go with Karen.

  Wanda Dollard : Sorry, can't do that. You could get hurt.

  Classmate 2 : But she's really...

  Wanda Dollard : [yelling]  Get inside!

  [the kids hurry into the gas station] 

  Wanda Dollard : Sorry, sorry about that kids... Don't tell your parents I yelled. Hey, who can keep a secret!