The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series)

One Hundred Terrible Hours (1965)

Dick Van Dyke: Rob Petrie

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Quotes 

• Rob Petrie : On the lighter side: "Local firemen were called out an hour ago to try and rescue a nine-week-old kitten stranded on top of a huge elm tree on Maple Street. So far, the frightened cat has eluded their grasp."

  [suddenly overcome with emotion] 

  Rob Petrie : Poor little pussy-cat.

• Rob Petrie : This is wide-awake Robbie baby boy, and I'm just fine 'cause I'm all yours and you're all mine, startin' out the first hour of what may be one of the most important hours in radio history - my death.

• Laura Petrie : [about Alan Brady]  He turned out to be a very nice man.

  William Van Buren : Aw.

  Rob Petrie : [to interviewer]  You be sure you print that part.

  Laura Petrie : Well, he paid for a room for us, and then the next day, instead of just a short interview, he spent the whole day with Rob and got a chance to find out just how brilliant he really is.

  Rob Petrie : No, Alan's a slave driver. He realized any guy who could stay up for a hundred hours is valuable to have around.

• Laura Petrie : [regarding the radio station's $17 mystery contest and its latest clue - a rooster crowing]  Who's the mystery person?

  Rob Petrie : You're not eligible.

  Laura Petrie : I know, Rob, but it's driving me crazy. Come on, I'm DYING to know. I promise I won't tell anybody. Who is it?

  Rob Petrie : Napoleon.

  Laura Petrie : Napoleon? Rob, what did he have to do with a rooster?

  Rob Petrie : Honey, the Battle of Waterloo was fought early in the morning.

  Laura Petrie : Yeah?

  Rob Petrie : Well, you know. Roosters!

  Laura Petrie : Oh, Rob, that's a ROTTEN clue. Nobody's ever gonna get it from that.

  Rob Petrie : It's a great clue because the station doesn't want to pay the seventeen bucks anyway.

• Rob Petrie : How about a little kiss for the hero?

  Laura Petrie : [nervous as they're on display in a store window]  Well, darling...

  Rob Petrie : Oh.

  [laughs] 

  Rob Petrie : S'all right, folks. We're married. Okay?

  [to Laura] 

  Rob Petrie : Come on. Gimme a kiss.

  Laura Petrie : No, Rob.

  Rob Petrie : Honey, how many girls get the chance to be kissed in a window of Chamber's department store?

  Laura Petrie : I just don't want to, Rob.

  Rob Petrie : All right. I'll get my kiss when I get home.

  Laura Petrie : You realize that could be four days from now?

  Rob Petrie : You're right. I better take my kiss now.

  [heads for Laura but gets yanked back by the headphones he still wears] 

• Rob Petrie : [reading a news release]  "DJ Rob Petrie is past the halfway mark in his quest to break the stay-away record of, uh, one hundred hours set, eh, last week in Texas by the late D. Claybourn."

  [taken aback by this] 

  Rob Petrie : [relocating his place]  "... the, uh, late D Clayburn." Uh... "The late D. Claybourn lost his life in a hunting accident..." Whoo, thank goodness!