Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder? (1988)

Tom Bosley: Sheriff Amos Tupper

Quotes 

• Dr. Seth Hazlitt : Well, look, perhaps you could take some time off, have a bit of lunch.

  Sheriff Amos Tupper : If I could take time off, I'd go to the bathroom.

• [Sheriff Tupper is sleeping on the couch. He is awoken by the telephone] 

  Sheriff Amos Tupper : [getting up; grouchily]  Oh, for Pete's sake!

  [He gets up, trips on a coffee table, and heads for the phone] 

  Sheriff Amos Tupper : Okay, okay, okay...

  [He answers the phone; thinking it's his new deputy or his sister] 

  Sheriff Amos Tupper : [sarcastic]  Well, it's about time you called!

  Sheriff Amos Tupper : [pause]  Oh... Sorry, I thought you were someone else. What? Elmo? Elmo's asleep.

  [pause] 

  Sheriff Amos Tupper : [annoyed]  No, I won't wake him! I'd rather throw a lit match into a gasoline tank!

  [pause] 

  Sheriff Amos Tupper : Hey, there's no reason to talk to me this way.

  [pause] 

  Sheriff Amos Tupper : Who am I? I'm Sheriff Tupper, that's who! Who in the blazes are you?

  [the anonymous caller hangs up, Sheriff looks flabbergasted and confused] 

• Sheriff Amos Tupper : [to his new deputy who is holding up a gun]  Will you put that thing down before you hurt yourself?