- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: Hey, so what did you draw for the cover?
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: A little ducky.
- Christine Sullivan: Oh, I love little duckies. There's Daffy and Daisy and Donald and...
- [Bull shows her his drawing]
- Christine Sullivan: ... Doctor Death?
- Sydney Shoup: Are you Bull Shannon?
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: Yep.
- Sydney Shoup: I am Sydney Shoup, professor of literature at Manhattan City College. I am in charge of the children's book contest.
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: Did you get my entry?
- Sydney Shoup: Oh, yes. It was the most vile, offensive, nauseatingly horrid collection of thoughts that I have ever seen put to paper.
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: Did I win?
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: Excuse me guys, what's going on?
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: Sir, Mr. Shoup critiqued my children's book.
- Sydney Shoup: It was ghastly, nightmarish, apocalyptic.
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: Did he win?
- Christine Sullivan: Bull Shannon is the sweetest, kindest, gentlest man I know, I cannot believe that he would write...
- [takes a look at the cover]
- Christine Sullivan: ... "Puff, the Flesh Eating Dragon"?
- Sydney Shoup: Needless to say, our kiddie panel of judges have been racked with nightmares. Little Stevie even strangled his imaginary friend.
- [to Bull]
- Sydney Shoup: You are a disgrace, you're a menance, you're *a monster.*
- Asst. D.A. Dan Fielding: Did he win?
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: Thanks, Harry.
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: Hey, that's what buddies do.
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: So, that means you'll always be there for me?
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: You bet. Always.
- [Bull holds up his hands, both of which are encased in plaster casts]
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: I have to go to the bathroom, Harry.
- Asst. D.A. Dan Fielding: [runs to the bench] Your Honor, a sudden emergency has occurred, and forces me to ask for a recess.
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: [not looking up] Sex or money, Dan?
- Asst. D.A. Dan Fielding: [feigning offense] Oh, I'm hurt! Oh, I'm offended! I mean, did it ever occur to you that I could be in pain, could be in the throes of some personal tragedy?
- [Harry gives him a look]
- Asst. D.A. Dan Fielding: [Dan hangs his head] Sex.
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: Dan, give your appliances the afternoon off.
- [after Bull has an emergency]
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: Well, under the circumstances, I guess it would be appropriate to call...
- Asst. D.A. Dan Fielding: *Yes?*
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: A *short*...
- Asst. D.A. Dan Fielding: Yes.
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: Recess.
- Asst. D.A. Dan Fielding: YES!
- [Starts to reach for Harry]
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: Don't Kiss the Robe, Dan.
- Judge Harold T. 'Harry' Stone: Bull, Bull, Bull, Bull, Bull. What the heck have you been sketching, you big ol' post-impressionist lug, ya?
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: It's the cover illustration for the book I've written.
- Mac Robinson: [laughs out loud] The man wrote a book?
- [Looks up and sees Bull glaring down at him]
- Mac Robinson: Hell of an idea.
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: Manhattan City College is having a children's book contest. All the entries are going to be judged by school kids.
- Christine Sullivan: How old are these kids, Bull?
- Baliff Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon: Oh, eight, nine. Somehow, the idea writing for tiny undeveloped minds seems RIGHT for me.
- Rosalind 'Roz' Russell: [Everyone rushes off to look for Bull] I'll check out every bar, disco and singles joint in the city.
- Rosalind 'Roz' Russell: Bull doesn't hang out in those kind of places.
- Rosalind 'Roz' Russell: You check where you want and I'll go check where I want.