Silver Spoons (TV Series)

The Empire Strikes Out (1983)

John Houseman: Grandpa Stratton

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Quotes 

• Grandpa Stratton : I have no idea if she is a fox. I do know she has a pair of the biggest coal mines in the country.

• Ricky Stratton : I know, I know - you're gonna tell me what you always tell me: The world isn't fair.

  Grandpa Stratton : I was going to say that the more you own of the world, the fairer it gets.

• Grandpa Stratton : Love! It is an illusion, foisted upon society by impoverished poets.

• Grandpa Stratton : Richard, I'm afraid I find myself in your father's doghouse. He has instructed me not to darken his door ever again.

  Ricky Stratton : Yeah, well, some things really drive my dad up the wall. Like if you use his aftershave, leave the screen door open, drive off the woman he loves.

  Grandpa Stratton : I see your sympathies are with him.

  Ricky Stratton : You bet your bow tie.

• Ricky Stratton : [after the lights go out]  Dad, what's going on here?

  Edward Stratton III : Ah, Rick, the storm has knocked out the electricity. Just stand still, son, and don't try to...

  [crashing sound] 

  Edward Stratton III : ... to move.

  Ricky Stratton : I'm okay. I just hit something. I don't know what it was, though.

  Grandpa Stratton : It was me!