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No Quarter

‘No Quarter’

Season 5, Episode 20 -  Aired April 2, 2003

Donna is struggling to cope with Jackie as her new roommate. Eric is unable to pay the monthly payment on Donna's engagement ring now he's unemployed. Meanwhile, Hyde's boss hires Kelso as a kitchen hand.

Quote from Eric

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Eric: [sings along with music] And even though I ain't got money I'm so... [talks] Who am I kidding? After I can't pay for Donna's ring, no one's gonna be in love with me, honey. Must you mock me, Anne Murray?
Hyde: Kelso, because of your panty shenanigans, I'm banning you from the circle. I hereby ban you! I also hereby eat your burrito.
Kelso: Hey, Hyde? You're not the boss of me! Oh, right. Well, you can't tell me what to do. Shoot. Well- Well, at least I'm still my own man. No, I'm not! [exits]
Fez: [sighs] What do you suppose Jackie and Donna are doing in the room right now? Combing each other's hair? Applying moisturizer to their "all-overness"? Oh, to be a fly in that boob.
Eric: All I know is, I gotta go tell the woman I love that the ring I gave her for all eternity was actually for only six-and-a-half weeks. Life's a little more complicated than one of your simple little ditties, isn't it, Anne Murray? Anne Murray. [scoffs] What do you know about hard times? [scoffs] Canada?

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Quote from Red

Red: You wanna borrow our shower?
Donna: Jackie used up all our hot water bathing her dolls.
Joanne: Normally, I'd rather hose off in the driveway than ask you for a favor, but I'm afraid Bob will want to act out some car-wash fantasy.
Bob: You got me there! [laughs] Come on, Jo-Jo. We can save water if we soap up together.
Red: And when they're done, I'm re-tiling the whole damn bathroom.

Quote from Donna

Eric: Hey, Donna. Um, I need to talk to you for a second. [clears throat] Um... I have been thinking all day... [sighs] About your eyes.
Donna: [chuckles] What?
Eric: Yeah, your eyes. They're so beautiful and shiny. You now what else is shiny? This diamond ring, which has to go back to the store because it isn't paid for, because you can put a price tag on a ring, but, you know who can put a price tag on your eyes? [chuckles] Only God, that's who.
Donna: You're taking back my ring?
Eric: Yeah. I'm sorry. I- Man, I wish there were another way, but my dad won't let me have a job, and- I mean, I can't make the payments. God, I'm really sorry.
Donna: Oh, it's okay, Eric. [takes off ring] I mean, it doesn't change the way we feel about each other. [chuckles] As long as we have that, I don't need a silly ring. [places hand on Eric's hand]
Eric: Um, Donna you didn't give me the ring.
Donna: Yeah, I... I thought you'd think I did. [laughs] All right. [places hand on Eric's hand]
Eric: Donna, I promise. I'm gonna make this up to you.
Donna: Okay.
Eric: [sighs] Um, Donna, you gave me a quarter.
Donna: Mmm, fine.

Quote from Donna

Donna: Jackie read my diary, Mrs. Forman. And she even wrote little comments inside. Yeah. Like, "Oh! This could never happen." And- And, "Donna, that guy was whistling at me, not you." I can't take it anymore! I'm kicking her out.
Kitty: But, Donna, the poor girl has nowhere to stay. She can't stay here!
Red: She can't stay anywhere near here. Bob was in our shower again. This morning, I pulled something out of our drain that I could not believe came off a human body.

Quote from Eric

Eric: I just came from the jewelry store. You can't pay for your own engagement ring. This ring is from me to you, not from me to you, paid for by you. That's like cutting off my bal- [sees his parents] ...lerina shoes.
Donna: I didn't pay for the ring.
Eric: Fenton at the jewelry store said a pretty little number- Oh, my God. Mom? You're the pretty little number.
Kitty: [laughs] Well, I- I do like hearing that... [looks at Red] once in a while. But i-i-it wasn't me.
Eric: Well, I don't know, Dad, some men might consider you...
Red: You just can't stop talking, can you?

Quote from Jackie

Jackie: Eric, I paid for the ring.
Donna: What?
Eric: What?
Jackie: Look, Donna, I read in your diary that you think I'm kind of hard to live with, and... Well, I realized you were right. And I wanted to show you that I know, and I'm sorry. And, well, thank you.
Donna: Huh.
Kitty: Well, gosh, Jackie, how very sweet, and uncharacteristic of you.
Jackie: Well, I know how much you love that ring and I wanted to do something nice.
Donna: Wow, thanks. [chuckles]
Eric: You know, Jackie, some people, if they want to be nice they just actually start being nicer on a day-to-day basis.
Jackie: Yeah, I figured it'd be easier to write a check.

Quote from Fez

Kitty: Donna, you're so sweet for letting Jackie live here with you while her mom is... You know.
Donna: Whoring around Mexico?
Kitty: Donna, that is not fair. I think she left Mexico.
Donna: Well, you know, Jackie and I might have fun. Sort of like a slumber party.
Kitty: Mm-hmm.
Fez: Yes, late-night girl talk, hot oil massages and the furtive whispers of, "We shouldn't!" And then, "Shh! It's okay!"

Quote from Kelso

Kelso: Ooh. Jackie's panties. Hey, Hyde. If these babies could talk, I bet they could tell some pretty good stories about me. Yeah, I bet they'd have a French accent too.
Hyde: My girlfriend's panties, Kelso? Is that really a road you want to go down with me?
Kelso: What's that, panties? [chuckles] Oh, no. I can't tell Hyde that one. Naughty panties.
Hyde: What's that, fist? It would be my pleasure. [punches Kelso's arm]

Quote from Jackie

Donna: I don't think there's gonna be room for everything.
Jackie: Oh, Donna, sure there will. I only brought the stuff I absolutely needed.
Kelso: All right. Where goes the horse?

Quote from Fez

Eric: Guys, look at this. I just got another collection letter from the jewelry store about Donna's engagement ring. Man, I gotta get some money, or I'm screwed.
Hyde: Oh, there's a job at the hotel. My boss would have hired you, then he talked to Red.
Eric: Well, I gotta do something. This is a threatening letter. "Call us immediately"? It's- It's in all capital letters.
Kelso: Look at you. Another dirtbag dodging his responsibilities. Not on my beat. Game over, dirtbag! [chuckles] Man, I wish I had some handcuffs.
Fez: Here, use mine. [off their looks] I'm learning to do magic!

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