Mr. Ehlert Quote #11
Quote from Mr. Ehlert in The Scratch
Frankie: [v.o.] The day started off lousy, and then it got weird.
Mr. Ehlert: So out of the goodness of my heart, I'm gonna reach into my own wallet, and instead of buying that second pontoon boat, I'm gonna spend the money on buying some TV ad time. I decided to dust off my old commercial from when we were up to our jockstraps in good times.
Woman: [on tape] Help! Help! I'm being assaulted by high prices!
Mr. Ehlert: [on tape] Just keep cool, little lady. I'm Don Ehlert of Ehlert Motors, and they're not gonna get away with that on my lot. [funk music plays] [bangs] I'm shooting down high prices... [shoots an African-American man] And bad service. [shoots an Asian-American]
Frankie: Uh, Mr. Ehlert, you can't run that commercial. It's racist.
Mr. Ehlert: What are you talking about? I'm shooting high prices. It's racist to shoot high prices?
Bob: When high prices is a Black man, yes, sir.
Frankie: I just think maybe if you made a new commercial, you might appeal to an entirely new group of people. You know, young people... Non-racists.
Mr. Ehlert: You two write me up a new commercial and have it on my desk tomorrow morning.
Man: [over PA] Frankie, you have a call on line one. Your son Brick's school is on line one.
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Quote from Mike
Mike: Hey. Why are you crying?
Sue: I'm just so scared.
Mike: Honey, I'm gonna give you a piece of advice that my dad gave me once. He said, "Son, stuff those feelings down. Stuff 'em down, and eventually they'll go away." And I have not cried since.
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: Okay, what do you think? Shades open or closed? No. Closed looks like we're hiding something. Open. Open. [gasps] Oh, my God. The raccoons tore into the garbage that never got picked up. Sue, get out there and clean that up. Okay, where is the Bible? I wanna put it on the coffee table. You know, we don't have a real book anywhere. Just People magazine. Mike, quick, turn all the TVs to PBS.
Mike: What channel is that?
Frankie: I don't know.
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: [v.o.] I don't think I ever knew what relief meant until that moment. There was an upside to all that happened, though. I had written proof that I was a good parent, and believe me, it came in handy.
Axl: Whoa! I cannot believe that you won't let me go car skiing. It's safe. There's a spotter car that follows right behind. Oh, my God. You are the worst mom ever.
Frankie: Really? The state of Indiana seems to disagree.
Frankie: [v.o.] Yep. It was good to have it in writing.