The Rockford Files Season 1 quotes

Becker

[reviewing a microfiche] Stay back, please. This is official department memorandum, open only to the department.

Jim

Boy, mention the Nazis around you and it rubs off!

Of course, Korper wasn't the only one of his time to be pro-Nazi.

Jim

Sure. There was Mussolini...

So you put your machine on at night, huh? Just cause I call you at 3 am? You know how bad my insomnia is! Thanks a lot Jim!

Jim

[after crashing the sabotaged Firebird to a stop] Well, what do you say let's forget the sushimi and call it a day?

How long does it take to read a police report anyway?

Dennis

Quite a while, if you're Lt. Chapman.

Jim

Oh yes, sometimes he'll read a report twice if it's complicated. Actually tonight his attention span is pretty good.

[to Rockford] Your file. I've never had the occasion to examine one this size before, and I've been with the Bureau of Consumer Affairs for nineteen years! You seem to have some sort of magnetic field that attracts controversy!

[Benson tossing Jim a wad of money] That's five thousand dollars.

Jim

Yeah, yeah I thought so. My hand size is a perfect five thousand.

Jimmy, this is Manny down at Ralph's and Marla's. Some guy named Angel Martin just ran up a fifty buck bar tab, and now he wants to charge it to you. You gonna pay?

Angel

Muriel is dead! D-on-the-e-d!

Angel

I wrote a book about the whole thing.

Jim

You have trouble writing your laundry list!

Now, Del Kane is syndicate. If we can convict him, maybe we can get him to do some talking. He knows where a lot of bodies are buried.

Lt. Chapman

He planted them!

Two men stopped me outside a pizza parlor..thed promise to break my legs if that's books published..what you call a touch up, needs mouth to mouth resuscitation.

Angel

Oh great..one threat and he folds up..everyone makes out on the deal except me.

Jim

I wouldn't say that...you do get something out of it...not worth much.

Angel

Yeah, what?

Jim

Your life.

Hi there! [beep] If you're interested in selling your product by a computerized telephone sale, stay on the line and one of our representatives will speak to you!

Jim

[as "Jimmy Joe Meeker"] That's another thing my daddy always said: smart folks always eat off the same plate, but those greedy ones always spill their dinner.

I'm beginning to tire of your daddy.

Beth

I don't want to raid Harcourt and Lowe's client list when I leave, but I am worried about clients; where are they going to come from?

Jim

Oh hey, they'll come, they'll come! And, you know, you've always got me!

Beth

Thanks Jim. I was talking about paying clients though.