Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series)

Speak No Evil (1985)

Danny Cooksey: Sam McKinney

Quotes 

• Arnold Jackson : Yeah but guys, you can only fling a tomato so far. What else can we use to bean these bigots?

  Dudley Ramsey : Hey, my mother's got a zucchini that's been in our fridge so long it walked from one shelf to the other.

  Arnold Jackson : Hey that's perfect! Now a zucchini is perfect, you can use it like a dart, it's perfect for distance and accuracy.

  Sam McKinney : But you gotta be careful with zucchinis, if they're too gushy they'll come apart in your hand, and if they're not rotten enough they won't squash when you hit a girl. Then she'll have a chance to throw it back at you.

  Arnold Jackson : Exactly, now Sam if you were going throwing fruit, uh at girls, what would you use?

  Sam McKinney : Well, my friends prefer cantaloupes, seasonal but effective. They maintain their trajectory and when they hit they go PWEW all over the place.

• Arnold Jackson : I can't go on a vacation with Dad right now.

  Sam McKinney : But Arnold, who am I going to terrorize bell captains with? And who's going to help me get kicked out of museums?

• Sam McKinney : What kind of a family are we going to be if we can't hang around each other anymore?

  Arnold Jackson : Ah, don't worry about that, Sam, no matter what happens, this family will always stick together. Who else would want us?

• Arnold Jackson : Look, this has to do with prejudice, you know people of different races and different colors not getting along.

  Sam McKinney : But the blacks and whites and all the other colors in my class all get along, and you and me get along, and that's not easy with your personality.

  Arnold Jackson : Sam, the rest of the world is not like you or me or your class. There're people out there who hate you just because of the color of your skin.

  Sam McKinney : Yeah the teacher talked to us about that the other day, it didn't make too much sense.

  Arnold Jackson : Alright, what if they said little redheaded kids with freckles couldn't eat in the cafeteria anymore?

  Sam McKinney : That'd be fine with me, Hamburger Hangar has much better food.

  Arnold Jackson : Alright, what if you went there and they said you couldn't go in there either?

  Sam McKinney : I'd go there anyway.

  Arnold Jackson : What if there were 6 big bullies with baseball bats there waiting to tell you to go somewhere else?

  Sam McKinney : But they can't do that! I'm allowed to eat there so long as I don't spoil my appetite for dinner. Did you say six bullies?