Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (TV Series)

The Robin Tucker's Roseland Roof and Ballroom Murder (1980)

Ben Vereen: E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner

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Quotes 

• Lionel Whitney : Oh my god, it's terrific. It's like coming upstairs into 1945.

  E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner : That smell of disinfectant is timeless.

• Lionel Whitney : Why don't you just admit that you're chicken and be done with it?

  E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner : All right, I'm chicken. But I'm a pragmatic chicken. And those are the best kind, you see, because they never end up swimming around with the potatoes and gravy.

• Lionel Whitney : [on phone]  Oh sure, I'll be scared. My nerves'll be quivering like pounds of lime jello on a porcelain plate!

  E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner : [on other line]  Lime what?

• Lionel Whitney : So why did these guys want my picture? Why would they deface these thousand dollar bills? Why would they wanna meet me in that junkyard?

  E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner : They didn't wanna be seen and people take pictures to show them to people. That's sort of elementary. That adds up to smart, tricky, dangerous and trouble, the fatal four. So what do we do? We quit!