Silver Spoons (TV Series)

Popcorn (1983)

Ricky Schroder: Ricky Stratton

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Quotes 

• Lisa : Don't you guys want to tell your kids someday that you played Beethoven at the Kennedy Center?

  Derek Taylor : I'm not gonna have any kids.

  Ricky Stratton : That's the first good news I've heard all day!

• Ricky Stratton : I did it, Dad! I sold the rest of the popcorn.

  Edward Stratton III : You did? But how? I thought you were upstairs.

  Ricky Stratton : No. I went out and I sold the popcorn from door to door to door to door. I sold most of them that way.

  Edward Stratton III : Great! How'd you sell the rest of them?

  Ricky Stratton : Derek's father bought 'em.

  Edward Stratton III : He did?

  Ricky Stratton : Yeah. I just went and knocked on a door at the Shangri-La Motel and Derek's father answered. He seemed real nervous. He bought my last 88 bags. I wonder why?

  Edward Stratton III : Well, when I see him, you can bet I'll ask him.

• Ricky Stratton : Kate, why are you so dressed up?

  Kate Summers : Oh, Edward and I are going to a fundraising dinner at the county art museum.

  Derek Taylor : Oh yeah, that's the dinner that costs $1,000 a plate.

  Freddy Lippincottleman : Hey. Why don't we sell our popcorn for $1,000 a bag? That way we only have to sell one.

  [looks at Derek and Ricky] 

  Freddy Lippincottleman : I know, I know. "Shut up, Freddy."

• Ricky Stratton : I'm not trying to buy my friends!... I'm just sort of... leasing them for a while.

• Edward Stratton III : You've committed to selling 1,000 bags of popcorn. So, I'll tell you what... first thing tomorrow morning, we'll go down to the mail, and you'll sell 1,000 bags.

  Ricky Stratton : In one day? That's impossible.

  Edward Stratton III : Well, you never know until you try. But I'll tell you this much... if you work hard and earn that $1,000, you're gonna feel a whole lot better about yourself.

  Ricky Stratton : Okay, Dad, I'll give it a try. But if I go through all that hard work and don't feel any better about myself, your credibility is shot.

• Ricky Stratton : So I really appreciate you helping our orchestra out like this.

  Woman #2 : Oh, that's okay. I have a son about your age.

  Ricky Stratton : You have a son my age? You couldn't possibly be old enough to have a son my age.

  Woman #2 : Maybe I'll take two bags.

  Ricky Stratton : Oh that is such a beautiful outfit. You wear it so well. Were you ever a model?

  Woman #2 : Don't be silly. Come to think of it, my husband loves popcorn. I'll take three bags.

  Ricky Stratton : What a lucky man your husband must be to have such a beautiful, elegant, intelligent woman like yourself by his side. Not every man is so privileged that...

  Woman #2 : Can it, kid, three's my limit.

• Derek Taylor : You know, the only reason I joined this wimpy orchestra is to take the trip to Washington. Hey, maybe I'll just join the debate team. They're going to Boston.

  Ricky Stratton : I guess it is true. The first ones to desert the sinking ship *are* the rats.