Party of Five (TV Series)

Dearly Beloved (1995)

Tim Conlon: Dudley

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  [Dudley presents Charlie and Kirsten to all the guests, and crowd applauds] 

  Dudley : [to the crowd]  All right. Okay. Hold it down. Excuse me. Pardon me. False alarm. Thank you. False alarm. They didn't do it. If you can stop yapping for a second, I'd like to propose a toast to the non-newlyweds since I'm Charlie's second-best man.

  Bailey Salinger : Here you go.

  Dudley : Before I do, uh, anybody here who think that Kirsten is too good for Charlie, please raise your hand.

  [several people raise their hands] 

  Charlie Salinger : [to Dudley]  Oh, shut up.

  Dudley : [jokingly, to Kirsten]  Sweetheart, tell me, do you have any idea what you're getting yourself into? Have you given this any thought?

  [Charlie and Kirsten laugh, and Dudley proposes the toast] 

  Dudley : To Charlie and Kirsten!

  [the happy couple share a kiss, and everybody toast, including Bailey and Claudia, while Julia looks at Griffin] 

• [Charlie and Kirsten are confronted by the siblings after they eloped to Reno] 

  Bailey Salinger : What, did you think we wouldn't mind?

  Claudia Salinger : I don't care what you have to say.

  Kirsten Bennett : Claudia, please.

  [she stops Claudia and Julia from leaving] 

  Kirsten Bennett : We need you too.

  Claudia Salinger : Okay, I think I speak for the group here. Kirsten and Charlie, oh, and take this in the spirit of which it's intended. You guys are major creeps!

  Bailey Salinger : You run off. You leave us a note?

  Claudia Salinger : Yeah, I mean, you ruined all our plans.

  Charlie Salinger : Guys, we didn't do it.

  Kirsten Bennett : We didn't get married.

  Bailey Salinger : What?

  Claudia Salinger : It was a joke?

  Kirsten Bennett : No. We were going to. We got all the way to Reno.

  Charlie Salinger : We found a 24-hour chapel, and, uh, we waited. And then it was our turn. So we, uh, we walked up this ratty aisle. And this justice of the peace... Man, he looked like somebody right out of Mayberry. And he starts off the way they usually do, "Dearly beloved." And we looked around, and there was nobody there. Just some guys in polyester tuxes and women in shiny dresses waiting for their turn. And it's like... I never even thought about that expression until that second. "Dearly beloved." That's you. Only you weren't there. That's really, I mean... So we couldn't. So we didn't.

  Kirsten Bennett : So we left. I hope you're still free the third weekend in November.

  Claudia Salinger : [smiling]  I think we can clear our schedules.

  Dudley : [Dudley appears and says to the couple]  You wimps. I knew you couldn't go through with it. Jeez, now I gotta go spring for another present. Come on. Get your butts outside, there's a party goin' on.