WKRP in Cincinnati (TV Series)

Pilot: Part 1 (1978)

Gary Sandy: Andy Travis

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Quotes 

• Johnny Caravella : [about changing the format of the station]  Ah, listen, you, you do mean *now*?

  Andy Travis : [as he leaves the control booth]  Yes. And... you can say "booger" if you want to.

  Johnny Caravella : [gleefully flinging an old record off a turntable]  Well, it's good-bye to the elevator music!

  [Johnny laughs sinisterly as he carefully places a different record on the turntable] 

  Johnny Caravella : [with a sinister grin slowly emerging on his face]  Do it!

  Johnny Caravella : [making the needles scratching the record sound effect, as he begins to speak on the air excitedly]  All right, Cincinnati, it is time for this town to get *down*! Now, you got Johnny...

  Dr. Johnny Fever : ...Dr. Johnny Fever, and I am burnin' up in here! Whoo! Whoo! We all in critical condition, babies, but you can tell me where it hurts, because I got the healing prescription here from the big 'KRP musical medicine cabinet. Now I am talking about your fifty thousand watt intensive care unit, babies! So just sit right down, relax, open your ears real wide and say, "Give it to me straight, Doctor, I can take it!"

  [Johnny starts Ted Nugent's "Queen of the Forest" on the record, flails his arms in the air in excitement, then sits in his chair grabbing the mic] 

  Dr. Johnny Fever : [putting on his sunglasses]  I almost forgot, fellow babies: "booger!"

• Andy Travis : Mrs. Carlson, rock and roll is where the money is.

  Lillian Carlson : How much money?

  Andy Travis : Well, I think we can break even the first year, the second year I think...

  Lillian Carlson : Second year? I'm talking about now!

  Andy Travis : Well, these things take time, ma'am. We break even the first year, the second year we clear maybe eight hundred thousand after taxes...

  Lillian Carlson : Too little and too late!

  Arthur Carlson : Too little? Mama, that eight hundred thousand is *profits*, not losses!

  Lillian Carlson : I can sell the station for five times that amount right now! I want a faster turnaround!

  Andy Travis : Ma'am, well, I hate to say it, but I... I personally cannot work that way. I guess I am fired.

  Arthur Carlson : No, wait a minute! Mama look, you've been on my back for years to turn a profit here. Now when I'm finally getting started, you want to dump the station! Let me tell you something, if he goes, I go!

  Lillian Carlson : What?

  Arthur Carlson : That's what I said!

  Lillian Carlson : Arthur, you've never spoken to me that way before!

  Arthur Carlson : Yeah, well. Uh, do you like it?

  Lillian Carlson : I hate it! But it's the first time I've seen any sign of backbone in you.

• Johnny Caravella : [about the station format]  What do you got in mind?

  Andy Travis : [as he rolls out a poster of the band, Kiss]  Oh, I dunno. I haven't... quite decided yet.

  Johnny Caravella : [sits up and takes notice]  Listen, uh, do you know about Carlson's mother?

  Andy Travis : Uh-huh.

  Johnny Caravella : "Uh-huh"? You're gonna love it in Amarillo.

• Andy Travis : Now, you have this thing you call "Eyewitness Weather". What is that?

  Les Nessman : Well, I just look out the window and witness the weather.

  Andy Travis : Uh-huh. And what about this station's traffic helicopter?

  Les Nessman : We don't have one.

  Andy Travis : So why do we have helicopter reports?

  Les Nessman : Well that's just me. See, I just get on the air and do this...

  Les Nessman : [standing at attention, beating his chest to make propeller sounds]  "The traffic today is light to heavy..."

• Lillian Carlson : Mr. Travis, are you responsible for the strange sounds I heard emanating from my radio this morning?

  Andy Travis : I am.

  Lillian Carlson : Well, explain yourself!

  Andy Travis : Well, I *like* the sounds you heard this morning.

  Lillian Carlson : Young man, this radio station is a business. It is not here for your personal listening pleasure.

• Andy Travis : Sunshine. Haven't I heard of you?

  Johnny Caravella : You're not a cop, are ya?

  Andy Travis : [shakes his head]  Johnny Sunshine... Johnny Sunshine! I remember, yeah! It was Los Angeles in the late 60s, Johnny Sunshine Boss Jack! You were uh, you were very hot, man.

  Johnny Caravella : Yeah.

  Andy Travis : Something happened there though. Station fired you for some reason.

  Johnny Caravella : Well, I'll tell you something, baby. They all fire ya sooner or later.

  Andy Travis : Yeah, I know, but this was something that you uh, something you did.

  Johnny Caravella : Yeah, well, we all do things, right?

  Andy Travis : Uh-huh. It was something that you said.

  Johnny Caravella : Yeah. "Booger."

  Andy Travis : What?

  Johnny Caravella : I used the word "booger" on the air.

  Andy Travis : That's right!

  Johnny Caravella : Yeah. I was making about a hundred grand a year out there. Then one day I said "booger," a bunch of bozos call the station, next thing I know I'm in Amarillo hosting a garden show.

• Arthur Carlson : [after Andy talks about possible changes at the station to make money]  These changes... they wouldn't necessitate the playing of rock 'n' roll music, would they.

  Andy Travis : Possibly.

  Arthur Carlson : [about Mother Carlson, after Andy leaves the office]  Dear God. She's gonna kill us all.

• Andy Travis : Where'd you go from there?

  Johnny Caravella : Denver. Boise. Fargo. It's all a blur to me. I tell you this, though, I never thought I'd end up at WKRP in Pittsb... Cincinnati?

  Andy Travis : Yeah, Cincinnati.

  Johnny Caravella : *This* is rock bottom!

• Jennifer Marlowe : Excuse me, Andy. I am swamped with phone calls out there about whatever Johnny is doing on the air.

  Andy Travis : Well, how many?

  Jennifer Marlowe : Three.

  Andy Travis : Well, you just do the best you can, okay?

  Jennifer Marlowe : Okay! Ah, listen, Andy, we've never had any calls before. If this pressure keeps up, I'm going to have to have more money.