Johnny Carson: Self - Host, Floyd R. Turbo

Quotes 

• Sander Vanocur : Here we are, four years after the first oil embargo, and this country still doesn't have an energy policy - and it's disgraceful.

  Johnny Carson : Do you think they're gonna have one?

  Sander Vanocur : No.

  Johnny Carson : They can't go on forever; they're gonna be - they're in deep trouble now, and they're gonna...

  Sander Vanocur : That's the one thing that Washington is great at: Making things go on forever.

• Johnny Carson : [on sometimes finding the eight consecutive nights of "Roots" upsetting]  I tried to get away from it once. I turned over to watch The Jeffersons and, uh... they were watching Roots.

• Floyd R. Turbo : What right does Puerto Rico have to be a state? If anything, we should make Manhattan a state, too. It is an island, too, and has twice as many Puerto Ricans.

• Johnny Carson : Wouldn't you like to know that you descended from some prophet, uh, Biblical times, or some great philosopher or teacher, or early Egyptian comic - or early Jewish comic?

  Buddy Hackett : I like the part about the Egyptian comic.

  Johnny Carson : Oh, right - that's...

  Buddy Hackett : I want to see the laughs they get when the plague was on all the houses.