A BIG Building

Dr. Rumack: 'You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.'
Elaine Dickinson: 'A hospital? What is it?'
Dr. Rumack: 'It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.'

Temple, Hemphill, Jones, et al

Dr. Rumack: 'Can you fly this plane, and land it?'
Ted Striker: 'Surely you can't be serious.'
Dr. Rumack: 'I am serious - and don't call me Shirley.'

New Menu Choices

Dr. Rumack: 'What was it we had for dinner tonight?'
Elaine Dickinson: 'Well, we had a choice of steak or fish.'
Dr. Rumack: 'Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna.'

Idle Tower Chatter

'Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.' ~ Steve McCroskey
'I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.' ~ Dr. Rumack
'There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?' ~ Elaine Dickinson
'Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, it's just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.' ~ Rex Kramer
'Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.' ~ Steve McCroskey
'I know but this guy has no flying experience at all. He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air... yes, birds too.' ~ Controller
'Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?' ~ Captain Oveur
'The tower, the tower! Rapunzel, Rapunzel!' ~ Johnny
'It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit.' ~ Ted Striker
'Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.' ~ Steve McCroskey
'Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?' ~ Captain Oveur
'Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked, in the head, with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. Sorry, Ted, that's a dumb question - skip that.' ~ Rex Kramer
'This is WZAZ in Chicago, where disco lives forever.' ~ DJ
'I haven't felt this awful since we saw that Ronald Reagan film.' ~ Passenger
'Where did you get that dress, it's awful, and those shoes and that coat, jeeeeez!' ~ Johnny
'Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines' ~ Steve McCroskey
'Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home.' ~ Passenger
'Let's see - altitude: 21,000 feet. Speed: 520 knots. Level flight. Course: zero-niner-zero. Trim and mixture: wash, soak, rinse, spin.' ~ Ted Striker
'No - that's just what they'll be expecting us to do!' ~ Rex Kramer
'Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, Toto! It's a twister! It's a twister!' ~ Johnny
'Jim never vomits at home.' ~ Passenger
'It's coming right at us!' ~ Steve McCroskey

Can You Keep A Secret?

Dr. Rumack: 'Captain, how soon can you land?'
Captain Oveur: 'I can't tell.'
Dr. Rumack: 'You can tell me. I'm a doctor.'
Captain Oveur: 'No. I mean I'm just not sure.'
Dr. Rumack:'Well, can't you take a guess?'
Captain Oveur: 'Well, not for another two hours.'
Dr. Rumack: 'You can't take a guess for another two hours?'

Examine Your Zipper

Dr. Rumack: 'Well, I don't have anything to say, you've done the best you could. You really have, the best you could. You can't expect to win em all. But, I want to tell you something I've kept to myself through these years. I was in the war myself, medical corps. I was on late duty one night when they brought in a badly wounded pilot from one of the raids. He could barely talk. He looked at me and said, "The odds were against us up there, but we went in anyway, I'm glad, the Captain made the right decision." The pilot's name was George Zip.'
Ted Striker: 'George Zip said that?'
Dr. Rumack: 'The last thing he said to me, "Doc," he said, "some time when the crew is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to get out there and give it all they got and win just one for the Zipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Doc," he said, "but I won't smell too good, that's for sure."'
Ted Striker: 'Excuse me doc, I got a plane to land.'