Mertons Quotes in The Barefoot Executive (1971)

[Mertons has been repeatedly wheezing, hiccuping, and wheezing again since he and Wilbanks had been stranded on the ledge]

Francis X. Wilbanks: Stop the wheezing, will you? Please stop the wheezing! First you wheeze, then you hiccup, then you wheeze again! You're enough to drive anybody nuts!

Mertons: Oh, I am, am I?

Francis X. Wilbanks: Yes!

Mertons: Well, you're my boss. Maybe I shouldn't say this, but you've been complaining ever since we've been up here. If you don't like the way I wheeze and hiccup, why don't you go find your own ledge to stand on?

[Wheezes again]

Francis X. Wilbanks: What?

[a helicopter is approaching the stranded Wilbanks and Mertons]

Mertons: Maybe they're coming to rescue us.

Francis X. Wilbanks: They're not coming to rescue us. That's our news helicopter.

Mertons: You mean our own network is taking pictures of us?

Francis X. Wilbanks: That's exactly what I mean.