Rookie Carroca Quotes in My Favorite Year (1982)

Alan Swann: Rookie, your Meatloaf Mindanao was superb!

Rookie Carroca: Thanks. That takes two days to prepare, you know.

Alan Swann: Really! Tell me, what was that rather pungent taste?

Rookie Carroca: Parrot!

[someone spits up and Aunt Sadie swoons; the parrot cage is empty]

Rookie Carroca: And they're not easy to work with. They put up some squawk.

Alan Swann: I can imagine!

Alan Swann: Are you still in the fight game?

Rookie Carroca: In a way. I married Benjy's mother.

Belle: Something to drink before dinner?

Swann: Some soda water.

Belle: [yelling into the kitchen] Rookie, a glass of seltzer!

Rookie Carroca: [yelling back] Pick it up!