The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series)

Odd But True (1965)

Dick Van Dyke: Rob Petrie

Quotes 

• Laura Petrie : They got a picture.

  Rob Petrie : A picture? What of?

  Laura Petrie : The Liberty Bell.

  Rob Petrie : The famous one?

  Laura Petrie : A dead ringer.

• Millie Helper : [reading]  "In India, a prince has a tree in his backyard that cries."

  Laura Petrie : Well, that's ODD, I guess.

  Millie Helper : But TRUE.

  Rob Petrie : And sad. It's-it's hard to cheer up a tree.

• [last lines] 

  Rob Petrie : Well, Millie, we found an even better Odd But True.

  Millie Helper : Oh, another one? You DID? You're kidding. Can I share in it?

  Laura Petrie : Yeah. Yeah, you can, but Rob and I are gonna be the submitters.

  Millie Helper : Oh, I don't care, I don't care. What is it?

  Rob Petrie : Well, we found a woman right here in New Rochelle who nobody talked to for the rest of her life.

  Millie Helper : WOW! Who is she? Hey, where'd you find her? Did you tell them about her? Rob! Laura! Laura, why don't you answer me?

  [Millie realizes it's her] 

• Rob Petrie : Hi, gang.

  Sally Rogers : Well, there he is, the fabulous Mr. Freckle.

  Rob Petrie : No more back talk, please.

• Rob Petrie : [in regards to submitting his back to Odd But True]  You guys think I ought to do this?

  Buddy Sorrell : Gee, I'd do it, but my wife, Pickles, is kind of odd, but she's too odd to be true.

• Rob Petrie : Honey, you smeared my place of birth.

• [an applicant enters the Odd But True office claiming to have walked all the way from Buffalo, New York, on his hands] 

  Rob Petrie : You think he actually walked all the way.

  Laura Petrie : I don't know. I'd like to know how he opened the door.