The Rockford Files (TV Series)

Irving the Explainer (1977)

James Garner: Jim Rockford

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Quotes 

• Police Det. Dennis Becker : Stand over there, please. This is official department memoranda open only to department personnel.

  Jim Rockford : Boy, you talk about the Nazis around you and it rubs off!

• Jim Rockford : This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.

  Anonymous Woman : Hey, am I too late for those African goats? Haven't got the whole three hundred cash, but like I've got a lot of homemade cheese... Maybe we could work something out...?

• Jim Rockford : [Jim's helping Rocky bring in some groceries, and when they enter Rocky's house, there's a woman there, doing work]  Oh, hey, dad; I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you, this is Daphne Ishawahara. She's gonna help me out on this case. Daphne, this is my father, Jospeh Rockford.

  Daphne Ishawahara : Nice to meet you, Mr Rockford

  [Rocky looks at the big pin, yarn, and notecard- laden board, propped up on the kitchen pass-through counter] 

  Daphne Ishawahara : Oh, don't worry about this clutter, I'll pack it away each night.

  Jim Rockford : You know, I've been going 'tapioca' trying to sift through the mass of facts in this case. Remember Paul Macevoy at UCLA? I thought Daphne might help, you know. She's getting her doctorate in, uh, logic.

  Daphne Ishawahara : Frankly, Jim, I don't think we're facing a critical problem, here. What we have to do, is continue to isolate the extraneous factors, go back to the fundamentals of good investigation, and apply Occam's Razor.

  Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford : [Utterly confused]  What's that?

  Daphne Ishawahara : That's an empirical dictum. The dictum was postulated by William of Ockham, the British philosopher.

  Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford : You know, you're as good as those folks on those educational TV programs Of course, I never get to watch them, but, I would like to. - my antenna's down.

• Jim Rockford : [Jim runs into Karen Hall at what had been her childhood home. A realtor's showing the 2 around, and as he's explaining the space, Jim hustles Karen off to another room, where he talks in a hushed voice]  What I want to know is; where did you come up with that ridiculous alias? I mean, are you nuts? You're running around with a name that one of the biggest Nazis dreamed up for his summer home?