- [the World Economic Council plan to catch the box top counterfeiter by looking for someone with a large number of box tops]
- Economist #1: Suppose it's just somebody who likes to hoard box tops?
- Economist #2: Nonsense, old boy. Who'd be stupid enough to hoard box tops?
- Narrator: A good question that, but the answer was ridiculously simple. For at that moment in the little town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota...
- Bullwinkle J. Moose: 63,821... 63,822...
- Rocket J. Squirrel: How you doing, Bullwinkle?
- Bullwinkle J. Moose: Oh, hi, Rocky. Just counting my box tops before I take them to the bank.
- Rocket J. Squirrel: [as the policemen are taking Bullwinkle to jail] You can't do that to my pal!
- Police Chief: Watch carefully.
- [Bullwinkle is placed in a jail cell]
- Rocket J. Squirrel: Gee, Bullwinkle, maybe they can.
- Policeman: [about Bullwinkle] What do you think, Chief?
- Police Chief: He's either a criminal mastermind or a stupid birdbrain.
- Bullwinkle J. Moose: Do I get a choice?