- [the nebbish hotel manager, complaining about the gang's behavior, gets mocked for his trouble]
- The Hotel Manager: Whyyyy, you young hoodlums, I'll call the police!
- Bob 'Moon' Mooney: You say one word to anyone and I'm gonna *moon* you.
- The Hotel Manager: You're gonna what?
- Bob 'Moon' Mooney: MOON YOU!
- Bob 'Moon' Mooney: You're the guy that's gonna make Eddie a big celebrity, ain'tcha? Like me, a big celebrity! Did ya read the morning papers this morning, Daddy, huh? Did ya? I'm in the morning papers, me! I killed that fat barkeep. They don't know I done it. But I'm gonna tell 'em I done it!
- Bayliss: Son, you don't know what you're doing!
- Bob 'Moon' Mooney: [leaning out of window] I killed that fat barkeep!
- [Television agent Harry Bayliss asks Eddy about how he learned to sing]
- Eddy Crane: Call that singin'? That was nuthin'.
- Iris: Eddy learned hisself ta sing, didn't cha, Eddy?
- Eddy Crane: Shut up, Iris.
- [Eddy brings his gang into Bayliss's office, where they meet with TV station manager Ray Morrissey]
- Iris: Are you the guy's who's gonna put Eddy on the TV?
- Mr. Ray Morrissey: Well, I don't know, miss. Eh, we came down to hear him sing. If he's anything like, uh...
- Iris: Oh, come *on*, pop! Eddy can sing rings around any of 'em! He can sing better than any of 'em -
- Eddy Crane: Shut up, Iris.
- Iris: But I just wanted -
- Eddy Crane: You hear what I said?
- [Moon and the gang want Eddy to party down, but the TV folks advise abstention]
- Helen Tracy: There'll be plenty of time to celebrate later on. You could catch cold or something.
- Iris: What're you, his mother?
- Helen Tracy: I didn't -
- Eddy Crane: Iris!
- [At the hotel, the gang parties, but Eddy is in a somber mood]
- Bob 'Moon' Mooney: ...the matter, man? Why don't you join the party? What's the matter, you afraid you might be catchin' a cold, man?
- Iris: Maybe you just wanna be with that freako nuthin' you've been makin' eyes with, huh?
- Eddy Crane: Get off my back, Iris. I'm thinkin'.