TV Quote of the Day (‘One Day at a Time,’ As Schneider Confesses to a Rare Failure With Women)

Dwayne F. Schneider [played by Pat Harrington]: “You wanna hear unfair? How do you think a guy feels when he asks a girl out, and she tells him to get lost?”

Julie Cooper [played by Mackenzie Phillips]: “Oh, are you telling me that the great Schneider got kicked out on his...”

Schneider [interrupting] “Just once. Once. This gorgeous, young divorcée—whouh!—beautiful eyes... I asked her out, y'know. She told me to go peddle my papers. So, I got back on my bike and delivered the rest of my papers. I saw her a few years later, but by then I was a box-boy, and the spark was gone.”—One Day at a Time, Season 4, Episode 7, “The Dating Game,” original air date Nov. 13, 1978, teleplay by Gladys Christman, directed by Alan Rafkin