TV Quote of the Day (‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ As Ted Protests His On-Air Embarrassment)

Ted Baxter [played by Ted Knight]: “Why are you giving a fifty-dollar-a-week raise to someone who told me to shut up on the air?”

Lou Grant [played by Edward Asner]: “It's all I could afford, Ted.” —The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 3, Episode 1, “The Good-Time News,” original air date Sept. 16, 1972, teleplay by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, directed by Hal Cooper