TV Quote of the Day (‘Maude,’ In Which She Praises a New ‘Hit Single’)

[Maude Findlay is alarmed as she comes into her living room to find daughter Carol dancing “The Hustle” with lecherous middle-aged married businessman Randy Cutler, who’s about to buy a store from Maude’s husband Walter.]

Maude Findlay [played by Bea Arthur] [turning off the record, picking up another one]: “Randy, Randy, I’m so sorry to interrupt, but you must hear the new album Walter just bought: “Charlton Heston and ‘The Ten Commandments.’ That's the one that has that hit single ‘Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery.’” —Maude, Season 4, Episode 12, “Walter’s Ethics,” original air date Dec. 1, 1975, teleplay by Arthur Marx and Bob Fisher, directed by Hal Cooper