TV Quote of the Day (‘The Munsters,’ With Grandpa Interrupted on a Crucial Project)

Herman Munster [played by Fred Gwynne]: [shouting] “Grandpa, chow time!”

Grandpa [played by Al Lewis]: [shouts back over the noise of his machinery] “Just start without me. I'm inventing a machine that's going to achieve world peace!”

Lily Munster [played by Yvonne De Carlo]: “We're having broiled shark and tossed centipede salad.”

Grandpa [to himself]: “Well, the world waited this long, it can wait a bit longer." —The Munsters, Season 2, Episode 17, “Just Another Pretty Face,” original air date Jan. 13, 1966, teleplay by Richard Baer, directed by Gene Reynolds

Quote of the Day (Comic Julie Kidd, on Cooking for Her Kids)

“I’m so busy I rarely have time to cook meals for my kids….When I call my kids for dinner, they run to the car.” —Stand-up comic Julie Kidd, Momalogue: A Journey Through a Single Mother's Hood (2009)

Quote of the Day (Oscar Wilde, on the Importance of a Good Dinner)

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives.”—Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance (1893)