The Secret of my Success
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Vera Prescott: Why haven't I met you before?
Fred Melrose: Maybe you ain't been hangin' out in the mailroom.
Vera Prescott: Oooh, the "male room." I like that sound.

Brantley Foster: Please God, help me get out of this. I swear I'll go all over the world telling people not to screw the boss' wife.

Vera Prescott: I'm going to introduce you to the most powerful money men in New York, and if you can do to them what you've done to me.
Brantley Foster: I can't do that.
Vera Prescott: I mean bowl them over, darling! You're irresistible when you turn on that boyish charm.

Jean: I was having fun on this job! You had all this energy, and all these crazy ideas... and you kept taking your pants off.

Brantley Foster: Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water.

Vera: I've swam laps from here to the moon in that pool... do you see anything on this body that isn't firm?

Grace Foster: Take this. It's Uncle Howard's phone number in New York.
Brantley Foster: I've got an uncle in New York?
Grace Foster: My cousin Ellen married his half-sister's nephew, before she got bit by that dog and died.

Continuity mistake: When M.J. Fox enters the empty office and sits behind the desk, the phone rings, and he answers a grey phone. After a few cutaways, the phone has become black.

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Trivia: Kristy McNichol was the first choice for Christy Wills, but the studio fired her two weeks before filming began due to fears she might be difficult to work with due to her bipolar disorder.

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