Homicide: Life on the Street (TV Series)

Every Mother's Son (1995)

Richard Belzer: Detective John Munch

Quotes 

• [Munch and Lewis are talking about a historic building they plan to turn into a bar] 

  Penelope Smith-Haddon : Surely you can understand our desire to protect that history, especially in connection to George Washington.

  John Munch : George Washington?

  Penelope Smith-Haddon : George Washington... In 1793, he was traveling from Mount Vernon to Philadelphia. He stopped here.

  John Munch : He stopped here?

  Penelope Smith-Haddon : Of course, it was a residence at the time.

  Meldrick Lewis : George Washington slept here?

  Penelope Smith-Haddon : Well, no...

  John Munch : He had dinner?

  Penelope Smith-Haddon : No

  Meldrick Lewis : So what did he do here?

  Penelope Smith-Haddon : Apparently the President, just coming from a dinner party where he had consumed quite a bit of wine, was in something of a bind. He had no time to seek out a public chamber pot.

  John Munch : Are you telling us the reason we can't tear down the bathroom is that it's where George Washington once took a whizz?

  [Smith-Haddon, embarrassed, can only nod]