Northern Exposure (TV Series)

Animals R Us (1991)

Darren E. Burrows: Ed Chigliak

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Ed Chigliak : [narrating his film]  People come to Cicely, and sometimes they go. Things are always the same in Cicely, but something new is always happening. You want to wake up each morning just to find out what will happen today.

• [first lines] 

  Ed Chigliak : [as a stray malamute enters Cicely]  Well, hello there, big fella. Well, what is it, boy?

  [the dog barks] 

  Ed Chigliak : Oh. Ruff to you too.

• Dr. Joel Fleischman : [about the dog Maggie has just met]  You asked the dog whether or not he was Rick?

  Maggie O'Connell : Well, yeah. I said, "If you're Rick, bark three times."

  Shelly Marie Tambo : Did he?

  Maggie O'Connell : Mm-hmm.

  Dr. Joel Fleischman : This dog is-is not Rick. People do not become dogs when they die. Dogs are dogs. People are people. That's it, end of story.

  Shelly Marie Tambo : He does sort of look like Rick, in a way.

  Dr. Joel Fleischman : Why are you people fostering this delusion? It's such a patently obvious pathology. She's displacing the guilt and grief she feels over the death of Rick... by anthropomorphizing a-a mutt.

  Chris Stevens : Well, Joel, you know, certain belief systems... still embrace the concept of reincarnation. Buddhism, Hindu, Chippewa.

  Shelly Marie Tambo : Hey, Ed, you're an Indian. Is this Rick?

  Ed Chigliak : Oh, I don't know, but if Rick was to come back as a dog, I think he'd be a terrier.

  Dr. Joel Fleischman : Okay, look. The dog is not Rick. - I'm stating categorically and in no uncertain terms as a scientist... and as a human being, no dog can come back to Earth and be Rick.