Northern Exposure (TV Series)

Animals R Us (1991)

John Corbett: Chris Stevens

Quotes 

• 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.