I am looking for the advice that Maverick got from his pappy.
It went something like:
Pappy always said to remember three things. Don't marry a redheaded woman.Don't draw on an inside straight. Don't ...(another piece of advice)
Is this quote familiar to anyone, or did I just dream it?
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Thanks.
I cant remember the third part of the quote. I can remember the episode it came from though. It's the one where Bret meets Sam for the first time and she uses the "According to Hoyle..." rules on him. In fact, I think the name of the episode is According to Hoyle. Next time I put it on, I'll write it down and post it here for you.
sharePappy's advice was "Never keep a kicker and never draw to an inside straight."
For those not familiar to poker, a "kicker" is usually a high card someone keeps when they have a pair. Lots of people keep a kicker when they have something like a pair of aces, kings, etc, and a single other face card. The hope is that they get 2 high pair. Your odds are much better to throw three cards and keep the pair. three low cards beats 2 high pair every time.
When I attended the University of Iowa in the late 1970's we watched Maverick every weeknight. It was on at 11:30 p.m. and we were poker playing fools. Thought we might pick up something or two, and the above advice is worth noting.
The best one, and one by which I've tried to live my live over the past 30 years after I suddenly "got it" later in life:
"You don't walk on the railroad track, you don't get hit by the train."It's primarily about responsibility, is all. share
Last night I was watching an old Maverick episode on The Good Life Channel in Brooklyn, N.Y. and the young lady who played Nora, Saundra Edwards was absolutely gorgeous. I know I must have had a crush on her in 1957, so I decided to look her up.
Anyway that led me to this page, and even though I don't drink here's a quote I remember from Maverick's pappy: "Don't cry over spilled milk, it could have been whiskey."
Nice to see that there are other fans out there.
I have a feeling that I may be the only person in his early 30's on this board, lol. I was raised with all the Maverick shows so I know when I saw the Mel Gibson movie, I got alot more out of it than my contemporaries. I tried to get my friends to watch it over the years, but they just dont seem to have an intrest in it. Lets be honest here, "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" is about one of the funniest things ever shown on TV. Every time I hear "I'm workin on it" I still lose it after seeing it a hundered times. Damn shame, they just dont make comedies like Maverick anymore. I at least have most of the orginal series on tape until the DVD's finaly come out. ^_^
sharekodai,
I'm right there with you!
I was lucky enough to catch "Maverick" in syndication while growing up and totally got hooked (I love "The Rockford Files" too).
Just rewatched Shady Deal, and you're right - it is a great episode!
They have confirmed the series will be comming out on DVD now. They even have a pic of the first season box. However, there is no release date as of yet and these things are normaly done in 6 month blocks. I'm guessing it wont be until the 4th quater or until 2007 until it gets a release. Instead WB gave us junk (IMHO), like F-Troop and Sugarfoot. If they had let Sony keep the rigts we would have had Maverick several years ago. They had already stamped the disc's, bade the boxes and were ready to add them to their release catalog. WB stepped in and asked to buy the home video rigts back from them and Sony agreed. We all lost on that deal. Well at least I have the WB 50'th anniversary collection on DVD to watch until the first season hits.
shareomygawd! I watched Maverick in the originals as a kid. It was my favorite show. James Garner was the coolest of the cool. Even though it's been almost 50 years since I saw it, when I read "I'm workin' on it," I got a clear memory of Bret sitting whittling (I believe it was a horse at the end) with his hat tilted back and the great delight of how it worked out. An icon of my childhood, a beacon of taking care of business the Zen way. (Of course as an 8 or 9 year old I had no clue what "Zen" was, but I'm sure watching Bret deal with his situations was formative.) When they introduced Jack Kelly as Bart, he JUST DID'T HAVE "IT"! I see he was in the show in the first year, but I seem to remember he wasn't there from the beginning.
shareI agree, "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" is one of the greatest hours ever produced for TV. While I always crack up at Bret's "I'm working on it", the best part of the episode is at the end when after John Dehner's character has been conned, and you see him piecing it all together in his head, and the line "He did it."
And don't forget....If you can't trust your banker, who can you trust?
I've posted this question elsewhere, and gotten no satisfaction. Has anyone ever collected ALL the Pappy Maverick quotes together for distribution or sale?
Is there any way to let the (producers / owners / copyright holders) know that if they did put out such a volume, there would probably be a market for it? Just wondering.
"Selling your soul is one thing, but your copyrights? How COULD you?!!"
-- Melinda Dillon to Willie Nelson in 'Songwriter'
cmvgor, aka flickerfan
There was an episode guide that was released around the time the Mel Gibson movie came out that listed the pappy-isms for each episode.
share ED ROBERTSON,IN HIS BOOK MAVERICK:LEGEND OF THE WEST LISTED THE PAPPYISMS
FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL EPISODE.
To: billard1234;
My ETERNAL gratitude. May you oneday draw a royal flush in a no-limits game with a table full of whales!
Regards,
cmvgor
"A man does what he has to do-if he can't get out of it. - Bret Maverick's Pappy
I would say it is not about responsibility, but about NOT BEING STUPID, sticking your head out for no good reason, asking for trouble.
shareI was watching "Last Wire From Stop Gap" when I heard a Pappyism that I liked:
"All men are equal before the law, but what kind of odds are those?"
"He who fights and runs away, lives to run away another day."
share"He who fights and runs away, lives to run away another day."
Which Mel Gibson delightfully screws up quoting it to HIS pappy,who really is an older Bret, at the end of the movie in the steam baths. Watch Garner push back his hat a la Bret and THEN shave off his mustache. He ain't Beauregard,he's BRET.
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Domination Is Your Goal."
I heard that quote on one of the old Maverick episodes on the Encore Western channel. The ending of the Maverick movie, two guys winding down in a bathhouse, is very reminiscent of the ending of the film Cowboy starring Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon.
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