- Mom: He's too tense. His father was the same way. Why the day he died, that's the way I found him, at the kitchen table, still pointing at the burnt toast.
- Sgt. Vince Carter: You see that? You know what that is?
- Duke Slater: Your eye.
- Sgt. Vince Carter: Yeah, well what's it doing?
- Duke Slater: Well it looks like it's twiching.
- Sgt. Vince Carter: That's a symptom, Slater, a symptom.
- Duke Slater: Of what?
- Sgt. Vince Carter: Pyleitis. A disease cause by too much Gomer Pyle.
- Pvt. Gomer Pyle: I must have hit my head. I remember somebody bumpin' into me and remember thinkin' "I'm gonna hit my head." Then I musta hit my head 'cause that's all I remember up until right now.
- Sgt. Vince Carter: Don't say another word until you see my aeroplane up in the sky, Okay?
- Pvt. Gomer Pyle: Don't worry, Sergeant. I understand. I won't say another word. Why even if you was to ask me, I would...
- [Sgt. Carter clamps his hand over Gomer's mouth]