Dolly & Carol in Nashville (1979 TV Special)

Carol Burnett: Carol Burnett, Marcy

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Quotes 

• Dolly Parton : Hi, Carol.

  Carol Burnett : HELLO, Dolly! I have been waiting to say that!

• [singing] 

  Dolly Parton : You belong on a pedestal, up on a pedestal, way above all of the rest. You're a heavenly critter, and you're the pick of the litter, and you're better, much better than best! You're the blue-ribbon jelly, the finest pork belly, the girl that no guy can forget!

  Carol Burnett : Well, you talk awful perty, Miss Parton.

  Dolly Parton : I just speak the plain truth, Miss Burnett.

• Carol Burnett : You belong on a pedestal, up on a pedestal, one that is higher than high. You're the world's greatest story, the power, the glory, the apple of everyone's eye. You're the brilliant idea, the Ave Maria, you're all of Lucia's sextet. You are more than perfection, Miss Parton!

  Dolly Parton : Boy, I sure do sound grand, Miss Burnett!

• Carol Burnett : You're the dame with a might, you are everything right!

  Dolly Parton : You are sweetness and light...

  [with a sinister chuckle] 

  Carol Burnett : You wanna bet? You are full of baloney, Miss Parton.

  Dolly Parton : We are both full of bull, Miss Burnett!

• Carol Burnett : I know that everybody in Nashville picks an instrument - a guitar or a banjo or a fiddle - and I wanted to belong, so... I got this banjo, and I took lessons, and I practiced, and, uh... You just heard the results. I feel so... I don't know, inferior.

  Dolly Parton : Oh, Carol, you should feel inferior! I mean, you should, because you do realize that Nashville has the greatest pickers in all the world, and I feel inferior to them. I do, so it's alright.