The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)

Alan King/Charles Nelson Reilly (1982)

Ed McMahon: Self - Announcer

Quotes 

• Ed McMahon : [after Carnac sits down at the desk]  I just thought to myself, you've been visiting us now for twenty years.

  Carnac the Magnificent : That is true.

  Ed McMahon : Wonderful when you come to visit us, it's always so enlightening for us. I hold in my hands, the envelopes. A child of four could see these envelopes are hermetically sealed. They've been kept in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch since noon today. NO one, knows the contents of these envelopes, but YOU, in your mystical and borderline divine way, will ascertain the answers to the questions having never before seen the question. Isn't that true, sir?

  Carnac the Magnificent : If Carnac has any time after that explanation, yes.

  [audience laughter] 

  Carnac the Magnificent : Seem to be padding your part.

  Ed McMahon : It's nice to tell 'em what you're going to do before you do it. Give them a rough idea, we're getting to the ore.

  [hands Carnac the first envelope] 

  Ed McMahon : Envelope number one. Hermetically sealed. Awaits.

  Carnac the Magnificent : Thank you.

  [takes the envelope] 

  Carnac the Magnificent : ... Are you finished? May I have silence, please.

  Ed McMahon : Sometimes...

  Carnac the Magnificent : [interrupting]  Especially from YOU.