Will Ferrell credited as playing...
Ron Burgundy
- Wes Mantooth: With the things I've done in my life, oh, I know I'm going to burn in hell. So I sure as shit ain't afraid to burn here on earth.
- Ron Burgundy: Oh, my goodness! That's the most badass thing I've ever heard!
- Gary: Do you know what a psychiatrist is, Ron?
- Ron Burgundy: [pause... looks like he's going to cry] Fuck you...
- Freddie Shapp: You're on the 2 AM to 5 AM slot.
- Ron Burgundy: What? That's the graveyard shift!
- Brick Tamland: I ain't afraid of no ghost!
- Ron Burgundy: I'm not trying to be funny, but are you sure he's not a midget with a learning disability?
- Mack Tannen: What are you... Finnish?
- Ron Burgundy: Oddly enough I'm... hundred percent full-blown Mexican. From the state of Oaxaca.
- Veronica Corningstone: No, you're not, honey.
- Ron Burgundy: [shrugs]
- [At Madison Square Park, Ron runs into Jack Lime and his team]
- Ron Burgundy: [shocked] What the hell?
- Jack Lime: Well, hello, Ron. You out for a jog?
- Ron Burgundy: Jack Lime!
- [Parents and children scatter away]
- Ron Burgundy: Where's everyone going? Please, I don't have time to talk, okay? I have to be somewhere.
- Jack Lime: Well, that's funny. 'Cause I got nowhere to be because you pretty much destroyed my career. Do you realize what it did to me, by making myself call me "Jack Lame"?
- [yells]
- Jack Lime: It was a living hell!
- [panting]
- Ron Burgundy: I'm telling you, you have to let me go!
- Jack Lime: Oh, don't worry. Four against one. This'll be over fast.
- Brian Fantana: Maybe not so fast!
- [Champ, Brick, and Brian appear to the rescue]
- Ron Burgundy: My news team! Thank God!
- Champ Kind: Ain't a day that will be or has been that we don't Ron Burgundy's back.
- Jack Lime: Not a problem. When I done with these mutts, I gonna wipe my shoes on the curb.
- Brick Tamland: Oh, yeah, Jack Lime? When I'm done with you, my mom's gonna pick me up and take me home.
- Brick Tamland: I have a black man that follows me everywhere when it's sunny.
- Ron Burgundy: Actually, I think that's your shadow Brick.
- Brick Tamland: I call him Leon, he's about half as tall as I am, depending on what time of day it is. He likes to play the timpani, and he is a water color.
- Ron Burgundy: What happens to him when it gets cloudy outside?
- Brick Tamland: He goes home.
- Ron Burgundy: It doesn't matter whose fault the break-up was, I was stubborn, you were like a mentally ill whore from the 1800's.
- Ron Burgundy: Brick, what the hell is that?
- Brick Tamland: It's a gun from the future.
- MTV Host: No fair, he's got a gun from the future!
- Ron Burgundy: Where did you get it from?
- [Brick laughs]
- Mack Tannen: You guys got room in this battle for an old war horse?
- Ron Burgundy: Mack Tannen! What are you doing here? You're too old for this!
- Canadian Anchor: I had a crush on him when I was a schoolgirl.
- CBC News Anchor: You like it wrinkled, huh?