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Live-action series

  • When Henry first encounters Punky in an empty apartment and asks what she's doing there, Punky replies that she and her husband are looking for an apartment. Henry's You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! expression is great.
  • Punky trying to sneak past the guard at Fenster Hall. She makes a break for it until the guard blows his whistle. Punky turns around a runs back into her room without even breaking stride.
  • In "Perils of Punky", as the Native American chief was telling a story to the kids:
    Punky: What a sad story.
    Chief: (irritated) I'm not finished yet!
    Punky: Sorry.
  • The beginning of "The Metamorphosis"
    Punky: Um, Henry, there's something I sorta,' well, want to talk to you about.
    Henry: I'm all ears.
    Punky: I'm not exactly sure how to exactly put this. You won't get embarrassed?
    Henry: Me, embarrassed? Punky, you can talk to me about absolutely anything. Absolutely anything. Right?
    Punky: Right.
    Henry: So out with it.
    Punky: (gleeful) Henry, I'm getting boobs!
    (Henry drops his plates)
    Punky: Henry, are you all right?
    Henry: (flustered) Uh, n-n-no problem. I just dropped a few boobs...I mean plates!
    • From the same episode, Cherie using some kind of clam-shell exerciser to get her own chest to develop. In the end, she tries to fake it with balloons. Punky is fooled (or plays along) until one of the balloons pops.
  • In "Fight City Hall", Henry attempts to overcome his fear of public speaking by making a pitch for the possible development of a park during a city council meeting; unfortunately, Henry's nerves get the best of him while doing so, causing him to trip over his words and make his voice gradually get higher as he twists his hat, eventually suggesting to one city councilman that he put on a hat (as Henry found his lack of hair unnerving due to it making him look like a bald eagle), to which the councilman replies with an incredulous "What?!".

Animated series

  • "Pretty Ugly" has Punky impersonating Margaux at a fancy party because Glomer had turned Margaux's face into a glomley face. When Margaux finally discovers this and Punky finds out:
    Punky: (to Avery Bigelow, a kid whose dad is staging the party) Uh...will you excuse us, Avery? We have to...um...powder our noses.
    Allen: But I don't have to powder my nose!
    Punky: (smashing an hors d'ouvre on Allen's nose) Now you do!!"

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