Flip Wilson: I would like you to meet my special guest, a very fine actor and co-star of Star Trek, Mr. Leonard Nimoy.
FW: How are you doing, Leonard? (moving around Leonard, looking at Leonard's ears)
LN: Very well. (FW still looking at his ears on both sides of the head) May I help?
FW: No, no, Leonard, I'm just looking.
LN: At my ears.
FW: At your ears?
LN: At my ears.
FW: Why am I looking at your ears? (still looking at his ears) I am not interested in your ears. (still looking at his ears).
Say, Leonard what happened to the points?
LN: The points were put on merely for the character I play. My ears are not normally pointed.
FW: Ohhhh! You're just acting.
LN: Precisely.
FW: Uh! (FW is moving permanently while Leonard stand still, hardly moving) Because you are always in such total control, never show emotions. I like that.   
LN: I was merely acting. Actually I am a very emotional person.
FW: Yuh?
LN: Oh, yes. (Leonard is hardly moving a facial muscle). I often get very excited.
FW: Oh, yes, I guess right now you are pretty excited for being at the show, right?
LN (concentrates, waits a moment and still does not move a muscle): Yes.

FW: See, Leonard, doing that Mr. Spock character didn't (Flip Wilson indicates mental influence by circling his pointed finger at his forehead)... affect... you?
LN: No, why should it? You see a lesser mind might have been affected, but a logical mind distinguishes between reality and make-believe. The later, make-believe, is merely an escaping device that has no place in a rational thinking.

FW: (pausing)... Yeah, that was what I was going to say, Leonard. That's pretty obvious that he went further than the eighth degree. Leonard, now what you're going to tell me is: Even if you have all this great reserve in this role you still have all the emotion?
LN: Of course. (still standing like Spock with the arms behind his back and hardly moving at all) Emotions are part of the human make-up you can't just dismiss them.
FW: Oh! Right. Here's a sad story I like to tell you about a little old lady I know. She was almost 80 years old, she didn't have any money, every time she's got a pension she got mugged, she always gets mugged, If she gets her pension on the first, on the second, she is in hospital, she got mugged. The kids couldn't help her, they were gone doing mugging. You got any feeling?     
LN: Hmmm….  Continue.
FW: Let's see: The little old lady was beginning to feel forsaken. She had nothing to wear, nothing to eat, nowhere to go. And then one day when she staggered out into the road, she was hit by a truck, she went to stony lonesome.
LN: Hmmm… 
FW: What do you say?
LN: I find it logical. I'd say that such an unusual sight might cause a malfunction in the truck driver's powers of reasoning.
FW: What do you mean: Unusual sight?
LN: The sight of an old lady wandering in the rain, naked.

FW: Flip Wilson concentrates and wonders: Who said she was naked?
LN: You did say that she had nothing to wear. Therefore it is a logical assumption that she was naked.
FW: Well, Leonard, I didn't mean that she had noting on. She didn't have much on.
LN: Well, then you really should be much more specific. You see, I cannot analyze a situation unless I am in full possession of all of the facts. I assure you, Flip that I am a human being and if I hear an amusing anecdote I quite often give in to laughter.

FW (looking at Leonard's ears): I know one: It's about this truck driver driving this truck and he ran for this guy in the street. And he gets knocked off in the air, fifty feet. And a policeman saw it, and he gave the guy who was gotten hit by the truck for leaving the scene in the act.
LN: Gives a dry laugh
FW (hopefully): You like that?
LN: I find that an amusing coincidence.
FW: I told you a joke, what do you mean: Coincidence?
LN: Well, the fact that you should know two people that are involved in an accident with the same truck driver.
FW: Leonard, this is ridiculous.

LN: I am sorry if my display of emotion disturbed you, Flip. I sometimes do get carried away.
FW: Carried away, (obviously getting an idea) yes! You mean that there are people who transport you elsewhere?
LN: No, no, no, no. I was not providing... I didn't mean that in the literal sense.
FW: Oh, then you should be more specific. You see, I cannot make a logical presumption unless I am in full possession of all of the facts.

LN (taking a deep breath)
FW: Leonard, you must understand, it is impossible to interpret a precise meaning of an idiomatic expression when the use if imponderables is employed.

LN: I see. I see. You are making fun of me.

FW: No! No!

LN: Denigrating my syntax. Is that it? In your tautological way you are putting me on, is that it? (Getting agitated and annoyed). Is that the way you are treating guests on your show? 
FW: No, I'm...

LN: I am surprised! (very angry) you bring a person here, you warm them up with you sly words (very, very angry!) and then you (grabbing Flip at his sweater's collar)

FW: No, I...
LN: make fun of them, giving them the singles.
(Leonard is shaking and strangling Flip) Who do you think I am?

FW (Leonard still holds him at his sweater's collar): I am trying to show this people that you are a very warm, emotional, sensitive person. I am trying to convey to them that you are my friend, Leonard. (still in Leonard's grip) Now, let go my collar and give me five.

LN: All right! 
They give each other five, bump their elbows at each other and bump each other at the hips – sequence which looks as if it is always ceremonially repeated when they meet.
Again Flip Wilson looks at Leonard's ears.

Leonard remains cool and applies the Vulcan Neck Pinch.

Flip Wilson (unconsciously) goes down.