Louie De Palma

Louie De Palma is fictional character played by Danny DeVito on the American television sitcom Taxi from 1978 to 1982. Louie is the head dispatcher for the Sunshine Cab Company in Lower Manhattan. He spends the bulk of his time holding court inside the caged-in dispatch office at the garage and trading insults with the drivers. He not only has no morals to speak of, he positively revels in his misdeeds. Nothing is beneath him, from taking advantage of a drunken friend of his sometime-girlfriend Zena Sherman to gambling with a young boy to stealing from the company. He lives with his mother. On very rare occasions has helped his workers, as in the episode in which an arrogant hairstylist gives driver Elaine O'Connor Nardo a garish makeover just before a very important event and further humiliates her by stating he "didn't know how to do taxi drivers". It is Louie who bolsters her confidence to confront him.

Classic Louie:

Louie De Palma: I hope you don't mind me saying this, but your mother is a very attractive woman. She's got some nice bagonzas.
Kid: What are bagonzas?
Louie De Palma: How old are you?
Kid: Twelve.
Louie De Palma: Bagonzas are feet!