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Tom Brown, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, and Florence Rice in Let's Get Tough! (1942)

Quotes

Let's Get Tough!

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  • Muggs: [watching a parade of troops march by] Okay, boys, we've seen enough. Come on.
  • Danny Connors: Why? Where're we going?
  • Muggs: We're gonna clean up on some Japs.
  • Officer 'Pops' Stevens: [ready to let the boys go but pointing to the vegetables stolen by Muggs] All right, only put that stuff back where you got it.
  • Muggs: That's Vitamins for Victory.
  • Navy Recruiter: You wanna join the Navy? What for?
  • Glimpy: We wanna share the ocean with Japan.
  • Navy Recruiter: You wanna do *what*?
  • Glimpy: We wanna share the ocean with Japan.
  • Navy Recruiter: What do you mean "with Japan?"
  • Glimpy: We'll take the top and give them the bottom.
  • Muggs: Somethin' smells.
  • Danny Connors: Yeah, and it ain't cherry blossoms.
  • Muggs: Whatever it is, we're gonna find out.
  • Scruno: You're sorta J.G., huh? Junior G-Men?
  • Danny Connors: Hey, now there's an idea. They won't let us enlist, so maybe we can help out like that.
  • Muggs: Good morning, Matsui. How's your health?
  • Mr. Matsui - Joe's Father: Very good. I trust that your honorable health is excellent, young man.
  • Muggs: My health is slowly depreciatin' and I'm very dishonorable, but I want to thank my venerable forefathers that I'm able and well to walk into your worthy tea shop on this sunny day.
  • [the East Side Kids discover the Black Dragon uniforms]
  • Muggs: Maybe they're just a bunch of actors rehearsing a play or something.
  • Glimpy: Naw, I think it's Japanese Halloween.
  • Glimpy: We wanna learn Yokohama to yodel the Star-Spangled Banner.
  • Recruiting Officer: You'll have to have proof of your age.
  • Muggs: Proof? Feel these bristles.
  • [rubs his chin on the back of the officer's hand]
  • Muggs: And I just shaved this mornin', too.
  • Fritz Heinbach: Democracies, they won't be here much longer.
  • Tojo - Joe's Assistant: You're a very brave young fellow with all your friends here.
  • Danny Connors: Yeah, go ahead. Step outside, fellas. I wanna take care of this.
  • Tojo - Joe's Assistant: Oh, no. I don't a wanna fight.
  • Muggs: Naw, not unless you've got ten to one on your side.
  • Glimpy: You talk like you was a General MacArthur.
  • Scruno: Bataan or Japan, that General will fight 'em to a stand still.
  • Danny Connors: Yeah, you're not kidding, so long as he's got help.
  • Muggs: He'll have plenty of help because we're joinin' the army.
  • Muggs: That toad from Tokyo, he can't do that to me. I'll murder him!
  • Scruno: Say, you guys sure this is Kino's store?
  • Glimpy: Sure, can't you smell the cherry scent?
  • Scruno: The only thing I ever did with a cent is spend it.
  • Muggs: All in one place?
  • Danny Connors: You gotta believe us.
  • Muggs: Eh, he wouldn't even believe Ripley.
  • Glimpy: What did I do now? You said you wanted to make a pyramid.
  • Muggs: You'll never make it, ya bunch of...
  • Glimpy: Well, I'm not an Egyptian!
  • Glimpy: [knocks a spy unconscious] You're one Risin' Sun that's not gonna rise.
  • Meeting Chairman: Seize those men!
  • Scruno: Not if I sees you first!
  • Muggs: Uh-oh, there goes Little Red Ridin' Hood. A beautiful piece of Hari-Kiri.
  • Glimpy: What do you mean Hari-Kiri? He committed suicide.
  • Muggs: The Japs don't ask you how old you are when they start droppin' those bombs on ya.
  • Recruiting Officer: Orders is orders. Tell that to the Marines.
  • [last lines]
  • Muggs: Awe, don't feel bad. We'll take you on your honeymoon. Come on, let's go! See you in Tokyo, Pops!
  • Scruno: I might be a Junior G, but I'm also an SBB.
  • Muggs: What is an SBB?
  • Scruno: A scared black boy!
  • Scruno: [at the top of a dark staircase after Muggs bribes him with a reward of loaded dice to be their point man] No, I ain't going down there first.
  • Muggs: Not even for the dice?
  • Scruno: Not even for fried chicken.
  • Glimpy: [after his mother throws them out for catching her stove on fire] Now look, fellas, don't mind my mother. She gets nervous over nuttin'.
  • Muggs: That's the most moiderous interpretation of music *I* ever hoid.
  • Muggs: Can't you ever learn no ethics?
  • Glimpy: Aw, can I help it if I'm touched?
  • Scruno: Man, we is in here, but we still ain't no where.
  • Muggs: [to Scruno, the only dark-skinned member of the gang] Just cuz YOU can't tell a little white lie is no reason why the rest of us can't.
  • Glimpy: Professor?
  • Music Master: Yeah.
  • Glimpy: Should I change my name to Misha?
  • Danny Connors: We wouldn't misha if ya did.
  • Music Master: Who said that?
  • Muggs: Come to our place sometime and we'll have a nice third degree picnic.

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