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Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Barbara Donaldson, Bonnie Henjum, Shemp Howard, Marjorie Jackson, and June Lebow in Blunder Boys (1955)

Quotes

Blunder Boys

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  • Moe: I'm Halliday.
  • [holds up his badge]
  • Larry: I'm Terriday.
  • [holds up his badge]
  • Shemp: I'm St. Patrick's Day!
  • [holds up a shamrock]
  • Moe: When we first started out, I never thought we'd be three fingers on the arm of the law
  • [holds up his index finger]
  • Moe: I'm the first finger.
  • Larry: [holds out his middle finger] I'm the second finger.
  • Shemp: [holds out his pinky, with a sad look on his face] I'm the hangnail!
  • Moe: Well, that Eel was slippery. We didn't get him, but we got the gate. By the way, I'm Halliday.
  • [holds out his pickaxe]
  • Larry: I'm Terriday.
  • [holds out his shovel]
  • Shemp: I'm Labor Day!
  • [holds out his shovel]
  • Larry: And with us now, everyday is Labor Day!
  • Moe: Right, so let's labor.
  • Alma Matter: I see you've decided to major in criminology.
  • Moe: That's right, ma'am. All we want is the facts, ma'am.
  • Shemp: We chose criminology because it's scientific.
  • Larry: Indeed! In a lexicon of crime, it is theoretically propounded that passion, inhibition, and delinquency are the major contributing factors.
  • Moe: Not to mention corruption of mind, detestations, and schizophrenia, if I may be so sesquipedalian.
  • Shemp: A jerk with a quirk may do the work. Or, a Turk with a dirk may stick a clerk.
  • Moe: I'm Halliday.
  • [holds up his badge]
  • Larry: I'm Terriday.
  • [holds up his badge]
  • Shemp: I'm Groundhog Day!
  • [holds up a package of pork sausage]
  • Moe: [pushes Shemp away] When we got out of the army, we decided to go to college. We were natural born detectives, so we took up the study of Criminology.
  • Moe: You guys prepare for 81C!
  • Larry, Shemp: Not that! Not 81C!
  • Moe: [extending both arms forward towards Larry and Shemp, with each hand holding out his eye-poking fingers] 81C! Go!
  • [Shemp and Larry have no choice, so they obey Moe's orders and each run into one of Moe's hands, eye-poking themselves]
  • Moe: I'm Halliday.
  • [holds up his badge]
  • Larry: I'm Terriday.
  • [holds up his badge]
  • Shemp: I'm Independence Day!
  • [holds a lit dynamite and waits for the explosion, it does nothing]
  • Shemp: Fooled ya, didn't I?
  • [Dynamite finally explodes off-screen]
  • Shemp: Fooled me, too!
  • [Moe walks over to Shemp and slaps him on the face, pushing him off-screen]
  • Moe: That Eel was a slippery one. We trailed to a room upstairs. We burst the door open and rushed in.

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