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Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, and Marion Martin in Merry Mavericks (1951)

Quotes

Merry Mavericks

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  • Shemp: Hey Moe, I don't like this.
  • Larry: Yeah. Suppose that old chief comes back looking for his head.
  • Moe: Cut it out. That spook stuff is all a lot of foolishness. What's the matter, you scared?
  • Larry: No, just apprehensive.
  • Moe: Oh.
  • [Moe flinches]
  • Moe: That's a mighty fancy word. What does that "apprehensive" mean?
  • Larry: It means you're scared, with a college education.
  • Moe: Oh. You're pretty smart.
  • Larry: Oh, yeah.
  • Moe: [holds out his hand] What's that?
  • Larry: That's a hand.
  • Moe: [balls his hand into a fist] Good. What's that?
  • Larry: That's a fist.
  • [Moe punches Shemp in the eye]
  • Moe: What was that?
  • Larry: A punch in the eye.
  • Moe: Right.
  • [Moe punches Larry in the eye]
  • Moe: How do you like that? "Wanted for vagrancy".
  • Shemp: What's vagrancy?
  • Larry: Boy, are you stupid. You take a flower, and it smells real nice, that's vagrancy.
  • Shemp: Ha ha. We can beat that rap.
  • Moe: You chowderhead. Vagrancy is when you're a hobo or a tramp.
  • Shemp: Uh-oh. We can't beat that one.
  • Moe: There's only one thing left to do.
  • Shemp, Larry: Yes?
  • Moe: We gotta pull up stakes...
  • Shemp, Larry: Yes?
  • Moe: Get out of town...
  • Larry: Yes?
  • Moe: And go to work.
  • Larry: No!
  • Shemp: Oh, you said a nasty word.
  • Pete: [reading the newspaper] "Law officers on the way. Famous Marshal and deputies expected soon to clean up town." Hey, boss, we'd better call off that bank job.
  • Red Morgan: No, we'll knock that job over before they get here.
  • [the Stooges enter; most of the bar patrons stand and leave in fear]
  • Moe: [to Shemp] I wish you'd get a new face. You scare people.
  • Shemp: All right, sister, get going or I'll knock your brains out.
  • Moe: Hey, is that a way to talk to a lady?
  • [Shemp politely removes his hat]
  • Shemp: All right, sister, get going or I'll knock your brains out.
  • Moe: That's better.
  • Larry: [Larry hears noises behind him while sleeping] Moe, is that you? If it ain't, don't answer.
  • Red Morgan: [Red and Gladys drags Larry into the room where Pete has captured Moe at gunpoint] Nice work, Pete, where's the other one?
  • Pete: I don't know. Maybe Shotgun's got him.
  • Red Morgan: That's all right. These boys will tell us what we want to know, won't you, boys?
  • Moe: Why should we?
  • Red Morgan: [Aims his gun at Moe] Because we'll fill you full of lead, if you don't. Now, where's the money?
  • Moe: I don't know.
  • Larry: Wait a minute...
  • Moe: We don't know!
  • Larry: But, Moe...
  • Moe: Shut up! These tin-heart outlaws ain't got the nerve to shoot. If they did kill us, they'd all hang. That would make things even.
  • Larry: [Fearfully] Don't sound very even to me.
  • Red Morgan: All right, you guys asked for it. Now you're going to get it.
  • Shemp: [Trying to get out of the costume Shotgun was wearing] Now I know how a frankfurter feels.
  • Mort: [Handing the keys to Al to unlock the bad guys from the cells] Hi, Al! What kept you?
  • Moe: [to one of the bad guys in disguise] Come on, you're blocking my light.

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