Red Buttons credited as playing...
Hoagy
- Dr. Terminus: I hate Pa - pa - Pastahazootie, or whatever the name of this town is.
- Hoagy: Quoddy.
- Dr. Terminus: Yeah. I don't want to cure anybody here. They all deserve to have whatever they have.
- Pete: I can't sell you Elliot. I don't own him.
- Hoagy: Well what did you do, rent him?
- Dr. Terminus: Well who owns him?
- Pete: Well, nobody, I guess. He just came to me. He only goes to those who need him.
- Dr. Terminus: *I* need him!
- Nora: Listen Doc, I don't know what you're up to but you better forget about this. He's not for sale.
- Dr. Terminus: [passing Pete's brush over to Nora] Nora, go paint your lighthouse. Pete, my boy, you're conversant with Elliot! Now talk to him. Tell him how much I need him! Look, deliver Elliot to me the fiver is yours, plus a bottle of my medicine that's guaranteed to bring on puberty two years ahead of time. And that's better than a dragon!
- Dr. Terminus: Why do I hear a bell ringing?
- Hoagy: School must be out.
- Dr. Terminus: It's too early, stupid.
- Hoagy: [trying to tell Dr. Terminus about seeing Elliott for the first time]
- [stutters scarily]
- Hoagy: El- El- Dra- Dra...
- Dr. Terminus: What is an "El- El-, Dra- Dra-"?
- Dr. Terminus: [explaining the plan to capture Elliott to Hoagy] Got it?
- Hoagy: Got it. What I don't got is, how are you gonna get that monster, that hideous beast, that nightmare sent by the devil to come here?
- Dr. Terminus: Easy, we get someone he knows to bring him here.
- Hoagy: Who'd be crazy enough to do that?
- [Dr. Terminus stares at Hoagy]
- Hoagy: [screams] NOOOOO! NOOOOOO!
- Dr. Terminus: He knows you, he trusts you!
- Hoagy: He scares me! He hates ME!
- Dr. Terminus: [learning of Elliot's existence] Do you think this kid Pete would sell it?
- Hoagy: Money talks.
- Dr. Terminus: First there's a dragon, now he tells me money talks. Will miracles never cease?
- Lampie: [as he and Hoagy enter Elliott's cave to hunt him down] No matter what you see in here, don't get scared.
- [Elliott overhears the men approach]
- Lampie: Hey, I might as well tell you straight off, you're gonna see a hideous monster.
- Hoagy: Oh, no.
- Lampie: Oh, yes. And it's big. Fifty feet of terror! Claws! Claws so sharp, they could tear a man to shreds.
- Elliott: [Gulps]
- Lampie: Eyes, evil eyes... that can see right through ya. And a tail that's so big and powerful, it could destroy the hull of a frigate! It can wipe out an entire crew... with one swish of his tail. Face... Face so terrible, it could turn a man to stone, a hero into a coward.
- [Elliott winces at every insult, the men tiptoe foward, and Elliott follows them unseen]
- Lampie: A flame so hot, it could roast a turkey! And a mouth so terrible, it could devour a man and...
- [Spits]
- Lampie: spit him 20 leagues.
- Hoagy: Stay close.