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Eva Gabor, Joe Flynn, Jim Jordan, James MacDonald, Bob Newhart, and Geraldine Page in The Rescuers (1977)

Bob Newhart: Bernard

The Rescuers

Bob Newhart credited as playing...

Bernard

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  • [Orville has skidded face-first on the runway]
  • Bernard: Are... Are- are you hurt, sir?
  • Orville: Nope. One of my better landings, bud.
  • [passing through the zoo, Bernard is scared by a lion's roar]
  • Miss Bianca: What did you do to make him so mad?
  • Bernard: Nothing, he's just a... just a grumpy old lion.
  • Miss Bianca: Well, after all, waking him up in the middle of the night. Wouldn't you be grumpy too?
  • Penny: We - Hi. Where'd you come from?
  • Bernard: We found the bottle with-with your message, and we've come to rescue you.
  • Penny: Did you hear that, Teddy? Our bottle worked!
  • [looks confused]
  • Penny: Didn't you bring somebody big with you? Like the police?
  • Bernard: Uh, no. There's just, uh - the two of us.
  • Miss Bianca: But if the three of us work together and we have a little faith...
  • Penny: That's what Rufus said: "Faith makes things turn out right."
  • [after escaping Medusa and Snoops]
  • Bernard: Are you- Are you all right, dear?
  • Miss Bianca: Why, she- she tried to kill us. That, that, that terrible woman! Oh, if I was only a ten-foot mouse, I'd show her.
  • Bernard: [reading a pamphlet] Listen to this - it says here, 'Devil's Bayou is uncharted and hazardous. Each day's operations... '
  • Miss Bianca: [sleepy] Mmm, interesting.
  • Bernard: '... must be-'
  • Miss Bianca: Good night, dear.
  • [falls asleep on his shoulder]
  • Bernard: '... planned with care and... '
  • [he puts his arm around her]
  • Bernard: Good night, Bianca.
  • Miss Bianca: [watching Orville fly] Doesn't he fly beautifully? And you wanted to take the train, you fraidy cat.
  • Bernard: Fraidy cat? No, uh... it's just that I like trains. I mean, they serve Roquefort, and...
  • [Orville flies in too low]
  • Bernard: [gasp] Pull up, pull up!
  • [repeated line]
  • Bernard: Sure wish we'd taken the train!
  • [inside the cave, gurgling sounds are heard from a large hole]
  • Bernard: What-wh-wh-what was that?
  • Penny: That's where the water comes in. Oooh, I'm afraid to go over there.
  • Bernard: Well, if I were a pirate, that's just where I'd hide the Devil's Eye. Eh, I'll go over and- check it out.
  • [as Bernard approaches the hole, a loud gurgling sound emanates from it; he starts to back away]
  • Bernard: Come-
  • [clears throat]
  • Bernard: come to think of it, If I was a pirate, I wouldn't, I wouldn't hide anything back there.
  • Miss Bianca: Captain, you fly beautifully. It's just like being on a "roller scoater".
  • Bernard: He just went through a red light.
  • Miss Bianca: I do that all the time, darling. Now come on, stop worrying.
  • Bernard: [about the seat belts] Miss Bianca, make sure it's fastened good and tight.
  • Miss Bianca: I can't. It'll wrinkle my dress.
  • Bernard: [Bernard sees their flight should have left already] Flight leaves... 6:45. Oh, no. We missed the flight. Miss Bianca, if you hadn't...
  • Miss Bianca: Oh, come on. You worry too much. You know that flights are always late.
  • Orville: [Through radio communication] Albatross Flight Thirteen to Tower. Albatross 13.
  • Miss Bianca: Now, what did I tell you? We're lucky, Mr. Bernard.
  • Bernard: Luck? Flight 13? Maybe we'd better take the train.
  • Orville: [Through radio] Wake up! Dab-drat it, somebody answer down there! Get off the dime! Hello? Hello? Is anybody down there?
  • Bernard: [pulls down the microphone; answering] Uh, he-hello?
  • Orville: [Through radio] Where in 'Tucket you've been? Oh, you lazy knucklehead.
  • Bernard: [talking to the cygnet horn] Well, we just got here, sir. You see, my co-agent insisted on packing her, uh...
  • Orville: Look, bud. Am I clear to land? Traffic up here is thicker than--
  • [transport helicopter passes by Orville; Bernard blown back from the loud noise]
  • Orville: Hey, Wow-ow!
  • [radio warbling]
  • Orville: Dab-blast, you dirty road-hog! You crazy-- Look. What is the--
  • [Bernard turns up the volume]
  • Orville: YOU STUPID LUG-HEADED... HEAD-SO... SO...
  • Miss Bianca: Uh, oh, what did he say, Mr. Bernard?
  • Bernard: I wouldn't dare repeat it.
  • Miss Bianca: Well, then give him the permission to land.
  • Bernard: Uh, Captain? You, uh, you have our permission to land.
  • Orville: Well, it's about time, bud!
  • Miss Bianca: Well, why don't we take the shortcut through the zoo?
  • Bernard: I don't know... I mean it... could be risky.
  • Miss Bianca: Oh, come on. Remember our pledge? "Through storm and rain and dark of night - "
  • Bernard: [takes off his hat; water pools in it] "Never fail to do what's right." All right...
  • [flings the cap back on his head]
  • Bernard: Duty calls.
  • Orville: Say, bud, read the checklist to me.
  • Bernard: Uh, oh, yeah. "Goggles down."
  • Orville: [Adjusting goggles] Check.
  • Bernard: "Wing flaps down."
  • Orville: [Adjusting wings] Check.
  • Bernard: "Tail feathers."
  • Orville: [shaking tail] Double check.
  • Bernard: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
  • [looks apprehensive]
  • Orville: And here we go!
  • Bernard: It's - It's no use, Bianca. Maybe Rufus the cat was right. Wh-what can two little mice do?
  • Mice: [singing in the background as a flashback] R-E-S... Rescue Aid Society, heads held high, touch the sky, you mean everything to me...
  • Miss Bianca: But, Bernard, the Society's counting on us. We can't quit now. Oh, and that little girl. We just have to rescue her.
  • Mice: [singing continues] R-E-S-C-U-E Rescue Aid Society, heads held high, touch the sky, you mean everything to me...
  • Miss Bianca: Oh, look! The little girl's treasures!
  • Bernard: Boy, the things kids collect.
  • Penny: [working out a plan to trap the crocodiles, Nero and Brutus] See there? The elevator.
  • Miss Bianca: Oh, it's a perfect cage, Penny.
  • Bernard: Great idea. Now, uh, what - what can we use for bait?
  • Penny: Oh, they'll eat anything.
  • Penny: [doing an impression of Medusa] Brutus! Nero! Did you let that little brat escape again? You're too soft.
  • [swinging a broom]
  • Penny: Wap! Wap!
  • Bernard: [chuckles] Hey, Penny, that's not bad.
  • Miss Bianca: [laughs] That's exactly like Medusa.
  • Penny: [walks like Medusa and imitates her again] Track her down, boys. Bring her back.
  • Bernard: [Climbing the steps to board Orville] ... eleven, twelve... Oh no. There... there are thirteen steps on this ramp.
  • Bianca: [chuckles] Why don't you jump the last one?
  • Rufus: Mice!
  • Bernard, Miss Bianca: Cat!
  • Rufus: Now, look here, you two. If anyone found out that mice have moved in, I'd get kicked out, lose my job.
  • Miss Bianca: Oh, don't worry, Mr. Cat, we- we won't be here long.
  • Rufus: [while stretching his legs] Wh- I- I'm too old to be chasing mice.
  • Penny: [trying to start the swampmobile] Oh, please start.
  • Bernard: Advance the spark!
  • [the horn blares in his face]
  • Bernard: Not the horn, the spark lever. Digger, hold this.
  • [hands him cable]
  • Bernard: It's that doohickey on the steering wheel.
  • [Bianca pulls lever, Digger gets a big shock]

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