Robert Hutton credited as playing...
Tommy Adams
- Capt. Cassidy: [Tom Adams has just been chided for mistaking a common seabird for an incoming bomber while he was on lookout watch; this forced the 'Copperfin' to make a needless emergency dive] That's all right, son. I'd rather submerge for one hundred birds, than NOT submerge for one plane.
- Tommy Adams: [Relieved] Thank you, sir.
- 'Cookie' Wainwright: [passing out Christmas presents, reading the labels] 'For Pills, the Pharmacist's Mate, a mournful knell; he dropped his vitamins down the periscope well!'
- [all hands laugh]
- 'Cookie' Wainwright: 'The new kid forward is wiser but sadder... since he stepped on the skipper coming down the ladder!'
- Tommy Adams: Hey, I apologized!
- [more laughter]
- 'Cookie' Wainwright: 'On Wolf's grave a wreath is laid, since he tangled his line with that chambermaid!'
- [more laughter as Wolf opens his present]
- Wolf: [pulling out a skimpy nightie] Aww, you shoulda had it filled!
- 'Cookie' Wainwright: 'All hands get ready to upchuck this dinner; with Cookie in the galley, we're gonna get thinner.'
- [pauses amid the laughter, acting offended]
- 'Cookie' Wainwright: Now listen! If that ain't a new high for gratitude... Who practically mothers all the guys on this ship? I do. Who bends over a hot stove all day long for you guys? I do. Who's gonna get all the glory when you sink a Jap ship? You, that's who! Who's gonna get all the medals out of this war? You guys! And what am I gonna get? Nothin' but varicose veins, and dishwatered hands! Yeah!
- Tommy Adams: You ever want to be a real doctor, Pills?
- Pills: Yeah... I was one of those college wise-guys who didn't know where he was going. Funny place to find out, on submarines.
- Tommy Adams: What college did you go to?
- Pills: California. Only a year. Then I signed up. I had an "A" in chemistry... so they made me a Pharmacists Mate.