Richard Dreyfuss credited as playing...
Centipede
- Grasshopper: This is an outrage! You are a disgrace to your Phylum, Order, Class, Genus and Spe...
- Centipede: Say it in English!
- Grasshopper: You, sir, are an ass!
- Centipede: I've sailed all the five seas. From the land of Bora Bora to the icy shores of Tripoli. Commodore Centipede, they used to call me.
- Grasshopper: Seven.
- Centipede: Huh?
- Grasshopper: There are seven seas, and Tripoli is in the Sub-Tropics, Commodore!
- Centipede: Trim the sails!
- Ladybug: There are no sails.
- Centipede: Start the engines!
- Earthworm: There are no engines.
- Centipede: I can't work with this miserable crew!
- [James has discovered he has changed]
- James: It's like he said: Marvelous things will happen.
- Glowworm: Did he say, "Marvelous pigs in satin"?
- Grasshopper: No, dear lady.
- [He takes out a megaphone and speaks through it]
- Grasshopper: Marvelous things will happen.
- [to James]
- Grasshopper: Poor Glowworm, she's a little deaf.
- Earthworm: I, on the other hand, have exquisite hearing.
- Centipede: Oh, yeah? Well, listen to this...
- [He spits into his many hands and grabs the megaphone and yells into it]
- Centipede: LET'S GET OUTTA HERE!
- [in the darkness]
- Earthworm: [Centipede pinches him] Ow! What was that?
- Centipede: Sorry, I thought you were the spider.
- Grasshopper: [Miss Spider hits him] Ouch. What was *that*?
- Miss Spider: Excuse, I thought you were the Centipede.
- Centipede: We're not lost.
- Grasshopper: Then where are we?
- Centipede: Somewhere up north. Or, possibly, very far south.
- Grasshopper: What's your latitude? What's your longitude?
- Centipede: Hey, hey, hey! That's personal, bud!
- [the compass is lost during a storm]
- Grasshopper: We'll be blown off course!
- Centipede: We'll wind up in Jersey!
- [everyone is discussing how to get the peach to New York]
- James: We could... No, it's stupid.
- Grasshopper: Compared to what?
- James: Well, I suppose we could fly out.
- Centipede: He's right. It's stupid.
- Spider: We are in the middle of the, how do you say, the big puddle.
- Centipede: Biggest puddle of 'em all, angel fangs - the Atlantic Ocean.
- Old Green Grasshopper: Technically, the Pacific is the biggest.
- Centipede: Well, that goes without saying.
- [the centipede is being stretched out by the pirates; one approaches with an axe]
- Centipede: It's Paul Bunyan. He's come to cut me some slack. Hey, aiming a little low, aren't you, buddy? He's going to cut me in half!
- [on his experience of the world]
- Centipede: I did live between two pages of The National Geographic. Very informative magazine, the National Geographic. Lots of nice pictures.
- Miss Spider: No one will be eating you James.
- Centipede: Naw, she'll just puncture your head and suck out the brains.
- Miss Spider: That I am saving for you.
- The Grasshopper, Centipede: [to each other, after their fighting knocks the last of the food overboard] NOW look what you've done!