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Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Dizzy Detectives (1943)

Quotes

Dizzy Detectives

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  • Curly: I don't wanna be dead. There's no future in it!
  • Moe: Next time you handle a gun, shoot yourself in the head.
  • Curly: I'll make a note of it. How do you spell head?
  • Moe: B-O-N-E. head!
  • [he whacks him in the head with a gun and the gun bends]
  • Moe: What are you, cowards? I'll lead the way. Go ahead.
  • [Moe pushes Larry and Curly ahead of him]
  • Moe: Now, let me see. The door goes on the right.
  • [looking at his hands]
  • Moe: Right.
  • Curly: [stopping him] Wait a minute. The man said the door goes on the right.
  • [he points to his own right, Moe's left]
  • Moe: [holding up his fist] What's this?
  • Curly: A fist.
  • Moe: [bonking him on the head] Right or left?
  • [Curly thinks]
  • Moe: Oh, ignorant, eh?
  • [bonking him again]
  • Moe: Now, listen, grapehead. I'll explain it so even you can understand it. Now, here.
  • [moving Curly to his side]
  • Moe: Get over here. Now, when I say "go", we both point to the right. Go!
  • [they point in opposite directions]
  • Moe: Hey, porcupine. Come here. Point to the right for this chump, will you?
  • [Larry points to his right, which, based on his position, is in a different direction]
  • Curly: See?
  • Moe: [slapping them both] Get busy.
  • Moe: Where's your gun?
  • Curly: Gun? Oh! The landlady's baby was cryin', so I gave it to the baby to play with.
  • Moe: [whispering] It's that crook and he's wearin' a fur coat! Come on!
  • [the Stooges come up and Moe gets the gorilla's attention by kicking him in the butt. The Stooges all point their guns at the gorilla]
  • Moe: Stick 'em up, Ape Man! We gotcha covered!
  • [the gorilla destroys the Stooges' guns]
  • Moe: Hey, fellas! Look! No human is strong enough to bend a gun barrel like that!
  • Curly: It's real! A real chimmanypanzee!
  • Larry: That's no chimp, ya chump! That's a gorilla!
  • Curly: That ox can't call me a monkey!
  • Moe: Shut up you baboon!
  • [Curly sticks his tongue at Moe while Moe puts a clothespin on his tongue]
  • Larry: Hey, you only fell 14 feet! Why are ya getting sore?
  • Moe: [Pretending to be surprised] Is that all it was?
  • Larry: Yeah!
  • Moe: Get the tools.
  • Larry: What tools?
  • Moe: [grabbing him by the hair] The tools we've been using for the last ten years.
  • Larry: Oh, those tools.
  • Curly: [getting punched repeatedly] Wait a minute! This is gettin' monotonous!
  • Crook: Oh, monotonous, eh?
  • Curly: [getting punched in the stomach] Ooh! Ooh! That's different.
  • [flexing his left bicep]
  • Curly: You see that?
  • Crook: Yeah.
  • [Curly punches the crook with a sharp right-hand uppercut]
  • Larry: That Dill sure had to cheapen the pickle.
  • Curly: I'd like to get that ape-man by the throat. I'd tear his ears off, I'd...
  • [pantomiming an eye-poking]
  • Curly: ...gouge his eyes out.
  • Moe: Shut up, Tarzan. You're all wet.
  • Curly: [waving him off] Mmm!
  • [he puts on his hat, unaware of a glass of water inside, which spills all over him]
  • Curly: How did you know?
  • Police Detective: The inspector wants to see you down at headquarters.
  • Moe, Larry, Curly: [pointing at each other] I didn't do it, he did it.
  • Larry: I saw him.
  • Curly: I'll be a witness. He had the money right in his hand.
  • Police Detective: Relax, you're not under arrest. The inspector has accepted your applications.
  • Larry: You mean we're gonna be on the police force?
  • Moe: Oh, boy. Free apples.
  • Curly: I'll be a manhunter! A bloodhound!
  • [he barks like a dog]
  • Curly: A woman, she screamed. She clawed me on the leg.
  • Larry: Is that bad?
  • Moe: Is she pretty? I mean, where is she? Come on, show her to us. Come on.
  • [Curly starts heading in the opposite direction]
  • Moe: [whistling at him] Where you going? Come on.
  • Curly: Oh, do I have to?
  • Mr. Dill: Now, look here, commissioner, you've got to catch that ape-man.
  • I. Doolittle - Police Commissioner: Just a minute, Mr. Dill. We're doing the best we can. As a matter of fact, we suspect he's not an ape-man but a real gorilla.
  • Mr. Dill: Real gorilla, bah! Look here, commissioner, you've got to catch that ape-man.
  • [he pounds the table; Curly, trying to eat a walnut, gets an idea and puts it nearby]
  • Mr. Dill: [stressing the last word, he crushes it open obliviously] And if you don't, as head of the Citizens' League, I'll have to demand your resignation!
  • [clearing it away, Curly lays three more in a row]
  • Mr. Dill: I don't wanna make you any trouble, my friend, but this thing has gone far enough.
  • [crushing them open in turn, again obliviously]
  • Mr. Dill: As a matter of fact, it's gone too far. And something's gotta be done!
  • I. Doolittle - Police Commissioner: But, Mr. Dill, give me a chance. We're trying. After all, policemen are only human beings. You know how the newspapers build these things up.
  • [throwing the walnuts away, Curly eats the shells]
  • Larry: What happened? What's wrong?
  • Curly: I'm dyin' and you start a quiz program!

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