Memorable quotes from animated characters.

At the end of the Inspector short "That's No Lady, That's Notre Dame!" Sergeant Deux-Deux reports to the Commissioner that he has captured the purse snatcher. The Commissioner wants him in his office for a talk. The only problem is that Deux-Deux is disguised as a woman, and the Commissioner's very jealous wife has just seen all this. While she attacks the Commissioner in his office, Deux-Deux manages to safely duck out and remark "Boy, the Commissioner is sure having a hard time squaring his triangles."

Well, due to the success of the new "Godzilla" movie, I felt I just had to post quotes from some episodes of the first animated Godzilla series.

When the crew of the Calico sees a breeder beast loose in Washington, DC:

Carl: You were right, Quinn. It's heading for the Mint!

Quinn: This is something I wish I were wrong about.

And from another episode:

Carl: See if Godzooky's overhead.

Brock(spotting Godzooky on the roof of a bus): He's over about fifty heads.

"The Hole Idea" has a whammy of a classic ending line. Calvin Q. Calculus' shrew of a wife, Gertrude is nagging him out again, when he creates a portable hole and slips it near her so as she walks off, she falls into it. "My, that was a deep one!" remarks the little inventor. Suddenly, the devil himself pops out of the now blazing hole carrying Gertrude and pleads "Isn't it bad enough down there without her?"

How about these from "Yankee Doodle Bugs" that I never stop thinking about?:

Herald: But your Majesty, these are carpet tacks!

King George: Oh? Well, they're tea tacks now!

Here's one from Futurama, "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid."

Fry- "Don't listen to them, Leela. People said I was dumb, but I proved them!"

In the Legend of Korra Book One: Air--Episode Four: A Voice in the Night, Tenzin, Korra's airbending mentor, and the son of Aang has a little problem with one of his children at the banquet that has been thrown for Korra. "Meelo, No! That is not a toilet! Oh, dear." and hurriedly rushes off holding his head. What makes this even better, is we never do find out what Meelo did mistake for a toilet that day. Also, we never once see Meelo doing this--it all focuses on poor Tenzin's reaction to an off screen event.

Mae Questal (originally, I think, as Olive Oyl fighting off Bluto, but it also turns up in the Betty Boop short Betty's Lifeguard - inappropriately, since she is dreaming of being chased by a submarine dragon): "You keep your hands to you, that's what you are!"

Oh, well, as long as we're in the Popeye vein, I'll add one, from Popeye's adventures in Arabia. He and Olive are in a cafe, in Baghdad or thereabouts, and the two are given menus. Of course, the menus are in Arabic, to which Popeye mutters, "I didn't order any Chinese laundry. Hmm, this writin's written rotten." Naturally, Arabic script is cryptic to anyone schooled only in the Romanic alphabet.

Here's a good Olive quote rom "Nearly Weds:"

"Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. I shall pick this here beau."

I think I shall board the Popeye train.

Popeye: Hello Bluto, large weather we're having.
Bulto: Oh enormous, enormous, yes.

I'm not a huge Popeye fan--but there is one line that tickles me a bit from "Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo." "Come on, Olive. You've seen the wolf. Now we'll see the other animals."

Just to mix the pitches, I'll pull one from Disney Television, specifically Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers, the episode "Dale Beside Himself."

Two shape-shifting aliens mistake Dale for their comrade Ditz, and take him aboard their spacecraft. There, they leave Dale at the controls, where he delightedly goes haywire with them. Of course, the two aliens return to abate the damage, and send Dale to Ditz's quarters. Along the way, Dale ponders:

"What good are buttons in a spaceship if they don't let ya press 'em?"

Somewhere, an engineer is crying...

Yeah, I'm not big on Popeye either, but I really like the ad-libs they do.

Here's a quote from An Itch In Time.
Dog while dragging his rear on the floor: "Hey, I'd better cut this out, or I may get to like it!"

The LEGO Movie offers one from Lord Business, who calls for one of his prized alien artifacts:

"Bring me the Sword of Exact Zero."

Of course, it's an X-Acto knife blade, but in a world made entirely of LEGO's, such a piece would be rather mysterious.

In "The Three Little Pups" there is a scene in which the three pups are watching tv and the dogcatcher attempts to suck them out with a giant straw, but instead winds up swallowing the television. A couple of scenes later, the pups are watching the tv again--as if nothing had happened to it. Droopy remarks to the audience "Now don't ask us how we get the television set back."

How about what I consider one of the most memorable quotes of all? When Daffy sees the Forty Thieves' treasure, and later, a pearl inside an oyster, he totally loses it! "Down down down! Go go go ! Mine!"