Jack Mercer: Popeye
Quotes
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Abu Hassan : [toying around] Look, look, look, see!
Popeye : Huh?
[With a laugh, Abu Hassan steals Popeye's belt]
Popeye : Hey, give me back me belt, I paid a good price for that!... Okay, watch this one. Abba-dabba-dabba!
[Popeye pulls out Abu Hassan's underwear]
Popeye : Abu Hassan got them anymore!
Abu Hassan : You want to make fool from me, eh?
Popeye : Ah, nature beat me to it!
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[Popeye carves an opening into Abu Hassan's hideout]
Popeye : It's a violation for not having no exit which you can go into...
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Abu Hassan : Oh, you little tough, eh?
Popeye : [flattered] I make a pretty good model, huh? Take me home for a dollar ninety-eight, for half the price. How good is that?
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[last lines]
[Popeye, Olive and Wimpy return all the stolen goods to the citadel, in a carriage driven by Abu Hassan and his forty thieves]
Popeye : I may be a shorty, but I licked the forty / I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!
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[crossing the desert]
Popeye : I wish there was a boardwalk on this beach. If I had some bread I'd make a sandwich if I had a which...
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Abu Hassan : Open sesame!
Popeye : [hidden, waiting for Abu Hassan] Open what?
[a secret door opens and Abu and his thieves go in]
Popeye : [rushing up] Wait for me! Wait for me!
Abu Hassan : Close sesame!
[the door shuts just as Popeye reaches it]
Popeye : I wonder what that word was he used when he opened this door? Open sissy! Open sayso! Ah, that can't be it.
[charges at the door, but it won't budge]
Popeye : It's givin' way, it's givin' way! No, that was me givin' way.
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[Abu Hassan traps Popeye in a chandelier]
Popeye : Whoa, I'm burning the candle at both ends!
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Popeye : [in a chandelier] Hey, what am I hanging around here for?
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[Popeye can't stand it anymore, and pulls out a can of spinach]
Popeye : Open, says me!
[the can magically opens]
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[flying a seaplane]
Popeye : Ceiling: zero! Visikibility: clearo!
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[after futilely searching for Abu Hassan all over the globe]
Popeye : Maybe we better try across the street...
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[arriving in town]
Popeye : [seeing a water pump] Water! Oh boy! Come on, I'll revise yez!
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Popeye : [looking at the foreign menu] Hey, what is this, double billing? I didn't send out any laundry. I can read reading, but I can't read writing. This writing is wrote rotten, if you happen to ask me...
Popeye : [to the waiter] Hey, this Chinese is Greek to me! Haven't you got something to eat?
[the waiter folds the menu into an English-reading version]
Popeye : Oh, that's better. Bring me some dessert without any sand in it, and some sandwiches there...
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Abu Hassan : Giddup horsy!
[charges at Popeye]
Popeye : [fists up] Come on!
Abu Hassan : Hat!
[steals Popeye's hat as he passes by him]
Popeye : [disoriented] There must be a gale wind blowing through here someplace...
Abu Hassan : Shirt!
[passes by Popeye again, and takes his shirt off him]
Popeye : Shirt?... SHIRT! Hey, gimme back me shirt! What's the big idea? Stop, in the name of the Coast Guard!
[grabs Abu Hassan, pulls him off his horse and gets back his hat and shirt]
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Popeye : [mounts a camel] Taxi! Taxi! Follow that Abracadabra Hassan guy over there! Come on, get going!
[the camel rises and begins a languid walk]
Popeye : You're way ahead of them! Attaboy! Show 'em your heels!... What's the matter with you, you sick or something?
[looks at the camel's feet]
Popeye : Hey, you got four flats! No wonder you can't run! Come on, there, camel cakes, step on it! Let's get going!
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[pumping a camel full of water]
Popeye : Boy, you eat up an awful lot of gas for only a two-cylinder!
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Popeye : Come on, the whole forty of you, I'll take you on one at a time!
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[Popeye is thrown down a well]
Popeye : Hey, what is this, a wishing well or something? I wish I was out of this place, that's what I wish...
[a shark appears and makes several leaps to bite Popeye]
Popeye : Whoa! It's just a little flounder... Whoa! It's just a little snapper... Whoa! Hey, if you love me, I'll bite your teeth out! Whoa!... Oh, yeah?
[sees the forty thieves laughing at him from above]
Popeye : Oh, boy, somebody's gonna be sorry for this!
[claps the shark's jaws shut]
Popeye : That'll hold you for a while!
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[Popeye eats spinach and rushes up the well]
Popeye : WATCH OUT!
[scatters Abu Hassan and the thieves]
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[the forty thieves attack in fives]
Popeye : [delivering punches] Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five, forty!
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Popeye : [after eating his spinach and escaping the wishing well, Abu Hassan orders the thieves to attack Popeye, which they start doing lined up single file] Oh yeah?
[Popeye removes the rope that was around him, then as the thieves come at him, he punches two, and trips one, repeating the process]
Popeye : One at a time! Line up! Get right in line here!
[Abu Hassan then runs at him]
Popeye : Hey, how'd you like to go for a little ride, huh? Here we go!
[Stops him with his feet, spins him around as if he was log-rolling him, then shoves him off]
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Popeye : [hiding in Abu Hassan's clothes] Here I am! Over here! Peekaboo! I see you!
[punches Hassan repeatedly]
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[Popeye is on patrol at a Coast Guard Station, with Olive and Wimpy keeping him company]
Olive Oyl : Popeye, come here, I've got a surprise!
[kisses him]
Popeye : [jolted] Left guard, right, front and center!
[Olive kisses him again]
Popeye : [jolted] As you were, attention, right side up!
Olive Oyl : Oooh, if you aren't just too-too...!
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[the forty thieves attack in twos]
Popeye : [delivering punches] Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty-six, twenty-eight, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-four, thirty-six, thirty-eight, forty!
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[looking at a waiter with a large turban]
Popeye : Honeywax, huh?
