Bowery Champs (1944)

Leo Gorcey: Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis

Quotes 

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Your authority supersedes my iniquity, but if that's the way you feel about it, if you ever get a promotion, we won't even put your picture in our paper.

• Jim Lindsay : Are you crazy?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Well, that's a mood question.

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Aw, quit your screamin'. The vibration will break your glasses.

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : For your personal edification I will embelch upon the details.

• Skinny : W... well, what're we gonna do?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Shhh. I'm dissolvin' a thought.

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : In the words of that great Chinese detective, "Would number one son please reflain from bleaking chain of thought, please?"

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Ain't you got no initiative?

  Glimpy McClusky : I got a middle initiative. Eh, Francis, my maiden name.

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : It's a good thing you guys didn't go along. It was cruel. We left just as Rigus Mortis came in.

  Glimpy McClusky : Yeah, and dhen his brudda came - Post Mortum.

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : I'd advise ya to melt your head and turn it in to the fat drive. Get a nickel a pound, you know? You could buy yourself a nice big lollipop.

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Oh, the futility of youth.

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Say, uh, how do you spell cata-strophy?

  Old Sports Writer : Can o' what?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Oh, you're so unintelligible. "Cata-strophy." A big thing, you know? Everybody gets moidered. Everybody's gettin' killed. "Cata-strophy."

  Old Sports Writer : Never heard of the animal.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Hey, Joe, you went as high as the fifth grade. Spell me "Cata-strophy," will ya?

  Newspaper Sports Writer : If you're referring to the word catastrophe, meaning a calamity of great magnitude from the Latin and Greek derivation...?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : I ain't interested in the Latins and the Greeks. I'm talkin' about a baseball game. Aw, forget it. I'll use mass-e-crate.

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Well, let's put an end to all these terminological and exactitudes. I'm goin' up to see Gypsy.

  Apartment Manager : I'm sorry. Miss Carmen isn't seeing ANYONE.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Oh, but she'll see me. It's very impulsive.

  Apartment Manager : I said I'm sorry. Miss Carmen is not seeing ANYONE.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Don't you think that you are being a little recalcitrant?

  Apartment Manager : Miss Carmen isn't seeing ANYONE.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : [heading for the exit]  I still think you're a very detractive young lady.