Second Childhood (1936)
Sidney Bracey: Hobson, the butler
Quotes
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Hobson, the butler : I hope the mistress is in a good humor this morning.
Maid : There's hardly a chance, she's always herself.
Grandma : [enters] I heard that.
Maid : Ah! Good morning.
Hobson, the butler : You're looking fine this morning, madam.
Grandma : Don't lie to me. I don't look fine and I don't feel fine. And as for the morning being good, it isn't over yet.
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Hobson, the butler : But the doctor says you've got to get well.
Grandma : I'll do no such thing, I'll stay sick as long as I like. Give it to me.
[chokes down her morning pill]
Grandma : Now, bring on the food.
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Grandma : [breaks her pill bottle with the boys' slingshot, the butler picks them up] Oh, never mind about them.
Hobson, the butler : Yes, but you'll get sick, madam.
Spanky : Grandma, those pills are a lot of baloney.
Alfalfa : You feel alright, don't you?
Grandma : I never felt better in my life.
Spanky : Well then get along without them.
Hobson, the butler : But you've got to have your pills, madam.
Grandma : You're dern right I have, bring me all my pills, bring me every pill in the house.
Hobson, the butler : Every pill?
Grandma : Scram!
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Hobson, the butler : [on the phone while Grandma's breaking her pill bottles with a slingshot] No, no doctor, don't bring pills, bring chloroform!
[she breaks the phone with the slingshot]
Hobson, the butler : Good-bye!
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Grandma : Who let all that sunshine in here?
Hobson, the butler : Sunshine is healthful, madam.
Grandma : Pull down the shades.
Maid : Yes, miss.
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Hobson, the butler : [brings all her bottles of pills] Here you are, madam.
Grandma : Fine, I'll take these, you line the others up on that table.
Hobson, the butler : But what does this mean, madam?
Grandma : This means war!
Hobson, the butler : War?
Grandma : Revolution!
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Hobson, the butler : Your medicine, madam.
Grandma : More pills?
Hobson, the butler : But this is just a capsule, madam.
Grandma : And what is a capsule but a pill disguised in cellophane?
