The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

William Tracy: Pepi Katona

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• Doctor : Pardon me Mr. Katona? Precisely what position do you hold with Matuschek and Company?

  Pepi Katona : Well, I would describe myself as a contact man. I keep contact between Matuschek and Company and the customers... on a bicycle.

  Doctor : You mean, an errand boy?

  Pepi Katona : Doctor, did I call you a pill-peddler?

• Pepi Katona : [leaving Mr.Matuschek's room in hospital]  Well Doctor, I would say it's a nervous breakdown. What do you think?

  Doctor : It appears to be an acute epileptoid manifestation and a pan phobic melancholiac with indication of a neurasthenia cordus.

  Pepi Katona : Is that more expensive than a nervous breakdown?

• Pepi Katona : [on the phone]  Hello, Mrs. Matuschek... Yes, this is Pepi speaking... That's right... I didn't bring you that bottle of perfume? Well, you're never going to get it! What do you think of that? Your perfume days are over, Mrs. M... Yes, this is Pepi speaking... Oh, you want to speak to Mr. Matuschek? That's too bad. Just at the moment, he's up in a balloon with two blondes.

  [puts his hand over the mouthpiece] 

  Pepi Katona : Now, watch this!

  [lifts his hand] 

  Pepi Katona : You wouldn't like to speak, by any chance, to Mr. Vadas?

  [laughs, then hangs up] 

  Pepi Katona : That got her. Draw your own conclusions.