Clancy Street Boys (1943)

Leo Gorcey: Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis

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• Waiter : Yes, monsieur.

  Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : Uh, table.

  Waiter : Have you a reservation?

  Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : What do you think I am, an Indian?

• Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : [explaining how dark-skinned Scruno is a member of the family]  Oh, well, uh, he ain't really one of the family. We found him on the doorstep, so we adopted him.

  Pete Monahan : [chuckling]  Well, I... thought he looked like a stray from some other herd.

• Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : That's the corniest gag in the world. Had whiskers on it when I was going to kindergarten.

• Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : Just remember, my good man, never judge a book by its cover - unless you've read it.

• Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : Mustang? I use that in hot dogs every day. I could ride that mule all day.

• Pete Monahan : You know, I've got a good notion to take the whole caboodle of you back to the ranch in Texas with me.

  Scruno : In Texas?

  Pete Monahan : Yes, sir. Greatest place in the world. Got ten thousand head of cattle there. Just sold a thousand head to the army.

  Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : What do you do with the rest of the cow after you sell the head?

  Pete Monahan : [laughs uproariously]  Oh, ho, that's a good one!

  Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : It is?

• Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : Shut up or I'll smear your lipstick.

  Glimpy Freedhoff : Beast.

• Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : Well, dis is Muggsy's Uncle. Hey, not bad. Muggsy's Uncle, Charley's Aunt. Pretty good, huh? No?

• Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : Well, that takes care of the first part of the situation. The second part is a little more congestive.

  Glimpy Freedhoff : Yeah? Who we gotta fight now?

  Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : We don't gotta fight nobody. We gotta lick a delicate situation.

  Glimpy Freedhoff : Gee, I never fought one of them before.

  Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis : You don't fight 'em. You illuminate 'em by the process of inductions.