I Can Hardly Wait (1943)

Curly Howard: Curly

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Quotes 

• Curly : Wait a minute, wait a minute! You said you were gonna divide everything up equally!

  Moe : Oh, ungrateful, eh?

  Curly : Yeah!

  Moe : We get a half a slice of ham and a half an egg apiece. You get a whole bone and a whole eggshell, and you're squawkin'!

  Curly : I'm sorry, fellas... gee, you guys are swell to me.

• Curly : [noticing the door knob hanging off his tooth]  Oh!

  [picks it up] 

  Curly : Look at that tooth! It's a whoppah! And look at that root! You know if I belonged to the Elks, I'd wear this on my watch-chain... if I had a watch-chain.

  Moe : You pumpkin head! That's not your tooth, that's the door knob!

  Curly : Oh... no wonder my tooth still hurts - -

  [clutches his tooth in pain] 

  Curly : Ooh, my tooth!

• Curly : [Curly has pieces of plaster falling out of his mouth after trying to jerk his tooth out]  Hey fellas, ya got it!

  [laughs, pulls out another piece] 

  Curly : You got another one... you got em all! You got me bald headed in the mouth! Why you!

  [swings at Moe and Larry] 

• Moe : Clean this ham!

  Curly : I'll clean it when I'm ready!

  Moe : Are you ready?

  Curly : Yeah, I'm ready...

• Curly : Oh my tooth, it feels like there's gremlins grembling in it!

• Patient : What did you do before you became a dentist?

  Dr. Y. Tug : Why... uh... I-I was a butcher.

  Curly : [with his hat flying up in shock]  Nyaah-aaah-aaaah!

  [grabs his hat and pulls it back down] 

  Patient : As far as I'm concerned, you're *still* one.

• Curly : Oh, my poor tooth. Fix it.

  Moe : [to Larry]  Go get my fishing line.

  Curly : Is this gonna hoit?

  Moe : Of course not. I won't even feel it.

• Larry : [after a failed attempt to pull Curly's tooth]  This is not gonna work.

  Moe : I got a better idea. I've got it!

  Curly : Every time you got it, I get it.

• Curly : [singing]  She was bread in ol' Kentcky, but she's only a crumb up here. She's knock kneed and double-jointed with a cauliflower ear. Some day we shall be married, and if vegetables get to dear, I'll cut myself a nice big slice of her cauliflower ear! 'Cause that ain't Russian!

• Larry : [to Curly; who's blubbering over his toothache and walking around on the top bunk, keeping him and Moe awake]  BE QUIET AND GO TO SLEEP!

  Curly : How can I go to sleep with this tooth killing me?

  Moe : [wearily]  All right, come on down and we'll fix it.