Kissin' Cousins (1964)

Glenda Farrell: Ma Tatum

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Quotes 

• Captain Robert Salbo : Madam, words fail me. Your culinary talents supersede the most exotic cuisine.

  Ma Tatum : You don't like it.

  Captain Robert Salbo : Oh, no, no, no, on the contrary...

  Josh Morgan : He means he'd like some more, Ma.

  Ma Tatum : Oh, that's good.

  Pappy Tatum : Good! Good! I like to see a young fella who's a good eater.

  Captain Robert Salbo : I must say, in all my travels, I never tasted anything quite like it.

  Ma Tatum : You ain't never?

  Captain Robert Salbo : Unh-uhnmm!

  [meaning "No"] 

  Ma Tatum : Aw shucks, it ain't nothing but possum tails, owl gizzards, and grits fried in bear grease. And then that there gravy, that's just goat's milk with vulture eggs and mashed catfish eyes.

  Pappy Tatum : The catfish eyes brings out the flavor of the possum tails.

  [Capt. Salbo turns green] 

  Captain Robert Salbo : Excuse me. I think I forgot something in my jeep.

  Pappy Tatum : Why did he leave in such a hurry? Did something just come up?

  Josh Morgan : Not yet, Mr. Tatum, but I think it might.

• Ma Tatum : You look like you been drug through a mole hole backwards!

• Josh Morgan : You see, Pappy, the Government...

  Pappy Tatum : Who's government?

  Josh Morgan : Well, the United States Government - want to use the top of this mountain to build a I-C-B-M firing base.

  Pappy Tatum : B-M?

  Josh Morgan : Ballistic Missile.

  Pappy Tatum : Oh, I see.

  Josh Morgan : That's right, I-C-B-M.

  Pappy Tatum : You-see-B-M? Well, I don't.

  Ma Tatum : Me neither, Pappy. And I ain't so sure what I heared.

• Ma Tatum : Well, if that don't take the rag off the bush!

• Ma Tatum : Why look at you. That face would scare fate out of a tall thicket!

• Ma Tatum : Pappy, we got a surprise fer ya.

  Pappy Tatum : I got enough surprises around here with all these the-the-these jezebels and these kittyhawks and these these government critters!

• Ma Tatum : Any whoppin' to be done around here, I'm gonna do it and you're gonna git it Jodie Tatum!

  [flips Jodie to the ground] 

  Ma Tatum : Now, you go out there and eat with them pigs until you find your manners!

• Ma Tatum : That's a powerful hunk of money. Think of all the things we could git with that.

  Selena Tatum : Just think, we could git one of them new fangled bathtubs and some purty dresses!

  Azalea Tatum : And a new hot water heater. That creek gits mighty cold in wintertime.

  Ma Tatum : Yeah, and maybe one of them electric light machines.

  Pappy Tatum : Woah! Hold up there. The whole kit 'n' caboodle of ya. I can't think with you all babblin' at me! And not a peep outta you three!

• Ma Tatum : Bees above and black beatles! What's goin' on here?

• Ma Tatum : [singing]  Chickens won't lay, all night the hounds bay, There's blues in the bees' honeycomb, Ev'rythang's diff'rent since you went away, Pappy, won't you please come home...

• Ma Tatum : You come on with me, Captain, and have some of my Mountain Maiden's Breath. That'll prick up your spirits!