Pete's Dragon (1977)

Charles Tyner: Merle

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• Merle : [the Gogans have returned and want to take Pete away from Nora]  Okay lady, we're gonna take him whether you like it or not. Right boys?

  Grover : Right, Pa. Willie, you grab onto Pete, while I hold onto her.

  Willie : You grab Pete, I wanna hold her.

  Grover : I wanna hold her!

  Willie : I'm gonna hold her!

  [Willie and Grover push each other] 

  Merle : [separates them]  Alright, I'll settle this: You two grab the brat, I'LL hold her.

  Lena Gogan : If you think you're gonna hold her, like my boys wanna hold her, you're gonna be holdin' your head, ya understand?

• Merle : Say, have you seen anything of a mean, fresh, kid, about ye big? Answers to the name of Pete.

  Hoagy : Half of the kids here in this town answer to Pete. Other half don't answer.

• Pete : Where's Elliott?

  Lena Gogan : [comes out of the closet behind him and grabs him and messes up his hair]  Nowhere! Your hokey pokey dragon is out helpin' Santa Claus pull his sled! Boys!

  Pete : Let me go!

  [Willie and Grover lift him up by his legs and Pete pounds on them and tries to get free] 

  Lena Gogan : Now you're never gonna get away again! We're gonna put chains on ya when you're workin'!

  Merle : And when you're not workin'.

  Willie : And when you're sleepin'!

• Nora : [singing]  Watch out, or I'll take you apart!

  Lena Gogan , Willie , Grover , Merle : [singing]  We'd like to see you try it!

• Merle : We done had our bath in May.

• [first lines] 

  Grover : Petey.

  Merle : Where'd he go?

  [when Elliott was flying up with Pete] 

  Merle : He must have went that-a-way. Oh, Petey...

  [Owl Hooting] 

  Merle : I'll wring his neck!

  Grover : Petey!

  Grover : Petey.

  [Hooting Continues] 

  Pete : [Whispering]  Elliott, put me down.

  Willie : Now, where is he?

  Merle : Look around.

  Lena Gogan : SPREAD OUT!

• Merle : knock it off you polecats fighting it out while that kid keeps getting fuirther away