The Dish (2000)
Patrick Warburton: Al Burnett
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Quotes
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Glenn Latham : Everything's fine.
Al Burnett : Except we lost Apollo 11!
Glenn Latham : Oh, except for that.
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Al Burnett : Are you telling me that NASA's prime receiving station has absolutely no idea where Apollo 11 is?
Glenn Latham : Yeah - it's on its way to the moon.
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Al Burnett : Not everyone at NASA is a hotshot college genius. The guy I most admire is from a one-horse town in Ohio.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : And what's he do?
Al Burnett : Tomorrow he's gonna walk on the moon.
Glenn Latham : ...Who's the guy?
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Cliff Buxton : Glenn, come here.
Glenn Latham : What?
Al Burnett : Every coordinate in this book has been changed.
Glenn Latham : Yeah... I changed them.
Al Burnett : You what?
Glenn Latham : I changed them.
Al Burnett : Why?
Glenn Latham : Because they were wrong.
Al Burnett : Why were they wrong?
Glenn Latham : Dunno.
Cliff Buxton : No, what about them was wrong?
Glenn Latham : Oh! Well, the figures NASA gave us were for the northern hemisphere... and we're in the southern hemisphere? I can change them back but then you'd be pointing in the wrong d...
Cliff Buxton : Glenn, it might be a good idea for you to tell us these things.
Glenn Latham : Oh, sure, I just didn't wanna worry you... Cuppa tea, Al?
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Al Burnett : The Ambassador's coming. Space nut. Knows everything about Apollo 11.
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell : Does he know where it is?
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Al Burnett : I stand corrected.
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell : No, you're WRONG!
Al Burnett : Do we have a problem?
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell : Yeah! You treat us like a pack of galahs!
Glenn Latham : That's a type of parrot.
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Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : [Al and Cliff return from the mayor's house] How was lunch?
Cliff Buxton : Actually, it was wonderful.
Al Burnett : I think we ate an entire sheep.
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Al Burnett : I can't believe what I just did! That's gotta be a felony! Impersonating a person in orbit!
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Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : You treat us like a pack of galahs!
Glenn Latham : [Al is nonplussed] That's a kind of parrot.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Just because I don't wear a tie and I don't spend all day with my head buried in a manual, that doesn't mean I'm a drongo!
Glenn Latham : That's a hopeless horse.
Al Burnett : Yeah, I get the idea, Glenn.