It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! (1975 TV Movie)
David Wayne: Dr. Abner Sedgwick
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Quotes
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Lois Lane : Dr. Sedgwick - you of all people, a mad scientist!
Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Well, we all have our little quirks.
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Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Now, you may ask why do I want to obliterate Superman? In order to rule the world. You may ask, why do I want to rule the world? In order to obliterate Sweden. You may ask why I want to obliterate Sweden. For revenge! To pay those meatballs back for never having awarded me the Nobel Prize!
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Lois Lane : Oh, I was so disappointed that you didn't win the Nobel Prize last year.
Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Well, as we say in academia, you can't win them all.
Lois Lane : Oh, but you haven't won any!
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Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Metropolis is doomed. You know that new 20 million dollar death ray that we installed at the university last year to put down student uprisings?
Lois Lane : Gee no, I don't! But what about it?
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Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Superman has fallen into my trap. Soon he will face a ray so powerful that even on its shakedown test, it was capable of obliterating an internal revenue agent at a range of one thousand miles, and Superman will be only inches away!
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Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Max, I think I have found something I've always wanted.
Max Mencken : What?
Dr. Abner Sedgwick : My very own henchmen!
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Max Mencken : That jerk computer's wrong! Wrong!
Dr. Abner Sedgwick : The computer says it's never wrong.
[to the computer]
Max Mencken : You ever see 2001? You know what happens to smart alec computers?
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Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Oh, you're a sick, demented creature, Superman!
Superman : Demented?
Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Did it ever occur to you that that X-ray vision is just another word for voyeurism?
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Max Mencken : You said you'd worked out a plan to destroy Superman...
Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Max, Max, Max, good guys plan. Bad guys scheme!
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Max Mencken : Wow, who would have thought that kindly old Dr. Sedgwick was in reality a mad scientist?
Dr. Abner Sedgwick : That's strictly off the record, you understand.
Max Mencken : I won't print a thing.
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Dr. Abner Sedgwick : The way to destroy Superman is to have Superman destroy himself!
Max Mencken : You mean to say that Superman would destroy himself?
Dr. Abner Sedgwick : I mean to say that Superman would destroy himself.
Max Mencken : Ah, I see. You mean that Superman would destroy himself!
Dr. Abner Sedgwick : I mean that Superman WOULD destroy himself.
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Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Superman, you're nothing but a freak!
Superman : A freak? I'm a freak?
Dr. Abner Sedgwick : Well, this has been a very productive session.
Superman : I'm a freak. Oh no, I'm a freak!
