Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Champagne Bottles (1960)

Steve Raines: Jim Quince

Quotes 

• Wishbone : Go on, Mushy, you can have the first taste. Well?

  Mushy : It's real good, only it tastes terrible.

  Jim Quince : Here, let me try that.

  [after a swig, he spits it out] 

  Jim Quince : Darn stuff, break a man from the habit of drinking.

  Wishbone : Well, you two just ain't got the taste for champagne. That ain't champagne. That's bottle fire.

  [And he throws it towards the stream, Matt Holden's warning comes too late as there is an almighty, earthmoving, explosion] 

  Wishbone : STAMPEDE!

• Jim Quince : Tell me something. Just what is this champagne.

  Wishbone : Your ignorance astonishes me, Quince.

  Jim Quince : Well, all right. But what's champagne?

  Wishbone : Well, well, it's wine, that's what it is.

  Jim Quince : WINE? Then why don't they call it wine?

  Wishbone : Well, because it's champagne. Now what is it that YOU want?

  Mushy : I just wanted to ask you, what's champagne?