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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

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The Little Shop of Horrors

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  • Fouch: Besides, I've got to get home. My wife's making gardenias for dinner.
  • [Seymour walks into the shop holding a bag with Dr. Farb's corpse in it]
  • Audrey Jr.: Feed me!
  • Seymour: Aw, take it easy, Dracula. What do you think I'm carrying here, my dirty laundry?
  • Sgt. Joe Fink: [voice-over] Now we were on the case. Officer Frank Stoolie and me. My name is Fink. Sergeant Joe Fink. I'm a Fink.
  • Mushnick: Oh, here are your carnations. Wait, I'll wrap them for you.
  • Fouch: No, that's all right, I'll eat 'em here.
  • Mushnick: It's a finger of speech!
  • Mushnick: All right, explain me more.
  • Fouch: Well, I remember one place that had a whole wall covered with poison ivy. Now, people came from miles around to look at that wall and they stayed to buy.
  • Mushnick: The owner got rich?
  • Fouch: No, he scratched himself to death in an insane asylum.
  • Mrs. Shiva: [gasps] That was my cousin Harry!
  • sign in flower shop: Lots Plants Cheap
  • Leonora Clyde: Speak for yourself, John.
  • [Seymour snaps out of his trance]
  • Seymour: My name is Seymour.
  • Leonora Clyde: [mockingly] My name is Seymour!
  • Seymour: That's my name, too!
  • Wilbur Force: [reading an article from "Pain" magazine in the waiting room of the dentist; giggling] The patient came to me with a large hole in his abdomen, caused by a fire poker used on him by his wife. He almost bled to death and gangrene had set in. I didn't give him much of a chance. There were other complications. The man had cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and a touch of the grippe. I decided to operate.
  • [Seymour is impersonating Dr. Farb to a new patient]
  • Wilbur Force: My name is Wilbur Force.
  • Seymour: Wilbur Force what?
  • Wilbur Force: Just Wilbur Force. My first name is Wilbur, my last name is Force. I don't have a middle name.
  • Seymour: Well, do you have an appointment, maybe?
  • Wilbur Force: No, but you were very highly recommended to me by one of your patients, a Mrs. S. Shiva. I do a lot of undertaking for her relatives.
  • Seymour: Well, as you can see I have a customer now. And I'm all booked up for the rest of the day, so you'll have to come back tomorrow.
  • Wilbur Force: Oh, I couldn't do that. I have three or four abscesses, I touch of pyorrhea, nine or ten cavities, I lost my pivot tooth, and I'm in terrible pain!
  • Seymour: Well I can't help you today.
  • Wilbur Force: Oh, that's all right. I'll just wait outside.
  • Fouch: My name is Burson Fouch.
  • Mushnick: Excellent. I am Gravis Mushnick.
  • Fouch: Oh, that's a good one.
  • Seymour: Don't waste your pity on me, Audrey. I'm not worth it.
  • Audrey: Who says you're not?
  • Seymour: Everybody.
  • Audrey: Yeah, I know.
  • Seymour: You mean I'm fired?
  • Mushnick: No, I'm electing you President from the United States! *Yes*, you are fired!
  • [shouting at Seymour, who has been singing off-camera]
  • Mushnick: Shut up from the back!
  • sign in flower shop: We don't LETTING YOU SPEND so much
  • [first lines]
  • Sgt. Joe Fink: [voiceover over a panning shot of a drawing of a sleazy neighbourhood] My name is Sergeant Joe Fink, working the 24-hour shift out of homicide. And this is my workshop. The part of town that everybody knows about, but that nobody wants to see - where the tragedies are deeper, the ecstasy's wilder and the crime rate consistently higher than anywhere else. Skid Row... my beat.
  • Wilbur Force: Now, no novocaine. It dulls the senses.
  • Sgt. Joe Fink: How's the wife, Frank?
  • Officer Frank Stoolie: Not bad, Joe.
  • Sgt. Joe Fink: Glad to hear it. The kids?
  • Officer Frank Stoolie: Lost one yesterday.
  • Sgt. Joe Fink: Lost one, eh? How'd that happen?
  • Officer Frank Stoolie: Playing with matches.
  • Sgt. Joe Fink: Well, those are the breaks.
  • Officer Frank Stoolie: Yeah, I guess so.
  • [repeated line]
  • Seymour: I didn't mean it!
  • Seymour: I didn't mean it.
  • Mushnick: You didn't mean it. You never mean it. You didn't mean it the time when you put up the bouquet with the 'get well' card in the funeral parlor, and sent the black lilies to the old lady in the hospital, you didn't mean it. But this time, I, Gravis Mushnick, mean it!
  • Fouch: [to Seymour] He means it.
  • Audrey: Why don't you give him a chance to resurrect himself?
  • Mushnick: I give him chance to quit!
  • Seymour: I ain't gonna quit!
  • Mushnick: You're a brave boy, you're fired.
  • [repeated line]
  • Audrey Jr.: Feed me!
  • Shirley: Well, we're from Cucamonga High School...
  • Shirley's Friend: ...and we're building a float...
  • Shirley: ...for the Rose Bowl Parade...
  • Shirley's Friend: ...which is made out of flowers...
  • Shirley: ...thousands of them...
  • Shirley's Friend: ...and we're on the commitee...
  • Shirley: ...that picks the florist...
  • Shirley's Friend: ...and then glues on the flowers.
  • [a patient has just ran out of Farb's office screaming]
  • Dr. Phoebus Farb: Seymour, Seymour, got a bad tooth, huh?
  • Seymour: [frightened; turns around to leave] No, I thought this was the men's room.
  • Dr. Phoebus Farb: Seymour, come back here, you bad dog, you, get in there!
  • [Farb grabs Seymour and pushes him into his office]
  • Seymour: This is gonna hurt you more than it is me.
  • Wilbur Force: Oh, goody, goody. Here it comes.
  • Audrey: Don't worry, you're gonna be another Luther Glendale.
  • Seymour: Pasadena.
  • Audrey: Burbank.
  • Mushnick: Bring me whisky, rum, wine, gin, bourbon...
  • Waitress: What?
  • Mushnick: ...scotch, rye, tequila, sake, Manischewitz...
  • Waitress: Did you bring the money?
  • Mushnick: Don't work me with the money. I've got to get drunk, now!
  • Fouch: Good night. And I'll see you tomorrow. I'm crazy about kosher flowers.
  • Leonora Clyde: What's the matter? Don't you like me?
  • Seymour: Too bony.
  • Leonora Clyde: Too bony? Nobody's ever told me that before.
  • Seymour: Beef is better than veal.
  • [she stands up]
  • Leonora Clyde: You're such a do-do! What do you call this, chopped liver?
  • [he pokes her side]
  • Seymour: Master would like more fat.
  • Audrey: [excited about the overnight growth of Audrey Jr] Isn't it empirical?
  • Mushnick: It grows like a cold sore from the lip.
  • [answering phone]
  • Mushnick: Flowers, fresh as the springtime, Mushnick's.
  • [repeated line]
  • Seymour: Oh boy!
  • Mrs. Shiva: Oh! Such a thing, eating flowers!
  • Fouch: Look, don't knock it 'til you try it, huh?
  • Sgt. Joe Fink: We just want to ask you a few questions.
  • Mushnick: I didn't do it.
  • Officer Frank Stoolie: Do what?
  • Mushnick: Whatever.
  • Audrey Jr.: I need some chow!
  • [after pulling out one of Seymour's teeth]
  • Dr. Phoebus Farb: Look at that! Would you look at that, Seymour? I didn't know you were an elk!
  • Seymour: Did you call me, Mr. Mushnick?
  • Mushnick: No, I was calling John D. Rockefeller for to make a loan on my Rolls Royce!
  • Seymour: Sorry I said it.
  • Audrey: I wish you'd break out and tell me.
  • Mushnick: All right, I'll tell you tomorrow right after I am telling the police.
  • Sgt. Joe Fink: [voice-over] But Mushnick didn't come to the police. If he had, that might have been the finish of the unhappy story. It was not.
  • Mushnick: Who... I mean... what did it eat this time?
  • Seymour: Uh... about a million Japanese beetles.
  • Mushnick: You have perhaps an explanation?
  • Seymour: No, but if you give me a minute I'll think of one.
  • Mushnick: Now that is what I call a salad. What do you call that salad?
  • Audrey: Caesarean.
  • Mrs. Hortense Feuchtwanger: I happen to represent the Society of Silent Flower Observers of Southern California.
  • [last lines]
  • Winifred: SEYMOUR?
  • Seymour: I didn't mean it!
  • Mrs. Shiva: I thought possibly because I give you all my funeral business, that maybe you should possibly give to me a little cut rate.
  • Mushnick: Look at me, Mrs. Shiva. What I, a philatelist?... To my throat I would be giving a cut.
  • Radio announcer: [as Seymour walks into his home] This is Radio KSIK. You've been listening to "Music for Old Invalids." Our next selection is entitled, "Sickroom Serenade."
  • Winifred: [reading a medicine botte label] If you get hit by a truck, call your physician.
  • Seymour: Look, Ma, I've gotta go. Can I bring you anything?
  • Winifred: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bring me the Evening News. They're running a self-diagnosis contest The winner gets to go the Mayo Clinic.
  • Audrey: I think you're a fine figurative of a man.
  • Mushnick: Girls, girls, girls, girls, girls. Please don't damage the horticulturist.
  • Seymour: It's this tooth, over here.
  • Dr. Phoebus Farb: Seymour, who's the dentist here, you or me?

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