Kissin' Cousins (1964)
Glenda Farrell: Ma Tatum
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Quotes
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Captain Robert Salbo : Madam, words fail me. Your culinary talents supersede the most exotic cuisine.
Ma Tatum : You don't like it.
Captain Robert Salbo : Oh, no, no, no, on the contrary...
Josh Morgan : He means he'd like some more, Ma.
Ma Tatum : Oh, that's good.
Pappy Tatum : Good! Good! I like to see a young fella who's a good eater.
Captain Robert Salbo : I must say, in all my travels, I never tasted anything quite like it.
Ma Tatum : You ain't never?
Captain Robert Salbo : Unh-uhnmm!
[meaning "No"]
Ma Tatum : Aw shucks, it ain't nothing but possum tails, owl gizzards, and grits fried in bear grease. And then that there gravy, that's just goat's milk with vulture eggs and mashed catfish eyes.
Pappy Tatum : The catfish eyes brings out the flavor of the possum tails.
[Capt. Salbo turns green]
Captain Robert Salbo : Excuse me. I think I forgot something in my jeep.
Pappy Tatum : Why did he leave in such a hurry? Did something just come up?
Josh Morgan : Not yet, Mr. Tatum, but I think it might.
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Ma Tatum : You look like you been drug through a mole hole backwards!
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Josh Morgan : You see, Pappy, the Government...
Pappy Tatum : Who's government?
Josh Morgan : Well, the United States Government - want to use the top of this mountain to build a I-C-B-M firing base.
Pappy Tatum : B-M?
Josh Morgan : Ballistic Missile.
Pappy Tatum : Oh, I see.
Josh Morgan : That's right, I-C-B-M.
Pappy Tatum : You-see-B-M? Well, I don't.
Ma Tatum : Me neither, Pappy. And I ain't so sure what I heared.
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Ma Tatum : Well, if that don't take the rag off the bush!
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Ma Tatum : Why look at you. That face would scare fate out of a tall thicket!
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Ma Tatum : Pappy, we got a surprise fer ya.
Pappy Tatum : I got enough surprises around here with all these the-the-these jezebels and these kittyhawks and these these government critters!
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Ma Tatum : That's a powerful hunk of money. Think of all the things we could git with that.
Selena Tatum : Just think, we could git one of them new fangled bathtubs and some purty dresses!
Azalea Tatum : And a new hot water heater. That creek gits mighty cold in wintertime.
Ma Tatum : Yeah, and maybe one of them electric light machines.
Pappy Tatum : Woah! Hold up there. The whole kit 'n' caboodle of ya. I can't think with you all babblin' at me! And not a peep outta you three!
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Ma Tatum : Bees above and black beatles! What's goin' on here?
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Ma Tatum : [singing] Chickens won't lay, all night the hounds bay, There's blues in the bees' honeycomb, Ev'rythang's diff'rent since you went away, Pappy, won't you please come home...
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Ma Tatum : You come on with me, Captain, and have some of my Mountain Maiden's Breath. That'll prick up your spirits!