Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Lionel Jeffries: Grandpa Potts

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Quotes 

• Caracticus Potts : How was India?

  Grandpa : India? I'll tell you something. I got up this morning and I shot an elephant in my pajamas.

  Caracticus Potts , Grandpa , Jemima , Jeremy : How he ever got in my pajamas, I shall never know.

  Grandpa : You've heard it before.

  [they all laugh] 

• Baron Bomburst : [talking over a comical-looking gramophone-style "morning-glory horn" loudspeaker that he lowers down to Grandpa Potts on a long scissor-link extension arm]  Good morning. Thiz is your captain speaking. We hope you had a pleasant trip. In a few moments we will be landing in Vulgaria.

  Grandpa : Where?

  Baron Bomburst : Vul-GARE-ee-ah.

  Grandpa : Oh.

  Baron Bomburst : So, please fasten your seatbelt, and no-o-o-o smoking. Thank you!

  [starts to raise the speaker back up again] 

  Grandpa : Thank YOU.

  Baron Bomburst : [obligingly lowering the loudspeaker again]  You aaarrrre WELcome!

• Caracticus Potts : Do you think Coggins might do a deal, so much a week?

  Grandpa : Coggins? What, him down the road? Sure. He's so mean he wouldn't light your pipe if his house was on fire.

• Grandpa : [reading a book out loud]  And the big brown bear came lolloping over the mountain. 'No, no!' the princess cried.

• Grandpa : Nasty smelly things, motorcars!

• Grandpa : Well, he's a bit of an eccentric, sir. A genius, of course. But definitely an eccentric. Can't imagine where he gets it from.

• Grandpa : [the baron has just commissioned Grandpa to make a car and has threatened his life]  Heh. Proper card he is. Odd sense of humor. Stuff me head with sauerkraut.

  [Grandpa chuckles] 

  Inventor : The Baron never makes jokes.

  Inventor : Look at us; we've been here for years and years!

  Inventor : I came here to repair the telephone; that was 24 years ago.

  Inventor : They have terrible tortures: the thumbscrew and rack!

  Inventor : They stretch you and stretch you!

  Inventor : When I first came here, I was a midget.

  Grandpa : Come on. Me! A floating car! Why, that's impossible!

  Inventor : Nothing is impossible.

  Grandpa : Now, that's what my son's always saying!

  Inventor : We'll help you, won't we lads!

  [they all agree] 

  Inventor : Nil desperandum! We'll succeed, you'll see!

• Grandpa : Caractacus, please, my boy, listen. It's time you woke up. Now, when I was your age, I did a day's work for...

  Caracticus Potts : -- a day's pay. Polishing the colonel's boots.

  Grandpa : I was the smartest batman in the British army.

  Caracticus Potts : You've been telling me.

  Grandpa : When my brigadier went into action, the Fuzzy Wuzzies were so blinded by the shine on his boots, they couldn't see to fight.

• Grandpa : [singing]  I'm on my way to far away, Ta-ta and toodle-loo, And fare thee well and bon voyage, Arrivederci too...

• Grandpa : [singing]  This is living, this is style, This is elegance by the mile, Oh, the posh, posh traveling life, The traveling life for me...