We Want Our Mummy (1939)

Curly Howard: Curly

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Quotes 

• Moe : [helping carry a crate]  I'll take this end.

  Larry : I'll take this end!

  Curly : I'll take the end in the middle!

• Curly : C'mon, Rootin-Tootin old kid! Heh heh! Whoever crowned you king?

• Moe : I got an idea, we'll make a mummy out of you.

  Curly : I can't be a mummy, I'm a daddy!

  Larry : All right so you'll be a daddy-mummy.

  Curly : Oh! That's different.

• Moe : Weigh the anchor!

  Curly : Forty-two pounds!

• Dr. Crowell : That means we'll never find the missing king!

  Curly : [looks surprised, takes card out of his front pocket]  How did YOU know the king was missing?

  [Moe turns his head to look] 

  Curly : I... Ooh!

  [hides card before Moe can see] 

  Moe : Oh, so you're the one, eh? That's how you won my thirteen cents!

  [smacks Curly] 

• Dr. Crowell : Gentlemen, you're hired. We're sending you to bring back the mummy of King Rootin-Tootin, you leave immediately for Cairo.

  Curly : Say I got an uncle in Cairo, he's a chiropractor. NYUK NYUK NYUK!

  [Moe punches him in the nose] 

  Museum Curator : And if you are successful, we will pay you 5000 dollars.

  Dr. Crowell : The recovery of the mummy will prove of untold value to science.

  Moe : For science!

  Larry : For science!

  Curly : For 5000 bucks!

• Moe : [the Stooges find a sign post in the desert showing the locations of Cairo and Tunis]  Oh, boy we're nearly in Cairo. The tomb oughtta be around here someplace.

  Curly : I've gotta go to Tunis and then we can have tuna sandwiches for lunch.

  [Moe slaps him] 

  Curly : Oh!

• Moe : [what looks like the tomb of Rootin Tootin]  Hey, he's the real McCoy!

  Larry : McCoy, I thought his name was Rootin Tootin.

  [Moe raises his fist at Larry] 

  Curly : Hey fellas, I found it.

  Larry : Found what?

  Curly : A tisket a tasket,

  [holds up a basket] 

  Curly : that green and yellow basket. NYUK NYUK NYUK NYUK!

  [Moe gives him an open hand shove in the face] 

  Curly : Oh!

  [Staggers back into a well] 

  Curly : WOOOOOOOOOOOAH!

  [Hits the bottom with a splash and gets Moe and Larry wet] 

• Third Gang Member : [in tomb, with Curly laying on a table dressed up as King Rutin-Tutin]  Hey, where are those jewels that are supposed to be buried with them?

  Gang Leader : Oh, they always wrap 'em up inside the mummy. We'll have to cut him open.

  [with thugs looking away, Curly cringes, and unzips the front of his mummy costume] 

  Gang Leader : Let me have that sharp knife you have there.

  [looks at "Rutin-Tutin"] 

  Gang Leader : He's burst open!

  [reaches inside Curly's costume, pulls out newspaper] 

  Gang Leader : "Yanks win world series." Can you beat that?

  Curly : Yeah, and I won five bucks!

  Gang Leader : No kidding? I had the Cubs, and... WHAT?

• Larry , Curly , Moe : We're at your service night and day; if we don't catch them, you don't pay. Excelsior!

• Larry : [they see an ocean in the desert]  Must be a mirrage.

  Moe : Mirrage is something you see yourself in, that's a mirage.

  Curly : Mirage? But that's where you keep your automobile.

  Moe : I said a mirage!

  Curly : Mirage, mirrage, whatever it is, I'm going swimming!

• Curly : Oh boy, a mummy alligator, I'm going to take him home with me. Boy are you going to look good on my wall!