Song of the South (1946)

Johnny Lee: Br'er Rabbit

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Quotes 

• [Br'er Rabbit had tricked Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear into taking him to his Laughing Place, which is actually a tree full of bees] 

  Br'er Bear : You said this was a Laughing Place. And I ain't laughing.

  Brer Rabbit : I didn't say it was your Laughing Place, I said it was *my* Laughing Place, Br'er Bear.

• Uncle Remus : [singing]  The weather's good; the fishin's fine / Now what do you do with all your time?

  Brer Rabbit : [singing]  Ohhh, I zigs and I zags, I tos and I fros / That's what you ask me, and that's what you know.

• Brer Rabbit : I was born and bred in the briar patch!

• Brer Rabbit : Please don't throw me in that briar patch!

• Brer Rabbit : [to the Tar Baby]  What's the matter with you? I said, "Howdy!" Is you hard of hearing?

  [yelling] 

  Brer Rabbit : I said, "HOWDY!"

• Brer Rabbit : I m-m-m-m-mean w-w-w-whatever you do B-B-B-Br'er Fox, whatever you do, but please, please Br'er Fox, pleeeaaase don't fling me into that briar patch!

  [Points to the briar patch] 

  Br'er Fox : Uhh... Briar patch?

  [Camera zooms into the briar patch] 

  Br'er Fox : Briar patch!

• Brer Rabbit : Don't worry about me! I can take care of myself!

• [Brer Rabbit has been trying repeatedly to get the Tar Baby to greet him back, but it doesn't. So Brer Rabbit threatens it] 

  Brer Rabbit : Look! If you don't say "howdy" time I counts three, I'm might bust you wide open!

  Uncle Remus : [narrating]  But the Tar Baby, he don't say nothin'.

  [Brer Fox and Brer Bear watch from the brush on the other side of the road] 

  Uncle Remus : [narrating]  And Brer Fox, he lay low.

  [Back to Brer Rabbit] 

  Uncle Remus : So, Brer Rabbit, he start countin'.

  Brer Rabbit : One!

  Uncle Remus : [narrating]  But the Tar Baby, he don't say nothin'.

  [Brer Fox watches eagerly] 

  Uncle Remus : [narrating]  And Brer Fox, he lay low with a chuckle in his stomach.

  Brer Rabbit : Two.

  Uncle Remus : [narrating]  But still the Tar Baby don't say nothin'.

  [Brer Fox watches eagerly] 

  Uncle Remus : Brer Fox, he lay low with the fidgets.

  [Brer Fox watches ever more eagerly] 

  Brer Rabbit : Two and a half.

  [Brer Fox slaps himself] 

  Brer Rabbit : Three!

  [Brer Rabbit punches the Tar Baby, only to get his fist caught in it] 

• [while singing "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", Uncle Remus is interrupted by the sound of a hammer pounding nails. He goes to investigate; he sees Brer Rabbit nailing boards to the door to his Briar Patch home] 

  Brer Rabbit : Doggone ol' Briar Patch! Doggone place like this. Doggone...

  Uncle Remus : Hmm. Uh, howdy, Brer Rabbit.

  Brer Rabbit : [stops hammering; stammering]  Who's that callin' my name?

  [He sees Remus] 

  Brer Rabbit : Oh, uh, uh, hello, Uncle Remus.

  Uncle Remus : Appears to me that you's in a powerful bad mood to go to the party.

  Brer Rabbit : [trying to board up his door]  But I ain't goin' to no party, 'cause I ain't gonna be here. I'm gonna leave this ol' place.

  Uncle Remus : You mean you's leavin' your old Briar Patch?

  Brer Rabbit : [nailing board]  That I is.

  Uncle Remus : The place where you was born and raised?

  Brer Rabbit : [nailing another board]  That I is.

  Uncle Remus : You mean you's leavin' for good?

  Brer Rabbit : [nailing a third board]  That I...

  [He accidentally hits his thumb with his hammer and drops it] 

  Brer Rabbit : Ow! Now see there? That ol' Briar Patch ain't brought me nothin' but trouble...

  [He kicks the hammer, only to hurt his foot] 

  Brer Rabbit : Ow! And more trouble. This is where my trouble is and this is the place I belongs away from.

  Uncle Remus : Don't you know you can't run away from trouble?

  Brer Rabbit : [chuckling; picks up knapsack]  Where I'm goin', there ain't gonna be no trouble.

  Uncle Remus : There ain't no place that far.

  Brer Rabbit : Well... just the same I done made up my mind. And I never comin' back again.

  [sadly; holds out hand] 

  Brer Rabbit : Well, so long, Uncle Remus.

  Uncle Remus : [shaking Brer Rabbit's hand]  I sure hope you knows what you's doin'.

  Brer Rabbit : [chuckling]  Don't worry 'bout me. I can take care of myself.

  [Brer Rabbit hops away, whistling "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"]