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Quotes
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Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : [ready for bed] Chief, what's with the earmuffs? You afraid of the thunder?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Thunder is somerthin' that has never calcified me! It's your snorin' I'm worried about!
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Well, what about another pair in case YOU snore?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I do not happen to snore. I know because I stayed awake all one night just to find out.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [Dr. Gravesend goes to the gorilla's cage] Peek-a-boo! Have a banana on me!
[grinds it in Dr. Gravesend's eye]
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [into the microphone] Calling all police cars, or calling any kind of a car, there's a live monkey loose in the Gravesend Manor on Long Island! Come and get 'em! Come and get your monkey! Come and get 'em! Over before I go under!
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : What are you doin'?
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : I'm readin'.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : How can you read in the dark?
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : I went to night school!
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Grissom : I think you'll find the bed quite comfortable. Goodnight, gentlemen. Rest In Peace.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : After talkin' to you, I don't think we will.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Gentlemen, I'm very much infested with all this science friction, but what about the Clog Street lot?
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Of course, before this deal is completely edible, we'll have to draw up certain officious documents, then we'll be on our way.
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Amelia Gravesend : I'm sorry. Did-did I startle you?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Oh, no, not at all. I always turn green this time of night. It matches my pajamas.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Case you're wondering what I'm doing in your mess hall, Mr. Jones and I couldn't sleep so good, so I thought I'd come down and persecute a few calories.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : There's one thing I like about you. You're full of bravado.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : I never sang in the opera.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Sach, is that you?
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : No, it's you.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : It's really you, huh? Well, I see you're back to your sub-normal self again. Believe me, dhe udda way was an extinct improvement!
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [on the phone] Well, Mr. Gravesend, there's a little matter I'd like to disgust wit' chu. It refrains to some of the little kids down here in the Bowery. You see, uh, I am what you might call, um... uh... a benefracture of humanity.
Dr. Derek Gravesend : Beh-ehh-eh... uh, yes, yes, go on, Mr Mahoney.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, um, if it's all the same wit' chu, Mr. Gravesend -- dhis matter being highly contagious -- I think it would be better if me and my accomplice, Mr. Jones, came out dhere to prevaricate upon it in person.
Dr. Derek Gravesend : Uh, "contagious?" Uh, "prevaricate?" I'm... I-I am afraid I don't follow you.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [to the boys] Dhis guy don't even understand English.
[back to Dr. Gravesend]
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, I'll explain dhe hard words when I get out dhere. Just tell me, are you gonna coaggulate wit' us or ain't cha?
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[Louie, Sach and Slip try to brainstorm where to find a safe place for Bowery kids to play baseball; the Gravesend property would be ideal]
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Before you both get too hysterical, the Gravesends who own that lot have never been indemnified with charitable projectiles.
Louie Dumbrowsky : Did you ever think of asking them?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : No, 'cause I could never figure out how to contact people as influenza as they are.
Louie Dumbrowsky : Slip, there's always a telephone.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Louie, that's a very fragrant idea. I'm sorry I didn't think of it.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I'll make the kids cut down all the weeds, clean up all the dirty bottles, have the place look real nice. Now, besides salvaging the lives of these kids, I think you'll find this whole thing may... entrance the value of your property.
Dr. Derek Gravesend : Oh, uh... Well, if it would, uh... "entrance" the value of the property...
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : It coitenly would.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Dhat maniac's at the microphone! He's REALLY in trouble now!