How to Have an Accident at Work (1959)

Bill Thompson: J.J. Fate

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Quotes 

• Nurse : Mr. Duck, why does everything happen to you?

  Donald Duck : It's fate! That's what it is: fate!

  J.J. Fate : Just listen to him blame me for his carelessness.

  [scoffs] 

• J.J. Fate : [painting a sign reading "Think!"]  "Think!" That's a good thought.

• [First lines] 

  J.J. Fate : Howdy! I'm J.J. Fate, fall guy. My middle name is Jonah, and Jinx is in there, too. Hoodoo fits me like a glove, but Fate's my name to you.

• J.J. Fate : Mr. Duck doesn't mean to goof, but everyone knows an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of... hey!

  [Donald's tie gets caught in a punching machine, and his suit gets punched full of holes] 

  J.J. Fate : Anyone for cribbage?

• J.J. Fate : [Watches Donald get flattened by machine]  This maneuver brings to mind that old Chinese proverb...

  [Speaks Chinese gibberish] 

  J.J. Fate : Translation: work should have flat concentration from you, or you might become flat work.

• [Last lines] 

  J.J. Fate : [seeing Donald trampled by co-workers rushing to leave at quitting time]  Tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk. And on his own time, too. Well, that's fate.

  [suddenly shocked] 

  J.J. Fate : Oh! What am I saying?

  [shrugs] 

• J.J. Fate : At home, Mr. Duck is Old Man Fire Prevention himself. But...

  [shows Donald at work, standing on a ladder and painting a sign that reads "No Smoking" all while smoking a cigar] 

  J.J. Fate : Now he's playing with fire.

  [Donald drops his cigar into a can of paint thinner] 

  J.J. Fate : Oh, no! Not there, stupid!

  [the cigar causes the thinner to explode] 

  J.J. Fate : See what I mean?