Radio Days (1987)
Michael Tucker: Martin, the father
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Quotes
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Father : [to mother] You're lucky I love you, you old douchebag.
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Narrator : [about a therapist's radio show] I found the show silly and always imagined my parents on it airing their standard complaints.
Mother : He's a business failure. He never finishes what he starts. We're forced to live with my relatives and thank God for them. And I should have married Sam Slotkin.
Father : Sam Slotkin's dead.
Mother : Yes, but while he was alive, he was working.
Father : She'd be lost without her whole family around her all the time, and you should see 'em. They're like some kind of tribe. They're like the Huns. Maybe if I had married a more encouraging woman, who knows?
Mother : So who do you think is right?
Mr. Abercrombie : I think you both deserve each other.
Mother : What does that mean?
Father : Look, we didn't come here to be insulted.
Mother : I love him, but what did I do to deserve him?
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Mother : Better be careful. The daughter believes in free love.
Father : Why do you say that?
Mother : You heard what happened to Mrs. Silverman? She couldn't sleep. She was up one night taking a cup of tea and she heard a car pull up 3:00 in the morning. So, you know Mrs. Silverman. She always likes to know what's going on. So, she's peeking out her front door and there's the girl across the street coming back from a folk-singing thing with a tall colored man. You're not gonna believe this, Ceil. She gives the guy a big, long kiss. Well, you can imagine how Rose Silverman reacted. She had a stroke on the spot.
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Father : Why can't you be like that, huh? Why can't you be a genius? I'll tell you why. Because you're too busy listening to the radio all the time. That's why!
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Father : What do they want, those Nazis? To slaughter everyone on the planet?
Mother : The Nazis, the Communists. The world would be better off without any of them, believe me. Come here. You know what W.C. Fields said, don't you? He said, to settle a war the leaders of the countries involved should meet in a stadium and fight it out with socks filled with horse manure.
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Father : [to Aunt Bea on New Year's Eve] What, no date tonight? Well, it's okay. We're all together, you know.