Michael York: Basil Exposition
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Basil Exposition : Austin, the Cold War is over!
Austin Powers : Finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh? Eh comrades? Eh?
Basil Exposition : Austin... we won.
Austin Powers : Oh, smashing, groovy, yay capitalism!
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Austin Powers : Only two things scare me, and one is nuclear war.
Basil Exposition : What's the other?
Austin Powers : Excuse me?
Basil Exposition : What's the other thing that scares you?
Austin Powers : Carnies.
Basil Exposition : What?
Austin Powers : Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
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Austin Powers : WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
Basil Exposition : The shouting is a temporary side-effect of the unfreezing.
Austin Powers : Yes... I'm having difficulty controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE.
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Basil Exposition : [after Austin punched Basil's mother and attempted to pull her hair out] You have a lot of explaining to do!
Austin Powers : I'm sorry, Basil. I thought she was a man.
Basil Exposition : Dammit, man! You're talking about my Mother!
Austin Powers : Well, you have to admit, she is rather man-ish.
Basil Exposition : [shocked] Austin!
Austin Powers : Well, no offense, but if that is a woman it does look like she was beaten with an ugly stick!
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General Borschevsky : So, who is this Austin Powers?
Basil Exposition : The ultimate gentleman spy. Irresistible to women, deadly to his enemies, a legend in his own time.
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Austin Powers : I've got you now, Dr. Evil.
Dr. Evil : Not this time. Come, Mr. Bigglesworth! See you in the future, Mr. Powers.
Mrs. Kensington : [he closes and seals his cryogenic pod] My God! He's freezing himself!
Basil Exposition : [narrating as the pod takes off inside a rocket-powered Bob's Big Boy statue] And so Dr. Evil escaped and had himself cryogenically frozen, to return at a time when free love no longer reigned, and greed and corruption ruled again.
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Austin Powers : That's not your mother, it's a man, baby!
[pulling at her hair]
Austin Powers : Get off! Get off! Come on! Why won't this wig come off? Ugh! Ugh!
Basil Exposition : Austin!
Austin Powers : Yeah, hold on. Hold on one second.
Basil Exposition : No, no! Unhand my mother!
