Countdown Quotes
Captain Yelland: Lasky, you've been a pain-in-the-ass... but I'm glad to have known you.
Lasky: Thank you, Captain. I appreciate that.
Captain Yelland: Good luck to you
Charlie The Dog: WOOF!
Captain Yelland: And you, too!
Lasky: Thank you, Captain. I appreciate that.
Captain Yelland: Good luck to you
Charlie The Dog: WOOF!
Captain Yelland: And you, too!
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Lasky: Think of the history of the next forty years...
Commander Richard Owens: I have a suspicion history will be a little more difficult to beat, than you imagine Mr. Lasky.
Lasky: I'm talking about the classic paradox of time. Imagine, for example, I go back in time and meet my own Grandfather. Long before he got married, before he had children. And we have an argument, and I kill him. Now if that happens, how am I ever going to be born? And if I can never be born, how can I go back in history and meet my very own Grandfather?
Commander Richard Owens: [angrily] I'm not half the theorist you are, Mr. Lasky. But I still have a gut instinct that things only happen once. And if they have happened, then there's nothing we can do to change them. Nor should we try.
Lasky: Well, how are you going to avoid it? It's already happening, and we're already involved!
Commander Dan Thurman: For Christ's sake! What is this, some half-assed Princeton debating society? We are in a war situation! This is a United States warship! Or, at least, it used to be. Or will be. Or what the hell ever! Oh, Goddammit, you can drive yourself crazy just trying to think about this stuff! [shouts]
Commander Dan Thurman: Jesus, I must be dreaming!
Commander Richard Owens: I have a suspicion history will be a little more difficult to beat, than you imagine Mr. Lasky.
Lasky: I'm talking about the classic paradox of time. Imagine, for example, I go back in time and meet my own Grandfather. Long before he got married, before he had children. And we have an argument, and I kill him. Now if that happens, how am I ever going to be born? And if I can never be born, how can I go back in history and meet my very own Grandfather?
Commander Richard Owens: [angrily] I'm not half the theorist you are, Mr. Lasky. But I still have a gut instinct that things only happen once. And if they have happened, then there's nothing we can do to change them. Nor should we try.
Lasky: Well, how are you going to avoid it? It's already happening, and we're already involved!
Commander Dan Thurman: For Christ's sake! What is this, some half-assed Princeton debating society? We are in a war situation! This is a United States warship! Or, at least, it used to be. Or will be. Or what the hell ever! Oh, Goddammit, you can drive yourself crazy just trying to think about this stuff! [shouts]
Commander Dan Thurman: Jesus, I must be dreaming!
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Mr. Lunt: Hey... I smell something fishy.
Pa Grape: Uh, that's your friend. [Larry the Cucumber offers some Chinese food]
Larry the Cucumber: Kung pao squid?
Mr. Lunt: Uh... no.
Pa Grape: Uh, that's your friend. [Larry the Cucumber offers some Chinese food]
Larry the Cucumber: Kung pao squid?
Mr. Lunt: Uh... no.
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The Astonishing Contraption of Silliness: Number seven. The Dance of the Yodeling Cebu Lips.
Pa Grape: Hold it! Stop the countdown! I don't understand. There must be some mistake! I think perhaps the Astonishing Contraption of Silliness may need some recalibrating. This oughta do it. [Pa Grape hits the Astonishing Contraption of Silliness with a wooden mallet]
The Astonishing Contraption of Silliness: Number seven. The Water Buffalo Song.
Pa Grape: Oh, that's a nice one. The grandfather of silly songs. The one that started the whole thing. Let's pause for a moment of respect, shall we? [they wait two seconds]
Pa Grape: That's enough. Hit it! [Larry the Cucumber hits the Astonishing Contraption of Silliness with his head]
Pa Grape: Hold it! Stop the countdown! I don't understand. There must be some mistake! I think perhaps the Astonishing Contraption of Silliness may need some recalibrating. This oughta do it. [Pa Grape hits the Astonishing Contraption of Silliness with a wooden mallet]
The Astonishing Contraption of Silliness: Number seven. The Water Buffalo Song.
Pa Grape: Oh, that's a nice one. The grandfather of silly songs. The one that started the whole thing. Let's pause for a moment of respect, shall we? [they wait two seconds]
Pa Grape: That's enough. Hit it! [Larry the Cucumber hits the Astonishing Contraption of Silliness with his head]
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Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith: Last one at the dance or the first?
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Hell it's just the way it is Bedell, one minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Hell it's just the way it is Bedell, one minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.
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