Cash and Carry (1937)

Curly Howard: Curly

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Quotes 

• Moe : The treasure, we found it!

  Larry : Now Jimmy can get his operation!

  Curly : There's enough here for all of us to have an operation!

• Moe : Why are you keeping your money layin' around in cans for? Why don't you put it in a bank?

  Jimmie : Will a bank give it back to us?

  Curly : Oh, sure! They didn't use to, but now they do!

  Larry : And when you take it out they give you some more! I had a dollar once...

  Moe : That's enough.

• [the Stooges all look at a map marked "Walla Walla"] 

  Moe : Walla Walla with an "X."

  Curly : I know! "X" marks the spot where the treasure is buried! It's in the Walla.

  Moe : But there's two Wallas.

  Curly : Certainly! There's a Walla, and there's a Walla over there.

  Larry : Which one's it buried in?

  Moe : It makes no difference, we'll each take a Walla.

• Curly : [after finding money hidden in a can on the scrap metal pile]  I didn't know they put money up in cans!

  Moe : Well, they don't!

  Curly : Sure, see?

  [points at label, "canned corn"] 

  Curly : Canned coin!

• Con-Man : Pardon me, gentlemen, how would you like to get in on our deal where you can make thousands?

  Curly : That ain't enough, we gotta make five hundred dollars!

• Con-Man : This is the house I was telling you about, boys. A treasure was buried there by Captain Kidd's kid.

  Curly : No kiddin'!

  Con-Man : That's right!

  Curly : Oh boy!

  Con-Man : Just a minute! You have to pay us $200 for the privilege of digging it up!

  Curly : Two hundred?

  Con-Man : Two hundred or nothin'.

  Curly : Oh, we'll take it for nothin'!

• Moe : What's the idea of movin' into our apartment?

  Larry : Come on, beat it.

  Jimmie : I'm sorry, mister. Sis and I didn't know anyone lived here, so we just moved in, but we'll get out right away.

  Curly : [realizing he has a bum leg]  Hey, where's your father?

  Jimmie : We ain't got no father. Just Sis and I.

  Moe : Wait a minute, son. We made a mistake, this ain't our house, we didn't have any curtains. Go on, sit down, do your homework.

  Jimmie : Oh, thank you.

• Moe : There's sixty-two bucks there. How long do we have to wait before it swells to 500?

  Bank Teller : Sixty-two dollars?

  Moe : Yes, sir.

  Bank Teller : [Checking his chart]  That'll take you 104 years, six months, and 17 days.

  Moe : Oh, we can't wait that long.

  Curly : Why not?

• Jimmie : [Doing his homework]  I'm stuck. How much is six and six?

  Moe : Well... hey, you help him.

  Curly : Six and six? Don't tell me. Two sixes. Hmmm! Boxcars!

  Jimmie : Boxcars?

  Curly : Yeah, it looks like two lumps of sugar with smallpox. You throw it up against...

  Moe : Hey, wait a minute. What are you trying to learn the kid?

• Moe : [When they try to start the car, it explodes sending the engine flying up in the air]  Get under it! Grab that motor!

  Curly : I'll get it. Don't worry.

  [the engine hits the ground so hard it makes a crater] 

  Curly : Woo woo!

  Moe : Why didn't you catch it?

• Moe : Remind me to kill you later.

  Curly : I'll make a note of it.

  [checking his pockets] 

  Curly : I ain't got a pencil.

  Moe : Well, I changed my mind. I'm gonna do it now!

• Moe : Get that big bucket down here. Hurry up.

  [Curly drops it down, and it lands on his head] 

  Moe : I'd murder you if I had you down here.

  Curly : But I ain't down there. Nyuck, nyuck. Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.

  [Moe yanks on the rope, and Curly falls on top of him and Larry] 

  Moe : What's the big idea?

  Curly : I just dropped in.

  Moe : Well, if we knew you was coming, we'd have baked a cake.

  [slapping him] 

  Moe : What's the matter with you?

  [as Curly defiantly sticks out his tongue, he dribbles dirt on it] 

  Moe : How do you like that? Get busy.

• Moe : Take this shovel. And remember, we gotta get the money for the kid. Now get busy.

  [in the confined space, he gets continuously thwacked by the others] 

  Moe : Ooh! Ohh! Ow! Ow!

  [bonking Curly on the head] 

  Moe : Oi!

  [Larry pokes him in the eye with his shovel handle] 

  Moe : Ow! OWWWW! What's that?

  Larry : That's an eye.

  Moe : Yeah, an eye for an eye.

  [eye-poking Larry] 

  Moe : Get out.

  Curly : And a tooth for a tooth?

  Moe : Certainly.

  [slapping him] 

  Moe : Get away from here. Now get busy.

  [getting thwacked again] 

  Moe : Ooh! Oh! What's going on here?

  [a shovel spade hits him in the face with a clang] 

• Moe : Oh, claim jumpers, eh? Well, beat it, all of you. We were here first.

  Curly : What walla did you come through?

  Vault Chief : Claim jumpers? You'll get life for breaking into the United States Treasury.

  Moe : Treasury?

  Curly : It said Walla Walla on the map.

  Vault Chief : Stick 'em up!

  [as the Stooges raise their hands, they drop their loads on the guards' feet] 

  Vault Chief : [jumping up and down in pain]  Oh! Oh! Get 'em out!

• Curly : Hey, somebody beat us to the furniture.

  Moe : Let the finance company worry about that.

  Larry : Hey, where do we start?

  Moe : Right here. Gimme the tools.

  [Curly drops them on his foot, and Moe hops around in pain] 

  Larry : Come on, stop dancing. We got work to do.

• Moe : And when they told us the money was yours, you could've knocked us down with a gold bar! And that's the whole story, Mr. President, s'help me!

  President Roosevelt : I see. Well, Jimmy, I shall arrange personally for your operation.

  Jimmie : Thank you, Mr. President.

  President Roosevelt : And as for you gentlemen, in view of the extenuating circumstances, I find it possible to extend to you executive clemency.

  Curly : Oh, no! Please, not that!

  [Moe stomps his foot] 

  Curly : Ow!

  Moe : Mr. President means we're free!

  Curly : No!

  Moe : Yeah!

  Curly : Gee, Mr. President, you're a swell guy!

  Moe : You said it!