Spooks Run Wild (1941)

Bobby Jordan: Danny

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Quotes 

• Danny : How can you read in the dark?

  Glimpy : Huh?

  Danny : How can you read in the dark?

  Glimpy : I went to night school.

• Muggs : I'm goin' and I'm goin' alone.

  Danny : That makes three of us going alone.

• Danny : [finding large crates in the attic]  Look. Coffins. Hey, just like the book said.

  Muggs : Oh. Go ahead and... open... open it.

  Danny : Nah, YOU open it?

  Muggs : Maybe they ain't supposed to be opened till Christmas."

  Danny : Go ahead. Open it.

• Glimpy : Hey, where we goin'?

  Scruno : Man, we're goin' to camp!

  Danny : Camp? What, have we been drafted?

  Glimpy : I'm disappointed. I t'ought we was goin' to reform school, I would've been a sophomore this year.

  Danny : No kidding!

  Glimpy : Yeah!

• Glimpy : You know, I milked a cow once. A very intricate affair. You see, a cow's got four faucets.

  Danny : What for?

  Glimpy : Well, the first faucet is for buttermilk, the second for bottled milk, and the third is for evaporated milk.

  Danny : What's the fourth one for?

  Glimpy : Come to think of it, this cow only had t'ree.

• Danny : I don't like that guy's al'itude.

  Muggs : Me, neidder. If anybody thinks I'm gonna stay up here and associate with him and all these cows and chickens, they're crazy.

• Muggs : Hey, listen. You guys lay low, see? I think I got an angle. As soon as it gets dark...

  Danny : Make a break?

  Muggs : That's right.

• Danny : Hey, Muggs.

  Muggs : What?

  Danny : I'm not scared or nothing like that, but... remember what we heard about that... that guy on the radio?

  Muggs : So?

  Danny : Well, suppose he was prowling around here. Don't you think we ought to stand guard or something?

  Muggs : Nah. You just go outside and set a couple of bear traps for him.

• Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : What'll you have?

  Danny : [staring at her in awe]  I don't know. You got a menu?

  Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : Uh-huh.

  Danny : [points to his menu without taking his eyes off her]  I'll have some of that.

  Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : That's the name of the town, silly.

  Danny : Oh, that's what I thought. Gimme a root beer.

• Glimpy : [a wolf howls in the distance]  Hey, what's that?

  Muggs : That's an owl.

  Glimpy : I know it's an owl, but who's howling?

  Danny : [howling continues]  If that's an owl it's got four legs and fleas.

• Radio Announcer : We interrupt this program for an important announcement to listeners near Hillside and Colton: All citizens are warned to be on the lookout for The Monster Killer, who is believed to be in this vicinity. This maniac has left a trail of three inhuman murders, and is believed heading upstate. We return you now to your program.

  Muggs McGinnis : Monsters? That don't mean nothing to us. We eat 'em every morning for breakfast.

  Glimpy : Bring those monsters on. I ain't ascared of them. I'm anemic. I was taken for a ride once.

  Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : You were?

  Glimpy : Yeah. There I was, miles from Time Square - somewhere in Central Park I think - and them gangsters, they had me backed against a tree, and they got machine guns, see, and they went...

  [makes machine gun noises] 

  Glimpy : And what do you think happened?

  Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : I don't know. What happened?

  Muggs McGinnis , Danny : He got killed.

  Glimpy : Fantastic, wasn't it?

• Muggs McGinnis : What're you looking for?

  Danny : Remember what we heard on the radio about that... that, that ghoul, that guy that sucks all the blood out of ya?

  Muggs McGinnis : What would he be doin' out here, suckin' the sap out of the trees?

  Glimpy : Hey, does the guy really suck all the blood out of ya?

  Danny : Yeah!

  Glimpy : Well, I got nothin' to worry about, 'cause the mosquitoes got all mine. Ow!

  [slaps neck] 

  Glimpy : That was a Messerschmitt.

  Danny : Hey, what if he really was out here?

  Muggs McGinnis : What if you was back home?

  Danny : Yeah?

  Muggs McGinnis : Your old man 'ould give you a hit in the head like dat.

  [smacks Danny in the head] 

  Danny : I ain't got an old man.

  [smacks Muggs back] 

  Glimpy : The kid's an orphan.

• Danny : What kind of a place is this anyway?

  Muggs : I don't know, but I don't think I'm gonna like it.

  Glimpy : Who is it?

  Scruno : It's me.

  Glimpy : Listen, Scruno, the next time you come out of the dark, put a coat of whitewash on, will ya?

  Scruno : I'm so scared I'm turning white now.

• Muggs : [leading the way through a dark basement]  Place'd be just like the subway if they had lights down here.

  Danny : I wish the train 'ould come through.