Wonder Man (1945)

Danny Kaye: Edwin Dingle, Buzzy Bellew

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Quotes 

• Edwin : I don't want to go to Brooklyn. You can't make me. I don't *want* to go to Brooklyn.

  Bus Driver : None of us want to, bud, but we all gotta go sooner or later.

• [repeated line] 

  Edwin Dingle : Potato salad!

• [last lines] 

  Edwin Dingle : In fact, I don't think I'm ever going to see Buster again.

  [Edwin hears the spooky Buster music and gasps] 

  Edwin Dingle : [angrily]  Buster!

  Buzzy's Ghost : [popping out of a box]  I'm a little devil, ain't I?

• Ellen Shanley : Do you think you'll be coming back tomorrow?

  Edwin Dingle : Oh, by all means. I enjoy it here very much, uh, I love the smell of leather bindings.

• Edwin Dingle : Did you say you sing and dance in a night club?

  Sailor's Girl Friend : No, I work in a bakery. But, a lot of people take me for Lana Turner.

• Edwin Dingle : Ellen.

  Ellen Shanley : You've got a nerve, hanging around here. You just got me fired!

  Edwin Dingle : I'm sorry, but, I must resort to force.

  Ellen Shanley : Oh, now you're a cave man!

  Edwin Dingle : Well, the Neanderthal Man had his merits.

• Edwin : Do you remember you once told me you wouldn't be found dead in Brooklyn?

  Buzzy's Ghost : Yeah, I remember. That was the only way they could get me here.

• Edwin : I'd like a pint of Prospect Park!

• Buster "Buzzy" Bellew : Take it easy, lad. A fellow has to pay his cab fare. What do I owe you, Max?

  Max - Taxi Driver : 60 cents, Buzzy.

  Buster "Buzzy" Bellew : I'll toss you for it, double or nothing. Give me a coin. Come on, Max. Come on. That a boy. What do you cry?

  Max - Taxi Driver : Tails!

  Buster "Buzzy" Bellew : To bad, Max, you lose. Ha-ha-ha!

  [Starts to walk away] 

  Max - Taxi Driver : Hey Buzzy, my quarter! My quarter!

  Buster "Buzzy" Bellew : This guy's money mad. Here you go, Max.

  [Buzzy tosses money to Max] 

  Max - Taxi Driver : [Surprised]  Five bucks! What a sweetheart.

• Ellen Shanley : You know, Mr. Dingle, you have the most extraordinary mind I've ever heard of.

  Edwin Dingle : Oh, I wouldn't say that.

  Ellen Shanley : You're very modest, aren't you?

  Edwin Dingle : Yes, I guess, I am.

  Ellen Shanley : That's odd. If I had a mind like yours; in fact, if I had any mind at all; I'd be a brazen hussy! Ha-ha-ha.

  Edwin Dingle : Oh! Ha-ha-ha

  Ellen Shanley : There! I bet that's the first time you've laughed since you've read Professor Zimmel's inaccuracies of the Phoenician wars. Ha-ha-ha

  Edwin Dingle : Ha-ha-ha. Yes, I guess it is, at that. You know, I really enjoy being here.

  Ellen Shanley : I'm glad. I like having you.

• Ellen Shanley : Edwin, do you always where your hair parted in the middle?

  Edwin Dingle : Yes, why?

  Ellen Shanley : Why, I never saw anybody look good with their hair that way, except Hedy Lamarr.

• Policeman in Park : [Kicked in the posterior by Edwin Dingle while drinking at a water fountain in Prospect Park]  Why, you!

  Edwin Dingle : Good evening.

  Policeman in Park : What do you think you're doing?

  Edwin Dingle : Oh, forgive me, it was, it was a scientific experiment.

  Policeman in Park : I'll show you an experiment, Einstein!

• Edwin Dingle : Fear is not in the Dingle lexicon, Buster.

• Buzzy's Ghost : As the little Eskimo girl says, it takes me a little while to get me to warm up.

• Chimp : Mr. Bellew, Can I have your autograph, please, for the guys in my sorority?

  Buzzy's Ghost : Why, certainly, I'm an old Vassar man, myself.

• Edwin Dingle : I want to explain about last night.

  Ellen Shanley : Well, it better be good. Making me wait hours for potato salad and telephoning me and barking like a dog, meowing like a cat and hooting like an owl.

• District Attorney : Your story is satisfactory except for a few minor details.

  Edwin Dingle : Well, it was quite dark and I may have slipped up on one or two points.

  District Attorney : Yes, in the first place, the tall, thin man with the red beard was a short, fat, fan dancer named Chu-Chu LaVerne!