The New Scooby-Doo Movies (TV Series)

The Mystery of Haunted Island (1973)

Scatman Crothers: George 'Meadowlark' Lemon

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Quotes 

• George 'Meadowlark' Lemon : I'll knock on the door.

  [Knocks on the door of the mansion with his basketball] 

  Shaggy : [Has the "willies" because of the creepy-crawly critters in the yard]  C-c-couldn't we just go in?

  George 'Meadowlark' Lemon : The Globetrotters NEVER enter a ritzy mansion unannounced!

  [Swarm of bats descends upon them] 

  George 'Meadowlark' Lemon : Announcing... the Globetrotters!

  [Everybody barges inside] 

• Bobby Joe 'B.J.' Mason : [Globetrotters are practicing in the basement of an old shed]  Watch this lay-up shot!

  [Jumps up high] 

  George 'Meadowlark' Lemon : [as B.J. Jumps]  Watch the CEILING!

  [Covers eyes as loud crash sounds off-screen] 

  Bobby Joe 'B.J.' Mason : [Head and shoulders have gone through the ceiling]  I forgot about that...

• George 'Meadowlark' Lemon : Gip, throw the anchor overboard!

  J.C. 'Gip' Gipson : [Salutes]  Aye Aye, Cap'n!

  [Proceeds to wrench the entire anchor, windlass and all, from the deck and throw it overboard] 

  Freddie 'Curly' Neal : [Upset]  Now nothing can stop us from drifting!

  George 'Meadowlark' Lemon : [Optimistically]  We still have a rudder, Curly. We can turn back to shore. Bobby Joe! Turn the wheel around!

  Bobby Joe 'B.J.' Mason : Aye Aye!

  [Proceeds to pop wheel loose from spindle and stick it on opposite side] 

  Hubert 'Geese' Ausbie : Hey! What are you doing?

  Bobby Joe 'B.J.' Mason : I'm turning the wheel around!

  Hubert 'Geese' Ausbie : You're supposed to turn it this way!

  [Gives the wheel a teriffic spin; because B.J loosened it, it rolls off the spindle and overboard into the sea] 

  Freddie 'Curly' Neal : [to Meadowlark, with a certain amount of malice]  No anchor and, no wheel!

  George 'Meadowlark' Lemon : [Exhasperated]  If Columbus had THIS crew, the world would still be flat!

• George 'Meadowlark' Lemon : Bobby Joe! What's our position?

  Bobby Joe 'B.J.' Mason : [With Telescope, hanging from Crow's nest]  Our position? Um... I'm hangin' here by one arm, and you and Curly are on the Bridge.

  [turns to Geese] 

  Bobby Joe 'B.J.' Mason : Geese has his head stuck in a porthole.

  [turns to Gip and Pab] 

  Bobby Joe 'B.J.' Mason : Gip and Pab are fallin' down the stairs,l.

  [turns to Shaggy and Scooby] 

  Bobby Joe 'B.J.' Mason : And Shaggy and Scooby are hidin' under a deck chair!

  George 'Meadowlark' Lemon : I'm sorry I asked!