Jonny Quest (TV Series)

Dragons of Ashida (1964)

Henry Corden: Dr. Ashida, Sumi, Native, Himoki

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• Dr. Ashida : It is too bad you do not understand our way of fighting, Quest, my friend.

  Roger T. 'Race' Bannon : I understand it, Dr. Ashida.

  Dr. Ashida : Really? Then let's have a match, but I warn you I am most expert.

  Roger T. 'Race' Bannon : You're not serious, are you? I outweigh you by twenty pounds.

  Dr. Ashida : Our bigness means very little in judo, Mr. Bannon. It will be interesting to have an opponent other than Sumi.

• Jonny Quest : [discussing Dr. Ashida's dragons]  Wow! What do they eat?

  Dr. Ashida : They would eat you, my boy, if I let them.

  [Dr. Ashida laughs sinisterly, Bandit growls angrily] 

  Dr. Ashida : Why, your little friend would be a great delicacy for them, too.

  [Bandit yelps terrified, Dr. Ashida laughs again] 

• Dr. Benton C. Quest : But I'm not sure I understand. You do NOT want us to go to the island?

  Native : Ah, no. Ah, no. No go. Bad... bad dragons. Oh, big... oh, big dragons.

  Jonny Quest : Wow. Did you hear that, Hadji? Dragons!

• Dr. Ashida : Everything on Ashida is yours.

  Roger T. 'Race' Bannon : You call the island Ashida, Doctor?

  Dr. Ashida : Why not? I own it. What better name can a man give his land than his own.

• Dr. Benton C. Quest : So you have no idea why that native would be so afraid of you?

  Dr. Ashida : None, unless he has run amok. They do, sometimes, you know.

  Dr. Quest : He, uh, spoke of dragons.

  Dr. Ashida : Ah, yes, my dragons.

  Dr. Benton C. Quest : Yours?

  Dr. Ashida : Mine.

• Dr. Ashida : [presenting his largest dragons]  This is my crowning glory. I have to keep them in pits. I don't have cages big enough.

  Dr. Benton C. Quest : Incredible. It's as big as a crocodile.

  Dr. Ashida : Uh, fourteen feet, seven inches from nose to tail, and all my own, Doctor. If any species can be said to owe its existence to an outside source, then the Ashida dragon owes its life to me.

• Hadji : [at the sight of Ashida's servant]  I do not believe it, Jonny. He is like the cyclops of old.

  Dr. Ashida : This one's name is Sumi, keeper of my dragons and champion wrestler in all the world. Is that not so, Sumi? He has never been defeated.

  Roger T. 'Race' Bannon : I sure wouldn't like to meet him in a dark alley.

  Dr. Ashida : Uh-huh. I do not keep him around for his looks, Mr. Bannon. My dragons are not sensitive. They do not mind his ugliness.

• Dr. Ashida : The natives here worshipped Kamatomo, a dragon effigy. That was before I took over. I gave them a new god. Now they worship - me.

• Dr. Ashida : This is my survival pit, Doctor. Surely, you don't think my dragons grew to their present size by accident. As you know, in nature only the strong survive. I give nature a helping hand.

  [Ashida laughs] 

  Dr. Benton C. Quest : You pit one beast against another?

  Dr. Ashida : Exactly. In a fight to the death, the victor devours the vanquished.

• Dr. Benton C. Quest : I don't happen to approve of this, Dr. Ashida. Let's go, Race, boys.

  Dr. Ashida : Very well. If your western stomachs can not stand it, we shall postpone the duel.

• Dr. Ashida : It may interest you to learn, I have never before been defeated at judo. It is a new feeling for me.

• Dr. Ashida : My-my, what manners you Americans possess. You are leaving without telling me good-bye. And had I not, merely by chance, been nearby, I shudder to think what might have befallen you.

• Jonny Quest : Those lizards make good watchdogs, don't they, Ashida?

  Dr. Ashida : Ah, you noticed that, Mr. Bannon? How complimentary of you. Yes, Sumi releases a dozen or so each night. It ensures a sound sleep for me. In short, you will leave when I give the word, and not before.

• Dr. Ashida : I will make you a sporting proposition, Quest. If your man, Bannon, can stand up to my Sumi, then you may leave.

  Roger T. 'Race' Bannon : Me and that portable Skyscraper? I bet you want odds, too.

  Dr. Ashida : Ah, no, Bannon. I am a true sportsman: defeat Sumi and you win your freedom.

• Dr. Ashida : So, you let them get away. I warned you what I would do. Kneel, you stupid ox, and take your punishment.