Spooks Run Wild (1941)

Huntz Hall: Glimpy

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Glimpy : [on the bus to camp]  I'll fix them cops. I'll go to the country and get sick and die and come back and haunt them!

• 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.

• Glimpy : [after Muggs jumps up from the table]  What's the matter?

  Muggs : There's a-a-a skeleton in there! He-he was laughing right in my face!

  Glimpy : Yeah? What's he so happy about?

  [looks in jar] 

  Glimpy : A skull!

  Muggs : [to the others]  Go ahead, go ahead, look, look for yourselves, go on! Go on!

  [everybody huddles around and sees nothing in the jar] 

• 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.

• Glimpy : Yeah, and keep your eyes open.

  Scruno : You don't think I'm gonna stay in here for one minute and CLOSE 'em, do you?

  [goes to Peewee's bedside] 

  Scruno : Peewee, Peewee. You ain't dead, is ya? Say you ain't. If you can't say nothing, just... shake your head.

• Glimpy : You know sumpin'? I like this room much better in the dark - and I don't like the dark.

• Glimpy : Go ahead, Scruno. Look in there.

  Scruno : No-no-no. I-I ain't gonna look in there.

  Glimpy : Aw, your yella.

  Scruno : If I'm yellow, you's colorblind.

• Scruno : Look here, Glimpy, if-if anything happens to me you'll notify my mammy, won't you?

  Glimpy : Sure, sure.

  Scruno : And if something happens to you, who do I notify first?

  Glimpy : Just notify me first and nothing WILL happen.